Higher Education in times of pandemic: between faculty and students

Abstract

The International Journal of Higher Education (RIESup) began to adopt the system of continuous publication from volume 5 of the year 2019. The texts of each volume, once approved by the Editorial Board and after the positive recommendation of two reviewers - in a faster way - are available for interested researchers to access online. However, this way of working generates an increase in the evaluation in the impact of the Journal's publications by Google Scholar. As the texts approved with positive evaluation are integrated into the current issue and within the sections of the journal in the order of approval, it is not known throughout the year of publication which themes are predominant, deepened or emerging in the volume. Therefore, we have to justify them, make them explicit, and highlight them in the editorial. As of volume 10, a new editorial format is being evaluated. We have created a code to identify and classify each text in thematic categories and express this classification in a more synthetic way, respecting its order of entry in the summary sections. For the classification of the texts, we chose four categories: (a) line of research/publication of the journal; (b) type of work (article, research, experience report, book review, essay) and its respective author(s); (c) methodological approach; and (d) authors' country of origin. This categorization is especially useful to graduate students who are experiencing research in search of emerging themes and methodological approaches adopted by more experienced researchers. Moreover, it outlines the journal's annual profile and they seek in the editorial space to organize their texts a posteriori, especially in relation to three of the four categories mentioned above: line of research, methodological approach and country of origin of the authors.