Abstract

CISTERNAS IRARRAZABAL, César  and  BUSTOS VELASQUEZ, Felipe. Research on higher education management. A science map of the publications 2011-2020. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2024, vol.24, n.1, pp.327-359. ISSN 1409-4703.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/aie.v24i1.55536.

Along the last decade, a series of radical changes have been taking place in the internal and external environment of the global higher education system, which have increased the challenges for the adaptation of the management systems of this kind of institutions. This article conducts a bibliometric analysis of the research about higher education management published between 2011 and 2020, from a mixed method approach. Based on a corpus of 936 articles and reviews indexed in Scopus, an author’s keywords co-occurrence analysis has been carried out to create a science map. On a quantitative level, this procedure made it possible to identify the frequency of each concept, their mutual links, and their grouping into clusters. Subsequently, a qualitative analysis was made to describe the central themes of each cluster. A structure of eleven clusters or thematic lines was found, this thematic diversity is coherent with the highly complex nature of the internal and external environment of higher education management systems and the recurrent changes they have faced in recent years. In this way, the paper systematizes the findings and problems relevant to the field, and, simultaneously, provides insights into the areas on which future reviews of the state of the art should focus, and orientations to guide the problematization of the most pertinent discussions at this stage of the field’s development.

Keywords : management; higher education; scientific publications; network analysis.

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