Mirror on the Field: Gender, Authorship, and Research Methods in Higher Education’s Leading Journals

Journal of Higher Education

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 28-53

  Williams, Elizabeth A ^a   Kolek, Ethan A ^b   Saunders, Daniel B ^c   Remaly, Alicia ^a   Wells, Ryan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; content analysis; gender; higher education research; research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 85060503746     PISSN: 00221546     EISSN: 15384640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2017.1330599     Document Type: Article

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