Sarah Diem

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Sarah Diem is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Diem has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Education, 35 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Information Systems and Management. Recurrent topics in Sarah Diem's work include School Choice and Performance (25 papers), Critical Race Theory in Education (22 papers) and Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (17 papers). Sarah Diem is often cited by papers focused on School Choice and Performance (25 papers), Critical Race Theory in Education (22 papers) and Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (17 papers). Sarah Diem collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and India. Sarah Diem's co-authors include Michelle D. Young, Anjalé D. Welton, Erica Frankenberg, Bradley W. Carpenter, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Carrie Sampson, Katherine Cumings Mansfield, Laura Browning, Genevieve Siegel‐Hawley and Kathryn A. McDermott and has published in prestigious journals such as American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher and Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Diem

48 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The intellectual landscape of critical policy analysis
    2014 206 citations Sarah Diem, Michelle D. Young et al. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education profile →

Peers

Sarah Diem
Kate Hoskins United Kingdom
Anjalé D. Welton United States
Christian Maroy Canada
Jeffrey S. Brooks United States
Xavier Dumay Belgium
Muhammad Khalifa United States
Tomas Englund Sweden
Dorothea Anagnostopoulos United States
Marcus A. Winters United States
Kevin G. Welner United States
Kate Hoskins United Kingdom
Sarah Diem
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Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Diem

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Diem

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Diem

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Diem. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Diem based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sarah Diem. Sarah Diem is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Young, Michelle D., Sarah Diem, & Carrie Sampson. (2024). The Vital Necessity of Critical Education Policy Research. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 46(2). 397–405. 6 indexed citations
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Young, Michelle D. & Sarah Diem. (2023). Handbook of Critical Education Research. Digital USD (University of San Diego). 8 indexed citations
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Welton, Anjalé D., et al.. (2023). Let’s face it, the racial politics are always there: A critical race approach to policy implementation in the wake of anti-CRT rhetoric. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 31. 19 indexed citations
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Diem, Sarah, et al.. (2022). Language and power dynamics: A critical policy analysis of racial and choice discourses in school integration policies. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 30. 3 indexed citations
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Diem, Sarah & Jeffrey S. Brooks. (2022). Critical policy analysis in education: Exploring and interrogating (in)equity across contexts. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 30. 8 indexed citations
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Sampson, Carrie & Sarah Diem. (2020). Democratic (Dis)engagement in school district decentralization: A critical analysis of actors and coalitions. Leadership and Policy in Schools. 21(3). 657–678. 2 indexed citations
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Diem, Sarah & Carrie Sampson. (2020). Goals, Rhetoric, and (In)Equity: The Rationales Behind Decentralizing a Large, Diverse School District. Urban Education. 58(2). 191–220. 5 indexed citations
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Diem, Sarah, Michelle D. Young, & Carrie Sampson. (2018). Where Critical Policy Meets the Politics of Education: An Introduction. Educational Policy. 33(1). 3–15. 64 indexed citations
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Siegel‐Hawley, Genevieve, Sarah Diem, & Erica Frankenberg. (2018). The Disintegration of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee: School District Secession and Local Control in the 21st Century. American Educational Research Journal. 55(4). 651–692. 25 indexed citations
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Diem, Sarah, et al.. (2018). Diversity for Whom? Gentrification, Demographic Change, and the Politics of School Integration. Educational Policy. 33(1). 16–43. 35 indexed citations
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Diem, Sarah, Carrie Sampson, & Laura Browning. (2018). Reorganizing a countywide school district: A critical analysis of politics and policy development toward decentralization. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 26. 1–1. 69 indexed citations
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Welton, Anjalé D., Sarah Diem, & Bradley W. Carpenter. (2018). Negotiating the Politics of Antiracist Leadership: The Challenges of Leading Under the Predominance of Whiteness. Urban Education. 54(5). 627–630. 17 indexed citations
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Holme, Jennifer Jellison, Kara S. Finnigan, & Sarah Diem. (2016). Challenging Boundaries, Changing Fate? Metropolitan Inequality and the Legacy of Milliken. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 118(3). 1–40. 12 indexed citations
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Frankenberg, Erica, et al.. (2016). School desegregation afterParents Involved: The complications of pursuing diversity in a high‐stakes accountability era. Journal of Urban Affairs. 39(2). 160–184. 4 indexed citations
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Diem, Sarah, et al.. (2014). The intellectual landscape of critical policy analysis. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 27(9). 1068–1090. 206 indexed citations breakdown →
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Finnigan, Kara S., et al.. (2014). Regional Educational Policy Analysis. Educational Policy. 29(5). 780–814. 17 indexed citations
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Diem, Sarah, et al.. (2014). The Politics of Maintaining Diversity Policies in Demographically Changing Urban-Suburban School Districts. American Journal of Education. 120(3). 351–389. 14 indexed citations
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Diem, Sarah & Bradley W. Carpenter. (2012). Social Justice and Leadership Preparation: Developing a Transformative Curriculum.. Planning and changing. 43. 96–112. 26 indexed citations
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Diem, Sarah. (2012). The Relationship between Policy Design, Context, and Implementation in Integration Plans. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 20. 23–23. 19 indexed citations
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Frankenberg, Erica & Sarah Diem. (2012). School Board Leadership and Policymaking in Changing Political Environments. The Urban Review. 45(2). 117–142. 13 indexed citations

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