Higher education research in Asia: An archipelago, two continents or merely atomization?

Higher Education

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 117-134

  Horta, Hugo ^a   Jung, Jisun ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asia; Higher education as a field; Higher education research; Science visualization methods; Scientometrics; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902383598     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-013-9695-8     Document Type: Article

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