Educational Research

Top Research Topics at Educational Research?

The journal covers a variety of subjects, including Mathematics education, Pedagogy, Educational research, Developmental psychology and Medical education. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Mathematics education, it also covered topics in Test (assessment) and Reading (process). Pedagogy research featured in Educational Research incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Qualitative research and Higher education.

Developmental psychology and Social psychology are closely related fields of research discussed in it.

• Mathematics education (32.11%)
• Pedagogy (29.71%)
• Educational research (15.39%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• A review of research on teacher beliefs and practices (1140 citations)
• A Survey of the Nature and Extent of Bullying in Junior/Middle and Secondary Schools. (1118 citations)
• Manual or electronic? The role of coding in qualitative data analysis (740 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Educational Research:

The published articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Pedagogy, Mathematics education, Social psychology, Developmental psychology and Educational research. The journal articles with studies in Pedagogy featured incorporate elements of Higher education and Sample (statistics). While Mathematics education is the focus of the most cited articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Test (assessment) and National curriculum.

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 discussions in Educational Research mainly cover the fields of Design-based research, Systems engineering, Economic history, Manifesto and Communism.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) (1 citations)
• Theories of Morals (1916) (0 citations)
• Science and the Savages (1905) (0 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 Educational Research (based on the number of publications) are:

• Enose M.W. Simatwa (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Francis Chisikwa Indoshi (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Sik-Liong Ang (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Peter D. Pumfrey (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Peter Blatchford (8 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 Educational Research (based on the number of publications) are:

• University of Manchester (53 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of London (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
• National Foundation for Educational Research (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of Oxford (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Open University (26 papers) absent 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 2022 edition, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% 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.

Career Opportunities in Research Fields

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