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of the number of students of both sexes enrolled on all programmes in tertiary edu-
cation. Between 2000 and 2004, Asian-based researchers published 0.36 articles in
the field of higher education per 1 million students enrolled in tertiary education in
Asia; during the same period, the world average was 2.45 articles per 1 million stu-
dents enrolled in tertiary education. Between 2010 and 2014, 0.79 articles were
published by Asian researchers per 1 million students enrolled in tertiary education
in Asia, while 5.52 were produced worldwide per 1 million tertiary students. Similar
to the results for population, the findings for tertiary enrolment indicate that the
production of new knowledge produced by Asia-affiliated researchers in the field of
higher education relative to the total number of students enrolled in tertiary educa-
tion in Asia is much lower than the equivalent contributions in other regions.^4
The contribution of researchers across Asia to higher-education research is also
unequal, with some countries accounting for a greater share of the overall number
of publications in the region (Jung and Horta 2015 ). Analysis of the relative contri-
bution of researchers affiliated with different Asian countries to knowledge
production in higher education reveals dynamics of both change and stability.
Figure 2.4 shows the relative contribution of countries in Asia to the field of higher
education. The 10 countries responsible for the greatest share of knowledge produc-
tion are shown individually in the figure, while the remaining countries are aggre-
gated into a category named ‘others’. In terms of stability, analysis reveals that a
(^4) Population figures based on World Bank data (http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.
aspx?source=education-statistics-~-all-indicators#) and United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organisation data (http://data.uis.unesco.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=EDULIT_
DS#) [both accessed 27 September 2016].
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Hong Kong Chin a Japan Malaysia Taiwan Singapore South Korea India Iran United Arab Emirates Others
Fig. 2.4 Production of higher-education research by Asian country, 1980–2015
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