Education, Citizenship and Social Justice

Top Research Topics at Education, Citizenship and Social Justice?

The journal investigates studies in Citizenship, Pedagogy, Democracy, Politics and Gender studies. Social science, Political economy and Public administration are some topics wherein Citizenship research discussed in the journal have an impact. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Social science, apply to Cultural pluralism as well.

The Public administration works featured in it incorporate elements from Economic growth and Education policy. The work on Pedagogy tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Higher education and Qualitative research. The journal explores issues in Democracy which can be linked to other research areas like Social change, Philosophy of education and Public relations.

• Citizenship (33.54%)
• Pedagogy (33.23%)
• Democracy (20.57%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• The role of universities in advancing citizenship and social justice in the 21st century (166 citations)
• Understanding young people's citizenship learning in everyday life The role of contexts, relationships and dispositions (151 citations)
• School Climate, Sense of Efficacy and Israeli Teachers' Attitudes toward Inclusion of Students with Special Needs. (100 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Education, Citizenship and Social Justice:

The published papers explore disciplines such as Citizenship, Pedagogy, Democracy, Citizenship education and Politics. The most cited publications facilitate discussions on Citizenship that incorporate concepts from other fields like Social change, Globalization, Global citizenship, Public administration and Social science. While Pedagogy is the focus of the published papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Identity (social science), Qualitative research and Active citizenship.

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

• Law
• Social science
• China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses on Citizenship, Gender studies, Democracy, Social justice and Pedagogy. It focuses on Citizenship but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Pride, Public administration, General education, Framing (social sciences) and Vocational education. Some problems in Gender studies that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Test (assessment), Civics, Altruism (ethics), China and Economic Justice.

It explores themes in Democracy like Democratic education and links them with other fields of study like Social value orientations. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice explores research in Pedagogy and the adjacent study of Qualitative research. The presented research on Active citizenship deals specifically with Political education but it also addresses topics in Public relations.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Does political participation in adolescence promote knowledge acquisition and active citizenship (4 citations)
• Educating democracy: Competences for a democratic culture: (2 citations)
• New visions for citizen formation: An analysis of citizenship education policy in Morocco: (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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Education, Citizenship and Social Justice (based on the number of publications) are:

• Michalinos Zembylas (4 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Ian Davies (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Elisabet Weedon (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Sheila Riddell (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Ulrike Niens (3 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Education, Citizenship and Social Justice (based on the number of publications) are:

• University of Edinburgh (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Stellenbosch University (6 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• University of Gothenburg (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of Leeds (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Manchester Metropolitan University (4 papers) published 1 paper at the last 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, 13.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.38% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.85% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.38% of all publications and 65.38% 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.