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Higher Education and Employability

Higher Education and Employability is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the multidimensional construct of employability in higher education, focusing on the development of soft skills, graduate attributes, and career management. It delves into the application of work-integrated learning, the evolution of protean and boundaryless careers, and the perspectives of both employers and students on employability. The research also addresses the challenges and opportunities in integrating employability skills into the higher education curriculum.

  • Employability
  • Graduate Attributes
  • Soft Skills
  • Career Development
  • Work-integrated Learning
  • Protean Careers
  • Boundaryless Careers
  • Higher Education Curriculum
  • Employer Perspectives
  • Student Perceptions
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+47%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Higher Education and Employability

Which countries lead Higher Education and Employability research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (1k and 863 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 863 works
  3. 3 China 553 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 506 works
  5. 5 India 418 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 385 works
  7. 7 Australia 385 works
  8. 8 South Africa 294 works
  9. 9 Philippines 249 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 221 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 20.8%Indonesia: 17.6%China: 11.3%United Kingdom: 10.3%6 others listed: 39.9%21%largest
United States1,019 · 20.8%Indonesia863 · 17.6%China553 · 11.3%United Kingdom506 · 10.3%6 others listed1,951 · 39.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Higher Education and Employability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universiti Teknologi MARA publishes the most Higher Education and Employability research, followed by State University of Padang and State University of Malang.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 55 works
  2. 2 State University of PadangIndonesia 50 works
  3. 3 State University of MalangIndonesia 43 works
  4. 4 State University of JakartaIndonesia 36 works
  5. 5 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 35 works
  6. 6 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 35 works
  7. 7 National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 33 works
  8. 8 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 31 works
  9. 9 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 31 works
  10. 10 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Higher Education and Employability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Higher Education and Employability include Arnold B. Bakker, Wilmar B. Schaufeli and N. Zhou.

  1. 1 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  2. 2 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 158k citations
  3. 3 N. Zhou France 155k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Higher Education and Employability?

The most cited paper in Higher Education and Employability is "Making Vocational Choices: A Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments" (John L. Holland, 1973), with 5,060 citations. Next come "Does entrepreneurial self-efficacy distinguish entrepreneurs from managers?" (3,035) and "The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Education: Development, Trends, and Challenges" (2,402).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Making Vocational Choices: A Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments John L. Holland 1973 5,060
2 Does entrepreneurial self-efficacy distinguish entrepreneurs from managers? Chao C. Chen, Patricia Gene Greene, Ann Crick · Journal of Business Venturing Jul 1998 3,035
3 The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Education: Development, Trends, and Challenges Donald F. Kuratko · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 15 Aug 2005 2,402
4 Career Adapt-Abilities Scale: Construction, reliability, and measurement equivalence across 13 countries Mark L. Savickas, Erik J. Porfeli · Journal of Vocational Behavior 25 Jan 2012 2,351
5 Do entrepreneurship programmes raise entrepreneurial intention of science and engineering students? The effect of learning, inspiration and resources Vangelis Souitaris, Stefania Zerbinati, Andreas Al‐Laham · Journal of Business Venturing 29 Aug 2006 2,324
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Where is Higher Education and Employability research done?

The largest centres of Higher Education and Employability research in 2022-now are Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Jakarta (Indonesia), Melbourne (Australia) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 104 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 104 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 94 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 90 works
  5. 5 YogyakartaIndonesia 78 works
  6. 6 BandungIndonesia 74 works
  7. 7 SurabayaIndonesia 74 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 70 works
  9. 9 PretoriaSouth Africa 65 works
  10. 10 Shah AlamMalaysia 65 works
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Where is the best place to study Higher Education and Employability?

Among universities, judged by research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Southampton and Edith Cowan University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 22.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Vrije Universiteit A…University of Southa…Edith Cowan UniversityUniversity of Johann…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 66.442.7%3.9×10 +18.4%
2University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 63.940.3%3.8×13 +64.3%
3Edith Cowan UniversityAustralia 63.638.8%14.5×13 +8.4%
4University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 58.517.3%7.2×30 +82.0%
5Griffith UniversityAustralia 56.812.9%10.2×29 +16.8%
6Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 56.33.4%10.9×55 +111.2%
7Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 56.023.2%9.1×17 +34.2%
8Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 55.730.4%4.3×11 +125.3%
9National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 50.86.3%7.6×33 +28.1%
10University of South AfricaSouth Africa 50.86.8%10.9×31 +68.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Higher Education and Employability, country by country

Is Higher Education and Employability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 47% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Higher Education and Employability.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Higher Education and Employability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.035% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Higher Education and Employability0.037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Higher Education and Employability over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Higher Education and Employability10.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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