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System
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System

0346-251X

Published by: Elsevier

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/system

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 58 32 67 23

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 49
Documents by Best Scientists*: 88
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 115
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.205
Impact Factor: 5.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at System?

System primarily tackles Linguistics, Mathematics education, Pedagogy, Language acquisition and Context (language use). Research on Linguistics presented in System focuses, in particular, on Language assessment, Comprehension approach, Language education, Vocabulary and Reading (process). The main emphasis of System is the subject of Mathematics education, focusing on Foreign language.

Teaching method is the primary subject of Pedagogy works presented in it.

  • Linguistics (18.96%)
  • Mathematics education (15.69%)
  • Pedagogy (14.40%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Teaching and Learning Vocabulary (1808 citations)
  • Using computer networking to facilitate the acquisition of interactive competence (529 citations)
  • Assessing the use of language learning strategies worldwide with the ESL/EFL version of the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) (493 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at System:

The journal papers tackle a plethora of topics, such as Pedagogy, Mathematics education, Linguistics, Language acquisition and Teaching method. While Mathematics education is the key highlight in the published papers, thet also covered some subjects on Context (language use) and Social psychology. Issues in Linguistics were discussed in the journal articles, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Cognitive psychology and Natural language processing.

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

  • Linguistics
  • Law
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

System tackles a plethora of topics, such as Mathematics education, Context (language use), Linguistics, Language acquisition and Foreign language. Topics in Mathematics education were tackled in line with various other fields like Class (computer programming), Vocabulary, Perception and Reading (process). The journal facilitates discussions on Vocabulary that incorporate concepts from other fields like Test (assessment) and Task (project management).

The study on Context (language use) presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Pedagogy. System focuses on Language acquisition research which is adjacent to topics in Narrative. Issues in Foreign language were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Structural equation modeling and Developmental psychology.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Remote Teaching During COVID-19: Implications from a National Survey of Language Educators (28 citations)
  • Emotion regulation and psychological well-being in teacher work engagement: A case of British and Iranian English language teachers (19 citations)
  • Boredom in online classes in the Iranian EFL context: Sources and solutions (11 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 System (based on the number of publications) are:

  • 耕己 小浜 (107 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • 俊也 池上 (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • 哲郎 水田 (38 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • 賢司 初田 (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • 秀夫 中山 (30 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 System (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Oxford (75 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Hong Kong (57 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Auckland (49 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong (40 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Leeds (27 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, 32.54% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 14.71% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.29% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.71% of all publications and 65.29% 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

  • Modeling the contribution of resilience, well-being, and L2 grit to foreign language teaching enjoyment among Iranian English language teachers

    Unknown

    (2022)
    267 Citations
  • Do well-being and resilience predict the Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment of teachers of Italian?

    Anna Lia Proietti Ergün;Jean-Marc Dewaele

    (2021)
    105 Citations
  • Teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism in a course on translanguaging

    Durk Gorter;Durk Gorter;Eli Arocena

    (2020)
    100 Citations
  • Implementing pedagogical translanguaging in trilingual schools

    Jasone Cenoz;Alaitz Santos

    (2020)
    96 Citations
  • Pedagogical translanguaging: An introduction

    Jasone Cenoz;Durk Gorter;Durk Gorter

    (2020)
    88 Citations
  • Trait emotional intelligence, positive and negative emotions in first and foreign language classes: A mixed-methods approach

    Pia Resnik;Jean-Marc Dewaele

    (2020)
    84 Citations
  • Bringing the outside in: Connecting students’ out-of-school knowledge and experience through translanguaging in Hong Kong English Medium Instruction mathematics classes

    Kevin W.H. Tai;Li Wei

    (2020)
    82 Citations
  • Translanguaging pedagogy in teaching English for Academic Purposes: Researcher-teacher collaboration as a professional development model

    Jiajia Eve Liu;Yuen Yi Lo;Angel M.Y. Lin

    (2020)
    76 Citations
  • Pushing the edge in narrative inquiry

    Gary Barkhuizen;Sal Consoli

    (2021)
    66 Citations
  • Understanding English teachers’ non-volitional use of online teaching: A Chinese study

    Fang Huang;Timothy Teo;Jiayi Guo

    (2021)
    65 Citations

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