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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 468 7 15 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 28
Documents by Best Scientists*: 50
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 47
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.765
Impact Factor: 2.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Learned Publishing?

The discussions in the journal mainly cover the fields of Publishing, Library science, Public relations, World Wide Web and Electronic publishing. It explores topics in Publishing which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Scientific communication and Media studies.

  • Publishing (22.13%)
  • Library science (15.01%)
  • Public relations (10.59%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Social media use in the research workflow (238 citations)
  • Article 50 million: an estimate of the number of scholarly articles in existence (227 citations)
  • Authors and open access publishing (167 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Learned Publishing:

The published papers tackle a plethora of topics, such as Publishing, Public relations, World Wide Web, Scholarly communication and Scientific communication. The studies on Publishing discussed at the most cited articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Quality (business), Library science, Reading (process) and Operations research. The most cited articles explore research in Internet privacy and overlapping concepts in Telecommunications to expand the discourse in World Wide Web.

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

  • Law
  • The Internet
  • World Wide Web

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The foci of the journal are Publishing, Public relations, Library science, China and Resilience (network). Publishing research featured in Learned Publishing incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Higher education and Selection (linguistics). It features works in Public relations, more specifically Knowledge mobilization, and explores their relation to disciplines like Pandemic.

Bibliometrics studies in the realm of Library science interact with fields like 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak and Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It focuses on Bibliometrics as well as the interrelated topic of Scopus. The journal explores research in Resilience (network) and the adjacent study of Environmental ethics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Beall's legacy in the battle against predatory publishers (7 citations)
  • Problematizing ‘predatory publishing’: A systematic review of factors shaping publishing motives, decisions, and experiences (6 citations)
  • Transformative agreements: Do they pave the way to open access? (5 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 Learned Publishing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hazel K. Bell (54 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David Nicholas (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michele Benjamin (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Pippa Smart (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Anthony Watkinson (25 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 Learned Publishing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • British Psychological Society (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Newbury College (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wuhan University (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John Wiley & Sons (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • IOP Publishing (12 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, 14.12% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 5.48% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.59% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.55% of all publications and 64.38% 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.

Top Publications

  • A global questionnaire survey of the scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours of early career researchers

    David Nicholas;Hamid R. Jamali;Eti Herman;Anthony Watkinson

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Early career researchers and their authorship and peer review beliefs and practices: An international study

    Hamid R. Jamali;David Nicholas;Anthony Watkinson;Abdullah Abrizah

    (2020)
    32 Citations
  • Titles in research articles: Changes across time and discipline

    (2022)
    28 Citations
  • The changed – and changing – landscape of serials publishing: Review of the literature on emerging models

    Eti Herman;John Akeroyd;Gaelle Bequet;David Nicholas

    (2020)
    23 Citations
  • National comparisons of early career researchers' scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours

    Hamid R. Jamali;David Nicholas;Eti Herman;Cherifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri

    (2020)
    22 Citations
  • Non‐author entities accountable for retractions: A diachronic and cross‐disciplinary exploration of reasons for retraction

    (2022)
    22 Citations
  • Journals in Beall's list perform as a group less well than other open access journals indexed in Scopus but reveal large differences among publishers

    (2021)
    19 Citations
  • Enter the dragon: China and global academic publishing

    (2023)
    18 Citations
  • Where predatory and mainstream journals differ: A study of language and linguistics journals

    (2022)
    17 Citations
  • Does the scholarly communication system satisfy the beliefs and aspirations of new researchers? Summarizing the Harbingers research

    David Nicholas;Anthony Watkinson;Abdullah Abrizah;Blanca Rodríguez‐Bravo

    (2020)
    12 Citations

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