Higher Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Higher Education is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration446
Higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals152
This fast car can move faster: a review of PLS-SEM application in higher education research114
Students’ motivation and engagement in higher education: the importance of attitude to online learning95
What actually works to enhance graduate employability? The relative value of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular learning and paid work89
Scientific globalism during a global crisis: research collaboration and open access publications on COVID-1984
Neurodiversity in higher education: a narrative synthesis75
Higher education contributing to local, national, and global development: new empirical and conceptual insights72
Portuguese higher education students’ adaptation to online teaching and learning in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: personal and contextual factors66
Telework in academia: associations with health and well-being among staff53
The future of value in digitalised higher education: why data privacy should not be our biggest concern53
Sustainable development goals and higher education: leaving many behind49
Returnee faculty responses to internationalizing “academic ecology” for creating world-class universities in China’ elite universities47
The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach44
Mental health of Malaysian university students: UK comparison, and relationship between negative mental health attitudes, self-compassion, and resilience44
Gig qualifications for the gig economy: micro-credentials and the ‘hungry mile’37
Conceptualizing the discourse of student mobility between “periphery” and “semi-periphery”: the case of Africa and China36
‘All things are in flux’: China in global science36
Rethinking authentic assessment: work, well-being, and society36
Reconceptualising employability of returnees: what really matters and strategic navigating approaches35
Winners and losers in US-China scientific research collaborations34
The leaky pipeline in research grant peer review and funding decisions: challenges and future directions34
International student mobility and labour market outcomes: an investigation of the role of level of study, type of mobility, and international prestige hierarchies33
Discipline-specific feedback literacies: A framework for curriculum design32
The impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK for doctoral and early career researchers32
Whiteness as futurity and globalization of higher education31
A path for ranking success: what does the expanded indicator-set of international university rankings suggest?29
The expansion of doctoral education and the changing nature and purpose of the doctorate29
What perspectives underlie ‘researcher identity’? A review of two decades of empirical studies28
The development of multicultural effectiveness in international student mobility28
Academic accommodations for university students living with disability and the potential of universal design to address their needs25
University students’ epistemic profiles, conceptions of learning, and academic performance25
Effect of sport education on students’ perceived physical literacy, motivation, and physical activity levels in university required physical education: a cluster-randomized trial25
Discourses of artificial intelligence in higher education: a critical literature review25
Motivation matters: predicting students’ career decidedness and intention to drop out after the first year in higher education25
“Teaching, my passion; publishing, my pain”: unpacking academics’ professional identity tensions through the lens of emotional resilience24
Moving towards multipolarity: shifts in the core-periphery structure of international student mobility and world rankings (2000–2019)24
Student satisfaction and interaction in higher education23
Feedback literacy: a critical review of an emerging concept23
Move or perish? Sticky mobilities in the Swiss academic context22
Drivers of student engagement in higher education: a behavioral reasoning theory perspective22
Administrative transformation and managerial growth: a longitudinal analysis of changes in the non-academic workforce at Australian universities21
Balancing finances, politics, and public health: international student enrollment and reopening plans at US higher education institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic21
Rethinking student-teacher relationships in higher education: a multidimensional approach21
The effect of providing learning analytics on student behaviour and performance in programming: a randomised controlled experiment20
Academic self-concept, perceptions of the learning environment, engagement, and learning outcomes of university students: relationships and causal ordering20
No one can see me cry: understanding mental health issues for Black and minority ethnic staff in higher education20
What really happens in higher education governance? Trajectories of adopted policy instruments in higher education over time in 16 European countries20
What influences PhD graduate trajectories during the degree: a research-based policy agenda20
