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Gifted Child Quarterly
H-index 12

Gifted Child Quarterly

0016-9862

Published by: SAGE

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

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 581 24 28 12
Social Sciences and Humanities 1053 6 9 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 31
Documents by Best Scientists*: 34
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 68
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.324
Impact Factor: 4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Gifted Child Quarterly?

The concepts of Mathematics education, Pedagogy, Developmental psychology, Gifted education and Creativity are tackled in the journal. The featured works in Teaching method, Primary education and Academic achievement, which all belong in the domain if Mathematics education, also overlaps with concepts under Evaluation methods. Social psychology and Cognition, Intelligence quotient are some topics wherein Developmental psychology research discussed in Gifted Child Quarterly have an impact.

The work on Creativity addressed in it expands to the thematically related Cognitive psychology.

  • Mathematics education (33.29%)
  • Pedagogy (25.83%)
  • Developmental psychology (23.36%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Enrichment Triad Model: a Guide for Developing Defensible Programs for the Gifted and Talented: (480 citations)
  • The underachievement of gifted students: What do we know and where do we go? (380 citations)
  • Meta-analytic Findings on Grouping Programs (312 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Gifted Child Quarterly:

The most cited papers generally zeroe in on subjects such as Mathematics education, Developmental psychology, Pedagogy, Gifted education and Academic achievement. While Mathematics education is the key highlight in the journal papers, thet also covered some subjects on Creativity and Productivity. Issues in Developmental psychology were discussed in the most cited publications, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Big Five personality traits, Social psychology and Cognition.

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

  • World War II
  • Education
  • Social psychology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses on Mathematics education, Developmental psychology, Gifted education, Identification (information) and Equity (finance). While work presented in it provided substantial information on Mathematics education, it also covered topics in Focus group, Thematic analysis and Measurement invariance. Topics in Developmental psychology were tackled in line with various other fields like Life satisfaction and Test anxiety.

The subject of State (polity), which is connected to the field of Group dynamic, Social influence, Leadership and Pedagogy, serves as the foundation of the Gifted education research featured in Gifted Child Quarterly. The concepts on Identification (information) presented in Gifted Child Quarterly can also apply to other research fields, including Socioeconomic status, Ethnic group and First language. The research on Talent development featured in it combines topics in other fields like Psychometrics and Creativity.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Intellectual Precocity: What Have We Learned Since Terman?: (7 citations)
  • The Challenges of Achieving Equity Within Public School Gifted and Talented Programs (2 citations)
  • Developing Leadership Talent in Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Systematic Review: (1 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 Gifted Child Quarterly (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ann F. Isaacs (92 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • E. Paul Torrance (64 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Joseph S. Renzulli (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Juliana Gensley (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Joyce VanTassel-Baska (32 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 Gifted Child Quarterly (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Connecticut (82 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Georgia (79 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Purdue University (67 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Virginia (42 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Johns Hopkins University (40 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 2021 edition, 6.67% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 25.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 35.71% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.86% of all publications and 21.43% 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

  • Intellectual Precocity: What Have We Learned Since Terman?:

    David Lubinski;Camilla P. Benbow

    (2021)
    58 Citations
  • MANOVA: A Procedure Whose Time Has Passed?:

    Francis L. Huang

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Similarities and Differences between Intellectually Gifted and Average-Ability Students in School Performance, Motivation, and Subjective Well-Being.

    Sebastian Bergold;Linda Wirthwein;Ricarda Steinmayr

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Identifying and Serving Gifted and Talented Students: Are Identification and Services Connected?:

    E. Jean Gubbins;Del Siegle;Karen Ottone-Cross;D. Betsy McCoach

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • Making Meaning out of MANOVA: The Need for Multivariate Post Hoc Testing in Gifted Education Research.

    Kendal N. Smith;Kristen N. Lamb;Robin K. Henson

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Pay Attention to Inattention: Exploring ADHD Symptoms in a Sample of Underachieving Gifted Students:

    D. Betsy McCoach;Del Siegle;Lisa Da Via Rubenstein

    (2020)
    22 Citations
  • Achieving Equity in Gifted Education: Ideas and Issues

    (2022)
    20 Citations
  • Do Mass Media Shape Stereotypes about Intellectually Gifted Individuals? Two Experiments on Stigmatization Effects from Biased Newspaper Reports.

    Sebastian Bergold;Matthias R. Hastall;Ricarda Steinmayr

    (2021)
    20 Citations
  • Factors Associated With Gifted Identification for Ethnically Diverse Children in Poverty

    Courtney Ricciardi;Allison Haag-Wolf;Adam Winsler

    (2020)
    17 Citations

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