ABSTRACT

The paper provides an overview of the global research on graduate education. The study applied a combination of a bibliometric and social network analysis methods to bibliographic data from Thompson Reuters’ Web of Science. More specifically, a keyword search approach was used to retrieve 2,454 articles on graduate education from 1996 until 2020. The set was processed with the VantagePoint software. The paper reports the findings in the form of lists of top scholars, research centres, and countries contributing to research on graduate education. The findings include similar lists of the key funding agencies, contributing disciplines and publication venues, as well as maps representing collaborative activity in the field between institutions, and countries. Finally, the frequency of utilisation of groups of author-supplied keywords is analysed to determine the basic thematic structure of the research on the topic. The originality of the paper consists in the fact that it represents the first attempt to map the landscape of research on graduate education using bibliographic data. It can be used to supplement the results of literature reviews on the topic, which apply a more in-depth content analysis-based approaches to a limited number of papers to determine the thematic structure of the field.

摘要

本文概述了全球研究生教育研究。该研究将文献计量和社交网络分析方法相结合，对来自汤普森路透的 Web of Science 的书目数据进行了分析。更具体地说，从 1996 年到 2020 年，使用关键字搜索方法检索了 2,454 篇关于研究生教育的文章。该集合使用 VantagePoint 软件进行处理。该论文以顶尖学者、研究中心和对研究生教育研究做出贡献的国家名单的形式报告了调查结果。调查结果包括主要资助机构、贡献学科和出版地点的类似列表，以及代表机构和国家之间该领域合作活动的地图。最后，分析作者提供的关键词组的使用频率，以确定该主题研究的基本主题结构。这篇论文的独创性在于它代表了第一次尝试使用书目数据绘制研究生教育研究的图景。它可以用来补充有关该主题的文献综述的结果，该文献综述对有限数量的论文应用更深入的基于内容分析的方法来确定该领域的主题结构。