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Higher Education Practises and Engagement

Higher Education Practises and Engagement is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of students and staff as partners in higher education, focusing on topics such as co-creating curriculum, inclusive student engagement, pedagogical partnership, student voice, academic development, equity and diversity, and student participation. The papers discuss the implications, challenges, and benefits of involving students as active collaborators in shaping learning and teaching experiences within the higher education setting.

  • Student-Staff Partnerships
  • Co-Creation of Curriculum
  • Inclusive Student Engagement
  • Pedagogical Partnership
  • Student Voice
  • Academic Development
  • Equity and Diversity
  • Learning and Teaching
  • Higher Education
  • Student Participation
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Higher Education Practises and Engagement

Which countries lead Higher Education Practises and Engagement research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 573 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 573 works
  3. 3 South Africa 344 works
  4. 4 Australia 322 works
  5. 5 Canada 243 works
  6. 6 China 175 works
  7. 7 Germany 65 works
  8. 8 New Zealand 62 works
  9. 9 India 55 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 54 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: 36.7%United Kingdom: 19.2%South Africa: 11.5%Australia: 10.8%6 others listed: 21.9%37%largest
United States1,096 · 36.7%United Kingdom573 · 19.2%South Africa344 · 11.5%Australia322 · 10.8%6 others listed653 · 21.9%

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

Which institutions lead Higher Education Practises and Engagement research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of South Africa publishes the most Higher Education Practises and Engagement research, followed by University of Johannesburg and University of the Witwatersrand.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 41 works
  2. 2 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 38 works
  3. 3 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 27 works
  4. 4 University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 26 works
  5. 5 University of the Free StateSouth Africa 26 works
  6. 6 University of Cape TownSouth Africa 23 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 22 works
  8. 8 The University of SydneyAustralia 22 works
  9. 9 Deakin UniversityAustralia 21 works
  10. 10 The University of MelbourneAustralia 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Higher Education Practises and Engagement?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Higher Education Practises and Engagement include L.M. Bouter.

  1. 1 L.M. Bouter Netherlands 126k 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 Practises and Engagement?

The most cited paper in Higher Education Practises and Engagement is "Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach" (Mary R. Lea, Brian VVE Street, 1998), with 2,601 citations. Next come "Online University Teaching During and After the Covid-19 Crisis: Refocusing Teacher Presence and Learning Activity" (2,121) and "Framing student engagement in higher education" (2,049).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach Mary R. Lea, Brian VVE Street · Studies in Higher Education 1998 2,601
2 Online University Teaching During and After the Covid-19 Crisis: Refocusing Teacher Presence and Learning Activity Chrysi Rapanta, Luca Botturi, Peter Goodyear et al. · Postdigital Science and Education Open access 7 Jul 2020 2,121
3 Framing student engagement in higher education Ella R. Kahu · Studies in Higher Education 18 Aug 2011 2,049
4 A systematic review of faculty development initiatives designed to improve teaching effectiveness in medical education: BEME Guide No. 8 Yvonne Steinert, Karen V. Mann, Angel Centeno et al. · Medical Teacher Review 2006 1,431
5 Becoming a scientist: The role of undergraduate research in students' cognitive, personal, and professional development Anne‐Barrie Hunter, Sandra L. Laursen, Elaine Seymour · Science Education 12 Oct 2006 1,328
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Higher Education Practises and Engagement research done?

The largest centres of Higher Education Practises and Engagement research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Johannesburg (South Africa), Melbourne (Australia) and Pretoria (South Africa). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bloemfontein, Cape Town and Rondebosch.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 97 works
  2. 2 JohannesburgSouth Africa 68 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 67 works
  4. 4 PretoriaSouth Africa 61 works
  5. 5 SydneyAustralia 49 works
  6. 6 BrisbaneAustralia 47 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 41 works
  8. 8 DurbanSouth Africa 40 works
  9. 9 BloemfonteinSouth Africa 33 works
  10. 10 Cape TownSouth Africa 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BloemfonteinZA · 32.7 works31×
  2. Cape TownZA · 30.1 works20×
  3. RondeboschZA · 22.8 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Higher Education Practises and Engagement?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, Education University of Hong Kong and University of Johannesburg 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 21.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hong K…Education University…Deakin 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
1University of Hong KongChina 64.042.3%4.3×13 -24.0%
2Education University of Hong KongChina 64.034.3%22.6×11 +70.0%
3University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 63.714.3%18.6×38 +77.9%
4Deakin UniversityAustralia 61.523.4%14.3×21 +9.7%
5University of South AfricaSouth Africa 57.08.7%28.8×41 +89.1%
6The University of SydneyAustralia 54.120.1%5.3×22 +9.6%
7Southern Cross UniversityAustralia 54.032.1%41.3×9 +195.6%
8Monash UniversityAustralia 52.719.1%5.7×18 +12.4%
9The University of MelbourneAustralia 52.512.3%5.4×20 +34.6%
10University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 51.88.8%19.2×27 +76.1%

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 Practises and Engagement, country by country

Is Higher Education Practises and Engagement research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Higher Education Practises and Engagement.

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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 Practises and Engagement as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Higher Education Practises and Engagement 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 Practises and Engagement10.1% 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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