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ABSTRACT
The 50-year anniversary of Compare creates a moment to reflect on the trends and status of the journal itself and where it is situated in the field of comparative and international education. This article presents an examination of Compare’s articles to consider how the contents have reflected trends and changes in CIE. The results of a qualitative time-series analysis of published articles from the past five decades highlight the trends, patterns, and milestone events. Historically, articles published in Compare have been dominated by authors affiliated with institutions from the Global North, however there has been an increasing focus in the articles themselves on countries from the Global South. Qualitative articles have occupied the majority of articles throughout Compare’s history. In addition to these findings, this article presents a more nuanced view of the history of Compare’s article publications and its position in comparative education, international education, and development.
Acknowledgments
A more detailed version of this study can be found on the BAICE website. The authors sincerely thank Compare’s team of editors for their careful feedback and constructive recommendations for revising and improving the analysis and explanations presented in this article.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes
1. The journal formally was established in 1973 (Higginson Citation1999), however, the previous newsletters starting from 1968 were combined into volume one and two, arbitrarily setting the launch of the journal in 1970 (Bray Citation2010).
2. The full list of countries included in this data set can be found in Appendix A of the full report.