Scientific Communication between Spanish and English Educational Technology Journals. A Citation Analysis of eight Journals

IF 4.2 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research Pub Date : 2019-07-15 DOI:10.7821/NAER.2019.7.393
Victoria I. Marín, Olaf Zawacki-Richter
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In order to disseminate the findings and recommendations from their studies, researchers publish papers in scientific journals in their subject area. Research communities thus emerge as a result of the communication between authors who cite other relevant papers. This study focuses on the relationships between Spanish and English research communities in the specific field of Educational Technology. We explore as hypotheses whether there are signs of scientific journal communication between authors in these two communities, and if the English authors reciprocate citations by Spanish authors. In order to verify them, a social network analysis was conducted by considering outgoing and incoming citations in eight open access journals (four in English and four in Spanish) published over ten years (2007-2016). The sample includes 3,407 articles, which were analysed using UCINET and Gephi software. The results show partial confirmation of the hypotheses, since two separate research communities were recognized, with almost no communication between them. However, the Spanish community was presented as more connected than the English one. We interpret these results by considering not only language factors, but also the journal roots and the particular subject field under consideration. Finally, we highlight some general recommendations to enhance future communication between these two education research communities.
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西班牙和英国教育技术期刊之间的科学交流。八种期刊引文分析
为了传播他们研究的发现和建议,研究人员在各自学科领域的科学期刊上发表论文。因此,研究社区是引用其他相关论文的作者之间交流的结果。本研究的重点是教育技术特定领域西班牙语和英语研究社区之间的关系。我们假设这两个社区的作者之间是否有科学期刊交流的迹象,以及英国作者是否回应西班牙作者的引用。为了验证它们,通过考虑十年(2007-2016年)出版的八种开放获取期刊(四种英文,四种西班牙文)的传出和传入引文,进行了社交网络分析。样本包括3407篇文章,使用UCINET和Gephi软件进行分析。研究结果部分证实了这些假设,因为两个独立的研究团体得到了认可,他们之间几乎没有交流。然而,西班牙社区被认为比英国社区更有联系。我们不仅通过考虑语言因素,还通过考虑期刊根源和所考虑的特定学科领域来解释这些结果。最后,我们强调了一些一般性建议,以加强这两个教育研究社区之间的未来沟通。
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Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research
Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
CiteScore
8.80
自引率
4.40%
发文量
20
审稿时长
4 weeks
期刊介绍: NAER seeks academic articles on educational sciences based on innovative experiences which can contribute the development of the educational sciences in any of their manifestations and provide new approaches to teaching as a response to the deep changes our society is going through.
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