Abstract
It is well-known that education related research is carried out within different disciplines and frameworks, but how is it specifically connected through citations to the larger social sciences and humanities? And how can this knowledge be mobilized to improve dialogue between researchers in different communities, given the benefits of integrating different frameworks and methods? We used different scientometric methods to show where exactly research in education connects to social sciences and humanities. This multidisciplinary context provokes a set of integration challenges for research in education. We propose how our work can supplement an existing model in order to give a framework for meeting these challenges with the goal of achieving broader education-related collective knowledge advancement.
Highlights
It is commonly argued whether diversity in a research field is a strength or a curse
Articles having to do with education are more likely to connect to articles in other Scopus subject areas than articles of other Scopus subject areas
We set out to understand the nature of education research and how it is connected through citations to the larger social sciences and humanities
Summary
It is commonly argued whether diversity in a research field is a strength or a curse. Diversity of traditions is a strength when complex questions are answered with a broader perspective and when methodological complementarity can be discovered. The challenge is to build on the strengths while addressing the difficulties of such diversity. Given that educational research is carried out in close relationship to other research fields, we examine the nature of this diversity through bibliometric analyses, and ask four questions. The first two questions empirically examine the nature of educational research using a set of bibliometric methods whereas the second two questions ask what consequences such a nature implies, as well as what can be done, given these consequences
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