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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
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Graduate Employment in Higher Education: Applying Bibliometrics to World-System Theory
Journal of Education and Work, v34 n3 p356-372 2021
As massification of higher education developed, employment challenges in changing labour markets aroused the attention of scholars globally. An interdisciplinary approach called world-system theory is applied by scholars from the social sciences, history, anthropology and cultural studies. This study applied the theory in a bibliometric analysis of graduate employment research using R and CiteSpace. It identified the main characteristics (e.g. authors and countries) of relevant research, investigated the social and economic context of certain milestone publications and visualised research hot spots. World-system theory, as a macrosociological approach to describing the world economy and social system, is innovatively applied in illustrating the findings of the current work. Results indicate that core countries not only are economically influential but also dominating the academic research. Scholars in semi-peripheral and peripheral countries are encouraged to establish transnational networks and foster academic collaborations.
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Bibliometrics, Systems Approach, Social Science Research, Economic Factors, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Citation Analysis, Authors
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States; United Kingdom; Australia; Canada; China; Germany; Spain; Japan; Italy; Netherlands
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