An empirical analysis of literature cited in the Journal of Agricultural Education

Thirty-one volumes of the Journal of reflect on author’s debt to earlier works, constitute Agricultural Education (formerly AATEA Journal) a statement as to which of these works are have been published since 1961. Over the years, important, and are a means by which authors the journal has undergone a number of changes in anchor their work and relate it to earlier research” terms of size, format, content, frequency of (Goldman, 1979, p. 485). In addition, citations publishing (from three issues to four in 1983) and finally, a change in the name from AATEA Journal may also reflect an author’s scope of reading and his/her scientific interests (Berg, 197 1; Broadus, to the Journal of Agricultural Education (JAE). 1967; and Crane, 1972). During the Journal’s span of 31 years, a number of researchers have examined various research and publishing aspects in the agricultural education profession. The most prominent subjects discussed included empirical analysis of the Journal of Agricultural Education during the eighties (Radhakrishna and Jackson, 1992); what topics were cited and who was cited (Moore, 1991); reader opinions of the JAE (Newman, 1990 & Williams, 1982); statistical procedures used by agricultural educators in reporting research finding