Abstract
Globalization, and the internationalization of universities, brings both opportunities and dilemmas for
university researchers in general, and for researchers in the Educational Sciences in particular. International
collaboration has been shown to have a positive effect on the productivity of researchers in terms of the number
of publications authored and co-authored, the impact of their research in terms of number of citations, and their
research quality in terms of the ranking of the journals of publication. At the same time, international research
focuses might not match with national priorities and trends in the researchers’ own countries, and the need for nonnative
speakers of English to write in English is well-recognized as very demanding. In this paper I review the
evidence on research collaboration internationally, and in medium-sized countries such as Japan, and examine the
internalization of research in the Educational Sciences in particular. I then explore some strategies for Education
researchers, and their scholarly organizations, to globalize their research. I conclude by returning to the benefits
and dilemmas, both for researchers and for scholarly organizations in the Educational Sciences, of globalizing
academic research.