Being highly prolific in academic science: characteristics of individuals and their departments19
Reaching for different ends through tenure track—institutional logics in university career systems19
What makes a difference for further advancement of engineers: socioeconomic background or education programs?19
‘The idea is nice… but not for me’: First-year students’ readiness for large-scale ‘flipped lectures’—what (de)motivates them?19
Exploring experiences of ableism in academia: a constructivist inquiry19
The emergence of university rankings: a historical‑sociological account19
Intercultural relationship development and higher education internationalisation: a qualitative investigation based on a three-stage ecological and person-in-context conceptual framework18
Exploring explanations for the gender gap in study abroad: a case study of the Netherlands18
Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: ‘Punish[ing] Those Who Fail To Do Their Gender Right’18
Rethinking employability: how students build on interest in a subject to plan a career18
The emergence of the higher education research field (1976–2018): preferential attachment, smallworldness and fragmentation in its collaboration networks18
Using critical race theory to reframe mentor training: theoretical considerations regarding the ecological systems of mentorship17
Women academics in Chinese universities: a historical perspective17
Abusive comments in student evaluations of courses and teaching: the attacks women and marginalised academics endure17
Why do women more often intend to study abroad than men?17
Who benefits most from studying abroad? A conceptual and empirical overview17
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage17
Space and scale in higher education: the glonacal agency heuristic revisited17
Eyes on the enterprise: problematising the concept of a teaching-research nexus in UK higher education17
Does the effect of studying abroad on labour income vary by graduates’ social origin? Evidence from Germany17
Are evaluative cultures national or global? A cross-national study on evaluative cultures in academic recruitment processes in Europe16
The emergence of academic capitalism and university neoliberalism: perspectives of Australian higher education leadership16
International mobility of students in Italy and the UK: does it pay off and for whom?16
Academic (dis)qualifications of Turkish rectors: their career paths, H-index, and the number of articles and citations16
Unaligned connections or enlarging engagements? Tertiary education in developing countries and the implementation of the SDGs16
Scientific careers and the mobility of European researchers: an analysis of international mobility by career stage16
Stakeholder pressure to obtain world-class status among Indonesian universities15
The transformation of doctoral education: a systematic literature review15
Yellow Peril and cash cows: the social positioning of Asian international students in the USA15
Challenging career models in higher education: the influence of internal career scripts and the rise of the “concertina” career15
Unveiling ableism and disablism in assessment: a critical analysis of disabled students’ experiences of assessment and assessment accommodations15
Does conflict of interest distort global university rankings?15
Locked out, locked in and stuck: exploring migrant academics’ experiences of moving to the UK15
Knocking on employment’s door: internships and job attainment15
Pathways to student engagement: beyond triggers and mechanisms at the engagement interface15
International students’ self-determined motivation, beliefs about classroom assessment, learning strategies, and academic adjustment in higher education15
Back out or hang on? An event history analysis of withdrawal from doctoral education in Germany14
How do international faculty at Japanese universities view their integration?14
International student mobility and the transition from higher education to work in Norway14
Impact of student-supervisor relationship on postgraduate students’ subjective well-being: a study based on longitudinal data in China13
Exploring socioeconomic inequalities and access to elite postgraduate education among English graduates13
Advocating for transgender and nonbinary affirmative spaces in graduate education13
In search of intangible connections: intellectual capital, performance and quality of life in higher education institutions13
Emerging principles for the allocation of academic work in universities13
Transnational academic mobility in universities: the impact on a departmental and an interpersonal level13
What are their thoughts about inclusion? Beliefs of faculty members about inclusive education13
Sticky and slippery destinations for academic mobility: the case of Singapore13
Preliminary evidence of key factors in successful flipping: predicting positive student experiences in flipped classrooms13
Student voice in higher education: the importance of distinguishing student representation and student partnership13
How does research performativity and selectivity impact on the non-core regions of Europe? The case for a new research agenda13
The post-Soviet publication landscape for higher education research13
