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Social Indicators Research
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Social Indicators Research

0303-8300

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/11205

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 156 36 44 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 172
Documents by Best Scientists*: 190
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 147
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.933
Impact Factor: 2.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Social Indicators Research?

The topics of Human geography, Public health, Social psychology, Quality of Life Research and Life satisfaction are the focal point of discussions in Social Indicators Research. The journal explores issues in Human geography which can be linked to other research areas like Economic growth, Poverty, Public economics, Demographic economics and Development economics. It focuses on Public health but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Gerontology, Quality of life (healthcare), Demography, Developmental psychology and Socioeconomics.

Topics in Social psychology were tackled in line with various other fields like Context (language use), Sample (statistics), Well-being and Scale (social sciences). The journal links adjacent topics like Quality of Life Research with Econometrics. Topics in Life satisfaction explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Quality of life, Subjective well-being and Clinical psychology.

  • Human geography (36.64%)
  • Public health (32.64%)
  • Social psychology (23.07%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A MEASURE OF SUBJECTIVE HAPPINESS: PRELIMINARY RELIABILITY AND CONSTRUCT VALIDATION (2216 citations)
  • New Well-Being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings. (1789 citations)
  • Assessing Subjective Well-Being: Progress and Opportunities (1609 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Social Indicators Research:

The main points discussed in the journal publications deal with Social psychology, Well-being, Life satisfaction, Public health and Subjective well-being. The published papers explore research in Social psychology alongside concepts in Test validity and other areas of study in Construct validity. The study of Public health in the published articles encompasses disciplines such as Human geography, as well as fields such as Economic growth, Public economics, Poverty and Development economics, all of which overlap with one another.

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

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Human geography, Public health, Demographic economics, Quality of Life Research and Poverty. Social psychology, Well-being, Development economics, China and Index (economics) are some topics wherein Human geography research discussed in the journal have an impact. The studies in Development economics featured incorporate elements of Government and Developing country.

Social Indicators Research tackles studies in Life satisfaction and the interrelated subject of Happiness to gain insights into Public health. The journal explores topics in Demographic economics which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Panel data, Wage, Endogeneity, Sample (statistics) and Economic inequality. Poverty research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Rural area and Consumption (economics).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • An Empirical Investigation on Regional Disparities in Public Expenditures: Province Level Evidence from Turkey (18 citations)
  • Measuring Sustainable Development by Non-aggregative Approach (18 citations)
  • Synthesis of Multi-indicator System Over Time: A Poset-based Approach (16 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 Social Indicators Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Alex C. Michalos (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bruce Headey (35 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ruut Veenhoven (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • E. Scott Huebner (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bruno D. Zumbo (29 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 Social Indicators Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Melbourne (62 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Sapienza University of Rome (62 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Northern British Columbia (59 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam (57 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong (53 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, 5.60% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 9.50% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.15% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.24% of all publications and 72.11% 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

  • Flexible Working, Work–Life Balance, and Gender Equality: Introduction

    Heejung Chung;Tanja van der Lippe

    (2020)
    673 Citations
  • Beyond Formal Access: Organizational Context, Working From Home, and Work-Family Conflict of Men and Women in European Workplaces.

    Tanja van der Lippe;Zoltán Lippényi

    (2020)
    221 Citations
  • Energy Poverty and Low Carbon Just Energy Transition: Comparative Study in Lithuania and Greece

    Dalia Streimikiene;Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos;Vidas Lekavicius;Indre Siksnelyte-Butkiene

    (2021)
    98 Citations
  • A tale of PLS Structural Equation Modelling: Episode I— A Bibliometrix Citation Analysis

    (2022)
    61 Citations
  • Public Services Equalization in Urbanizing China: Indicators, Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Implications on Regional Economic Disparities

    Zekun Li;Shenjing He;Shiliang Su;Guie Li

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Development of the India Patriarchy Index: Validation and Testing of Temporal and Spatial Patterning

    Abhishek Singh;Praveen Chokhandre;Ajeet Kumar Singh;Kathryn M. Barker

    (2021)
    38 Citations
  • The Relationship Between Perceived Residential Environment Quality (PREQ) and Community Identity: Flow and Social Capital as Mediators

    (2022)
    35 Citations
  • The ‘Dark Side’ of Social Capital: A Cross-National Examination of the Relationship Between Social Capital and Violence in Africa

    Ludovico Alcorta;Jeroen Smits;Haley J. Swedlund;Eelke de Jong

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Identifying Social Indicators for Sustainability Assessment of CCU Technologies: A Modified Multi-criteria Decision Making

    Parisa Rafiaani;Parisa Rafiaani;Zoumpolia Dikopoulou;Miet Van Dael;Tom Kuppens

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Work Schedule Control and Allostatic Load Biomarkers: Disparities Between and Within Gender

    (2022)
    32 Citations

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