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Daedalus
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Daedalus

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

https://direct.mit.edu/daed

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 476 34 33 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 95
Documents by Best Scientists*: 96
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 10
SCIMAGO H-index: 71
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.772
Impact Factor: 2.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Daedalus?

Daedalus aims to foster the development of research in Law, Politics, Political economy, Higher education and Pedagogy. Democracy is part of Politics studies tackled in it.

  • Law (11.54%)
  • Politics (10.98%)
  • Political economy (7.44%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Do Artifacts Have Politics (1304 citations)
  • Signature pedagogies in the professions (1068 citations)
  • Intuitive ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues (905 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Daedalus:

The most cited papers generally zeroe in on subjects such as Ethnology, Humanities, Politics, Social science and Social psychology. Democracy and Race (biology) are some topics wherein Ethnology research discussed in the published papers has an impact. The works on Politics tackled in the most cited articles bring together disciplines like State (polity), Gender studies, Development economics and Political economy.

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are State (polity), Criminology, Political economy, Administrative law and White (horse). It focuses on State (polity) but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Public administration, Test (assessment), Pandemic and Emergency medicine. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Political economy, it also covered topics in Technocracy, Post apartheid, Futures contract, Power (social and political) and Populism.

The Administrative law research presented falls under the domain of Law. While Law is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Agency (philosophy) and Hedgehog. Daedalus explores topics in Rulemaking which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Politics, Presidency, Agrarian society, Deference and Constitution.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The Racialization of “Illegality” (8 citations)
  • Immigration, Race & Political Polarization (3 citations)
  • The Bipartisan Origins of White Nationalism (2 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 Daedalus (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Gerald Early (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gerald Holton (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Scott D. Sagan (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jennifer L. Hochschild (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Howard Gardner (5 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 Daedalus (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Harvard University (82 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Columbia University (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stanford University (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yale University (31 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Princeton University (26 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less 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, 75.47% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 38.46% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.69% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 7.69% of all publications and 46.15% 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.

Top Publications

  • The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence

    (2022)
    123 Citations
  • The Racialization of “Illegality”

    Cecilia Menjívar

    (2021)
    101 Citations
  • Trust in Medicine, the Health System & Public Health

    (2022)
    31 Citations
  • Immigration, race & political polarization

    Michael Hout;Christopher Maggio

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Public Health Approaches to Reducing Community Gun Violence

    (2022)
    30 Citations
  • The Bipartisan Origins of White Nationalism

    Douglas S. Massey

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • What Does “Trust in the Media” Mean?

    (2022)
    10 Citations
  • Addressing Linguistic Inequality in Higher Education: A Proactive Model

    (2023)
    10 Citations
  • American Trust in Science & Institutions in the Time of COVID-19

    (2022)
    9 Citations
  • The Discontents of Truth & Trust in 21st Century America

    (2022)
    8 Citations

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