Abstract
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (OECD, 2018), in almost half of the 38 OECD-member countries, most of the decisions about organization of instruction, personnel management, planning and structures, and resource management are taken at the school level. This study focused on understanding the current body of EdLAM knowledge to help doctoral students and early career researchers plan, run, and publish their studies. The terms “educational administration”, “educational management”, “educational leadership” were used to search the Web of Science database for studies published between 2000 and 2019. The final data set included 1438 articles. Concepts were examined with cooccurrence analysis using the bibliographic analysis tool, VOSViewer. Citation analysis was employed for ascertaining sources of highly cited articles. Results showed that “educational leadership” was the most studied concepts. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, and Educational Management Administration and Leadership were found to be those journals with the highest average yearly influence.
Highlights
Academics, especially early career academics, are increasingly being pressured to publish papers in high-quality, leading academic journals (McGrail, Rickard, & Jones, 2006)
This is because this is often considered to be the most highly valued sign of an academic’s research productivity and quality (Mulligan, Hall, & Raphael, 2013; Print & Hattie, 1997). Publishing in such journals can be a difficult code to crack as there is considerable variation in understanding across disciplines as to what defines research excellence (Lamont, 2009). Being published in these journals is even harder for authors who have English as a second language (ESL) seeking to publish in high-quality academic journals, which are mostly published in English
Having an article published as a doctoral student and an early career academic is considered as a positive sign of future publication and citation counts (Horta & Santos, 2016)
Summary
Especially early career academics, are increasingly being pressured to publish papers in high-quality, leading academic journals (McGrail, Rickard, & Jones, 2006) This is because this is often considered to be the most highly valued sign of an academic’s research productivity and quality (Mulligan, Hall, & Raphael, 2013; Print & Hattie, 1997). Having an article published as a doctoral student and an early career academic is considered as a positive sign of future publication and citation counts (Horta & Santos, 2016) This could affect increased international collaboration and visibility around the world (Thomas, West, & Rich, 2016). Study groups, publications, or writing coaches may be able to provide certain amount of guidance on writing for publication in peer-reviewed journals, which may even relieve a certain amount of their anxiety (Kamler, 2008; Lee & Kamler, 2008; McGrail et al, 2006; Nagago & Bukovszki, 2016)
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