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Critical Studies in Education
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Critical Studies in Education

1750-8487

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcse20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 394 14 23 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 15
Documents by Best Scientists*: 24
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 52
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.517
Impact Factor: 2.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Critical Studies in Education?

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Pedagogy, Social science, Gender studies, Higher education and Public administration. While Pedagogy is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Epistemology, Context (language use) and Neoliberalism. Many of the studies tackled connect Neoliberalism with a similar field of study like Political economy.

In addition to Public administration research, Critical Studies in Education aims to explore topics under Politics and Education policy. It explores research in Education policy and the adjacent study of Policy analysis.

  • Pedagogy (33.37%)
  • Social science (11.59%)
  • Gender studies (11.24%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The neoliberal cascade and education: an essay on the market agenda and its consequences (467 citations)
  • Policy borrowing, policy learning: testing times in Australian schooling (436 citations)
  • Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities (292 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Critical Studies in Education:

The most cited articles generally zeroe in on subjects such as Pedagogy, Higher education, Politics, Neoliberalism and Public administration. Educational research is a major topic of Pedagogy research in the journal articles. The most cited articles explore issues in Public administration which can be linked to other research areas like Economic growth, Scholarship, Curriculum, Social integration and Education policy.

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 mainly deals with areas of study such as Pedagogy, Policy sociology, Epistemology, Gender studies and Education policy. The studies on Pedagogy discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Neoliberalism (international relations) and Metaphor. Critical Studies in Education addresses concerns in Epistemology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Governmentality and Critical inquiry.

Gender studies research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Identity (social science), Persistence (psychology), Catch-all, Space (commercial competition) and Higher education. The journal holds forums on Education policy that merges themes from other disciplines such as Political economy, Private sector, Standardized test, Education reform and Social science. The journal focuses on Positive economics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Corporate governance and Politics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Making markets through digital platforms: Pearson, edu-business, and the (e)valuation of higher education (24 citations)
  • Governing by visual shapes: university rankings, digital education platforms and cosmologies of higher education (11 citations)
  • Re-professionalizing teaching: the new professionalism in the United States (11 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 Critical Studies in Education (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Kalervo N. Gulson (9 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Bob Lingard (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Olive Wykes (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stephen J. Ball (8 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Trevor Gale (8 papers) published 1 paper 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 Critical Studies in Education (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Melbourne (40 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Monash University (38 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Deakin University (25 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Queensland (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Sydney (20 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 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, 2.08% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.02% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.89% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 27.66% of all publications and 40.43% 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

  • The affective dimension of everyday resistance: implications for critical pedagogy in engaging with neoliberalism’s educational impact

    Michalinos Zembylas

    (2021)
    44 Citations
  • Epistemic governance and the colonial epistemic structure: towards epistemic humility and transformed South-North relations

    Melanie Walker;Carmen Martinez-Vargas

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Multiple Temporalities in Critical Policy Sociology in Education.

    Bob Lingard

    (2021)
    41 Citations
  • The Teaching Excellence Framework: symbolic violence and the measured market in higher education

    Michael Tomlinson;Jürgen Enders;Rajani Naidoo

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Failures and possibilities of epistemic justice, with some implications for higher education

    Melanie Walker

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Governing knowledge in the entrepreneurial university: a feminist account of structural, cultural and political epistemic injustice

    Jillian Blackmore

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • The politics of critical policy sociology: mobilities, moorings and elite networks

    Glenn C. Savage;Jessica Gerrard;Trevor Gale;Tebeje Molla

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Critical perspectives on internationalization in higher education: commercialization, global citizenship, or postcolonial imperialism?

    (2023)
    24 Citations
  • Nostalgia in the narratives of vocational teachers as a way of understanding responses to change

    Meril Ümarik;Ivor F. Goodson

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Affirmative critique as a practice of responding to the impasse between post-truth and negative critique: pedagogical implications for schools

    Michalinos Zembylas

    (2020)
    11 Citations

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