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Overview

Research in Higher Education is a journal that publishes empirical research on postsecondary education.

  • Open to studies using a wide range of methods, with a special interest in advanced quantitative research methods.
  • Covers topics such as student access, retention, success, faculty issues, institutional assessment, and higher education policy.
  • Encourages submissions from scholars in disciplines outside of higher education.
  • Publishes notes of a methodological nature, literature reviews and 'research and practice' studies.
  • Aims to inform decision-making in postsecondary education policy and administration.

This is a transformative journal, you may have access to funding.

Editor-in-Chief
  • William R. Doyle,
  • Lauren T. Schudde
Impact factor
2.1 (2022)
5 year impact factor
3.5 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
15 days
Downloads
427,338 (2023)

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Electronic ISSN
1573-188X
Print ISSN
0361-0365
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. ANVUR
  2. BFI List
  3. Baidu
  4. CLOCKSS
  5. CNKI
  6. CNPIEC
  7. Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  8. Dimensions
  9. EBSCO
  10. ERIC
  11. ERIH PLUS
  12. Google Scholar
  13. JSTOR
  14. Naver
  15. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  16. Portico
  17. ProQuest
  18. PsycINFO
  19. Psyndex
  20. Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
  21. SCImago
  22. SCOPUS
  23. Social Science Citation Index
  24. TD Net Discovery Service
  25. UGC-CARE List (India)
  26. Wanfang
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