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Studies in Higher Education
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Studies in Higher Education

0307-5079

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cshe20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 52 51 65 24

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 129
Documents by Best Scientists*: 141
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 138
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.651
Impact Factor: 3.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Studies in Higher Education?

The journal generally zeroes in on subjects such as Higher education, Pedagogy, Mathematics education, Public relations and Medical education. The study of Economic growth serves as the foundation of the Higher education research discussed in the journal. The studies in Pedagogy featured incorporate elements of Work (electrical) and Qualitative research.

The journal focuses on Experiential learning but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Cooperative learning and Active learning.

  • Higher education (95.74%)
  • Pedagogy (40.46%)
  • Mathematics education (20.23%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: a model and seven principles of good feedback practice (2933 citations)
  • Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach (1332 citations)
  • A performance indicator of teaching quality in higher education: The Course Experience Questionnaire (946 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Studies in Higher Education:

The most cited publications are organized to address concerns in the fields of Higher education, Pedagogy, Mathematics education, Teaching method and Medical education. While work presented in the most cited papers provide substantial information on Higher education, it also covers topics in Context (language use), Social psychology, Perception, Public relations and Professional development. The published articles address concerns in Pedagogy which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Work (electrical) and Discipline.

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

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Higher education

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Higher education, Public relations, Medical education, Mathematics education and Pedagogy. The Higher education study featured falls within the wider field of Economic growth. The journal focused on Medical education research but expanded to cover Employability.

While it primarily focused on 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak, it also opened dialogues on disciplines such as Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Pandemic.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Analysis of the presence of sustainability in Higher Education Degrees of the Spanish university system (23 citations)
  • Critical internationalization studies at an impasse: making space for complexity, uncertainty, and complicity in a time of global challenges (13 citations)
  • The four pillars of tertiary student engagement and success: a holistic measurement approach (13 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 Studies in Higher Education (based on the number of publications) are:

  • John T. E. Richardson (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David Boud (17 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Jeroen Huisman (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Malcolm Tight (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Daniel Lincoln (14 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 Studies in Higher Education (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Lancaster University (41 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Open University (40 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Deakin University (36 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Sydney (35 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Hong Kong (34 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 5 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, 3.98% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.10% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.74% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.51% of all publications and 61.66% 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

  • The need to disentangle assessment and feedback in higher education

    Naomi E. Winstone;David Boud

    (2020)
    176 Citations
  • Thinking critically about critical thinking: validating the Russian HEIghten® critical thinking assessment

    Amy Shaw;Ou Lydia Liu;Lin Gu;Elena Kardonova

    (2020)
    103 Citations
  • Academics of colour in elite universities in the UK and the USA: the ‘unspoken system of exclusion’

    Unknown

    (2022)
    87 Citations
  • What drives global science? The four competing narratives

    Simon Marginson;Simon Marginson

    (2021)
    73 Citations
  • Feedback that works: a realist review of feedback interventions for written tasks

    Rola Ajjawi;Fiona Kent;Jaclyn Broadbent;Joanna Hong-Meng Tai

    (2021)
    71 Citations
  • ‘More than customers’: conceptions of students as partners held by students, staff, and institutional leaders

    Karen Gravett;Ian M. Kinchin;Naomi E. Winstone

    (2020)
    63 Citations
  • Employability profiles of higher education graduates: a person-oriented approach

    Sílvia Monteiro;Leandro S. Almeida;Cristiano Mauro Assis Gomes;Jorge Sinval

    (2020)
    59 Citations
  • Why do academics do unfunded research? Resistance, compliance and identity in the UK neo-liberal university

    Rosalind Edwards

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Critical thinking in business education: current outlook and future prospects

    Angelito Calma;Martin Davies

    (2021)
    43 Citations
  • Measuring what matters: the positioning of students in feedback processes within national student satisfaction surveys

    Naomi E. Winstone;Rola Ajjawi;Kim Dirkx;David Boud

    (2021)
    43 Citations

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