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Social Sciences and Humanities
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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
84
Citations
35915
World Ranking
284
National Ranking
52

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Simon Marginson is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily within the social sciences, with a special focus on political science and international relations, education, sociology and political science, management of technology and innovation, and general health professions.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics including:

  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Higher Education Learning Practices
  • University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • International Science and Diplomacy
  • Critical Realism in Sociology

Simon Marginson has authored several papers published in notable venues. Recent papers include:

  • What drives global science? The four competing narratives (2021), Studies in Higher Education
  • Individual and collective outcomes of higher education: a comparison of Anglo-American and Chinese approaches (2021), Globalisation Societies and Education
  • 'All things are in flux': China in global science (2021), Higher Education
  • Global science and national comparisons: beyond bibliometrics and scientometrics (2021), Comparative Education
  • What is global higher education? (2022), Oxford Review of Education

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Lili Yang
  • Michael J. Shattock
  • Anikó Horváth
  • Xin Xu
  • Vassiliki Papatsiba

Simon Marginson has published extensively in several key academic journals, with multiple publications in:

  • Higher Education
  • Globalisation Societies and Education
  • International Journal of Educational Development
  • Studies in Higher Education
  • Oxford Review of Education

Books published by Simon Marginson include titles released through Springer International Publishing and Bloomsbury Publishing plc, such as:

  • Higher Education and Job Employability (2022)
  • Reconfiguring National, Institutional and Human Strategies for the 21st Century (2022)
  • Universities and Regions (2023)
  • Brexit, EU Students and UK Higher Education (2025)

Simon Marginson has been recognized by professional organizations, including:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2014)
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia

    Simon Marginson;Mark Considine

  • Dynamics of National and Global Competition in Higher Education

    Simon William Marginson

  • Beyond national states, markets, and systems of higher education: A glonacal agency heuristic

    Simon W Marginson;Gary Rhoades

  • Globalisation and Higher Education

    Simon Marginson;Marijk van der Wende

  • Markets in education

    Simon Marginson

  • Loneliness and International Students: An Australian Study

    Erlenawati Sawir;Simon Marginson;Ana Deumert;Chris Nyland

  • To Rank or to be Ranked: The Impact of Global Rankings in Higher Education

    Simon Marginson;Marijk van der Wende

  • Education and public policy in Australia

    Simon Marginson

  • The worldwide trend to high participation higher education: dynamics of social stratification in inclusive systems

    Simon Marginson

  • Higher Education in East Asia and Singapore: Rise of the Confucian Model.

    Simon Marginson

  • Higher Education and Public Good

    Simon Marginson

  • The Public/Private Divide in Higher Education: A Global Revision.

    Simon Marginson

  • STEM: country comparisons: international comparisons of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. Final report.

    Simon Marginson;Russell Tytler;Brigid Freeman;Kelly Roberts

  • Student Self-Formation in International Education:

    Simon Marginson

  • Global field and global imagining: Bourdieu and worldwide higher education

    Simon Marginson

  • Educating Australia: Government, Economy and Citizen since 1960

    Simon Marginson

  • Competition and markets in higher education: a 'glonacal' analysis

    Simon William Marginson

  • Rethinking Academic Work in the Global Era

    Simon Marginson

  • Higher Education and Public Good: Higher Education and Public Good

    Simon Marginson

  • After globalization: emerging politics of education

    Simon Marginson

  • To Rank Or To Be Ranked: The Impact of Global Rankings in Higher Education

    S. Marginson;M. van der Wende

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell Tytler
Russell Tytler Deakin University
Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters University of Waikato
Louise Morley
Louise Morley University of Sussex
Jill Blackmore
Jill Blackmore Deakin University
Ka Ho Mok
Ka Ho Mok Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

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