Higher Education

Papers
(The TQCC of Higher Education is 8. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education161
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America104
Dynamics of English in European higher education92
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage90
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis80
Strategies to boost international student success in US higher education: an analysis of direct and indirect effects of learning communities73
University autonomy under democratic backsliding: a case study of a plagiarism investigation against Serbian Minister of Finance (2014–2019)69
Higher education and public good: the case of China65
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?55
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice54
Moving beyond bureaucratic grey zones. Managing sexual harassment in Indian higher education46
Mastering humanitarianism? A survey of postgraduate humanitarian courses44
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences43
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon43
Troubling/trouble in the academy: posttraumatic stress disorder and sexual abuse research42
Situated transdisciplinarity in university policy: lessons for its institutionalization41
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza40
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China40
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 data39
Dropout intent of students with disabilities39
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities37
The development and pilot of the university student embeddedness (USE) scale for student retention within universities: validation with an Australian student sample35
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education34
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations34
In search for employability strategy: emergent approaches by higher education institutions32
Localised learning: mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas31
Going local: the time and place of higher education institutions31
Exploring master’s students’ perceptions of mentoring support for reflection in a one-year employability-oriented mentoring program30
LGBT + academics’ and PhD students’ experiences of visibility in STEM: more than raising the rainbow flag29
Higher education retention in Ireland and Scotland: the role of admissions policies29
Need satisfaction and achievement goals of university faculty: an international study of their interplay and relevance28
Assessing educational inequality in high participation systems: the role of educational expansion and skills diffusion in comparative perspective28
The potential of tutoring in higher education: students’ preferences, consumption, and the role of information27
Unpacking the gendered interactions and relationship among students in male-dominated programs: perspectives of female students in mechanical engineering in Ghana27
The paradox of technology in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of safety and security students in a Dutch university27
Correction to: Keeping it regional: pseudo‑internationalisation of Slovak political science27
Navigating gender identity development: composite narratives of Chinese women international students studying in the U.S.26
Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility26
Correction to: Student formation in higher education: a comparison and combination of Confucian xiushen (self-cultivation) and Bildung26
Student or customer? Mainland Chinese students’ self-identification and reflexivity in Hong Kong’s self-financed taught postgraduate programmes26
The black box of faculty writing in the academy26
Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change25
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries24
Peer review in Chinese national journals: historical development and challenges24
The European Universities initiative: between status hierarchies and inclusion24
Revisiting the concept of highly skilled professionals: an analysis of support staff in Finnish universities24
Epistemic injustice and neo-racism: how Zhihu users portray ‘Chinese doctoral supervisors’ working in Western academia23
Reimagining the illusio of meritocracy: affective and reflexive reconfigurations in rural students’ transition to elite universities23
Surfacing the conceptualizations of international PhD student agency: the necessity for an integrative research agenda23
To be or not to be a technical university: organisational categories as reference points in higher education23
Measuring mentoring in employability-oriented higher education programs: scale development and validation23
Global, Nordic, or institutional visions? An investigation into how Nordic universities are adapting to the SDGs22
Rethinking authentic assessment: work, well-being, and society22
COVID-19 experience and student wellbeing amongst publicly funded higher education students in South Africa after the first, and second waves22
Do academic disciplines matter? An analysis of organizational responses to the accreditation of graduate programs by field of study and sector21
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
The ever-growing private higher education, critical yet underexamined21
Diverse class participation formats as a heutagogical approach to integrate student voice in higher education21
Towards decolonising higher education: a case study from a UK university20
The post-racial myth: rethinking Chinese university students’ experiences and perceptions of racialised microaggressions in the UK20
Metrics of student dissatisfaction and disagreement: longitudinal explorations of a national survey instrument20
Effect of active learning versus traditional lecturing on the learning achievement of college students in humanities and social sciences: a meta-analysis20
The educational purposes of higher education: changing discussions of the societal outcomes of educating students20
Crisis and policy imaginaries: higher education reform during a pandemic20
“He who knows one, knows none”: Pluralism in global higher education development19
Organizational factors affecting higher education collaboration networks: evidence from Europe19
Alone together: experiences of Palestinian East Jerusalem students studying at an Israeli university19
Intercultural adjustment of internationally mobile academics working in Thailand19
Higher education teachers’ professional well-being in the rise of managerialism: insights from China19
