Higher education research as a field in China: its formation and current landscape

Chen, Shuangye; Hu, Lifang

doi:10.1080/07294360.2012.692116

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“…Some studies have explored the development of higher education research communities in Asia, based on individual country cases and drawing on historical perspectives (e.g. Arimoto 2000; Chen and Hu 2012). However, until recently, empirical analyses of higher education research in Asia were limited compared to similar analyses in North America and Europe (Budd 1990;Tight 2007).…”

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Higher education research in Hong Kong, Japan, China, and Malaysia: exploring research community cohesion and the integration of thematic approaches

Kim

Horta

Jung

2015

Studies in Higher Education

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This article analyzes higher education research published in international higher education journals by researchers from China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Malaysia from 1980 to 2013. It does so based on publication counts, and co-authorship and cross-citation mapping, examining these countries' publication patterns in terms of thematic approach and community cohesion. The results show that each country has experienced distinct evolutions of higher education research, both in terms of the number of publications and thematic diversity. The research organization analyzed by co-authorship networks shows that higher education researchers in Hong Kong tend more to integrate two higher education research approaches -teaching and learning, and policy studies -into their research work. It is also in Hong Kong where most higher education researchers focus their research on both teaching and learning, and policy topics. Higher education researchers in China, Japan, and Malaysia are more thematically specialized in terms of both their positioning and their co-authorship preference. These findings suggest that a broader integration of different thematic areas may be linked more to path-dependent and contextual characteristics than to differences related to the development stage of higher education systems. This is confirmed by the crosscitation analysis, which shows that higher education researchers based in Hong Kong tend to cite each other more frequently than do those based in Japan, China, and Malaysia, suggesting a much greater community cohesion in Hong Kong than in these other countries. The findings highlight that while the maturity of a higher education system influences community cohesion, other factors influence thematic leaning and integration.

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Higher education research in Hong Kong, Japan, China, and Malaysia: exploring research community cohesion and the integration of thematic approaches

Kim

Horta

Jung

2015

Studies in Higher Education

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“…While the evolution of higher education research has been extensively analysed in the United States, Canada, and Western European countries, little attention has been given to the evolution of higher education research in Asia. This is possibly explained by the recent, but accelerated, expansion of higher education and research productivity in some Asian countries, especially in China (Chen and Hu, ; Postiglione and Jung, ). Currently, an analysis of higher education research in Asia is more relevant than ever, as the Asian Pacific Higher Education Area is in the making (Chao, ).…”

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Higher Education Research in Asia: a Publication and Co‐Publication Analysis

Jung

Horta

2013

Higher Education Quarterly

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This study explores higher education research in Asia. Drawing on scientometrics, the mapping of science and social network analysis, this paper examines the publications of 38 specialised journals on higher education over the past three decades. The findings indicate a growing number of higher education research publications but the proportion of Asian publications in relation to the total world publications in higher education research remains stationary. The higher education research community in Asia is heavily concentrated in a few countries and universities, resting on a relatively small number of core scholars who publish research in the international specialised higher education journals. In response to increasing challenges in Asian higher education systems, the paper suggests that the higher education research community in Asia needs to be expanded and include more regional and international collaborations

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“…For example, China's higher education research is strongly linked to the nation-state or even communist party (Chen and Hu, 2012). The nation plays a major role in 1994-1998 1999-2003 2004-2008 2009-2014 assisting the formation of the Chinese higher education community.…”

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“…This misalignment prevents students from enrolling in higher education degree programmes and applying professional skills and knowledge in the real world. Many higher education programmes exist in Mainland China, and most of their graduates become university staff who help complete educational projects, institutional planning, and even management (Chen and Hu, 2012). If their professional knowledge and skills are not valued by universities, the employment opportunities are substantially limited at other industries.…”

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“…One remarkable case is that of China. Highly connected to the nation-state and communist support, Chinese higher education research has attracted much more attention through the institutionalization of master's level and doctoral programmes (Chen and Hu, 2012). Some leading scholars from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan sought to establish an Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Association in 2014.…”

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