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Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice
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Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

1354-0602

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctat20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 862 11 16 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 26
Documents by Best Scientists*: 28
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 80
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.954
Impact Factor: 1.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Teachers and Teaching?

The journal covers a variety of subjects, including Pedagogy, Mathematics education, Teacher education, Teaching method and Professional development. The journal holds forums on Pedagogy that merges themes from other disciplines such as Context (language use), Qualitative research and Narrative. Semi-structured interview is a major topic of Qualitative research research.

The work tackled in it goes beyond the discipline of Mathematics education as it also encompasses Perception.

  • Pedagogy (69.31%)
  • Mathematics education (36.69%)
  • Teacher education (25.30%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Professional Development and Teacher Change (1782 citations)
  • Redefining teaching, re‐imagining teacher education (796 citations)
  • Four Ages of Professionalism and Professional Learning (736 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Teachers and Teaching:

The journal papers primarily focus on research topics in Pedagogy, Mathematics education, Teacher education, Professional development and Teaching method. The featured Pedagogy studies in the journal publications mainly concentrate on Context (language use) but also cover areas of interest in Discourse analysis. The most cited papers explore topics in Mathematics education which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Perception and Conceptualization.

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

  • Law
  • Pedagogy
  • Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main points discussed in Teachers and Teaching deals with Pedagogy, Mathematics education, Teacher education, Professional development and Pre service. Pedagogy research is concerned with Science education in particular. Teachers and Teaching discusses concepts in Student learning, Self-regulated learning and Student centered teaching under Mathematics education and how they intertwine with disciplines like Equity (finance) and Coaching.

Teachers and Teaching explores Teacher education concepts, specifically Teacher preparation but expands to research in Research based. Teachers and Teaching focuses on Professional development but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Peer mentoring, Primary education and Philosophy for Children. The overlapping concepts between Professional learning community and General partnership, Multiculturalism and Plan (drawing) are the key highlights of Pre service study.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Comprehension of experienced English language teachers’ professional identity and related metacognitive thinking procedures (1 citations)
  • Coping with emotionally challenging expectations: Japanese beginning teachers and their relationships with students’ parents’ (1 citations)
  • Students’ perceptions of assessment practices in upper secondary school during COVID-19 (0 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 Teachers and Teaching (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Cheryl J. Craig (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Geert Kelchtermans (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Douwe Beijaard (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Frances O'Connell Rust (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Fred A. J. Korthagen (10 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 Teachers and Teaching (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Leiden University (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Monash University (25 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Utrecht University (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Hong Kong (23 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Nottingham (20 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, 2.78% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 14.29% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.43% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.14% of all publications and 57.14% 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.

Further Studies and Career Opportunities

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Top Publications

  • The classroom in turmoil: teachers’ perspective on unplanned controversial issues in the classroom

    Charlot Cassar;Ida Oosterheert;Paulien C. Meijer

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Critical thinking in primary science through a guided inquiry pedagogy: A semiotic perspective

    (2023)
    17 Citations
  • Parent–teacher relationships in school micropolitics: beginning teachers’ stories

    Minna Uitto;Katri Jokikokko;Erkki T. Lassila;Geert Kelchtermans

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • Innovative practice as interpretative negotiation.A case-study on the kamishibai in Kindergarten.

    Karen Vermeir;Geert Kelchtermans

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Coping with emotionally challenging expectations: Japanese beginning teachers and their relationships with students’ parents’

    Erkki T. Lassila;Eila Estola;Geert Kelchtermans;Minna Uitto

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Breaking down the walls of the ‘Ivory Tower’: critical reflections on how co-teaching partnerships can bridge the gap between inclusive education theory and practice

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • ‘To teach or not to teach?’ An exploration of the career choices of educational professionals

    (2023)
    5 Citations
  • Teachers’ experiences of enacting curriculum policy at the micro level using Bernstein’s theory of the pedagogic device

    Amanda McCloat;Martin Caraher

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • Multi-layered mentoring: exemplars from a U.S. STEM teacher education program

    (2023)
    3 Citations
  • Purposeful teachers and teaching in Finland and Estonia

    (2023)
    3 Citations

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