Higher Education Research Studies

Higher Education Research Studies is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 various factors influencing higher education outcomes and experiences, including student engagement, academic performance, college retention, social support, diversity, and the challenges faced by first-generation students. It also delves into issues of educational inequality, financial aid, and the transition of students into the university environment.

Student Engagement
Academic Performance
College Retention
Social Support
Diversity
First-Generation Students
Educational Inequality
Student Transition
Financial Aid
Institutional Agents

Research works: 24k
In the world top 10%: 2.3k
Top-10% rate: 9.9%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +2%
Largest producer: United States

Higher Education Research Studies

Which countries lead Higher Education Research Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (3.1k and 259 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 3.1k works
2 United Kingdom 259 works
3 China 141 works
4 Australia 122 works
5 Canada 111 works
6 India 92 works
7 South Africa 74 works
8 Philippines 73 works
9 Germany 62 works
10 Indonesia 44 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 States3,077 · 75.9%United Kingdom259 · 6.4%China141 · 3.5%Australia122 · 3.0%6 others listed455 · 11.2%

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

Which institutions lead Higher Education Research Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, City University of New York publishes the most Higher Education Research Studies research, followed by University of Michigan and The Ohio State University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 City University of New YorkUnited States 33 works
2 University of MichiganUnited States 32 works
3 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 28 works
4 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 28 works
5 University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 28 works
6 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 27 works
7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 27 works
8 Texas A&M University SystemUnited States 25 works
9 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 25 works
10 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Higher Education Research Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Higher Education Research Studies include Donald B. Rubin, James Thomas and John W. Creswell.

1 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
2 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
3 John W. Creswell United States 186k citations
4 Stephen M. Gibson France 182k 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 Research Studies?

The most cited paper in Higher Education Research Studies is "Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research" (Vincent Tinto, 1975), with 7,495 citations. Next come "Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition" (6,668) and "Student Involvement: A Developmental Theory for Higher Education" (5,295).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research Vincent Tinto · Review of Educational Research	Mar 1975	7,495
2	Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition John P. Bean, Vincent Tinto · The Journal of Higher Education	Nov 1988	6,668
3	Student Involvement: A Developmental Theory for Higher Education Alexander W. Astin Book chapter	23 Jun 2014	5,295
4	Learning Styles and Learning Spaces: Enhancing Experiential Learning in Higher Education Alice Y. Kolb, David Alan Kolb · Academy of Management Learning and Education	Jun 2005	4,977
5	Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement Steven G. Rivkin, Eric Alan Hanushek, John F. Kain · Econometrica	4 Feb 2005	4,426

All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Higher Education Research Studies research done?

The largest centres of Higher Education Research Studies research in 2022-now are Washington D.C. (United States), New York (United States), Los Angeles (United States) and Chicago (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Greensboro.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 Washington D.C.United States 89 works
2 New YorkUnited States 83 works
3 Los AngelesUnited States 57 works
4 ChicagoUnited States 55 works
5 LondonUnited Kingdom 47 works
6 AtlantaUnited States 46 works
7 BaltimoreUnited States 43 works
8 San DiegoUnited States 35 works
9 Ann ArborUnited States 32 works
10 AustinUnited States 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

