Higher Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Higher Education is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Dynamics of English in European higher education311
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences178
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 China124
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education120
Feeling AI: Circulating emotions, institutional climates, and moral boundaries in student use of AI81
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education79
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America78
Publish at home or abroad: How institutional involution shapes academic publishing practices in China76
Limitations to the perceived institutional autonomy coming from government steering: A study to the experiences of higher education institutions75
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities69
Do PhD students’ research styles predict their perceived competencies?68
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis65
What does it mean to widen participation? a machine learning analysis of historical and contemporary access discourses58
Dropout intent of students with disabilities58
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice51
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 data47
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza40
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations37
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China36
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon36
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries35
The black box of faculty writing in the academy35
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 study34
Navigating gender identity development: composite narratives of Chinese women international students studying in the U.S.34
Peer review in Chinese national journals: historical development and challenges33
Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change33
Surfacing the conceptualizations of international PhD student agency: the necessity for an integrative research agenda33
Epistemic injustice and neo-racism: how Zhihu users portray ‘Chinese doctoral supervisors’ working in Western academia32
LGBT + academics’ and PhD students’ experiences of visibility in STEM: more than raising the rainbow flag31
Exploring master’s students’ perceptions of mentoring support for reflection in a one-year employability-oriented mentoring program30
The paradox of technology in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of safety and security students in a Dutch university30
Motivation is important, but can it be improved? Examining faculty perceptions of research motivation and productivity interventions30
Revisiting the concept of highly skilled professionals: an analysis of support staff in Finnish universities30
The multi-dimensional, multi-level impact of social capital on academic job search in China: A comparison between domestic PhDs and PhD returnees in the social sciences29
The European Universities initiative: between status hierarchies and inclusion29
Student or customer? Mainland Chinese students’ self-identification and reflexivity in Hong Kong’s self-financed taught postgraduate programmes29
Assessing educational inequality in high participation systems: the role of educational expansion and skills diffusion in comparative perspective28
Correction to: Keeping it regional: pseudo‑internationalisation of Slovak political science28
‘It’s like dominoes’: middle managers transversal agency and the complexity of navigating transformation in post-conflict higher education28
Unpacking the gendered interactions and relationship among students in male-dominated programs: perspectives of female students in mechanical engineering in Ghana27
Measuring mentoring in employability-oriented higher education programs: scale development and validation27
Higher education retention in Ireland and Scotland: the role of admissions policies27
In search for employability strategy: emergent approaches by higher education institutions26
Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility26
Reimagining the illusio of meritocracy: affective and reflexive reconfigurations in rural students’ transition to elite universities26
The potential of tutoring in higher education: students’ preferences, consumption, and the role of information26
Supporting liberal democracy with curious students25
COVID-19 experience and student wellbeing amongst publicly funded higher education students in South Africa after the first, and second waves25
Crisis and policy imaginaries: higher education reform during a pandemic25
Tokenized but remaining: how do international academics make sense of their decision to remain in Japanese universities?25
Global, Nordic, or institutional visions? An investigation into how Nordic universities are adapting to the SDGs23
The post-racial myth: rethinking Chinese university students’ experiences and perceptions of racialised microaggressions in the UK22
Diverse class participation formats as a heutagogical approach to integrate student voice in higher education22
Organizational factors affecting higher education collaboration networks: evidence from Europe22
The ever-growing private higher education, critical yet underexamined22
Academic inbreeding and boundary-making in higher education institutions22
Interdisciplinary educational ecosystem and students’ interdisciplinary competence: evidence from research universities in China22
Revisiting higher vocational education within metropolis: an intrinsic case study of Shanghai, China22
Towards decolonising higher education: a case study from a UK university21
Higher education teachers’ professional well-being in the rise of managerialism: insights from China21
Metrics of student dissatisfaction and disagreement: longitudinal explorations of a national survey instrument21
Effect of active learning versus traditional lecturing on the learning achievement of college students in humanities and social sciences: a meta-analysis21
The educational purposes of higher education: changing discussions of the societal outcomes of educating students21
Has the public good of higher education been emptied out? The case of England21
Negotiating meritocracy and gender equality across organisational spaces: the case of a tenure track system21
Motivations for pursuing a master’s degree and changing expectations of its returns: mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong20
