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Citation patterns in educational research

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Author

Editor

  • Ingrid Gogolin
  • Fredrik Åström
  • Antje Hansen

Summary, in English

The purpose of this study is to investigate citation structures in educational research; and also, to study the visibility of European educational research. Bibliometric analyses are performed on data from Web of Science, the EERQI Content Base and Google Scholar, investigating both characteristics of publications through frequencies and distributions, as well as citation structures through cocitation analyses. The results show fragmented citation patterns presenting little opportunity to detect robust evidence of visibility or impact of contemporary educational research on any level of aggregation other than field level. This should be interpreted considering the diverse nature of educational research, and an organization of the field that differs from a strong norm, not the least in research evaluation programs, of research essentially being a cumulative process.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

85-106

Publication/Series

Assessing Quality in European Educational Research: Indicators and Approaches

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Information Studies

Keywords

  • Citation analysis
  • Educational Research

Status

Published

Project

  • European Educational Research Quality Indicators

Research group

  • Information Studies

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-658-05969-9