Has the public good of higher education been emptied out? The case of England19
Employers’ conceptions of quality and value in higher education18
Doctoral examiners’ narratives of learning to examine in the PhD viva: a call for support18
Their wellbeing affects our wellbeing: student perspectives of lecturer wellbeing and its consequences for student wellbeing18
Knowledge power or diplomacy? University alliances and the Belt and Road Initiative18
Programming education across disciplines: a nationwide study of Danish higher education18
Renewing the Sydney undergraduate curriculum18
Caught between academic calling and academic pressure? Working time characteristics, time pressure and time sovereignty predict PhD students’ research engagement17
Counteroffers for faculty at research universities: who gets them, who doesn’t, and what factors produce them?17
Do international classes pay off? A cost-benefit analysis of the internationalisation of higher education in Flanders17
Financing higher education in Canada: a study in fiscal federalism17
Correction to: Course leaders’ conceptions of the purpose of interdisciplinary education16
Negotiating meritocracy and gender equality across organisational spaces: the case of a tenure track system16
Challenges and strategies for the internationalization of higher education in low-income East African countries16
The shifting happiness return to higher education over 50 years: causal mediation analysis of college completion, economic benefits, and happiness in the USA15
Motivations for pursuing a master’s degree and changing expectations of its returns: mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong15
Study-to-work transitions of students-turned-migrants: ongoing struggles of mainland Chinese graduates in Hong Kong15
A systematic review of student agency in international higher education15
Adapting doctoral education to an evolving knowledge landscape: insights from Portugal15
Climbing the ivory tower: agency, reflexivity and the career pathways of care-experienced academics in higher education14
Giving substance to an idea14
A meta-synthesis on academic identity in the neoliberal context of academy14
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
Implications of losing a need- and merit-based scholarship on the educational trajectory: a curricular analytics approach14
Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education14
Brexit metaphors in UK higher education: loss, agency and interconnectedness14
Shaping choices: factors influencing Vietnamese high school students’ transition to higher education13
Uncertain futures: climate change and international student mobility in Europe13
A lexical comparison of the public good of higher education: concepts, contextual underpinnings and implications, focusing on Japanese, Chinese and English13
Diverse socio-economic backgrounds and international pathways: European mobility opportunities through a scholarship programme for Mexican doctoral students13
Too stupid for PhD? Doctoral impostor syndrome among Finnish PhD students13
Transformational accounts of students’ undergraduate education are evoked by their engagement with knowledge13
Subjectivity as the site of struggle: students’ perspectives toward sino-foreign cooperation universities in the era of discursive conflicts13
Erasmus students’ motivations in motion: understanding super-mobility in higher education12
Unravelling gender and ethnic bias in higher education: students’ experiences in access to ocean science education and career opportunities in Kenya12
How the rise of the political right threatens higher education12
Igniting doctoral students’ work engagement: the roles of managing up atmosphere and work passion within their research groups from a job demands-resources perspective12
Waiting for the revolution: how higher education institutions initially responded to ChatGPT12
Higher education regionalization in East and Southeast Asia: between decolonization, recolonization, and self-colonization12
Correction to: Mapping the field of research on African higher education: a review of 6483 publications from 1980 to 201912
Can service scholarships boost academic performance? Causal evidence from China’s Free Teacher Education scholarship12
Student satisfaction and interaction in higher education12
The interplay of time management and academic self-efficacy and their influence on pre-service teachers’ commitment in the first year in higher education12
Representation of the academic workforce in English university strategy-making: an exploratory study11
Student perceptions of college—how to move beyond transactional approaches to higher education11
Deciphering China’s higher education outreach paradigm in Southeast Asia: can a neo-tributary perspective work?11
Student formation in higher education: a comparison and combination of Confucian xiushen (self-cultivation) and Bildung11
Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘The public good of higher education: A comparative study’11
Food insecurity among international students’ studying in Melbourne, Australia: experiences and impacts11
Putting a stake in the ground: the development of a Professional Ethical Framework for Australian Academics11
Portuguese higher education students’ adaptation to online teaching and learning in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: personal and contextual factors11
Developing the PhD thesis project in relation to individual contexts: a multiple case study of five doctoral researchers11
Women go to college: Honour, risk, safety?11
Emotional intercultural competence in contexts: an ethnographic study of Chinese international postgraduate students11
‘Whiteness is an immoral choice’: the idea of the University at the intersection of crises11
Higher education expansion and women’s access to higher education and the labor market: quasi-experimental evidence from Turkey11
Unveiling the evolving educational inequality from upper secondary to higher education in South Korea: from effectively maintained inequality theory perspective10
Implementation of ambiguous governance instruments in higher education10
Can you do all in one professional label? Complementarity, substitution, and independence effects in academic life10
Capitals, capabilities, and the conversion of commodities: the case of neurodivergent graduates’ transitions to the labour market10
Analyzing the influence of regional security on international student flows in the MENA region: a social network approach10
Language and the cocurriculum: the need for decolonizing out-of-classroom experiences10
