Citation Patterns of Articles Published in Adult Education 1968-1977

Abstract

In an effort to establish the extent to which adult education researchers are creating their own body of knowledge citation behaviors in Adult Education articles were studied. Nine judges classified the 2247 references that appeared in Adult Education from 1968-1977 as primary or secondary adult education literature.

How pluralistic is the research field on adult education? : Dominating bibliometrical trends, 2005-2012

“…Studying this field by analysing its leading scientific journals has become a popular strategy in recent years (Hayes, 1992;Blunt & Lee, 1994;Rachal & Sargent, 1995;Taylor, 2001;Fejes, 2008;Harris & Morrison, 2011;St. Clair, 2011;Larsson, 2010;Fejes & Nylander, 2014), and the early examples of bibliometric studies and content analysis of adult education research date back to the 1970s (Dickinson & Rusnell, 1971;Long & Agyekum, 1974;Boshier & Pickard, 1979). In this article, we study the top-cited articles in three of the leading English-speaking adult education journals between the years 2005-2012 in order to examine if and in what aspects the field is shaped as heterogeneous and pluralistic.…”

Research on adult development: implications for adult education

“…Boshier and Pickard (1979) identified Cyril Houle, Coolie Verner, Malcolm Knowles, and Roger Boshier as the most frequently cited authors in adult education. None of these authors is primary associated with adult development.…”

Adult education research: exploring an increasingly fragmented map

“…Numerous articles examining the scholarly field of adult education have appeared since the 1960s, employing content analyses of adult education journals (Dickinson & Rusnell, 1971;Long & Agyekum, 1974), country comparisons (Brookfield, 1982), and citation analysis (Boshier & Pickard, 1979). Some articles looked at subdisciplines such as adult basic education (Fisher & Martin, 1987) or specific aspects such as the impact of feminism on adult education (Hayes, 1992).…”