Abstract
The article investigates whether international comparative higher education research has grown considerably during the past two decades. It reports the outcomes of a recent bibliometric study which found three key characteristics of international comparative higher education research: a relatively steady state, a larger share of international collaborative articles in international comparative research compared to non-comparative research, and a preference for small-scale country clusters for comparison.
Highlights
The number of publications show that a few countries are clearly leading the higher education research landscape—the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Japan
North America and Asia are the leading research and development investors, the latter being heavily driven by China and Japan, while regions like Africa and the Middle East lag behind
Note: Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Research Centers, Academic Programs, and Journals and Publications is published by Lemmens Media
Summary
The publication landscape is dominated by the Englishspeaking world, as evidenced by the languages and the countries of publication This is worrying, as most of the research follows the orientations of a small subset of the global population, emphasizing characteristics of a higher education system that might not be valid for all. North America and Asia are the leading research and development investors, the latter being heavily driven by China and Japan, while regions like Africa and the Middle East lag behind. This suggests that the availability of funds is correlated with the output of research in higher education, as in other fields. The aim of publications with specific focus areas might be to drive interest on an underresearched topic, leaving prominent issues to the broadly focused publications
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