Mapping the field of educational administration research: a journal citation network analysis
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to uncover how knowledge is exchanged and disseminated in the educational administration research literature through the journal citation network. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon social network theory and citation network studies in other disciplines, the authors constructed an educational administration journal citation network by extracting all 157,372 citations from 5,359 journal articles in 30 educational administration journals from 2009 to 2013. The authors then performed social network analysis to visualize the network structure by journal clusters, and quantified journal prominence and interdisciplinarity by calculating Freeman indegree and betweenness, respectively. In addition to journal to journal citations, the authors examined the sources of non journal citations by citation counts. Findings The results of journal prominence, interdisciplinarity, and eight journal clusters in the citation network indicate that educational administration, as