| Discipline name | Position | Best Scientists | Publications | D-Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science | 154 | 15 | 19 | 7 |
Regional & Federal Studies is organized to address concerns in the fields of Politics, Public administration, Political economy, Federalism and Economic system. While Politics is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of State (polity), Decentralization and Economy. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Public administration, it also covered topics in Representation (politics), Corporate governance, Government, Devolution and Legislature.
Corporate governance research is the primary subject tackled in Regional & Federal Studies with a focus on Multi-level governance. Topics in Political economy explored in Regional & Federal Studies were investigated in conjunction with research in German, Nationalism, European integration, Development economics and Democracy. The featured Federalism research is covered under the field of Law.
The published papers are organized to address concerns in the fields of Public administration, Politics, Corporate governance, Political economy and Economic system. The most cited publications focus on Politics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Autonomy, Economic history, Development economics and Decentralization. While Political economy is the key highlight in the journal articles, thet also covered some subjects on Ideology and Power (social and political).
Regional & Federal Studies investigates studies in Political economy, Politics, Federalism, Decentralization and Economic history. Political economy research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Independence, Nationalism, Party competition, Government and Populism. Politics research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Consolidation (business) and International economics.
The studies in Federalism featured incorporate elements of Cohesion (linguistics), Regional autonomy, Participatory governance and Public administration. The journal emphasizes research on Public administration, which includes concerns such as Local governance. Corporate governance, Multi-level governance, State (polity), Economy and Index (economics) are some topics wherein Decentralization research discussed in Regional & Federal Studies have an impact.
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 Regional & Federal Studies (based on the number of publications) are:
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 Regional & Federal Studies (based on the number of publications) are:
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.
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, 7.25% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.75% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.25% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.19% of all publications and 57.81% were from other institutions.
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.
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.
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:
The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.
Sarah Shair-Rosenfield;Arjan H. Schakel;Sara Niedzwiecki;Gary Marks
(2021)Sara Niedzwiecki;Sandra Chapman Osterkatz;Liesbet Hooghe;Gary Marks
(2021)Martijn Groenleer;Frank Hendriks
(2020)Arjan H. Schakel;Valentyna Romanova
(2020)Arjan H. Schakel;Valentyna Romanova
(2021)Kent Eaton
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