Contextual, Formal and Correlational Examination of Article Titles Published in International Indexed Journals in the Field of Educational Sciences

Abstract

Since appropriate title writing is an important variable in terms of publishing and citing an article, this research examines the titles of internationally indexed articles published in the field of educational sciences in terms of content and format. Document analysis was conducted by reviewing 800 articles and titles in the Web of Science database according to the criteria determined by the researchers based on the literature. Statistical analyses were made using the SPSS 27.0 program on the content and title compatibility data. The finding showed that the sentence structure of the articles differed according to the countries of origin of the journals in which they were published. In addition, it was found that the titles of the journals with high impact factor gave their methodological tendencies more clearly. It was found that the impact factor is linearly and medium related to reaching potential title standards and word count. Analysis by quartile factors of journals showed that potential content standards differed significantly in favor of Q1 journals. According to the results of the difference analysis for the journals, there is a statistically significant difference between the four journals in terms of title potential standards and a ranking as Review of Educational Research (Q1), Education and Science (Q4), Educational Researcher (Q1) and Pedagogy (Q4) has emerged according to the averages. Within the scope of the results obtained, some suggestions were made to guide researchers in creating titles for their scientific studies.