---
title: "IPEDS: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 48 archived papers mentioned IPEDS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2025 (4)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ipeds
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ipeds.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 48 archived papers mentioned IPEDS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2025 (4). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# IPEDS

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/4.md)

Student assessments and school and college records.

- data category: Education data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, IPEDS

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Education data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/education-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 48 archived papers mentioned IPEDS in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2025 (4).
- IPEDS was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Higher Education and Research (1).
- Most of them appeared in Innovative Higher Education (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), IPEDS was mentioned in 57 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (35), economics (10) and operations research (6).
- 16 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Florida State University (3), William & Mary (3) and Arizona State University (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were Research in Higher Education (14), Innovative Higher Education (6) and Economics of Education Review (3).
- The most-cited of them is “Making the Connection: Broadband Access and Online Course Enrollment at Public Open Admissions Institutions” (Research in Higher Education, 2019), with 50 citations.
- Papers use IPEDS most often with IPUMS (5), American Community Survey (4) and Bureau of Labor Statistics (3); it has 5 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 9 | 18 | 21 | 48 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 11 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 21 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Research in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-higher-education.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [Innovative Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/innovative-higher-education.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Higher Education Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education-policy.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [The Journal of Academic Librarianship](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-academic-librarianship.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Florida State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/florida-state-university.md) | 3 |
| 2 | William & Mary | 3 |
| 3 | [Arizona State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/arizona-state-university.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Indiana University Bloomington](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/indiana-university-bloomington.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [North Carolina State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/north-carolina-state-university.md) | 2 |
| 6 | Old Dominion University | 2 |
| 7 | [Texas A&M University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/texas-a-m-university.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [University of California, Berkeley](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-berkeley.md) | 2 |
| 9 | University of California, Irvine | 2 |
| 10 | [University of Cambridge](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge.md) | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 40 |
| 2 | Germany | 2 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 4 | Japan | 2 |
| 5 | Singapore | 2 |
| 6 | Belgium | 1 |
| 7 | Brazil | 1 |
| 8 | Canada | 1 |
| 9 | China | 1 |
| 10 | Czechia | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | community colleges | 6 |
| 2 | college enrollment | 5 |
| 3 | four-year colleges | 3 |
| 4 | public universities | 3 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 2 |
| 6 | Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System | 2 |
| 7 | bachelor's degree attainment | 2 |
| 8 | career choice | 2 |
| 9 | cognitive ability | 2 |
| 10 | college costs | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 0.5 | [Making the Connection: Broadband Access and Online Course Enrollment at Public Open Admissions Institutions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-018-9539-6) | [Research in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-higher-education.md) | 2019-01-01 | Benjamin T. Skinner |
| 2 | 18 | 0.2 | [Using Panel Data to Identify the Effects of Institutional Characteristics, Cohort Characteristics, and Institutional Actions on Graduation Rates](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-019-09567-7) | [Research in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-higher-education.md) | 2019-06-22 | Gary R. Pike, Kirsten Robbins |
| 3 | 17 | 0.3 | [And Now for Some Good News: Trends in Student Retention at Community Colleges, 2004–2017](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-021-09656-6) | [Research in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-higher-education.md) | 2021-08-22 | David B. Monaghan, Olivia K. Sommers |
| 4 | 15 | 0.5 | [Religion in Family Firms: A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective on Top-Level Executives with Perceived Religiosity](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05606-7) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2024-02-10 | Fabian Ernst, David Bendig, Lea Püchel |
| 5 | 13 | 0.2 | [The Paradox of HBCU Graduation Rates](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-020-09598-5) | [Research in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-higher-education.md) | 2020-05-28 | Ethan Kroll Gordon, Zackary B. Hawley, Ryan Carrasco Kobler et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use IPEDS most often with IPUMS (5), American Community Survey (4) and Bureau of Labor Statistics (3); it has 5 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use IPEDS together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [IPUMS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ipums.md) | Dataset | 5 | 28.0 |
| [American Community Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/american-community-survey.md) | Dataset | 4 | 11.3 |
| [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bureau-of-labor-statistics.md) | Dataset | 3 | 6.9 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 3 | 0.8 |
| [LinkedIn](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/linkedin.md) | Dataset | 3 | 3.0 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning IPEDS in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | [When Does Analytic Complexity Matter? A Theory-Informed Comparison of Regression-Based and Algorithmically Flexible Models of Student Success in Community Colleges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-026-09968-4) | [Innovative Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/innovative-higher-education.md) | JoHyun Kim, Jeongmin Ji, Seung Won Yoon | Texas A&M University; Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). IPEDS. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ipeds

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-ipeds,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {IPEDS},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ipeds}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).