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We studied the population of articles on higher education published in academic journals by researchers from post-Soviet countries in the last three decades. We found that post-Soviet countries contribute differently to the overall publication output, with only Russia, Lithuania, and Estonia having more than 100 articles in journals indexed in Scopus. Countries also have different publication profiles in terms of articles’ language, topics, methodology, and the balance between articles in local and international journals. In comparison with a sample of international articles, post-Soviet authors publish a substantially smaller share of research articles, and articles about teaching and learning issues, student experience and outcomes, and academic work, but a larger share of policy-related articles and articles about system policy and history. Researchers from one post-Soviet country collaborate much less within their country compared with authors from the international sample, where people collaborate more actively between institutions within a country. At the same time, scholars from different post-Soviet countries do not collaborate with each other. Our analysis demonstrates the disunity of the community of post-Soviet scholars disconnected by national borders.
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We thank Liudmila Ugolnova for her excellent research assistance. We are also grateful to participants of the 19th HSE International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (2018) and the CHER 31th Annual Conference (2018) for their comments and fruitful feedback.
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The article was prepared within the framework of the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) and supported within the framework of a subsidy by the Russian Academic Excellence Project '5-100'."
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International higher education journals for comparison
Active Learning in Higher Education
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Christian Higher Education
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Higher Education Policy
Higher Education Quarterly
Higher Education Research and Development
Innovative Higher Education
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
International Perspectives on Higher Education Research
Internet and Higher Education
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
Journal of Computing in Higher Education
Journal of Continuing Higher Education
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
Journal of Further and Higher Education
Journal of Geography in Higher Education
Journal of Higher Education
Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
Journal of Marketing for Higher Education
Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education
Quality in Higher Education
Research in Higher Education
Review of Higher Education
Studies in Higher Education
Teaching in Higher Education
Tertiary Education and Management
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
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Lovakov, A., Yudkevich, M. The post-Soviet publication landscape for higher education research. High Educ 81, 273–299 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00541-2
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