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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals225
Students’ motivation and engagement in higher education: the importance of attitude to online learning135
Portuguese higher education students’ adaptation to online teaching and learning in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: personal and contextual factors75
Discourses of artificial intelligence in higher education: a critical literature review66
The future of value in digitalised higher education: why data privacy should not be our biggest concern65
Rethinking authentic assessment: work, well-being, and society63
Gig qualifications for the gig economy: micro-credentials and the ‘hungry mile’54
Student satisfaction and interaction in higher education50
Feedback literacy: a critical review of an emerging concept44
‘All things are in flux’: China in global science44
The expansion of doctoral education and the changing nature and purpose of the doctorate40
The impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK for doctoral and early career researchers38
Whiteness as futurity and globalization of higher education38
Discipline-specific feedback literacies: A framework for curriculum design37
“Teaching, my passion; publishing, my pain”: unpacking academics’ professional identity tensions through the lens of emotional resilience36
Moving towards multipolarity: shifts in the core-periphery structure of international student mobility and world rankings (2000–2019)35
Academic self-concept, perceptions of the learning environment, engagement, and learning outcomes of university students: relationships and causal ordering33
Motivation matters: predicting students’ career decidedness and intention to drop out after the first year in higher education29
Administrative transformation and managerial growth: a longitudinal analysis of changes in the non-academic workforce at Australian universities29
Academic accommodations for university students living with disability and the potential of universal design to address their needs29
Rethinking employability: how students build on interest in a subject to plan a career27
Drivers of student engagement in higher education: a behavioral reasoning theory perspective26
Language and communication in international students’ adaptation: a bibliometric and content analysis review26
Knocking on employment’s door: internships and job attainment26
The transformation of doctoral education: a systematic literature review26
Move or perish? Sticky mobilities in the Swiss academic context26
No one can see me cry: understanding mental health issues for Black and minority ethnic staff in higher education26
Exploring experiences of ableism in academia: a constructivist inquiry25
Space and scale in higher education: the glonacal agency heuristic revisited25
Rethinking student-teacher relationships in higher education: a multidimensional approach25
How to motivate student engagement in emergency online learning? Evidence from the COVID-19 situation24
The emergence of university rankings: a historical‑sociological account24
Balancing finances, politics, and public health: international student enrollment and reopening plans at US higher education institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic23
Abusive comments in student evaluations of courses and teaching: the attacks women and marginalised academics endure22
Exploring explanations for the gender gap in study abroad: a case study of the Netherlands22
Student voice in higher education: the importance of distinguishing student representation and student partnership22
The emergence of academic capitalism and university neoliberalism: perspectives of Australian higher education leadership22
Women academics in Chinese universities: a historical perspective22
What makes a difference for further advancement of engineers: socioeconomic background or education programs?22
Stakeholder pressure to obtain world-class status among Indonesian universities21
Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: ‘Punish[ing] Those Who Fail To Do Their Gender Right’21
Who benefits most from studying abroad? A conceptual and empirical overview21
Unveiling ableism and disablism in assessment: a critical analysis of disabled students’ experiences of assessment and assessment accommodations20
Yellow Peril and cash cows: the social positioning of Asian international students in the USA20
Preliminary evidence of key factors in successful flipping: predicting positive student experiences in flipped classrooms20
Hate and harassment in academia: the rising concern of the online environment20
Why do women more often intend to study abroad than men?19
Emerging principles for the allocation of academic work in universities19
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage19
Challenging career models in higher education: the influence of internal career scripts and the rise of the “concertina” career19
International mobility of students in Italy and the UK: does it pay off and for whom?18
In search of intangible connections: intellectual capital, performance and quality of life in higher education institutions18
Unaligned connections or enlarging engagements? Tertiary education in developing countries and the implementation of the SDGs18
Does conflict of interest distort global university rankings?18
Are evaluative cultures national or global? A cross-national study on evaluative cultures in academic recruitment processes in Europe18
Pathways to student engagement: beyond triggers and mechanisms at the engagement interface18
How do international faculty at Japanese universities view their integration?17
The discursive resilience of university rankings17
Exploring socioeconomic inequalities and access to elite postgraduate education among English graduates17
Effect of active learning versus traditional lecturing on the learning achievement of college students in humanities and social sciences: a meta-analysis17
Reducing inequality in access to university in Chile: the relative contribution of cultural capital and financial aid16
Challenges and strategies for the internationalization of higher education in low-income East African countries16
Stuck and sticky in mobile academia: reconfiguring the im/mobility binary16
Back out or hang on? An event history analysis of withdrawal from doctoral education in Germany16
Impact of student-supervisor relationship on postgraduate students’ subjective well-being: a study based on longitudinal data in China16
