This paper investigates the fitness-for-purpose and soundness of bibliometric parameters for measuring and elucidating the performance of researchers in the field of education sciences in Germany and other European countries for the purpose of benchmarking. In order to take into account the specificities of the publication pattern of researchers in education sciences, bibliometric data are used as benchmarks. Specifically, the analysis is based on the data of Scopus and SCImago and exploits the contributions of educational researchers from Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and Scandinavian countries to leading international journals within the period 2010 to 2015–2016. The results demonstrate that the visibility of German education in international journals is not as bad as is often assumed. Nevertheless, substantial shortcomings are revealed. After discussing some factors responsible for these shortcomings, the article concludes with considerations on possible consequences to be drawn from the status quo of international visibility of German educational science.

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教育生产力研究的文献计量综合：确定德国教育研究的知名度

本文研究了用于衡量和阐明德国和其他欧洲国家教育科学领域研究人员性能的文献计量参数的适用性和可靠性，以进行基准测试。为了考虑教育科学领域研究人员发表方式的特殊性，文献计量数据被用作基准。具体而言，该分析基于Scopus和SCImago的数据，并利用了德国，西班牙，荷兰和斯堪的纳维亚国家的教育研究人员对2010年至2015-2016年期间领先的国际期刊的贡献。结果表明，德国教育在国际期刊中的知名度并不像通常想象的那样糟糕。然而，仍然存在明显的缺陷。