Faculty perceptions of work-life balance: the role of marital/relationship and family status12
“It’s hard to feel a part of something when you’ve never met people”: defining “learning community” in an online era12
Between ‘here-now’ and ‘there-then’: the West and Asia’s colonial entanglements in international higher education12
Sticky care and conference travel: unpacking care as an explanatory factor for gendered academic immobility12
Teachers as brokers: adding a university-society perspective to higher education teacher competence profiles12
Higher education and sustainable development goal 16 in fragile and conflict-affected contexts12
Hate and harassment in academia: the rising concern of the online environment12
Approaches to teaching in higher education: the perspective of network analysis using the revised approaches to teaching inventory12
Higher education expansion, system transformation, and social inequality. Social origin effects on tertiary education attainment in Poland for birth cohorts 1960 to 198812
 A comparative analysis of the Chilean and Colombian systems of quality assurance in higher education12
How to motivate student engagement in emergency online learning? Evidence from the COVID-19 situation12
Unequal expectations: First-generation and continuing-generation students’ anticipated relationships with doctoral advisors in STEM12
Being an academic: how junior female academics in Korea survive in the neoliberal context of a patriarchal society12
Crowdfunding in higher education: evidence from UK Universities12
Plagiarism and the commodification of knowledge12
The impact of adverse childhood experiences and recent life events on anxiety and quality of life in university students12
The educational purposes of higher education: changing discussions of the societal outcomes of educating students12
Does trust play a role when it comes to donations? A comparison of Italian and US higher education institutions12
From fragmented toward relational academic teacher identity: the role of research-teaching nexus12
Language and communication in international students’ adaptation: a bibliometric and content analysis review12
“Stuck in the middle of what?”: the pursuit of academic careers by mothers and non-mothers in higher education institutions in occupied Palestine11
The affective assemblage of internationalisation in Japanese higher education11
Help me help myself: examining an electronic mental health self-monitoring system in college students11
The process of building European university alliances: a rhizomatic analysis of the European Universities Initiative11
The discursive resilience of university rankings11
China’s international higher education policies 2010–2019: multiple logics and HEI responses11
Student formation in higher education: a comparison and combination of Confucian xiushen (self-cultivation) and Bildung11
“Does Chinese philosophy count as philosophy?”: decolonial awareness and practices in international English medium instruction programs11
Crises in international education, and government responses: a comparative analysis of racial discrimination and violence towards international students11
Developing capacities for meeting the SDGs: exploring the role of a public land-grant institution in the civic engagement of its African alumni11
Higher education institutions and entrepreneurship in underserved communities11
Stuck and sticky in mobile academia: reconfiguring the im/mobility binary11
Women’s empowerment in the period of the rapid expansion of higher education in Turkey: developments and paradoxes of gender equality in the labour market11
Identifying gender disparities in research performance: the importance of comparing apples with apples11
Implications of performance-based funding on equity-based missions in US higher education11
Innovations in an institutionalised higher education system: the role of embedded agency11
“It’s where learning and teaching begins ‒ is this relationship” — insights on the teacher-student relationship at university from the teachers’ perspective10
“Messy transitions”: Students’ perspectives on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education10
Mapping the field of research on African higher education: a review of 6483 publications from 1980 to 201910
A systematic review of student agency in international higher education10
The elite exclusion: stratified access and production during the Chinese higher education expansion10
Unemployed graduate to the next Jack Ma? A counter-narrative to the entrepreneurship movement in higher education10
Reconceptualising fair access to highly academically selective universities10
Instructional leadership structures across five university departments10
A liberal higher education for all? The massification of higher education and its implications for graduates’ participation in civil society10
Negative student emotions and educator skill in experiential education: a taxonomy of classroom activities10
Do grants improve the outcomes of university students in a challenging context? Evidence from a matching approach10
Curricular fit perspective on motivation in higher education10
Tournament in academia: a comparative analysis of faculty evaluation systems in research universities in China and the USA10
