From a bibliometric perspective, scholarly inbreeding has been identified in journals through the excessive use of both author and journal self-citations. However, editorial bias toward researchers from the same institution as the editorial management team has seldom been considered. According to the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology,…

Academic journals communicate research findings, share knowledge and stimulate debate. They are the representative academic 'voice' for a discipline, reflecting its knowledge base. This paper examines all 350 articles published in the "International Journal of Training Research" from 1993 to 2019 to highlight significant trends over…

The refereed and periodical journals, which form the basis of scientific communication, have different functions such as quality control, archival creation, the promotion of authors, and information distribution. Journals that previously addressed wider audiences and disciplines are becoming increasingly thematic today and are beginning to address…

Over the past 20 years, the pages of the Journal of Educational Change have been filled with some of the most important and exciting thinking in the field. That said, three important challenges need to be addressed in the next decade if the Journal is to continue to hold its prominent position. The first relates to finding a way to diversify the…

The "Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences" ("JFCS") reflects the broad scope and reach of the family and consumer sciences (FCS) discipline through its inclusion of Scholarship, Practice, Strategies, Features, Reflections, and other articles that span content areas, settings, populations, issues, and methodologies.…

The "Journal of Research in Music Education" ("JRME") is the longest running serial dedicated to music education research, and its articles are widely considered exemplars in the field worldwide. This is a bibliometric study of the sources cited in articles published in the "JRME" from its inception in 1953 to 2015.…

Recent articles by the editorial board of "The Analysis of Verbal Behavior" (TAVB) include calls for greater integration, collaboration, and inclusion. In so doing, it may be helpful to consider TAVB's current reach. Previously, Petursdottir, Peterson, and Peters ("The Analysis of Verbal Behavior," "25," 109-121,…

Little is known about open access publishing in educational technology journals that employ a hybrid model which charges authors only if they wish to publish via gold open access. In this study we sought to address this gap in the scholarly understanding of open access publishing in hybrid journals that publish research into the intersection of…

Although there is increasing recognition of the value of mixed-methods research, many publication spaces remain methodologically siloed, primarily publishing either qualitative or quantitative research studies. This methodological siloing presents a risk to coherence in the psychological sciences if qualitative and quantitative research traditions…

With the rapid increase in the number of scholarly publications on STEM education in recent years, reviews of the status and trends in STEM education research internationally support the development of the field. For this review, we conducted a systematic analysis of 798 articles in STEM education published between 2000 and the end of 2018 in 36…

A challenging step in any qualitative research project is data coding and analysis. If the data coding is done appropriately, it will lead the researchers to develop patterns or themes and to make final inferences about the research problem. As such, qualitative researchers are supposed to take systematically informed steps and procedures to…

Altmetrics are non-traditional metrics that can capture downloads, social media shares, and other modern measures of research impact and reach. Despite most of the altmetrics literature focusing on evaluating the relationship between research outputs and academic impact/influence, the perceived and actual value of altmetrics among academicians…

This study aims to build a bibliometric mapping of research on web-based language instruction. By identifying the elements of author, publication, keyword, journal, country, and citation, the bibliometric mapping approach was utilized to examine trends in web-based language instruction research from an international viewpoint. The Turkish Online…

Research on academic stance and evaluation has been prolific over the past few decades. Few studies, however, have focused on exploring the evaluative potential of that-constructions in shaping the structure of academic arguments. To address this lacuna, the current study aimed at exploring the potential impact of the distinct communicative…

"International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education" (IJATE) is one of the educational journals that is indexed in major worldwide databases such as Web of Science (WoS) and ERIC. This study presents the bibliometric characteristics of articles published in IJATE between 2014 and 2021 through the bibliometric analyses. Harzing's…