“It’s where learning and teaching begins ‒ is this relationship” — insights on the teacher-student relationship at university from the teachers’ perspective16
Approaches to teaching in higher education: the perspective of network analysis using the revised approaches to teaching inventory16
The impact of adverse childhood experiences and recent life events on anxiety and quality of life in university students16
Advocating for transgender and nonbinary affirmative spaces in graduate education15
Social motivation and deep approaches to learning: a nationwide study among Chinese college students15
The process of building European university alliances: a rhizomatic analysis of the European Universities Initiative15
Effects of career development learning on students’ perceived employability: a longitudinal study15
“Messy transitions”: Students’ perspectives on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education15
Enhancing graduates’ enterprise capabilities through work-integrated learning in co-working spaces15
Unequal expectations: First-generation and continuing-generation students’ anticipated relationships with doctoral advisors in STEM15
A systematic review of student agency in international higher education15
The educational purposes of higher education: changing discussions of the societal outcomes of educating students15
Crowdfunding in higher education: evidence from UK Universities14
“It’s hard to feel a part of something when you’ve never met people”: defining “learning community” in an online era14
‘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 England14
Identifying gender disparities in research performance: the importance of comparing apples with apples14
Plagiarism and the commodification of knowledge14
From fragmented toward relational academic teacher identity: the role of research-teaching nexus14
Predicting first-time-in-college students’ degree completion outcomes13
Reconceptualising fair access to highly academically selective universities13
Factors fostering and hindering research collaboration with doctoral students among academics in Hong Kong13
Did the COVID-19 pandemic lead to an increase in academic misconduct in higher education?13
Unemployed graduate to the next Jack Ma? A counter-narrative to the entrepreneurship movement in higher education13
Theorising pedagogical dimensions of higher education leadership—a non-affirmative approach13
Curricular fit perspective on motivation in higher education13
Innovations in an institutionalised higher education system: the role of embedded agency13
Faculty perceptions of work-life balance: the role of marital/relationship and family status13
The politics of university rankings in China13
Erasmus students’ motivations in motion: understanding super-mobility in higher education13
The elite exclusion: stratified access and production during the Chinese higher education expansion13
Help me help myself: examining an electronic mental health self-monitoring system in college students12
Submission or subversion: survival and resilience of Chinese international research students in neoliberalised Australian universities12
Crises in international education, and government responses: a comparative analysis of racial discrimination and violence towards international students12
What are their thoughts about inclusion? Beliefs of faculty members about inclusive education12
“Does Chinese philosophy count as philosophy?”: decolonial awareness and practices in international English medium instruction programs12
Reconceptualising international academic mobility in the global knowledge system: towards a new research agenda12
Student internships and work placements: approaches to risk management in higher education12
China’s international higher education policies 2010–2019: multiple logics and HEI responses12
Student formation in higher education: a comparison and combination of Confucian xiushen (self-cultivation) and Bildung12
Taking issue with how the Work-integrated Learning discourse ascribes a dualistic meaning to graduate employability12
Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility12
Negative student emotions and educator skill in experiential education: a taxonomy of classroom activities12
Assessing knowledge of and attitudes towards plagiarism and ability to recognize plagiaristic writing among university students in Rwanda11
LGBT + academics’ and PhD students’ experiences of visibility in STEM: more than raising the rainbow flag11
Graduate employability as a professional proto-jurisdiction in higher education11
Digital ethnography in higher education teaching and learning—a methodological review11
The semantics of diversity in higher education: differences between the Global North and Global South11
International student mobility as “aspiration on the go”: stories from African students at a Chinese university11
Mapping the field of research on African higher education: a review of 6483 publications from 1980 to 201911
Origins, motives, and challenges in Western–Chinese research collaborations amid recent geopolitical tensions: findings from Swedish–Chinese research collaborations11
Whiteness as world-class education?: Internationalization as depicted by Western international branch campuses in China11
How academics manage individual differences to team teach in higher education: a sociocultural activity theory perspective10
Encouraging impacts of an Open Education Resource Degree Initiative on college students’ progress to degree10
Global pedigree and national imperative: Hong Kong universities’ response to China’s grand strategies10
The effect of performance-oriented funding in higher education: evidence from the staff recruitment budget in Italian higher education10
College integration and social class10
Employment and further study outcomes for care-experienced graduates in the UK10
Academic expectations among university students and staff: addressing the role of psychological contracts and social norms10
Too stupid for PhD? Doctoral impostor syndrome among Finnish PhD students10
The European university alliances—an examination of organizational potentials and perils10
Meeting at the margins: culturally affirming practices at HBCUs for underserved populations10
Experiential learning and the university’s host community: rapid growth, contested mission and policy challenge9
Transformation impossible: policy, evidence and change in South African higher education9
Narratives of ‘stuckness’ among North–South academic migrants in Thailand: interrogating normative logics and global power asymmetries of transnational academic migration9
