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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education141
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 data89
University autonomy under democratic backsliding: a case study of a plagiarism investigation against Serbian Minister of Finance (2014–2019)87
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education86
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America77
Dynamics of English in European higher education66
Strategies to boost international student success in US higher education: an analysis of direct and indirect effects of learning communities59
Higher education and public good: the case of China56
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?53
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice51
Moving beyond bureaucratic grey zones. Managing sexual harassment in Indian higher education49
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis46
The development and pilot of the university student embeddedness (USE) scale for student retention within universities: validation with an Australian student sample42
Mastering humanitarianism? A survey of postgraduate humanitarian courses41
Troubling/trouble in the academy: posttraumatic stress disorder and sexual abuse research39
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon39
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences39
Situated transdisciplinarity in university policy: lessons for its institutionalization38
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities36
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China35
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations34
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza32
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage32
Dropout intent of students with disabilities31
Assessing educational inequality in high participation systems: the role of educational expansion and skills diffusion in comparative perspective31
In search for employability strategy: emergent approaches by higher education institutions30
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries29
Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change29
Going local: the time and place of higher education institutions29
To be or not to be a technical university: organisational categories as reference points in higher education28
Localised learning: mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas27
Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility27
The European Universities initiative: between status hierarchies and inclusion27
Unpacking the gendered interactions and relationship among students in male-dominated programs: perspectives of female students in mechanical engineering in Ghana25
Measuring mentoring in employability-oriented higher education programs: scale development and validation25
The potential of tutoring in higher education: students’ preferences, consumption, and the role of information25
Revisiting the concept of highly skilled professionals: an analysis of support staff in Finnish universities25
The paradox of technology in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of safety and security students in a Dutch university25
Correction to: Keeping it regional: pseudo‑internationalisation of Slovak political science25
Need satisfaction and achievement goals of university faculty: an international study of their interplay and relevance24
Higher education retention in Ireland and Scotland: the role of admissions policies24
The black box of faculty writing in the academy24
Correction to: Student formation in higher education: a comparison and combination of Confucian xiushen (self-cultivation) and Bildung24
Epistemic injustice and neo-racism: how Zhihu users portray ‘Chinese doctoral supervisors’ working in Western academia24
Surfacing the conceptualizations of international PhD student agency: the necessity for an integrative research agenda23
Student or customer? Mainland Chinese students’ self-identification and reflexivity in Hong Kong’s self-financed taught postgraduate programmes23
Navigating gender identity development: composite narratives of Chinese women international students studying in the U.S.23
LGBT + academics’ and PhD students’ experiences of visibility in STEM: more than raising the rainbow flag22
Effect of active learning versus traditional lecturing on the learning achievement of college students in humanities and social sciences: a meta-analysis22
Rethinking authentic assessment: work, well-being, and society22
Diverse class participation formats as a heutagogical approach to integrate student voice in higher education22
Peer review in Chinese national journals: historical development and challenges22
Intercultural adjustment of internationally mobile academics working in Thailand21
Tokenized but remaining: how do international academics make sense of their decision to remain in Japanese universities?21
Higher education post-apartheid: insights from South Africa21
Higher education teachers’ professional well-being in the rise of managerialism: insights from China21
Global, Nordic, or institutional visions? An investigation into how Nordic universities are adapting to the SDGs20
Crisis and policy imaginaries: higher education reform during a pandemic20
The educational purposes of higher education: changing discussions of the societal outcomes of educating students20
Has the public good of higher education been emptied out? The case of England20
The post-racial myth: rethinking Chinese university students’ experiences and perceptions of racialised microaggressions in the UK19
Metrics of student dissatisfaction and disagreement: longitudinal explorations of a national survey instrument19
COVID-19 experience and student wellbeing amongst publicly funded higher education students in South Africa after the first, and second waves19
The ever-growing private higher education, critical yet underexamined19
Do academic disciplines matter? An analysis of organizational responses to the accreditation of graduate programs by field of study and sector19
“He who knows one, knows none”: Pluralism in global higher education development18
Organizational factors affecting higher education collaboration networks: evidence from Europe18
