Mapping the scattered field of research on higher education. A correlated topic model of 17,000 articles, 1991–2018

Higher Education

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 571-587

  Daenekindt, Stijn ^a,b   Huisman, Jeroen ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated text analysis; Bibliometrics; Big data analysis; Content analysis; Correlated topic models; Higher education research; Research specialization; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 85078308727     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: 1573174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-020-00500-x     Document Type: Review

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