SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC REGULATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

The commodification of higher education has led various governments and states to establish a series of policies and practices regulating its actions. One of the areas that attract the most attention from stakeholders is economy, a fundamental pillar for the existence of higher education systems. Through the application of a search vector with 105 keywords in the Web of Science categories of “Education and Educational Research” and “Economics, ” this study primarily performed a scientometric analysis of the economic regulation of higher education and identified a core of relevant articles constituting 554 documents. Through the analysis, the exponential growth of science, prolific authors, main countries, institutional affiliations, co-authorships and the used of bibliography were identified. The results revealed that more than 50% of the documents were clustered between 2010 and 2018, that the United States had the highest number of prolific authors and affiliations, and eleven clusters were identified for bibliographic use.