GreensboroUS · 23.9 works24×

← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Higher Education Research Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Higher Education Research Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Stanford University, Arizona State University and University of Michigan 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Stanford UniversityUnited States	73.7	13.5%	3.9×	23	+17.3%
2	Arizona State UniversityUnited States	65.4	16.9%	10.5×	28	-21.9%
3	University of MichiganUnited States	65.3	14.9%	5.2×	32	-15.9%
4	University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States	62.8	5.3%	19.4×	28	+96.1%
5	Columbia UniversityUnited States	62.0	12.5%	4.5×	20	-5.8%
6	University of GeorgiaUnited States	60.9	21.6%	8.7×	15	-13.1%
7	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States	60.5	10.7%	6.7×	25	-13.0%
8	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States	60.5	10.0%	8.8×	21	-9.1%
9	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States	60.4	12.6%	5.6×	25	+3.4%
10	University of Hong KongChina	60.2	25.4%	2.2×	8	+10.7%
11	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States	58.9	11.1%	6.8×	24	+6.4%
12	University of ChicagoUnited States	58.7	7.4%	6.1×	21	+63.1%
13	City University of New YorkUnited States	58.0	9.1%	14.8×	33	-7.7%
14	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States	57.2	15.8%	5.5×	16	+6.8%
15	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States	56.6	7.2%	5.7×	28	+29.9%
16	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States	56.2	10.1%	8.0×	27	-22.1%
17	Indiana UniversityUnited States	55.9	11.2%	6.0×	24	-32.9%
18	Virginia TechUnited States	55.7	10.5%	8.0×	18	+14.1%
19	University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States	55.7	22.9%	4.8×	16	-32.7%
20	Texas A&M UniversityUnited States	55.2	7.7%	7.1×	24	+12.1%
21	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	55.2	10.0%	4.2×	20	-7.9%
22	North Carolina State UniversityUnited States	55.1	10.9%	8.3×	19	+10.5%
23	University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleUnited States	54.3	8.3%	10.3×	17	+16.8%
24	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States	54.2	21.0%	3.3×	13	-8.5%
25	Georgia State UniversityUnited States	54.0	4.2%	20.9×	25	+91.5%
26	University of FloridaUnited States	53.9	6.7%	5.4×	24	+21.9%
27	Michigan State UniversityUnited States	53.8	9.5%	8.2×	24	-21.4%
28	Texas State UniversityUnited States	53.8	17.1%	25.3×	12	+26.9%
29	University of California, IrvineUnited States	53.7	5.6%	7.3×	19	+10.1%
30	San Diego State UniversityUnited States	52.7	16.7%	17.3×	12	+25.1%
31	University of HoustonUnited States	52.6	11.8%	11.8×	16	-9.7%
32	University of Colorado BoulderUnited States	51.7	8.8%	8.0×	15	+101.8%
33	University of California, Santa CruzUnited States	51.6	18.2%	11.0×	8	+40.4%
34	University of Illinois ChicagoUnited States	51.2	13.9%	4.9×	10	-0.8%
35	Texas Tech UniversityUnited States	49.5	11.5%	8.7×	14	+15.6%
36	University at Buffalo, State University of New YorkUnited States	49.3	14.4%	6.9×	11	+44.2%
37	Boston CollegeUnited States	48.9	16.6%	13.1×	8	+16.5%
38	University of ArizonaUnited States	48.6	13.5%	5.9×	16	-4.3%
39	Texas A&M University SystemUnited States	48.2	7.1%	24.1×	25	-7.9%
40	The University of Texas at San AntonioUnited States	48.1	12.5%	7.7×	10	+9.7%
41	The University of Texas at El PasoUnited States	47.1	25.1%	14.0×	9	-33.0%
42	Kennesaw State UniversityUnited States	46.6	22.4%	16.7×	8	+3.9%
43	Monash UniversityAustralia	46.4	19.6%	2.1×	8	+34.9%
44	New York UniversityUnited States	46.0	13.1%	2.9×	13	+12.2%
45	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	43.5	13.2%	1.6×	10	-22.6%
46	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	42.9	7.6%	3.7×	27	-53.4%
47	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	42.4	7.5%	2.1×	13	+198.8%
48	University of TorontoCanada	41.0	10.1%	1.7×	14	+4.9%
49	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	40.1	14.3%	2.4×	8	+43.6%

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 Research Studies, country by country

Is Higher Education Research Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Higher Education Research Studies.

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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 Research Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

Fractional works of Higher Education Research Studies 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.

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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Which countries lead Higher Education Research Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Higher Education Research Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Higher Education Research Studies?

What are the most cited papers in Higher Education Research Studies?

Where is Higher Education Research Studies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Higher Education Research Studies?

Is Higher Education Research Studies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion