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Evidence and Policy
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Evidence and Policy

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Political Science 216 7 14 5
Social Sciences and Humanities 572 30 26 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 54
Documents by Best Scientists*: 54
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 46
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.118
Impact Factor: 2.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice?

The journal covers a variety of subjects, including Public relations, Evidence-based practice, Public administration, Public policy and Public health. The studies on Public relations discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Psychological intervention, Context (language use), Health care, Health services and Knowledge translation. The Evidence-based practice study featured in Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice draws connections with the study of Evidence-based policy.

Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice aims to form a more comprehensive understanding of the field by integrating disciplines like Evidence-based policy and Politics. The Public policy study featured falls within the larger field of Economic growth.

  • Public relations (31.26%)
  • Evidence-based practice (25.96%)
  • Public administration (16.82%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Knowledge Brokering: The missing link in the evidence to action chain? (259 citations)
  • Systems thinking, knowledge and action: towards better models and methods (225 citations)
  • A web-based tool for adjusting costs to a specific target currency and price year (138 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice:

Public relations, Public administration, Evidence-based practice, Public policy and Knowledge management are the main subjects of interest in the published papers. While work presented in the journal articles provide substantial information on Public relations, it also covers topics in Health care, Knowledge translation, Health services and Accounting. Most of the works presented in the most cited publications deal with Evidence-based practice but they intersect with the subject of Evidence-based policy.

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

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Management

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Public relations, Evidence-based practice, Politics, Health services and Public administration. While Public relations is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Context (language use), Thematic analysis and Knowledge translation. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice focuses on Evidence-based practice research which is adjacent to topics in Evidence-based medicine.

The study of Politics encompasses disciplines such as Political economy, as well as fields such as Process (engineering), Idealism and Movement (music), all of which overlap with one another. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice facilitates discussions on Health services that incorporate concepts from other fields like Linguistics, Medical research, Engineering management and Library science. The research on Public administration featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Action research, Government sector and Monitoring and evaluation.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Effective strategies that enhance the social impact of social sciences and humanities research (8 citations)
  • The Debate over Rational Decision Making in Evidence-Based Medicine: Implications for Evidence-Informed Policy. (3 citations)
  • Using Collaborative Conceptual Modelling as a Tool for Transdisciplinarity. (3 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 Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Annette Boaz (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David Gough (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Katherine Smith (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • John N. Lavis (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Anita Kothari (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous 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 Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of London (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Edinburgh (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Sydney (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University College London (7 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of New South Wales (7 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 35.29% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.80% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.69% of all publications and 39.22% 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

  • Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies: lessons from COVID-19 for adaptive evidence-making and intervention

    Kari Lancaster;Tim Rhodes;Marsha Rosengarten

    (2020)
    87 Citations
  • What works to promote research-policy engagement?

    (2022)
    79 Citations
  • The use of research in public health policy: a systematic review

    Sara Masood;Anita Kothari;Sandra Regan

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • Embedding researchers into organisations : a study of the features of embedded research initiatives

    Vicky Ward;Huw Talfryn Oakley Davies;Benet Reid;Tricia Ray Tooman

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • The Debate over Rational Decision Making in Evidence-Based Medicine: Implications for Evidence-Informed Policy.

    R. Christopher Sheldrick;Justeen Hyde;Laurel K. Leslie;Thomas Mackie

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • Co-designing behavioural public policy: lessons from the field about how to ‘nudge plus’

    Liz Richardson;Peter John

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • A Comparative Ethnographic Study of Collective Knowledge Brokering across the Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Knowledge Boundaries in Applied Health Research.

    Justin Waring;Jenelle Clarke;Robert Vickers

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Making authentic: exploring boundary objects and bricolage in knowledge mobilisation through National Health Service-university partnerships

    Lucy Melville-Richards;Joanne Rycroft-Malone;Christopher Burton;Joyce Wilkinson

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Bridging the research–policy gap: the importance of effective identity leadership and shared commitment

    Frank Mols;Jennifer Bell;Brian Head

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • National objectives, local policymaking: public health efforts to translate national legislation into local policy in Scottish alcohol licensing

    (2022)
    11 Citations

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