The conundrums of formal and informal meritocracy: dealing with gender segregation in the academy9
Between decolonization and recolonization: investigating Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia as a case of global South-South student mobility9
Reported pedagogical practices of faculty in higher education in the UAE9
Thriving in the neoliberal academia without becoming its agent? Sociologising resilience with an early career academic and a mid-career researcher9
Universities confronting climate change: beyond sustainable development and solutionism9
Need satisfaction and achievement goals of university faculty: an international study of their interplay and relevance9
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education9
Institutional logic meets global imagining: Kazakhstan’s engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative9
A meta-synthesis on academic identity in the neoliberal context of academy9
Study progression and degree completion of autistic students in higher education: a longitudinal study9
Enhancing the recruitment of postgraduate researchers from diverse countries: managing the application process9
“Why I don’t want to be an academic anymore?” When academic identity contributes to academic career attrition9
Academics’ perceptions of what it means to be both a parent and an academic: perspectives from an English university9
Faculty research productivity at women’s universities through the lens of preference theory9
Mergers and missions: investigating consequences for system diversity8
Subjectivity as the site of struggle: students’ perspectives toward sino-foreign cooperation universities in the era of discursive conflicts8
Denying the accusation of plagiarism: power relations at play in dictating plagiarism as academic misconduct8
‘I just think it’s really awkward’: transitioning to higher education and the implications for student retention8
Whorephobia in Higher Education: a reflexive account of researching cis women’s experiences of stripping while at university8
The use of lectures: effective pedagogy or seeds scattered on the wind?8
Understanding how the university curriculum impacts student wellbeing: a qualitative study8
Determinants of the incidence of non-academic staff in European and US HEIs8
Exploring the effects of mobility and foreign nationality on internal career progression in universities8
Characterising feedback cultures in higher education: an analysis of strategy documents from 134 UK universities8
Authenticity work in higher education learning environments: a double-edged sword?8
Student movements and politics in Latin America: a historical reconceptualization8
Same storm, different boats: the impact of COVID-19 on Black students and academic staff in UK and US higher education8
Decolonising curriculum practice: developing the indigenous cultural capability of university graduates8
Higher education and the importance of values: evidence from the World Values Survey8
Academic leadership and university performance: do Russian universities improve when they are led by top researchers?8
Supporting thinking about thinking: examining the metacognition theory-practice gap in higher education8
Life at the “people’s universities”: organizational identification and commitment among regional comprehensive university faculty members in the USA8
Crisis and policy imaginaries: higher education reform during a pandemic7
To be or not to be a technical university: organisational categories as reference points in higher education7
Influence of entry pathway and equity group status on retention and the student experience in higher education7
Exploring collective identity of a group of teaching-oriented academics amid research discourse: a Chinese case7
“I’m not listening to my teacher, I’m listening to my computer”: online learning, disengagement, and the impact of COVID-19 on French university students7
The “LOOMING DISASTER” for higher education: how commercial rankers use social media to amplify and foster affect7
The contributions of study abroad to home countries: an agential perspective7
Generic and digital competences for employability — results of a Croatian national graduates survey7
Trust and incentives in academic research and the position of universities within innovation systems7
Constructing radical community: an ecological model for shifting from an EdD to a We-dD in online doctoral programs7
A cross-country configurational approach to international academic mobility: exploring mobility effects on academics’ career progression in EU countries7
A longitudinal examination of WeChat usage intensity, behavioral engagement, and cross-cultural adjustment among international students in China7
English and German academics’ perspectives on metrics in higher education: evaluating dimensions of fairness and organisational justice7
The institutionalization of rankings in higher education: continuities, interdependencies, engagement7
Assessing learning processes rather than outcomes: using critical incidents to explore student learning abroad7
Once highly productive, forever highly productive? Full professors’ research productivity from a longitudinal perspective7
Employability-related activities beyond the curriculum: how participation and impact vary across diverse student cohorts7
The role of brokers in cultivating an inter-institutional community around open educational resources in higher education6
An analysis of the UK’s Turing Scheme as a response to socio-economic and geo-political challenges6
‘The unofficial curriculum is where the real teaching takes place’: faculty experiences of decolonising the curriculum in Africa6
PhD first-generation and continuing generation students’ academic experience and strengths6
Does college level the playing field? Socioeconomic gaps in the earnings of similar graduates: evidence from South Korea6
Student mental health and dropout from higher education: an analysis of Australian administrative data6
International students’ linguistic transitions into disciplinary studies: a rhizomatic perspective6
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
Nested identities and identification in higher education institutions—the role of organizational and academic identities6
Renewing the Sydney undergraduate curriculum6
The performance effects of international study placements versus work placements6
Hyping the REF: promotional elements in impact submissions6
