International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, Volume 50, Number 3 (July 2013), © Manchester University Press http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/IJEEE.50.3.11 Analysis of the inﬂuence of the International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education on electrical engineering and electrical engineering education Sadia Nawaz 1,2 , Muhammad Usman 3 and Johannes Strobel 2,4 1 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA 2 School of Engineering Education (College of Engineering), Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA 3 Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings, Dyke Parade, Cork, Ireland 4 Department of Curriculum & Instruction (College of Education), Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA E-mail: sadia@alumni.purdue.edu, usman@alumni.purdue.edu, jstrobel@purdue.edu Abstract This article researches the inﬂuence of IJEEE on electrical engineering and electrical engineering education as a discipline. For this purpose, the history of this journal has been presented from a citation perspective. To identify leading and evolving research areas within IJEEE the authors conducted keyword analysis, which additionally showed how IJEEE contains both educational and technical contributions. The authors also studied the temporal evolution and distribution of keywords. Word co-occurrence was analysed to discover the main context in which the keywords have been used. The analysis also revealed the prominent contributors within the community of IJEEE based on various authorship and citation criteria. It was observed that the inﬂuential authors appear in multiple ways, i.e. most of the authors who were inﬂuential by one criterion also made to the top list of other criteria. The authors concluded that the single-author pattern is quite prominent within this community, and very little work has been done between the same co-authors. Therefore, there is a need to encourage IJEEE authors to write more collaborative publications so that the authorship/co-authorship network may grow. Keywords citation analysis; collaboration; engineering education; impact factor; keyword analysis; social network analysis In this age of information technology, data can be accessed through vast collections of written texts and online resources. The ever-increasing growth of these collections is mirrored by the task of information retrieval. 1 In just one year, 2008, around 1.4 million articles were published. 2 The task of measuring the inﬂuence of one source or area on another is considered to be of signiﬁcant value. Such analysis, for its effectiveness, requires the use of quantitative schemes associated with the necessary theoretical framework. Citation analysis is the best supported method to provide such quantitative measure. 3 According to Moed 4 this analysis relies on building indicators and benchmarks for the ‘impact or inﬂuence’ of scholarly publications using citation and bibliometric data. He further suggests that the use of citation analysis in research assessment of scholars, research groups and organizations is more effective if it is more ‘formal, open, scholarly founded, supplemented with expert background knowledge, carried out in clear policy context and enlightening