Higher Education

Aims & Scope

Higher Education is recognised as the leading international journal of Higher Education studies, publishing twelve separate numbers each year.

Since its establishment in 1972, Higher Education has followed educational developments throughout the world in universities, polytechnics, colleges, and vocational and education institutions.

It has actively endeavoured to report on developments in both public and private Higher Education sectors.

Contributions have come from leading scholars from different countries while articles have tackled the problems of teachers as well as students, and of planners as well as administrators.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	4.6
2024	3.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.150

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	137

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	1255

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	3613

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Enhancing teaching through constructive alignment

  Citation: 2023

  Authors: John

• Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (2): Epistemological considerations and a conceptual framework for teaching and learning

  Citation: 871

  Authors: Jan H. F., Ray

• Dynamics of National and Global Competition in Higher Education

  Citation: 769

  Authors: Simon

• Relations between teachers' approaches to teaching and students' approaches to learning

  Citation: 736

  Authors: Keith, Michael, Fiona

• The effectiveness of peer tutoring in further and higher education: A typology and review of the literature

  Citation: 637

  Authors: K. J.

• Welcome to America? International student perceptions of discrimination

  Citation: 589

  Authors: Jenny J., Charles

• COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration

  Citation: 582

  Authors: Richard, Tom, Cathryn, Janet

• Beyond national states, markets, and systems of higher education: A glonacal agency heuristic

  Citation: 567

  Authors: Simon, Gary

• Higher education and its communities: Interconnections, interdependencies and a research agenda

  Citation: 563

  Authors: Ben, Jürgen, Carlo

• The worldwide trend to high participation higher education: dynamics of social stratification in inclusive systems

  Citation: 503

  Authors: Simon

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