A Bibliometric Snapshot ofThe Journal of Higher Educationand Its Impact on the Field

A bibliometric view on the internationalization of European educational research

“…Their results show a high diversity of journals and content, and raise the question to what degree educational researchers share the same knowledge base. Earp (2010) analyzed and discussed the impact of The Journal of Higher Education (JHE) between 1998 and 2002. He concluded that JHE had a much stronger influence on the field than the traditional journal impact factor could express (which is based on a two-year citation window only).…”

“…Togia and Tsigilis (2006) found that while a total of 1,226 active refereed scholarly journals are listed under the subject heading ‘Education’ in Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, only 136 were included in the WoS in 2004. Earp (2010) counted 206 WoS journals from a total of 4,268 scholarly journals allocated to the field of ‘Education’ in Ulrich’s. Togia and Tsigilis (2006) stressed the limitations of impact factors of educational journals and showed that education journals included in the WoS represent only about 11% of the active academic journals.…”

The Use of Bibliometrics to Measure Research Performance in Education Sciences

“…Few studies are available so far on the (bibliometric) measurement of research performance in education sciences (examples include Botte 2007, Budd 1988, 1990, Budd and Magnuson 2010, Davarpanah 2009, Dees 2008, Earp 2010, Fernández-Cano and Bueno 1999, Hornbostel and Keiner 2002, Keiner 1999, Klusmeyer, Reinisch, and Söll 2011, Kroc 1984, Shin 2004, Silverman 1985, Smart 1983, Smart and Elton 1981, Smart and McLaughlin 1982, Tight 2008, Togia and Tsigilis 2006, van Aalst 2010, and the results of existing studies may not apply "as is" to other countries and periods. Furthermore, it is worth bearing in mind that publishing practice in education sciences has traditionally been of a nature that hardly encourages the use of bibliometric methods to measure research performance.…”

“…Attempts have been undertaken to draw up similar journal rankings in educational research. Currently available lists do not adequately cover the journals served by Swiss researchers (ERA Journal Ranking), do not indicate journal quality based on classification (European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) of the European Science Foundation), fluctuate significantly between the various sub-disciplines (Budd and Magnuson 2010, Earp 2010, Fairbairn et al 2009, Togia and Tsigilis 2006 or are criticized on grounds of poor overall validity (Corby 2003, Haddow and Genoni 2010, Luce and Johnson 1978, Rey 2009, Smart 1983, Wellington and Torgerson 2005. In consequence, there seems to be little benefit at present in using journal rankings in educational research.…”

Investigating Educational Research Articles (1980-2014) in terms of Bibliometric Indicators

“…There is various research related to investigation of research performance on the basis of bibliometrics (Diem & Wolter, 2013). It is possible to observe recently conducted studies on the bibliometric measurement of research performance in the literature (For example : Abramo, Cicero & D'Angelo, 2012;Anninos, 2014;Budd & Magnuson, 2010;Davarpanah, 2009;Dees, 2008;Earp, 2010;Milesi, Brown, Hawkley, Dropkin & Schneider, 2014;Pendlebury, 2012;van Aalst, 2010). Number of publications and citation count are the two main bibliometric indicators that are used to measure research performance in the literature (Diem & Wolter, 2013).…”