Renewing the Sydney undergraduate curriculum20
Correction to: Course leaders’ conceptions of the purpose of interdisciplinary education20
From classroom to career: Self-efficacy and employment success of graduates with disabilities20
Alone together: experiences of Palestinian East Jerusalem students studying at an Israeli university20
“He who knows one, knows none”: Pluralism in global higher education development20
Counteroffers for faculty at research universities: who gets them, who doesn’t, and what factors produce them?20
Employers’ conceptions of quality and value in higher education20
Which configurations promote the high-level university technology transfer? Evidence from China19
Their wellbeing affects our wellbeing: student perspectives of lecturer wellbeing and its consequences for student wellbeing19
Study-to-work transitions of students-turned-migrants: ongoing struggles of mainland Chinese graduates in Hong Kong19
Programming education across disciplines: a nationwide study of Danish higher education19
Doctoral examiners’ narratives of learning to examine in the PhD viva: a call for support19
Habitus in motion: a critical appraisal of Bourdieu’s relevance to cross-border higher education18
Challenges and strategies for the internationalization of higher education in low-income East African countries18
Competition as a catalyst for collaboration: how German universities navigate the paradox of organizational research governance18
A systematic review of student agency in international higher education18
Caught between academic calling and academic pressure? Working time characteristics, time pressure and time sovereignty predict PhD students’ research engagement18
The shifting happiness return to higher education over 50 years: causal mediation analysis of college completion, economic benefits, and happiness in the USA18
Does the COVID-19 pandemic lower the admissions quality of higher education institutions in affected regions in China?18
Adapting doctoral education to an evolving knowledge landscape: insights from Portugal18
Knowledge power or diplomacy? University alliances and the Belt and Road Initiative18
Brexit metaphors in UK higher education: loss, agency and interconnectedness17
Academics on the frontline. To what extent does global solidarity pervade the academic world? The case of ACADEMICS4GAZA17
Shaping choices: factors influencing Vietnamese high school students’ transition to higher education17
Giving substance to an idea17
Diverse socio-economic backgrounds and international pathways: European mobility opportunities through a scholarship programme for Mexican doctoral students17
Implications of losing a need- and merit-based scholarship on the educational trajectory: a curricular analytics approach17
Mastering Fortuna: higher education as an international relations strategy for diplomacy, development, and sustainability17
Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education17
Performing ‘alterity’: global geographies of power, translocal subjectivity, and everyday identity negotiation of African students at a university in China17
Politicized identity and language practices: Understanding Chinese international students’ language ideologies amid U.S.-China geopolitical tensions17
Climbing the ivory tower: agency, reflexivity and the career pathways of care-experienced academics in higher education16
Uncertain futures: climate change and international student mobility in Europe16
Igniting doctoral students’ work engagement: the roles of managing up atmosphere and work passion within their research groups from a job demands-resources perspective16
Transformational accounts of students’ undergraduate education are evoked by their engagement with knowledge16
A lexical comparison of the public good of higher education: concepts, contextual underpinnings and implications, focusing on Japanese, Chinese and English16
Affective economies of AI in digitalised higher education16
Can service scholarships boost academic performance? Causal evidence from China’s Free Teacher Education scholarship16
Waiting for the revolution: how higher education institutions initially responded to ChatGPT16
Too stupid for PhD? Doctoral impostor syndrome among Finnish PhD students16
A meta-synthesis on academic identity in the neoliberal context of academy16
How the rise of the political right threatens higher education15
The totalizing tournament15
Unravelling gender and ethnic bias in higher education: students’ experiences in access to ocean science education and career opportunities in Kenya15
Developing the PhD thesis project in relation to individual contexts: a multiple case study of five doctoral researchers15
Student satisfaction and interaction in higher education15
Student perceptions of college—how to move beyond transactional approaches to higher education15
Food insecurity among international students’ studying in Melbourne, Australia: experiences and impacts15
An analysis of the UK’s Turing Scheme as a response to socio-economic and geo-political challenges14
Women go to college: Honour, risk, safety?14
Space and scale in higher education: the glonacal agency heuristic revisited14
Higher education regionalization in East and Southeast Asia: between decolonization, recolonization, and self-colonization14
Emotional intercultural competence in contexts: an ethnographic study of Chinese international postgraduate students14
Uplifting mechanism or equalizing force? The expansion of higher education and its role in intergenerational mobility in Chile14
Higher education expansion and women’s access to higher education and the labor market: quasi-experimental evidence from Turkey14
Representation of the academic workforce in English university strategy-making: an exploratory study14
Putting a stake in the ground: the development of a Professional Ethical Framework for Australian Academics14
Mapping scholarly resources for strategy: a resource-based view of two management faculties14
Bridging the gender gap in mathematics: Examining STEM enrolment rate by gender in Higher Education, in Italian Provinces14
Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘The public good of higher education: A comparative study’13
Designing belonging in higher education13
Analyzing the influence of regional security on international student flows in the MENA region: a social network approach13
A qualitative investigation of trans students’ experiences with microaggressions at a Canadian university13
