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A Scientometric Study of Quality Assessment and Higher Education

2025· article· W4416840672 on OpenAlex
B. S. Prashantha, M. Dorairajan, Vijayaraj Kumar U.S., S. Srinivasaragavan

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
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Bibliographic record

VenueTHE SCIENTIFIC TEMPER · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicInnovations and Analysis in Business and Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHigher educationScientometricsQuality (philosophy)Quality assessmentBibliometricsSustainability

Abstract

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This study evaluates the research publication of Quality Assessment and Higher Education for the period of 2015-2025. The purpose of this study is to analyse the research outcome on QA & HE using scientometrics tools and techniques such as Annual research output by the researcher, kinds of documents, top ten authors, affiliation wise, country wise distribution papers, journal wise and Language wise on QA & HE. The study revealed that the highest number of research papers was published in the year 2025 with 1270(14.49%). The top three journals based on the number of publications were BMC Medical Education with 206 (12.05%), Plos one with 163(9.54%) and Sustainability with 137(8.02%). The majority of publications were articles with 7015 (80.02%) chosen by the researcher. Zhang, Y. with 30 (13.51%) publications and share the 1st place. The top affiliation is the University of Toronto, Canada with 197 (12.20%) publications. The most productive country was The United States of America (2653) publications. “Quality” is the most frequent word with 1563 occurrences from 2015 to 2025. This study will be helpful for further research in the field of scentomentrics, library professionals who are working in higher education and quality assessment.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.018
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesBibliometrics, Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.676
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0180.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.036
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.209
GPT teacher head0.517
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it