Higher Education Publication and Institutional Stratification

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Abstract

Educational scholarship is used by practitioners, policy makers, and scholars to shape educational practices. Since education takes place across the globe and incorporates students from a wide variety of backgrounds, educational scholarship should incorporate diverse perspectives. This study examines how institutionally and internationally diverse five leading journals of higher education are. Twelve years of publications are examined to determine the level of diversity among top higher education journals and compare diversity among these publications over time. Maps displaying the distribution of authors across the world are provided to illustrate the findings that higher education scholarship tends to be U.S. centric and to show the differences in distribution between leading journals.

Authors

• Sarah Rose Fitzgerald, University of Alabama

• ZHEHAN JIANG, Baylor College of Medicine