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Educational Researcher
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Educational Researcher

0013-189X

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/edr

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 120 35 42 19

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 68
Documents by Best Scientists*: 65
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 158
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.835
Impact Factor: 4.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Educational Researcher?

Pedagogy, Educational research, Mathematics education, Public relations and Public administration are among the topics commonly tackled in Educational Researcher. Educational Researcher holds forums on Pedagogy that merges themes from other disciplines such as Higher education and Education theory. The studies on Educational research discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Epistemology, Qualitative research and Research methodology.

The works on Mathematics education deal in particular with Academic achievement.

  • Pedagogy (24.85%)
  • Educational research (22.69%)
  • Mathematics education (16.52%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching (12255 citations)
  • Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning (11056 citations)
  • Mixed Methods Research: A Research Paradigm Whose Time Has Come (7277 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Educational Researcher:

The journal publications investigate studies in Pedagogy, Educational research, Mathematics education, Epistemology and Academic achievement. In addition to Pedagogy research, the journal publications aim to explore topics under Higher education and Education theory. The published articles address concerns in Educational research which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Social psychology, Management science, Research design, Qualitative research and Research methodology.

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:

Medical education, Mathematics education, Race (biology), 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak and Descriptive statistics are the subjects of interest in the journal. The studies in Medical education featured incorporate elements of Postsecondary education, Program evaluation and Survey data collection. In Educational Researcher, Curriculum and Reading (process) are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Mathematics education research.

Issues in Race (biology) were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Critical theory, Ethnic group and Inequality. The work on Descriptive statistics addressed in it expands to the thematically related Observational study. The subject of Economic growth, which is connected to the field of Social environment, serves as the foundation of the Policy analysis research featured in it.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Distance Learning and Parental Mental Health During COVID-19 (17 citations)
  • Factors Contributing to Teacher Burnout During COVID-19 (11 citations)
  • Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait: (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 Educational Researcher (based on the number of publications) are:

  • David H. Florio (55 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Richard E. Schutz (51 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Robert Donmoyer (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gene V. Glass (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Robert E. Slavin (20 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 Educational Researcher (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Stanford University (111 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (75 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (67 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michigan State University (63 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Columbia University (57 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as 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, 2.67% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 31.51% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 16.44% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.29% of all publications and 28.77% 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

  • Beyond Equity as Inclusion: A Framework of "Rightful Presence" for Guiding Justice-Oriented Studies in Teaching and Learning.

    Angela Calabrese Barton;Edna Tan

    (2020)
    278 Citations
  • A Revaluation of Computational Thinking in K–12 Education: Moving Toward Computational Literacies

    Yasmin B. Kafai;Chris Proctor

    (2021)
    177 Citations
  • Rethinking Learning: What the Interdisciplinary Science Tells Us:

    Na’ilah Suad Nasir;Carol D. Lee;Roy Pea;Maxine McKinney de Royston

    (2021)
    114 Citations
  • Achievement Gaps in the Wake of COVID-19

    Drew H. Bailey;Greg J. Duncan;Richard J. Murnane;Natalie Au Yeung

    (2021)
    113 Citations
  • Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait:

    Joel Breakstone;Mark Smith;Sam Wineburg;Amie Rapaport

    (2021)
    108 Citations
  • Teachers’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    (2022)
    104 Citations
  • Learning at the Boundaries of Research and Practice: A Framework for Understanding Research–Practice Partnerships

    (2022)
    94 Citations
  • Education for a “Post-Truth” World: New Directions for Research and Practice

    Clark A. Chinn;Sarit Barzilai;Ravit Golan Duncan

    (2021)
    90 Citations
  • Leading Schools and Districts in Times of Crisis

    Jason A. Grissom;Lara Condon

    (2021)
    74 Citations
  • Theory and Research on Tasks Revisited: Task as a Context for Students' Thinking in the Era of Ambitious Reforms in Mathematics and Science.

    Miray Tekkumru-Kisa;Mary Kay Stein;Walter Doyle

    (2020)
    64 Citations

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