This study evaluated authorship in academic librarianship journals by assessing factors such as occupation, institutional affiliation, national affiliation, and coauthor relationships. The findings showed increased coauthorship, reinforcing the findings of previous studies. However, academic library practitioners as authors declined. Authorship…

Purpose: A bibliometric analysis was performed for articles published in the "Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research" ("JSLHR") from 2001 to 2021 to examine changes to and emerging trends in the speech, language, and hearing sciences in the 21st century. Method: Quantitative analyses using JASP were performed on the…

This "In Practice Article" provides recommendations on how to utilize "Journal of Dance Education (JoDE)" articles with secondary education students (typically ages 10-18), featuring examples of all four types of "JoDE" articles (Feature Articles, In-Practice Articles, Student Readings, and Book Reviews). These…

This opinion piece underscores the critical role of undergraduate academic journals in fostering a comprehensive research experience for students, with a spotlight on Qapsule, an open-access journal at Queen's University led by undergraduates. These journals offer a unique platform for students to engage in the full spectrum of scientific inquiry,…

Frontiers pioneered an alternative model of publishing: Rather than libraries paying subscription fees to publishers to give library communities access to journals full of articles written, reviewed and edited (at no or modest cost to the publishers) by their own faculty, they instead charge the authors to publish articles that are then made…

What has been the contribution of "Higher Education Research & Development" (HERD) to feminist scholarship? This analysis utilises Acker and Wagner's definition of feminist scholarship as having the following characteristics: puts women and gender at the centre of analysis, deconstructs unequal power relations, works toward improving…

This paper explores the ideological orientations of higher education (HE) researchers in the form of a visual map, including three principal 'islands' -- "Pragmatists Peninsula," "Reformists Rock" and "Dystopians Retreat." The development of the HE research field in general, illustrated by the last 40 years of…

This study aims to map the literature on shadow education using metadata extracted from 488 publications indexed in the Web of Science database. It is termed as shadow education because much of its content mimics what is learned in schools. The study uses bibliometric procedures to describe and visually represent available literature on shadow…

School psychology journals yield hundreds of articles each year. As these journals are often evaluated based on the impact factors they produce, the aim of this study was to provide a historically complete record of the five impact factor values for the generalist school psychology journals that yield them. This study identified impact factors…

The aim of this study was to reveal the development trends of the last 50 years of Web of Science (WoS) educational research. For this aim, 93,699 articles published in 116 journals were analysed with bibliometric techniques. The results of the analysis showed that the number of WoS educational research articles accelerated in 1980, 2008 and 2019.…

Citation is an essential practice in scientific publishing. However, it is mandatory that citing the sources in a scientific work is performed in a proper manner. Manipulating citations in research articles is one form of academic research misconduct that violates publication ethics. Citation manipulation simply occurs for the purpose of…

In the context of globalisation, public organisations are undergoing rapid transformation, and how to govern them scientifically has become an important research topic. University governance is an important research area in the field of higher education; it has been addressed by many scholars across the world. In order to fully understand the…

Biology is a vital and relevant branch of science that has a significant impact on daily life and the overall development of societies. Many advances in biology education have transformed much pedagogy, particularly learning in the more substantial part of higher education contexts. Thus, bibliometrics can be used to depict and analyze publication…

The editors of APJTE invited a group of teacher education scholars to have a conversation about what is 'missing' from the journal and/ or the field. In line with our celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the journal, we thought that it would be interesting to think about what hasn't been in the journal but might have been. We worked with people…

Scientific or academic publications have become the best accepted media for scientific and academic communities--mainly established in universities or research centers--to share the knowledge they create and give it greater visibility worldwide. That is, these journals are at the core of scientific communication, which requires permanent…