Toward a Sustainable Method for Core Journal Lists: A Test Case Using Journals in Social Work

Aubele, Joseph; Perruso, Carol

doi:10.1080/0361526x.2017.1342113

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“…Similar as the Sciences Citation Index (SCI) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), the Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI) was commonly used to retrieve academic literature related to the humanities and social sciences in China, and its representativeness and applicability have been widely recognized in China (79). Thus, this study referred to “core journals” to identify literature that was indexed in the SCI, SSCI, and CSSCI, and “general journals” to identify literature that was not included in the aforementioned indexes (80). As shown in Table 1, the preliminary coding results show that at present, in China, most of the literature on work hours was published in the “general” level, while related research studies published in the “core” level were limited.…”

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Why Work Overtime? A Systematic Review on the Evolutionary Trend and Influencing Factors of Work Hours in China

Liu

Chen

Yang

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Front. Public Health

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Objectives: Research that examined changes in the laws in respect to work hours was of great importance for understanding its current status and causes. However, most research on work hours in China is still conducted using self-reported questionnaires, which lack coherence and depth, and are inadequate for exploring the evolutionary trend of work hours and its mechanism.Methods: This study examined the evolutionary trend of Chinese employees' work hours by employing a cross-temporal meta-analysis, and employed the entropy weight method to analyze each influencing factor. The China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), VIP information and WanFang database were searched for Chinese-language peer-reviewed literature, and Google Scholar and the Web of Science were searched for related literature in the English language.Results: A total of 36 pieces of literature were identified as having satisfied the quality standards for screening. The results indicated that work hours in China show a significant fluctuating upward trend. Most of the recent studies on work hours in China were cross-provincial investigations, and the issue of overtime among migrant workers has become the key focus of current research. Most studies on the work hours of Chinese employees were conducted in a manner whereby scholars played a leading role while the government assisted. Thus, government-led, intensive and nationwide research needs to be launched.Conclusions: The issue of work hours in China should be taken seriously. The main influencing factors included survival indicators, such as labor market conditions and levels of medical security levels, followed by power-assisted indicators, such as personal income and distribution, while labor protection had a minimal impact. This study will contribute to a better understanding of the essence of work hours among Chinese employees, and will also help to provide a theoretical basis for further intervention study related to overtime work.

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Why Work Overtime? A Systematic Review on the Evolutionary Trend and Influencing Factors of Work Hours in China

Liu

Chen

Yang

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“…Further, we sought an approach that considered a diverse population of titles. To that end, we adopted the approach used successfully in identifying core journals in Social Work 67 and Educational Psychology. 68 That approach used five sources --two abstracting & indexing sources, two citation analysis sources, and the authoritative source for subject access used by libraries worldwide --to construct individual lists of Criminal Justice journal titles from each of those sources.…”

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Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Core: Using a Sustainable Method for Constructing a Core Journal List

Aubele

Gardner

2021

The Serials Librarian

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The desire to identify which journals are core to a discipline is important to librarians and departmental faculty alike. Whether for purposes of accreditation, decisions related to retention, tenure, and promotion, or the assessment of a library's collection, core lists are highly valued resources. Applying a previously tested, mixed-methods approach, the authors created a five-tiered list of criminal justice and criminology journals from which 151 titles were identified as being core to the discipline. In an effort to assess the reliability of their results, the authors also compared the results of their study to a list created by criminal justice scholars.

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“…Research (SWR). These journals were chosen because they are representative of the profession (Aubele & Perruso, 2017) and have a long history of publishing social work research. All five were ranked within the first tier (top 10) of social work journals according to h-index and gindex metrics in a study by Hodge & Lacasse (2011).…”

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Appraising Contemporary Social Work Research: Meta-Research on Statistical Reporting, Statistical Power, and Evidential Value

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2020

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Background. In recent years, the veracity of scientific findings has come under intense scrutinyin what has been called the “replication crisis” (sometimes called the “reproducibility crisis” or“crisis of confidence”). This crisis is marked by the propagation of scientific claims which weresubsequently contested, found to be exaggerated, or deemed false. The causes of this crisis aremany, but include poor research design, inappropriate statistical analysis, and the manipulationof study results. Though it is uncertain if social work is in the midst of a similar crisis, it is notunlikely, given parallels between the field and adjacent disciplines in crisis.Objective. This dissertation aims to articulate these problems, as well as foundational issues instatistical theory, in order to scrutinize statistical practice in social work research. In doing so, itparallels recent work in psychology, neuroscience, medicine, ecology, and other scientificdisciplines, while introducing a new program of meta-research to the social work profession.Method. Five leading social work journals were analyzed across a five-year period (2014-2018).In all 1,906 articles were reviewed, with 310 meeting inclusion criteria. The study was dividedinto three complementary parts. Statistical reporting practices were coded and analyzed in Part 1of the study (n = 310). Using reported sample sizes from these articles, a power survey wasperformed, in Part 2, for small, medium, and large effect sizes (n = 207). A novel statistical tool,the p-curve, was used in Part 3 to evaluate the evidential value of results from one journal(Research on Social Work Practice) and to assess for bias. Results from 39 of the 78 eligiblearticles were included in the analysis. Data and materials are available at: https://osf.io/45z3h/Results. Part 1: Notably, 86.1% of articles reviewed did not report an explicit alpha level. Apower analysis was performed in only 7.4% of articles. Use of p-values was common, beingreported in 96.8% of articles, but only 29% of articles reported them in exact form. Only 36.5%of articles reported confidence intervals; with the 95% coverage rate being the most common(reported in 31.3% of all studies). Effect sizes were explicitly reported in the results section ortables in a little more than half of articles (55.2%). Part 2: The mean statistical power for articleswas 57% for small effects, 88% for medium effects, and 95% for large effects. 61% of studiesdid not have adequate power (.80) to detect a small effect, 19% did not have adequate power todetect a medium effect, and 7% a large effect. A robustness test yielded similar but moreconservative estimates for these findings. Part 3: Both the primary p-curve and robustness testyielded right-skewed curves, indicating evidential value for the included set of results, and noevidence of bias.Conclusion. Overall, these findings provide a snapshot of the status of contemporary social workresearch. The results are preliminary but indicate areas where statistical design and reporting canbe improved in published research. The results of the power survey suggest that the field hasincreased mean statistical power compared to prior decades; though these findings are tentativeand have numerous limitations. The results of the p-curve demonstrate its potential as a tool forinvestigating bias within published research; while suggesting that the results included fromResearch on Social Work Practice have evidential value. In all this study provides a first steptowards a broader and more comprehensive assessment of the field.

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Toward a Sustainable Method for Core Journal Lists: A Test Case Using Journals in Social Work

Cited by 9 publications

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Why Work Overtime? A Systematic Review on the Evolutionary Trend and Influencing Factors of Work Hours in China

Why Work Overtime? A Systematic Review on the Evolutionary Trend and Influencing Factors of Work Hours in China

Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Core: Using a Sustainable Method for Constructing a Core Journal List

Appraising Contemporary Social Work Research: Meta-Research on Statistical Reporting, Statistical Power, and Evidential Value

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