Deciphering China’s higher education outreach paradigm in Southeast Asia: can a neo-tributary perspective work?13
Australian universities’ approaches to transnational higher education in China: a Bourdieusian multiple correspondence analysis13
Dropout of Dalit women in collegiate education: An exploratory study of rural India13
Coping with adversity: mechanisms of resilience in Ukrainian universities during the Russian-Ukrainian War—a perspective from Lviv University students13
Unveiling the evolving educational inequality from upper secondary to higher education in South Korea: from effectively maintained inequality theory perspective13
Constructing a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area social space: cross-sectoral experiences of key node university faculties13
Assistance at the starting line: rural education competition and rural student development13
The interplay of time management and academic self-efficacy and their influence on pre-service teachers’ commitment in the first year in higher education13
Universities as providers of shadow education at upper-secondary education level: Market-driven preparatory courses for the Saber 11 exam in Colombia12
Higher education and public good in England12
English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) as opportunity or burden? Research pressure and teaching responsibilities for faculty in Taiwan’s non-English-dominant context12
The Role of Higher Education Journal in Shaping Global Knowledge Networks12
Capitals, capabilities, and the conversion of commodities: the case of neurodivergent graduates’ transitions to the labour market12
Research agendas and organizational commitment among academics in mainland China12
Higher education in prison: a comparative policy analysis of five countries12
Language and the cocurriculum: the need for decolonizing out-of-classroom experiences12
Reconciling multiple institutional logics for ambidexterity: human resource management reforms in Chinese public universities12
Correction to: Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries12
Implementation of ambiguous governance instruments in higher education12
“We don’t need no thought control”: dealing with faculty members spreading conspiracy theories12
Student affairs work under neoliberalism and within the global class war12
A conceptual and methodological framework for clustering and correlation analyses of the approaches and study skills inventory for students11
University students’ concepts of nation in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau: Patriotism or nationalism?11
Conflicting language ideologies and practices of English medium instruction policy for international students in China’s higher education11
A dual-process model of early career researchers’ well-being: Satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs as central mechanism11
A scaffolding model for designing and implementing work-integrated learning experiences based on the analysis of the university and company's arrangements11
Language and communication in international students’ adaptation: a bibliometric and content analysis review11
Flashbacks of the bad old days? The bureaucratization of Czech universities in the post-communist era11
“Why I was born a woman”: Female students’ challenges in Afghanistan higher education under the Taliban rule11
Did free tuition change the choices of students applying for university admission?11
The role of academic institutions in a state of war: the Gaza-Israel conflict11
Exploring the influence of contemporary global music on national music education: a PLS-SEM analysis11
The (In)visibilisation of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in higher education equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in England and Wales11
Board governance priorities in higher education institutions: comparative analysis of board members’ visions in Finland and Sweden11
The role of geopolitics of knowledge in the mediatization of global university rankings11
When tianxia meets the global common good: how to evaluate the contributions of higher education to tianxia?11
Institution level awarding gap metrics for identifying educational inequity: useful tools or reductive distractions?11
The evolution of self-regulated learning in psychology students. Longitudinal insights across pre-pandemic, remote, and post-pandemic cohorts11
Rethinking the voluntariness of academic return migration in times of crisis: the case of Chinese early career scientists11
Opening the black box of student government in authoritarian contexts: institutional work and intra-organisational conflicts in the Students’ Guild at Makerere University, Uganda11
Chain migration and student mobility in Sicily11
Exploring Chinese doctoral graduates’ career choices and gender differences through the lens of rational choice theory11
Correction to: The crises of US higher education: an outlier or a bellwether for what lies ahead?10
Quantifying the mover’s advantage: transatlantic migration, employment prestige, and scientific performance10
Does free tuition impact academic performance of low-income undergraduate students? A response to Barroilhet, Silva and Quiroga10
‘I just think it’s really awkward’: transitioning to higher education and the implications for student retention10
Conceptualizing student voice in teacher-student curriculum partnerships within Iran’s higher education10
Students in the global higher education market: identities, pathways, and political agency10
Performing excellence and gender balance in higher education10
Assetizing academic content and the emergence of the ‘assetizen’: education platforms, publisher databases, and AI model training10
From access to inclusion: a call for a cultural shift in higher education10
The European university alliances—an examination of organizational potentials and perils10
Language inequalities and business school accreditation: voices from non-English-speaking countries10
Do mothers get lost at the postdoc stage? Event history analysis of psychologists at German universities (1980–2019)10
The contributions of study abroad to home countries: an agential perspective9
Investigating the dynamics of managerial dialogue in HE merger reform9
Epistemic agency: a link between assessment, knowledge and society9
Graduates’ responses to student loan debt in England: “sort of like an acceptance, but with anxiety attached”9
Measuring students’ self-perceived employability capital attainment: the development and validation of a scale9
