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Higher Education Policy
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Higher Education Policy

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 668 7 12 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 17
Documents by Best Scientists*: 20
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 54
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.751
Impact Factor: 2.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Higher Education Policy?

The journal mostly deals with topics like Higher education policy, Education policy, Higher education, Public administration and Comparative education. It focused on Higher education policy research conducted under the discipline of Economic growth. The Economic growth works featured in it incorporate elements from Internationalization, Globalization and China.

Topics in Education policy explored in Higher Education Policy were investigated in conjunction with research in Vocational education, Further education, Corporate governance, Public relations and Education reform. It explores topics in Higher education which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Social science, Pedagogy, Primary education and Medical education. The concepts on Public administration presented in Higher Education Policy can also apply to other research fields, including Academic freedom, Autonomy, Public policy, Politics and Bologna Process.

It connects research in Comparative education with the related topic of Certificate in Education. It focuses on Educational systems research which is adjacent to topics in Educational administration.

  • Higher education policy (97.46%)
  • Education policy (96.66%)
  • Higher education (96.23%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Learning: The Treasure Within (1082 citations)
  • Transforming Higher Education in Whose Image? Exploring the Concept of the 'World-Class' University in Europe and Asia (375 citations)
  • The Research University in Transition: The Emerging Global Model (324 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Higher Education Policy:

The most cited publications generally zeroe in on subjects such as Higher education policy, Higher education, Education policy, Economic growth and Public administration. The journal publications investigate Higher education policy in the context of the closely related subject of areas like

  • Liberal education most often made with reference to Social science,
  • Vocational education which is related to area like Primary education.. The most cited papers hold forums on Higher education that merge themes from other disciplines such as Public policy, Corporate governance and Public relations.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Education
  • Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Higher Education Policy aims to foster the development of research in Education policy, Higher education policy, Higher education, Public relations and Public administration. The research on Education policy tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Competition (economics), Discipline, Knowledge society, Autonomy and China. The work on Higher education policy tackled in it brings together disciplines like Quality (business), Regional science, State (polity) and Bologna Process.

In it, researchers investigate the Higher education study as part of research in the field of Economic growth. The featured works in Middle management, which all belong in the domain if Public relations, also overlaps with concepts under Prestige. The journal focuses on Public administration but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Nothing, Conflict of interest, Stakeholder and Research Assessment Exercise.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Governing Higher Education: The PURE Data System and the Management of the Bibliometric Self (5 citations)
  • Employers and Universities: Conceptual Dimensions, Research Evidence and Implications (5 citations)
  • New-Style Higher Education: Disciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in the EHEA Qualifications Framework (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Higher Education Policy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Guy Neave (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jeroen Huisman (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christina Keyes (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ulrich Teichler (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ka Ho Mok (10 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Higher Education Policy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Twente (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • International Association of Universities (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Institute of Education (25 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Hong Kong (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Kassel (18 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 14.08% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 14.75% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.20% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.39% of all publications and 60.66% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Engineering a World Class University? The Impact of Taiwan’s World Class University Project on Scientific Productivity

    Yuan Chih Fu;Yuan Chih Fu;David P. Baker;Liang Zhang

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education: Critical Reflections

    (2022)
    27 Citations
  • Riding over the National and Global Disequilibria: International Learning and Academic Career Development of Chinese Ph.D. Returnees

    Jin Jiang;Ka Ho Mok;Wenqin Shen

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Critical Reflections on Mainland China and Taiwan Overseas Returnees’ Job Searches and Career Development Experiences in the Rising Trend of Anti-globalisation

    Weiyan Xiong;Ka Ho Mok

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Policy, Perceptions, and Practice: A Study of Educational Leadership and Their Balancing of Expectations and Interests at Micro-level

    Bjørn Stensaker;Nicoline Frølich;Per Olaf Aamodt

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Reimagining Higher Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Chinese Students’ Desires for Overseas Learning and Implications for University Governance

    (2022)
    13 Citations
  • How University Leaders Shape Boundaries and Behaviors: An Empirical Examination of Trustee Involvement at Elite US Research Universities

    Sondra N. Barringer;Barrett J. Taylor;Karley A. Riffe;Sheila Slaughter

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Contesting Globalisation and Implications for Higher Education in the Asia–Pacific Region: Challenges and Prospects

    Ka Ho Mok;Zhiqiang Wang;Deane Neubauer

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • The State, Public Universities and Public Goods: Time for a New Settlement—The Case of Chile

    Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela;Ronald Barnett;Ricardo Zavala;Karimme Morales

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • Decolonization and Higher Education: A Critical Review of a Contemporary Concern, Policy and Theory

    (2022)
    7 Citations

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