OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Higher Education is 28. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration	433
Higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals	143
This fast car can move faster: a review of PLS-SEM application in higher education research	111
The ‘internationalisation’, or ‘Englishisation’, of higher education in East Asia	89
Students’ motivation and engagement in higher education: the importance of attitude to online learning	88
What actually works to enhance graduate employability? The relative value of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular learning and paid work	87
Scientific globalism during a global crisis: research collaboration and open access publications on COVID-19	79
Higher education contributing to local, national, and global development: new empirical and conceptual insights	68
Portuguese higher education students’ adaptation to online teaching and learning in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: personal and contextual factors	63
Neurodiversity in higher education: a narrative synthesis	63
Telework in academia: associations with health and well-being among staff	53
The future of value in digitalised higher education: why data privacy should not be our biggest concern	51
Sustainable development goals and higher education: leaving many behind	49
Predicting key educational outcomes in academic trajectories: a machine-learning approach	48
Returnee faculty responses to internationalizing “academic ecology” for creating world-class universities in China’ elite universities	47
Mental health of Malaysian university students: UK comparison, and relationship between negative mental health attitudes, self-compassion, and resilience	44
The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach	42
Gig qualifications for the gig economy: micro-credentials and the ‘hungry mile’	37
‘All things are in flux’: China in global science	35
Conceptualizing the discourse of student mobility between “periphery” and “semi-periphery”: the case of Africa and China	34
International student mobility and labour market outcomes: an investigation of the role of level of study, type of mobility, and international prestige hierarchies	33
Reconceptualising employability of returnees: what really matters and strategic navigating approaches	33
The leaky pipeline in research grant peer review and funding decisions: challenges and future directions	33
Winners and losers in US-China scientific research collaborations	33
The impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK for doctoral and early career researchers	31

Discipline-specific feedback literacies: A framework for curriculum design	31
Whiteness as futurity and globalization of higher education	31
Rethinking authentic assessment: work, well-being, and society	29
A path for ranking success: what does the expanded indicator-set of international university rankings suggest?	28
What perspectives underlie ‘researcher identity’? A review of two decades of empirical studies	28