BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE JOURNAL ‘REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH’

Author Name: Dr. Poornima Devi

Volume/Issue: 02/01

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/07.2021-58886592/UIJIR

Affiliation:

Assistant Professor, C.R. College of Education, Hisar, Haryana (India).

ABSTRACT

Bibliometric analysis of a journal brings awareness about the key research areas, types of publications and the quality valuation of the papers published in the journal. The present study aims to provide an overview of publications trend during 20 years from 2001-2020 in the journal ‘Review of Educational Research’ through a bibliometric analysis. Data for the study was exported from Web of Science database. The study is focused on analyzing the publication growth per year, document types, top authors, institutions, countries and the citations received. The findings indicate that articles and review papers are the dominant document types published in the journal and the review papers are among the top-cited papers. The USA origin research dominate the publications of the journal. The papers published in the journal have received a good number of citations. Meta-analysis is the most common keyword of the papers published in the journal.

Key words: Education, Research in Education, Bibliometrics, Citation analysis.