Challenges and strategies for the internationalization of higher education in low-income East African countries10
Metacognitive illusion or self-regulated learning? Assessing engineering students’ learning strategies against the backdrop of recent advances in cognitive science10
Reconceptualising international academic mobility in the global knowledge system: towards a new research agenda9
Reducing inequality in access to university in Chile: the relative contribution of cultural capital and financial aid9
Narratives of ‘stuckness’ among North–South academic migrants in Thailand: interrogating normative logics and global power asymmetries of transnational academic migration9
Academic expectations among university students and staff: addressing the role of psychological contracts and social norms9
‘We can talk the talk, but we’re not allowed to walk the walk’: the role of equality and diversity staff in higher education institutions in England9
Understanding Chinese female university teachers’ intention to pursue a PhD degree: some insights from a Chinese university9
Graduate employability as a professional proto-jurisdiction in higher education9
Factors fostering and hindering research collaboration with doctoral students among academics in Hong Kong9
Submission or subversion: survival and resilience of Chinese international research students in neoliberalised Australian universities9
Erasmus students’ motivations in motion: understanding super-mobility in higher education9
Heterogeneous effects of graduates’ international mobility on employers’ hiring intentions—experimental evidence from Germany9
Faculty research productivity: differences between foreign and local doctoral degree holders in Pakistan9
Transformation impossible: policy, evidence and change in South African higher education8
The politics of university rankings in China8
Meeting at the margins: culturally affirming practices at HBCUs for underserved populations8
Life at the “people’s universities”: organizational identification and commitment among regional comprehensive university faculty members in the USA8
Social motivation and deep approaches to learning: a nationwide study among Chinese college students8
Mergers and missions: investigating consequences for system diversity8
How academics manage individual differences to team teach in higher education: a sociocultural activity theory perspective8
Taking issue with how the Work-integrated Learning discourse ascribes a dualistic meaning to graduate employability8
Enhancing graduates’ enterprise capabilities through work-integrated learning in co-working spaces8
Effect of active learning versus traditional lecturing on the learning achievement of college students in humanities and social sciences: a meta-analysis8
Thriving in the midst of liminality: perspectives from department chairs in the USA8
Whorephobia in Higher Education: a reflexive account of researching cis women’s experiences of stripping while at university8
Fostering prospective teachers’ explaining skills during university education—Evaluation of a training module8
Predicting first-time-in-college students’ degree completion outcomes8
Supervising cohorts of higher degree research students: design catalysts for industry and innovation8
Private providers and market exit in UK higher education8
Origins, motives, and challenges in Western–Chinese research collaborations amid recent geopolitical tensions: findings from Swedish–Chinese research collaborations8
Did the COVID-19 pandemic lead to an increase in academic misconduct in higher education?8
Effects of career development learning on students’ perceived employability: a longitudinal study8
International student mobility as “aspiration on the go”: stories from African students at a Chinese university8
Non-globalized ties between Japanese higher education and industry: crafting publicity-driven calls for domestic and foreign students with global qualities8
Moving SDG5 forward: women’s public engagement activities in higher education8
Assessing knowledge of and attitudes towards plagiarism and ability to recognize plagiaristic writing among university students in Rwanda8
Same storm, different boats: the impact of COVID-19 on Black students and academic staff in UK and US higher education7
Students as epistemological agents: claiming life experience as real knowledge in health professional education7
Whiteness as world-class education?: Internationalization as depicted by Western international branch campuses in China7
Global pedigree and national imperative: Hong Kong universities’ response to China’s grand strategies7
Reported pedagogical practices of faculty in higher education in the UAE7
The European university alliances—an examination of organizational potentials and perils7
Need satisfaction and achievement goals of university faculty: an international study of their interplay and relevance7
Open the gates wider: affirmative action and dropping out7
Decolonising curriculum practice: developing the indigenous cultural capability of university graduates7
Characterising feedback cultures in higher education: an analysis of strategy documents from 134 UK universities7