Planning for a delay? Horizontal stratification in higher education and the intended age at marriage9
The geographies of segregation in French universities from 2006 to 20169
Neurodivergent (Autism and ADHD) student experiences of access and inclusion in higher education: an ecological systems theory perspective9
The recontextualisation and cultural compatibility of student-centred education: the case of the United Arab Emirates9
Active methodologies in Higher Education: reasons to use them (or not) from the voices of faculty teaching staff9
From margin to center: positioning centers for teaching and learning as strategic partners in Israeli higher education9
Reimagining the academic landscape: the rise of online learning and AI as catalysts for hidden unemployment among educators9
Promoting student empowerment in student partnership-student representation integrations9
Predicting university enrollment choices in Italy: a machine learning analysis of high school background and gender differences9
Student agency in Colombian higher education: a dual-pathway model of mediation and moderation between student engagement and academic achievement9
Decolonial practices and faculty perceptions within sociology and political science in Irish higher education9
International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges9
I can be a “normal” student: the role of lecture capture in supporting disabled and neurodivergent students’ participation in higher education9
Women STEM faculty’s intentions to engage in entrepreneurship education programs9
Exploring perceptions of public good(s), government, and global contributions in Japanese higher education: a phenomenographic approach9
Institutional constraints to higher education datafication: an English case study9
Contextualizing and hybridizing academic identity formation: an analysis of international returnees and locally trained scholars in China9
Rethinking higher education: embodied learning and pedagogical transformation8
The geographical diversity of the citation elite in STEMM is decreasing, even as the overall scientific workforce has diversified8
Overcoming the student representation-student partnership dichotomy: toward a political conception of the student voice8
Too much information: exploring technology-mediated abuse in higher education online learning and teaching spaces resulting from COVID-19 and emergency remote education8
Agency and cruel optimism in the care obfuscations of UK-based academic mothers8
Book review of the making universities matter8
What impedes and enables flourishing among early career academics?8
Higher education system governance trend in Ethiopia: towards a hybrid model8
Institutional response patterns to the competitive funding in South Korea8
Higher education and the flipped classroom approach: efficacy for students with a history of learning disabilities8
Context matters: varieties of capitalism and the governance of transnational education partnerships in China8
Making the world a better place? English higher education and global public good8
‘Bridging borders in academia’: the motivations, barriers, and strategies of Global North scholars in Chinese higher education research8
A longitudinal analysis of research dynamics at German public and private universities8
Perceptions of entrepreneurial universities in China: a triangulated analysis8
Unlocking the power of mentorship: a comprehensive mapping of strategies to combat student attrition in higher education8
Keeping it regional: pseudo-internationalisation of Slovak political science7
Strategic response or gaming the rankings? Unravelling the strategies behind global university rankings manipulation in the higher education context of Kazakhstan7
How academic competition fosters GenAI dependency in research among Chinese STEM postgraduates? A mixed-methods approach7
Black data: higher education, datafication, and the Black student body7
Differentiated experiences of financial precarity and lived precariousness among international students in Australia7
Can standardized testing be used to promote equity in university admissions? A South African case study7
Caring teaching as a troublesome practice: A consideration of ethical-caring as a threshold concept7
Educational aspirations and inequality in an expanding higher education system: evidence from South Korea7
Concept of research among master’s students in Hong Kong7
Internationalization of Portuguese Academia: the impact on academic engagement and collaboration with society7
Human capital and socialism builders: a happy marriage? Analysing the construction of ‘high-level talent’ in Chinese higher education policy7
Belonging beyond crisis: Predictors are stable in higher education, despite a pandemic7
Synergistic organizational influences: how universities strategically prepare graduate students for industry, government, and non-profit careers7
Foreign early career academics’ well-being profiles at workplaces in Japan: a person-oriented approach7
“Why are we learning this?!” — Investigating students’ subjective study values across different disciplines7
Co-creation in higher education: a conceptual systematic review7
What is university success? Graduates with disabilities define it7
Using communities of practice to investigate work-integrated learning in engineering education: a grounded theory approach7
The effect of rental prices on student mobility in Turkey7
Characterising multiple trajectories towards the reflexive PhD project within a neoliberalist landscape7
Beyond a critique of grades7
Understanding the complexity of centers for teaching and learning: introducing a four-dimensional model7
A comparative study of university students’ ‘English as medium of instruction’ experiences in international faculty-led classrooms in Taiwan and Thailand7
Behavioral characterization of critical thinking in higher education: perspectives from the theory of planned behavior7
Scientific collaboration formation: network mechanisms, bonding social capital, and particularized trust in US-China collaboration on COVID-19-related research7
Conflict between academic staff and non-teaching staff in Nigerian Universities: causes and consequences7
Universities before their time7
The internationalization of for-profit higher education institutions in the United States: Seeking legitimacy and responding to market forces via international student mobility7
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