Caught between academic calling and academic pressure? Working time characteristics, time pressure and time sovereignty predict PhD students’ research engagement18
Alone together: experiences of Palestinian East Jerusalem students studying at an Israeli university18
Employers’ conceptions of quality and value in higher education18
Towards decolonising higher education: a case study from a UK university18
Their wellbeing affects our wellbeing: student perspectives of lecturer wellbeing and its consequences for student wellbeing17
Counteroffers for faculty at research universities: who gets them, who doesn’t, and what factors produce them?17
Adapting doctoral education to an evolving knowledge landscape: insights from Portugal17
Doctoral examiners’ narratives of learning to examine in the PhD viva: a call for support17
Programming education across disciplines: a nationwide study of Danish higher education17
Financing higher education in Canada: a study in fiscal federalism17
Negotiating meritocracy and gender equality across organisational spaces: the case of a tenure track system17
Motivations for pursuing a master’s degree and changing expectations of its returns: mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong17
Study-to-work transitions of students-turned-migrants: ongoing struggles of mainland Chinese graduates in Hong Kong17
Renewing the Sydney undergraduate curriculum16
Challenges and strategies for the internationalization of higher education in low-income East African countries15
Do international classes pay off? A cost-benefit analysis of the internationalisation of higher education in Flanders15
Knowledge power or diplomacy? University alliances and the Belt and Road Initiative15
A systematic review of student agency in international higher education15
Mastering Fortuna: higher education as an international relations strategy for diplomacy, development, and sustainability14
Academics on the frontline. To what extent does global solidarity pervade the academic world? The case of ACADEMICS4GAZA14
Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education14
Giving substance to an idea14
Brexit metaphors in UK higher education: loss, agency and interconnectedness14
Diverse socio-economic backgrounds and international pathways: European mobility opportunities through a scholarship programme for Mexican doctoral students14
Transformational accounts of students’ undergraduate education are evoked by their engagement with knowledge13
Implications of losing a need- and merit-based scholarship on the educational trajectory: a curricular analytics approach13
A lexical comparison of the public good of higher education: concepts, contextual underpinnings and implications, focusing on Japanese, Chinese and English13
Student governments in Chinese higher education: reflection on college students’ and student cadres’ political trust13
Erasmus students’ motivations in motion: understanding super-mobility in higher education13
Climbing the ivory tower: agency, reflexivity and the career pathways of care-experienced academics in higher education13
Shaping choices: factors influencing Vietnamese high school students’ transition to higher education13
Uncertain futures: climate change and international student mobility in Europe12
Subjectivity as the site of struggle: students’ perspectives toward sino-foreign cooperation universities in the era of discursive conflicts12
Challenging career models in higher education: the influence of internal career scripts and the rise of the “concertina” career12
Waiting for the revolution: how higher education institutions initially responded to ChatGPT12
Can service scholarships boost academic performance? Causal evidence from China’s Free Teacher Education scholarship12
Inter-relating factors influencing the quality of stay of Chinese-speaking students in a French University12
Student satisfaction and interaction in higher education12
Student formation in higher education: a comparison and combination of Confucian xiushen (self-cultivation) and Bildung12
A meta-synthesis on academic identity in the neoliberal context of academy12
Too stupid for PhD? Doctoral impostor syndrome among Finnish PhD students12
Higher education expansion and women’s access to higher education and the labor market: quasi-experimental evidence from Turkey12
Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘The public good of higher education: A comparative study’12
Unravelling gender and ethnic bias in higher education: students’ experiences in access to ocean science education and career opportunities in Kenya11
How the rise of the political right threatens higher education11
‘Deeply and deliciously unsettled’? Mis-reading discourses of equity in the early stages of Covid1911
Correction to: Mapping the field of research on African higher education: a review of 6483 publications from 1980 to 201911
Higher education regionalization in East and Southeast Asia: between decolonization, recolonization, and self-colonization11
An analysis of the UK’s Turing Scheme as a response to socio-economic and geo-political challenges11
Developing the PhD thesis project in relation to individual contexts: a multiple case study of five doctoral researchers11
Unveiling the evolving educational inequality from upper secondary to higher education in South Korea: from effectively maintained inequality theory perspective11
The interplay of time management and academic self-efficacy and their influence on pre-service teachers’ commitment in the first year in higher education11
Student perceptions of college—how to move beyond transactional approaches to higher education10
Space and scale in higher education: the glonacal agency heuristic revisited10
Analyzing the influence of regional security on international student flows in the MENA region: a social network approach10
Exposing the chameleon-like nature of racism: a multidisciplinary look at critical race theory in higher education10
Representation of the academic workforce in English university strategy-making: an exploratory study10
Portuguese higher education students’ adaptation to online teaching and learning in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: personal and contextual factors10
The effect of performance-oriented funding in higher education: evidence from the staff recruitment budget in Italian higher education10
