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Research funding, promotions, and career trajectories are currently increasingly dependent on the emerging economy of publications and citations across the globe. Such an economy encourages scholars to publish in international journals that are indexed in databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. These developments place an increased emphasis on the question of who is allowed to publish in the journals listed there and whose research counts as valuable. Based on bibliographic data this chapter firstly focus on the politics of indexation, i.e. what is being indexed in the main database Web of Science in terms of country of origin of journals and in terms of publication language. Secondly, we focus on the politics of scholars gatekeeping, i.e. what is the institutional affiliation of the editors and editorial board members in some key adult education journals, and thirdly, who is publishing in these adult education journals and who is being picked up and cited. Our results show, e.g., how four Anglophone countries dominate the field in relation to both published articles and the share of most cited articles and where the publication pattern of these authors are national and regional rather than international. Anglophone countries also dominate in terms of indexation, as well as scholars gatekeeping.
This article is an updated (new data) and revised version of a previous publication: Fejes, A. & Nylander, E. (2014) The Anglophone International(e) – A Bibliometric analyses of three adult education journals, 2005–2012. Adult Education Quarterly, 64(3), 222–239.
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Researchers in semi-peripheral and peripheral countries has been found to be more dependent on international scholarly recognition, then researchers working in central and more dominant countries (Heilbron and Gingras 2018)
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As previously stated, the reason for not including other journals was simply that they were not indexed in Scopus at the moment of our inquiry.
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Personal correspondence between one of the authors and the editor-in-chief, UTS professor David Boud.
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SICE was included in the Web of Science in 2011.
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Please note that we have improved the selection process between the two periods. In the first period, the share of the most cited articles are based on a total of 57 articles (the 19 most cited article in each journal). For the second period, the most cited articles were calculated based on the highest cited ones across the three journals. Importantly, the citation numbers for the articles are only calculated based on citations from sources that are also indexed in Scopus. Another limitation concern the sample size across the journals. For example, IJLE publish twice the number of papers per year as compared to SICE. This probably influence the citation patterns.
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Fejes, A., Nylander, E. (2019). The Politics of Publications and Citations: A Cross Country Comparison. In: Fejes, A., Nylander, E. (eds) Mapping out the Research Field of Adult Education and Learning. Lifelong Learning Book Series, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10946-2_6
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