On the Cover: Network of Educational Measurement Articles

“Scientific knowledge represents the accomplishments of many researchers over time” – with this sentence American Psychological Association (2020, p. 253) kicked off its four-chapter coverage on citation and reference. There is no doubt that, as researchers, we influence each other's work. We acknowledge or give credit to work through citation. By examining reference list, can gain insight into how our connects. Two articles are considered connected if they appeared same list. “Based patterns connections, a network be generated neighborhoods related identified,” said W. Jake Thompson, researcher from University Kansas. For network, published in Applied Measurement Education, Measurement, Educational Measurement: Issues Practice, Journal Behavioral Statistics, Psychometrika, between 2000 2019 were gathered Web Science data base. This resulted 4,093 that cited total 56,531 other articles. In order for pair included, had at least 15 times across all articles, together 5 times. With these restrictions, consists 157 citations 931 connections. These represent most common past 20 years. Finally, Louvain clustering algorithm was applied identify notable groups inter-related citations. As might expected, largest clusters made up regarding Item Response Theory, Diagnostic Classification Models, Differential Functioning, Structural Equation Modeling. also three smaller multi-dimensional assessment, local item dependence, model fit. Notably, diagnostic classification models relatively isolated clusters, only few connections outside cluster. The sample selected journals certainly not exhaustive, but provides an overview research literature related, well large-grain relate clusters. Interested readers may contact Thompson ([email protected]) questions graphic, full set, code generating visualization.