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Our study identified philosophy and history as having the slowest half-life.
Mathematics, history, art, information science and computer engineering areas show
different characteristics with respect to their major areas.
3.5
Journal Choices of Authors
Information about journal choices of authors may be helpful to understand research
trends of each discipline. Education, physics and computer engineering sub-
disciplines, which reflect the characteristics of their disciplines' features, were chosen
for journal choices evaluation in the context of this study.
Journal Citation Reports
(
JCR
) 2012 edition was used as a data tool.
Turkish journals which are indexed in
Web of Science
generally have been chosen
for publication by Turkish education scholars. It seems that impact factor is not an
important determiner for choices. Table 1 shows the mostly preferred and the top
journals in the education field.
Table 1.
Top and mostly preferred journals of education field
Top journals
IF*
JR**
NTP***
Review of Educational Research
4.229
1
0
Learning and Instruction
3.337
2
3
American Educational Research Journal
3.104
3
0
Journal of The Learning Sciences
3.036
4
2
Academy of Management Learning & Education
3.000
5
0
Preferred Journals
IF*
JR**
NTP***
Hacettepe Universitesi Egitim Fakultesi Dergisi
0.350
173
141
Kuram ve Uygulamada Egitim Bilimleri
0.316
179
124
Egitim Arastirmalari-Eurasian Journal of Educational Research
0.455
142
123
Egitim ve Bilim-Education and Science
0.429
150
113
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology
n/a
n/a
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*IF: Impact factor
**JR: Journal rank in the category
***NTP: Number of Turkey-addressed publications
The five mostly preferred journals are published in Turkey. However, Turkish
scholars on education field published only five articles in top journals of
JCR
. It
shows that locality of journals is more important factor than impact factors in
education and social sciences field.
The criterion for journal selection for physics seems to be different from
education. Impact factor is not an identifier of journal selection for Turkish physics
scholars, however, they have not preferred Turkish journals. Table 2 shows the
selections of the physics scholars.
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