University autonomy under democratic backsliding: a case study of a plagiarism investigation against Serbian Minister of Finance (2014–2019)6
Hong Kong university teachers’ conceptions and articulation of teacher care: towards building a model of caring pedagogy6
Life at the academic coalface: validation of a holistic academic workload estimation tool6
Universities’ responses to crises: the influence of competition and reputation on tuition fees6
Market mechanisms' distortions of higher education: Punjabi international students in Canada6
Reconceptualizing student ratings of teaching to support quality discourse on student learning: a systems perspective6
Localised learning: mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas6
Government scholarships for international higher education: pathways for social change in Kazakhstan6
Translating rhetoric into reality: using the internationalization of humanities and social sciences in Chinese universities as the case6
Researching inequality in higher education: tracing changing conceptions and approaches over fifty years6
“There is a hell and heaven difference among faculties who are from quota and those who are non-quota”: under the veneer of the “New Middle Class” production of Indian public universities6
What knowledge counts—boundaries of knowledge in cross-institutional curricula in higher education5
Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education5
The social class gap in bachelor’s and master’s completion: university dropout in times of educational expansion5
Policy decoupling in strategic response to the double world-class project: evidence from elite universities in China5
Hiding the unwanted: A University-level campus carry policy5
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries5
Different profiles for the assessment of student theses in teacher education5
Power-conscious ecosystems: understanding how power dynamics in US doctoral advising shape students’ experiences5
Why do women opt for gender-atypical fields of study? The increasing role of income motivation over time5
Beyond the high participation systems model: illuminating the heterogeneous patterns of higher education expansion and skills diffusion across 27 countries5
Reversing the colonial warp in education: a decolonial encounter with Muhammad Iqbal5
Academic reading as a social practice in higher education5
The homogenizing and diversifying effects of migration policy in the internationalization of higher education5
The role of first-year seminars and first-year college achievement for undeclared students5
The impact of academic disciplines on a constructively aligned internationalised curriculum5
Making sense of change in higher education research: exploring the intersection of science and policy5
Situated transdisciplinarity in university policy: lessons for its institutionalization5
Questioning private good driven university-community engagement: a Tanzanian case study5
When context meets knowledge in university professional education: organizational factors influencing coherence in teaching and social work5
Lights, camera, active! appreciation of active learning predicts positive attitudes towards lecture capture5
Building a framework of a supportive pedagogical culture for teaching and pedagogical development in higher education5
Palestinian students in an Israeli-Hebrew University: obstacles and challenges5
Challenges and developments in university research in Cambodia: a case study of two universities5
Measuring mentoring in employability-oriented higher education programs: scale development and validation5
Differentiated experiences of financial precarity and lived precariousness among international students in Australia5
Connecting academics’ disciplinary knowledge to their professional development as university teachers: a conceptual analysis of teacher expertise and teacher knowledge4
The development and pilot of the university student embeddedness (USE) scale for student retention within universities: validation with an Australian student sample4
Higher education teachers’ professional well-being in the rise of managerialism: insights from China4
Age as a merit in admission decisions for higher education4
Does geodemographic segmentation influence higher education opportunity? A spatial investigation of enrollment at one Taiwanese university4
Is it transformation or reform? The lived experiences of African women doctoral students in STEM disciplines in South African universities4
Foreign early career academics’ well-being profiles at workplaces in Japan: a person-oriented approach4
Reconciling multiple institutional logics for ambidexterity: human resource management reforms in Chinese public universities4
What motivates students’ decisions on programmes to pursue at university level: the role of information and knowledge4
A temporal gaze on work-life balance in academia: Time, gender, and transitional episodes in Bangladeshi women faculty narratives4
Building a case for communities of practice as drivers of innovative teaching in English medium instruction context4
Global, Nordic, or institutional visions? An investigation into how Nordic universities are adapting to the SDGs4
Kaleidoscopic collegiality and the use of performance research metrics. The case of French universities4
The origins and evolution of academic drift at the California State University, 1960–20054
“I’m not the only victim…” student perceptions of exploitative supervision relation in doctoral degree4
Faculty Engagement in University–Industry Linkages in Turkey and the United States: National Technocenters versus Ecosystems of Knowledge4
Paired learning duration and character strengths use as predictors of learning satisfaction: a dyadic longitudinal study among Chevruta students in Yeshivas4
The role of the university and institutional support for climate change education interventions at two African universities4
Has the public good of higher education been emptied out? The case of England4
How does obtaining a permanent employment contract affect the job satisfaction of doctoral graduates inside and outside academia?4
‘I can’t feel like an academic’: gender inequality in Saudi Arabia’s Higher Education system4
The interrupted journey: factors and processes related to withdrawal, re-enrolment and dropout from doctoral education4
Strategies to boost international student success in US higher education: an analysis of direct and indirect effects of learning communities4
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