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Higher Education Governance and Development

Higher Education Governance and Development is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 36k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the global trends and challenges in the internationalization of higher education, including topics such as academic identity, neoliberalism, university rankings, student mobility, quality assurance, and marketization. It delves into the impact of globalization on higher education systems and the evolving dynamics of academic mobility in a globalized world.

  • Internationalization
  • Higher Education
  • Globalization
  • Academic Identity
  • Neoliberalism
  • University Rankings
  • Student Mobility
  • Quality Assurance
  • Marketization
  • Academic Mobility
Research works
36k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Higher Education Governance and Development

Which countries lead Higher Education Governance and Development research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 736 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 736 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 523 works
  4. 4 Russia 262 works
  5. 5 India 256 works
  6. 6 Australia 233 works
  7. 7 Canada 232 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 183 works
  9. 9 Germany 178 works
  10. 10 South Africa 173 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: 28.2%China: 19.0%United Kingdom: 13.5%Russia: 6.8%6 others listed: 32.5%28%largest
United States1,091 · 28.2%China736 · 19.0%United Kingdom523 · 13.5%Russia262 · 6.8%6 others listed1,256 · 32.5%

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

Which institutions lead Higher Education Governance and Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing Normal University publishes the most Higher Education Governance and Development research, followed by University of Hong Kong and University College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 53 works
  2. 2 University of Hong KongChina 35 works
  3. 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 34 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 29 works
  5. 5 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 28 works
  6. 6 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 28 works
  7. 7 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 26 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 24 works
  9. 9 Education University of Hong KongChina 24 works
  10. 10 Tampere UniversityFinland 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Higher Education Governance and Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Higher Education Governance and Development include George Davey Smith, John P. A. Ioannidis and David C. Schwebel.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  3. 3 David C. Schwebel United States 210k citations
  4. 4 John W. Creswell United States 186k citations
  5. 5 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k 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 Governance and Development?

The most cited paper in Higher Education Governance and Development is "Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition" (John P. Bean, Vincent Tinto, 1988), with 6,668 citations. Next come "Higher education as a filter" (5,141) and "Sensemaking and sensegiving in strategic change initiation" (3,873).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition John P. Bean, Vincent Tinto · The Journal of Higher Education Nov 1988 6,668
2 Higher education as a filter Kenneth Joseph Arrow · Journal of Public Economics Jul 1973 5,141
3 Sensemaking and sensegiving in strategic change initiation Dennis A. Gioia, Kumar Chittipeddi · Strategic Management Journal Sep 1991 3,873
4 The Internationalization of Higher Education: Motivations and Realities Philip G. Altbach, Jane Knight · Journal of Studies in International Education 30 Aug 2007 3,493
5 The chronicle of higher education Gail A. Herndon · Serials Review Apr 1977 2,838
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Higher Education Governance and Development research done?

The largest centres of Higher Education Governance and Development research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), London (United Kingdom) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tai Po, Tampere and Nur-Sultan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 164 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 122 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 104 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 71 works
  5. 5 HanoiVietnam 56 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 55 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 55 works
  8. 8 Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam 52 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 44 works
  10. 10 AnkaraTürkiye 44 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tai PoCN · 23.7 works22×
  2. TampereFI · 23.2 works10×
  3. Nur-SultanKZ · 32.6 works9.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Higher Education Governance and Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Higher Education Governance and Development?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of Hong Kong and Education University of Hong Kong 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 28.16%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordEducation University…University of Hong K…University of Manche…
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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
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 80.539.2%3.0×26 +43.4%
2University of Hong KongChina 77.727.8%6.2×35 +2.7%
3Education University of Hong KongChina 76.931.6%27.2×24 +50.4%
4University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 67.022.4%5.5×28 +22.0%
5Tampere UniversityFinland 64.619.1%12.3×23 +82.4%
6University of BristolUnited Kingdom 64.228.1%4.2×14 +77.1%
7Nazarbayev UniversityKazakhstan 63.422.1%18.7×17 +40.2%
8Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityChina 62.532.8%7.6×10 +547.8%
9Chinese University of Hong KongChina 61.542.0%2.2×10 +41.0%
10Monash UniversityAustralia 57.816.5%3.1×18 +31.8%

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 Governance and Development, country by country

Is Higher Education Governance and Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Higher Education Governance and Development.

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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 Governance and Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Higher Education Governance and Development0.029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Higher Education Governance and Development 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 Governance and Development10.3% 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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