‘Deeply and deliciously unsettled’? Mis-reading discourses of equity in the early stages of Covid1910
Correction to: Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries10
Research agendas and organizational commitment among academics in mainland China10
Assistance at the starting line: rural education competition and rural student development10
The portrayal of the future as legitimacy construction: discursive strategies in highly ranked business schools’ external communication10
Australian universities’ approaches to transnational higher education in China: a Bourdieusian multiple correspondence analysis10
Higher education and public good in England10
Space and scale in higher education: the glonacal agency heuristic revisited10
Reconciling multiple institutional logics for ambidexterity: human resource management reforms in Chinese public universities10
An analysis of the UK’s Turing Scheme as a response to socio-economic and geo-political challenges10
Dropout of Dalit women in collegiate education: An exploratory study of rural India10
Exposing the chameleon-like nature of racism: a multidisciplinary look at critical race theory in higher education10
Did free tuition change the choices of students applying for university admission?9
Does geodemographic segmentation influence higher education opportunity? A spatial investigation of enrollment at one Taiwanese university9
Do mothers get lost at the postdoc stage? Event history analysis of psychologists at German universities (1980–2019)9
Language and communication in international students’ adaptation: a bibliometric and content analysis review9
A conceptual and methodological framework for clustering and correlation analyses of the approaches and study skills inventory for students9
Flashbacks of the bad old days? The bureaucratization of Czech universities in the post-communist era9
Chain migration and student mobility in Sicily9
Student affairs work under neoliberalism and within the global class war9
A scaffolding model for designing and implementing work-integrated learning experiences based on the analysis of the university and company's arrangements9
Students in the global higher education market: identities, pathways, and political agency9
“Why I was born a woman”: Female students’ challenges in Afghanistan higher education under the Taliban rule9
Abusive comments in student evaluations of courses and teaching: the attacks women and marginalised academics endure9
Graduate employability as a professional proto-jurisdiction in higher education9
Institution level awarding gap metrics for identifying educational inequity: useful tools or reductive distractions?9
Conflicting language ideologies and practices of English medium instruction policy for international students in China’s higher education9
The role of geopolitics of knowledge in the mediatization of global university rankings9
The (In)visibilisation of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in higher education equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in England and Wales9
Exploring Chinese doctoral graduates’ career choices and gender differences through the lens of rational choice theory9
University students’ concepts of nation in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau: Patriotism or nationalism?9
International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges8
I can be a “normal” student: the role of lecture capture in supporting disabled and neurodivergent students’ participation in higher education8
The European university alliances—an examination of organizational potentials and perils8
Language inequalities and business school accreditation: voices from non-English-speaking countries8
The recontextualisation and cultural compatibility of student-centred education: the case of the United Arab Emirates8
Exploring perceptions of public good(s), government, and global contributions in Japanese higher education: a phenomenographic approach8
The contributions of study abroad to home countries: an agential perspective8
The geographies of segregation in French universities from 2006 to 20168
Pluralist internationalism, global justice and international student recruitment in the UK8
Do students need more information to leave the beaten paths? The impact of a counseling intervention on high school students’ choice of major8
Active methodologies in Higher Education: reasons to use them (or not) from the voices of faculty teaching staff8
From access to inclusion: a call for a cultural shift in higher education8
Quantifying the mover’s advantage: transatlantic migration, employment prestige, and scientific performance8
‘I just think it’s really awkward’: transitioning to higher education and the implications for student retention8
Women STEM faculty’s intentions to engage in entrepreneurship education programs8
Conceptualizing student voice in teacher-student curriculum partnerships within Iran’s higher education8
Contextualizing and hybridizing academic identity formation: an analysis of international returnees and locally trained scholars in China8
Gender-biased evaluation or actual differences? Fairness in the evaluation of faculty teaching8
What impedes and enables flourishing among early career academics?8
Promoting student empowerment in student partnership-student representation integrations8
Predicting university enrollment choices in Italy: a machine learning analysis of high school background and gender differences8
Performing excellence and gender balance in higher education8
From margin to center: positioning centers for teaching and learning as strategic partners in Israeli higher education8
Epistemic agency: a link between assessment, knowledge and society8
Opening the black box of student government in authoritarian contexts: institutional work and intra-organisational conflicts in the Students’ Guild at Makerere University, Uganda8
Enhancing graduates’ enterprise capabilities through work-integrated learning in co-working spaces8
Graduates’ responses to student loan debt in England: “sort of like an acceptance, but with anxiety attached”8
Investigating the dynamics of managerial dialogue in HE merger reform8
Institutional constraints to higher education datafication: an English case study8
Planning for a delay? Horizontal stratification in higher education and the intended age at marriage8
Neurodivergent (Autism and ADHD) student experiences of access and inclusion in higher education: an ecological systems theory perspective8
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