OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Higher Education is 30. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamics of English in European higher education	311
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences	178
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?	130
Higher education and public good: the case of China	124
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education	120
Feeling AI: Circulating emotions, institutional climates, and moral boundaries in student use of AI	81
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education	79
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America	78
Publish at home or abroad: How institutional involution shapes academic publishing practices in China	76
Limitations to the perceived institutional autonomy coming from government steering: A study to the experiences of higher education institutions	75
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities	69
Do PhD students’ research styles predict their perceived competencies?	68
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis	65
What does it mean to widen participation? a machine learning analysis of historical and contemporary access discourses	58
Dropout intent of students with disabilities	58
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice	51
The relationships between family socioeconomic status, gender inequality, and higher education selection from 1962 to 2018: a secondary analysis of the China General Social Survey data	47
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza	40
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations	37
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China	36
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon	36
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries	35
The black box of faculty writing in the academy	35
The role of first-semester career calling and career decidedness in pre-service teachers’ intentions to drop out after the first year of higher education: a longitudinal study	34
Navigating gender identity development: composite narratives of Chinese women international students studying in the U.S.	34

Surfacing the conceptualizations of international PhD student agency: the necessity for an integrative research agenda	33
Peer review in Chinese national journals: historical development and challenges	33
Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change	33
Epistemic injustice and neo-racism: how Zhihu users portray ‘Chinese doctoral supervisors’ working in Western academia	32
LGBT + academics’ and PhD students’ experiences of visibility in STEM: more than raising the rainbow flag	31
Revisiting the concept of highly skilled professionals: an analysis of support staff in Finnish universities	30
Exploring master’s students’ perceptions of mentoring support for reflection in a one-year employability-oriented mentoring program	30
The paradox of technology in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of safety and security students in a Dutch university	30
Motivation is important, but can it be improved? Examining faculty perceptions of research motivation and productivity interventions	30