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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 374 21 30 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 32
Documents by Best Scientists*: 39
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 60
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.921
Impact Factor: 1.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Compare?

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Economic growth, Comparative education, Higher education, Social science and International education. The concepts on Economic growth presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Politics and Public administration. Politics and Political economy are closely related fields of research discussed in it.

In addition to Comparative education research, it aims to explore topics under Cross-cultural and Public relations. While the journal focused on Higher education, it was also able to explore topics like Internationalization and China. While work presented in Compare provided substantial information on Social science, it also covered topics in Context (language use), Pedagogy and Gender studies.

Teacher education and Curriculum are some of the facets of Pedagogy tackled in Compare.

  • Economic growth (25.45%)
  • Comparative education (19.98%)
  • Higher education (16.35%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Learning and growing in a ‘foreign’ context: intercultural experiences of international students (248 citations)
  • Private supplementary tutoring: comparative perspectives on patterns and implications (180 citations)
  • Internationalism and globalization as contexts for international education (155 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Compare:

The most cited publications investigate studies in Economic growth, Comparative education, Higher education, Social science and Context (language use). While the most cited publications focused on Economic growth, they were also able to explore topics like Government, Corporate governance and Public administration. The most cited papers explore issues in Social science which can be linked to other research areas like Pedagogy, Gender studies and Globalization.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Education

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily tackles Higher education, Gender studies, Pedagogy, Public administration and Economic growth. Higher education research is concerned with Comparative education in particular. It explores issues in Gender studies which can be linked to other research areas like Citizenship, Civic engagement, Politics and State (polity).

The research on Citizenship tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Globalization and Democracy. The study on Public administration presented in it intersects with the topics under Corporate governance. The work tackled in Compare goes beyond the discipline of Economic growth as it also encompasses National education.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The construction of higher education students within national policy: a cross-European comparison (12 citations)
  • Conceptualising social justice in education: a Daoist perspective (8 citations)
  • Commensuration of the globalised higher education sector: how university rankings act as a credential for world-class status in China (6 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Compare (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Yusuf Sayed (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul Morris (27 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Nitya Rao (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Anna Robinson-Pant (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Michael W Crossley (17 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Compare (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Institute of Education (76 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Bristol (42 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Sussex (40 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of East Anglia (40 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Cambridge (34 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 10.32% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.02% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.04% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.83% of all publications and 56.12% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Low-Income Rural Youth Migrating to Urban Universities in South Africa: Opportunities and Inequalities.

    Melanie Walker;Mikateko Mathebula

    (2020)
    39 Citations
  • Developing a model of instructional leadership in China

    Allan David Walker;Haiyan Qian

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Buying, selling and outsourcing educational reform: the Global Education Industry and ‘policy borrowing’ in the Gulf

    Maryam Mohamed;Paul Morris

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • Geographies of shadow education: patterns and forces in the spatial distributions of private supplementary tutoring

    Mark Bray;Mark Bray

    (2021)
    23 Citations
  • What sustains doctoral students' interest? Comparison of Finnish, UK and Spanish doctoral students' perceptions

    Kirsi Pyhältö;Jouni Peltonen;Montserrat Castelló;Lynn McAlpine

    (2020)
    22 Citations
  • Covid and the future of education: global agencies ‘building back better’

    (2022)
    20 Citations
  • Recontextualization of learner-centred pedagogy in Rwanda: A comparative analysis of primary and secondary schools.

    Hester van de Kuilen;Hulya Kosar Altinyelken;Joke M. Voogt;Wenceslas Nzabalirwa

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • Policy reformer’s dream or nightmare?

    Maryellen Schaub;Hyerim Kim;Deok Ho Jang;David P. Baker

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Mapping the historical development and landscape of research about transnational higher education: a scientometric analysis from comparative and international perspectives

    (2023)
    13 Citations
  • Cognitive ability and academic performance among left-behind children: evidence from rural China

    Xinyue He;Huan Wang;Dimitris Friesen;Yaojiang Shi

    (2020)
    12 Citations

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