Emotional intercultural competence in contexts: an ethnographic study of Chinese international postgraduate students10
Implementation of ambiguous governance instruments in higher education10
Food insecurity among international students’ studying in Melbourne, Australia: experiences and impacts10
‘Whiteness is an immoral choice’: the idea of the University at the intersection of crises10
Putting a stake in the ground: the development of a Professional Ethical Framework for Australian Academics10
Deciphering China’s higher education outreach paradigm in Southeast Asia: can a neo-tributary perspective work?10
Higher education and public good in England10
Women go to college: Honour, risk, safety?10
The portrayal of the future as legitimacy construction: discursive strategies in highly ranked business schools’ external communication9
Reconciling multiple institutional logics for ambidexterity: human resource management reforms in Chinese public universities9
Language and the cocurriculum: the need for decolonizing out-of-classroom experiences9
University students’ concepts of nation in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau: Patriotism or nationalism?9
Did free tuition change the choices of students applying for university admission?9
Can you do all in one professional label? Complementarity, substitution, and independence effects in academic life9
Capitals, capabilities, and the conversion of commodities: the case of neurodivergent graduates’ transitions to the labour market9
Research agendas and organizational commitment among academics in mainland China9
Educational success in a new democracy: modeling university student persistence and completion in Kosovo9
A conceptual and methodological framework for clustering and correlation analyses of the approaches and study skills inventory for students9
Assistance at the starting line: rural education competition and rural student development9
Correction to: Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries9
Australian universities’ approaches to transnational higher education in China: a Bourdieusian multiple correspondence analysis9
The role of geopolitics of knowledge in the mediatization of global university rankings9
Student affairs work under neoliberalism and within the global class war9
Conflicting language ideologies and practices of English medium instruction policy for international students in China’s higher education9
Students in the global higher education market: identities, pathways, and political agency8
Active methodologies in Higher Education: reasons to use them (or not) from the voices of faculty teaching staff8
Epistemic agency: a link between assessment, knowledge and society8
Women STEM faculty’s intentions to engage in entrepreneurship education programs8
Chain migration and student mobility in Sicily8
Does geodemographic segmentation influence higher education opportunity? A spatial investigation of enrollment at one Taiwanese university8
Graduate employability as a professional proto-jurisdiction in higher education8
Exploring Chinese doctoral graduates’ career choices and gender differences through the lens of rational choice theory8
Do mothers get lost at the postdoc stage? Event history analysis of psychologists at German universities (1980–2019)8
‘I just think it’s really awkward’: transitioning to higher education and the implications for student retention8
The recontextualisation and cultural compatibility of student-centred education: the case of the United Arab Emirates8
Opening the black box of student government in authoritarian contexts: institutional work and intra-organisational conflicts in the Students’ Guild at Makerere University, Uganda8
Language and communication in international students’ adaptation: a bibliometric and content analysis review8
Flashbacks of the bad old days? The bureaucratization of Czech universities in the post-communist era8
Abusive comments in student evaluations of courses and teaching: the attacks women and marginalised academics endure8
Performing excellence and gender balance in higher education8
Gender-biased evaluation or actual differences? Fairness in the evaluation of faculty teaching8
From margin to center: positioning centers for teaching and learning as strategic partners in Israeli higher education8
Language inequalities and business school accreditation: voices from non-English-speaking countries8
International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges8
Institution level awarding gap metrics for identifying educational inequity: useful tools or reductive distractions?8
A scaffolding model for designing and implementing work-integrated learning experiences based on the analysis of the university and company's arrangements8
The (In)visibilisation of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in higher education equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in England and Wales8
Graduates’ responses to student loan debt in England: “sort of like an acceptance, but with anxiety attached”7
What impedes and enables flourishing among early career academics?7
Higher education and the flipped classroom approach: efficacy for students with a history of learning disabilities7
Contextualizing and hybridizing academic identity formation: an analysis of international returnees and locally trained scholars in China7
From access to inclusion: a call for a cultural shift in higher education7
Pluralist internationalism, global justice and international student recruitment in the UK7
Do students need more information to leave the beaten paths? The impact of a counseling intervention on high school students’ choice of major7
Institutional constraints to higher education datafication: an English case study7
Market mechanisms' distortions of higher education: Punjabi international students in Canada7
The contributions of study abroad to home countries: an agential perspective7
Neurodivergent (Autism and ADHD) student experiences of access and inclusion in higher education: an ecological systems theory perspective7
Enhancing graduates’ enterprise capabilities through work-integrated learning in co-working spaces7
I can be a “normal” student: the role of lecture capture in supporting disabled and neurodivergent students’ participation in higher education7
Conceptualizing student voice in teacher-student curriculum partnerships within Iran’s higher education7