The conundrums of formal and informal meritocracy: dealing with gender segregation in the academy7
Stickiness in academic career (im)mobilities of STEM early career researchers: an insight from Greece7
Supporting thinking about thinking: examining the metacognition theory-practice gap in higher education6
Trust and incentives in academic research and the position of universities within innovation systems6
International students’ linguistic transitions into disciplinary studies: a rhizomatic perspective6
Faculty research productivity at women’s universities through the lens of preference theory6
It’s more complex than it seems! Employing the concept of prosumption to grasp the heterogeneity and complexity of student roles in higher education6
Determinants of the incidence of non-academic staff in European and US HEIs6
Exploring the effects of mobility and foreign nationality on internal career progression in universities6
Academic leadership and university performance: do Russian universities improve when they are led by top researchers?6
Enhancing the recruitment of postgraduate researchers from diverse countries: managing the application process6
The semantics of diversity in higher education: differences between the Global North and Global South6
Psychology, market pressures, and pricing decisions in higher education: the case of the US private sector6
Exploring collective identity of a group of teaching-oriented academics amid research discourse: a Chinese case6
Academics’ perceptions of what it means to be both a parent and an academic: perspectives from an English university6
Campus closures and the devaluing of emplaced Higher Education: widening participation in neoliberal times6
Becoming a “game changer”: Complete College America’s role in U.S. higher education policy fields6
Too stupid for PhD? Doctoral impostor syndrome among Finnish PhD students6
The contributions of study abroad to home countries: an agential perspective6
Digital ethnography in higher education teaching and learning—a methodological review6
Encouraging impacts of an Open Education Resource Degree Initiative on college students’ progress to degree6
‘I just think it’s really awkward’: transitioning to higher education and the implications for student retention6
“Why I don’t want to be an academic anymore?” When academic identity contributes to academic career attrition6
The transformation of professors’ careers: standardization, hybridization, and acceleration?6
Exploring, negotiating and responding: international students’ experiences of group work at Australian universities6
The two dimensions of Italian academics’ public engagement6
Universities’ responses to crises: the influence of competition and reputation on tuition fees6
Gender, motivation and labour market beliefs in higher education choices6
Lights, camera, active! appreciation of active learning predicts positive attitudes towards lecture capture6
Student internships and work placements: approaches to risk management in higher education6
English and German academics’ perspectives on metrics in higher education: evaluating dimensions of fairness and organisational justice6
Reconceptualizing student ratings of teaching to support quality discourse on student learning: a systems perspective6
College integration and social class6
To be or not to be a technical university: organisational categories as reference points in higher education5
Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility5
The use of lectures: effective pedagogy or seeds scattered on the wind?5
Threshold concepts and certainty: a critical analysis of ‘troublesomeness’5
The “LOOMING DISASTER” for higher education: how commercial rankers use social media to amplify and foster affect5
Renewing the Sydney undergraduate curriculum5
Hiding the unwanted: A University-level campus carry policy5
Universities confronting climate change: beyond sustainable development and solutionism5
Bridging disciplinary knowledge: the challenge of integrating EAP in business education5
Beyond the degree: graduate transitions from a transnational campus in Vietnam5
Student movements and politics in Latin America: a historical reconceptualization5
A meta-synthesis on academic identity in the neoliberal context of academy5
Environmental scan of mental wellness resources available on Canadian post-secondary campuses5
Study progression and degree completion of autistic students in higher education: a longitudinal study5
Crisis and policy imaginaries: higher education reform during a pandemic5
The discursive construction of international students in the USA: prestige, diversity, and economic gain5
Translating rhetoric into reality: using the internationalization of humanities and social sciences in Chinese universities as the case5
University autonomy under democratic backsliding: a case study of a plagiarism investigation against Serbian Minister of Finance (2014–2019)5
Thriving in the neoliberal academia without becoming its agent? Sociologising resilience with an early career academic and a mid-career researcher5
Market mechanisms' distortions of higher education: Punjabi international students in Canada5
Employment and further study outcomes for care-experienced graduates in the UK5
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