The Prestige Economy of Higher Education Journals: A Quantitative Approach

Autor/in	Kwiek, Marek
Titel	The Prestige Economy of Higher Education Journals: A Quantitative Approach
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 81 (2021) 3, S.493-519 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kwiek, Marek)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-020-00553-y
Schlagwörter	Periodicals; Higher Education; Educational Research; Reputation; Longitudinal Studies; Journal Articles; Scholarship; Authors; Educational Trends; Global Approach; Educational Researchers; Foreign Countries; United States; Europe; Asia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Scholarships; Stipendium; Author; Autor; Autorin; Bildungsentwicklung; Globales Denken; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Ausland; USA; Europa; Asien
Abstract	This study addresses stratification in the global higher education research community and the changing geography of country affiliations in six elite journals. The distribution of country affiliations is analyzed from a longitudinal perspective (1996-2018), and full-time and part-time authors in the field are contrasted. The prestige maximization model and principal-agent theory provide the theoretical framework for the study, which examines 6334 articles published in six elite journals in the context of 21,442 articles in 41 core journals. The findings indicate that about 3.3% of academics have authored at least five articles (full-timers). These authors constitute the publishing core of the research community, while the 80% who have authored one article (part-timers) constitute its periphery. "Higher Education" (HE) and "Studies in Higher Education" (SHE) emerge as elite global journals, with an increasing share of non-Anglo-Saxon authors. Previously globally invisible countries became visible almost exclusively through HE and SHE. Global trends include the diminishing role of American researchers and the increasing role of researchers from Continental Europe, East Asia, and the cluster of 66 "other" countries. The single biggest affiliation loser is the United States, which had 42.5% of country affiliations in 1996-2003 but only 26.9% in 2012-2018. This reflects both the increasing share of non-American affiliations and the increasing yearly volume of HE and SHE publications, in which US academics tend not to publish massively. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01