Planning for a delay? Horizontal stratification in higher education and the intended age at marriage7
Investigating the dynamics of managerial dialogue in HE merger reform7
Understanding the complexity of centers for teaching and learning: introducing a four-dimensional model7
Too much information: exploring technology-mediated abuse in higher education online learning and teaching spaces resulting from COVID-19 and emergency remote education7
Predicting university enrollment choices in Italy: a machine learning analysis of high school background and gender differences7
The European university alliances—an examination of organizational potentials and perils7
Quantifying the mover’s advantage: transatlantic migration, employment prestige, and scientific performance7
Promoting student empowerment in student partnership-student representation integrations7
Exploring perceptions of public good(s), government, and global contributions in Japanese higher education: a phenomenographic approach7
Keeping it regional: pseudo-internationalisation of Slovak political science6
Too rigid, too big, and too slow: institutional readiness to protect and support faculty from technology facilitated violence and abuse6
Determinants of the incidence of non-academic staff in European and US HEIs6
Universities before their time6
A high bar may benefit weak students6
Assessing knowledge of and attitudes towards plagiarism and ability to recognize plagiaristic writing among university students in Rwanda6
Agency and cruel optimism in the care obfuscations of UK-based academic mothers6
Reconceptualising fair access to highly academically selective universities6
Making the world a better place? English higher education and global public good6
Perceptions of entrepreneurial universities in China: a triangulated analysis6
The emergence of university rankings: a historical‑sociological account6
Iranian faculty members’ metaphors of the internationalization of medical sciences education6
“Why are we learning this?!” — Investigating students’ subjective study values across different disciplines6
Experiential learning and the university’s host community: rapid growth, contested mission and policy challenge6
Untangling the dominant culture in China’s elite universities6
Higher education system governance trend in Ethiopia: towards a hybrid model6
Characterising multiple trajectories towards the reflexive PhD project within a neoliberalist landscape6
‘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 England6
Overcoming the student representation-student partnership dichotomy: toward a political conception of the student voice6
Can standardized testing be used to promote equity in university admissions? A South African case study6
Rethinking employability: how students build on interest in a subject to plan a career6
Internationalization of Portuguese Academia: the impact on academic engagement and collaboration with society6
The social class gap in bachelor’s and master’s completion: university dropout in times of educational expansion6
Human capital and socialism builders: a happy marriage? Analysing the construction of ‘high-level talent’ in Chinese higher education policy6
‘Playing the same game differently’: constituting academic identities in four disciplines5
Black data: higher education, datafication, and the Black student body5
Industrial doctorates for regional development: the case of Le Marche Region5
Negative student emotions and educator skill in experiential education: a taxonomy of classroom activities5
International student mobility as “aspiration on the go”: stories from African students at a Chinese university5
Between decolonization and recolonization: investigating Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia as a case of global South-South student mobility5
Narratives of ‘delayed success’: a life course perspective on understanding Vietnamese international students’ decisions to drop out of PhD programmes5
Does college level the playing field? Socioeconomic gaps in the earnings of similar graduates: evidence from South Korea5
Concept of research among master’s students in Hong Kong5
Co-creation in higher education: a conceptual systematic review5
Conflict between academic staff and non-teaching staff in Nigerian Universities: causes and consequences5
Costs and benefits of a formal academic qualification beyond the PhD5
Appreciating dyslexic thinking in qualitative research: reflections and recommendations for culturally competent, neuro-inclusive academia5
Hyping the REF: promotional elements in impact submissions5
Academic anomie: implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education5
Foreign early career academics’ well-being profiles at workplaces in Japan: a person-oriented approach5
After Trow—mass higher education to high participation systems5
Making sense of experiential education in Canada: the four lenses of faculty sensemaking5
Accelerated life in academic capitalism: PhD student’s time experience in project work5
Emerging principles for the allocation of academic work in universities5
A comparative study of university students’ ‘English as medium of instruction’ experiences in international faculty-led classrooms in Taiwan and Thailand5
Scientific collaboration formation: network mechanisms, bonding social capital, and particularized trust in US-China collaboration on COVID-19-related research5
What is university success? Graduates with disabilities define it5
When the first degree isn’t enough—rational choice and social inequality in graduate enrollment in Germany5
Differentiated experiences of financial precarity and lived precariousness among international students in Australia5
Chinese university students’ intention to study abroad in times of Covid-19: the important role of student background characteristics5
“I’m not the only victim…” student perceptions of exploitative supervision relation in doctoral degree5
Translating rhetoric into reality: using the internationalization of humanities and social sciences in Chinese universities as the case5
Preliminary evidence of key factors in successful flipping: predicting positive student experiences in flipped classrooms5
Using communities of practice to investigate work-integrated learning in engineering education: a grounded theory approach5
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