OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Higher Education is 31. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education	235
University autonomy under democratic backsliding: a case study of a plagiarism investigation against Serbian Minister of Finance (2014–2019)	144
Dynamics of English in European higher education	112
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?	102
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences	102
Higher education and public good: the case of China	101
Mastering humanitarianism? A survey of postgraduate humanitarian courses	73
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon	64
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	61
The development and pilot of the university student embeddedness (USE) scale for student retention within universities: validation with an Australian student sample	59
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China	57
Dropout intent of students with disabilities	56
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice	52
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities	51
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America	50
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis	49
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations	48
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza	48
Situated transdisciplinarity in university policy: lessons for its institutionalization	48
Higher education retention in Ireland and Scotland: the role of admissions policies	47
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education	47
Correction to: Keeping it regional: pseudo‑internationalisation of Slovak political science	41
Unpacking the gendered interactions and relationship among students in male-dominated programs: perspectives of female students in mechanical engineering in Ghana	41
The black box of faculty writing in the academy	39
Measuring mentoring in employability-oriented higher education programs: scale development and validation	34

Navigating gender identity development: composite narratives of Chinese women international students studying in the U.S.	34
Student or customer? Mainland Chinese students’ self-identification and reflexivity in Hong Kong’s self-financed taught postgraduate programmes	33
The paradox of technology in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of safety and security students in a Dutch university	32
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries	31
Assessing educational inequality in high participation systems: the role of educational expansion and skills diffusion in comparative perspective	31
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	31
Surfacing the conceptualizations of international PhD student agency: the necessity for an integrative research agenda	31