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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration423
Higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals133
This fast car can move faster: a review of PLS-SEM application in higher education research108
The ‘internationalisation’, or ‘Englishisation’, of higher education in East Asia86
Students’ motivation and engagement in higher education: the importance of attitude to online learning84
What actually works to enhance graduate employability? The relative value of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular learning and paid work82
Higher education contributing to local, national, and global development: new empirical and conceptual insights62
Portuguese higher education students’ adaptation to online teaching and learning in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: personal and contextual factors61
Neurodiversity in higher education: a narrative synthesis55
Telework in academia: associations with health and well-being among staff52
The future of value in digitalised higher education: why data privacy should not be our biggest concern50
Sustainable development goals and higher education: leaving many behind49
The super-disadvantaged in higher education: barriers to access for refugee background students in England46
Returnee faculty responses to internationalizing “academic ecology” for creating world-class universities in China’ elite universities46
Mental health of Malaysian university students: UK comparison, and relationship between negative mental health attitudes, self-compassion, and resilience44
Predicting key educational outcomes in academic trajectories: a machine-learning approach43
The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach42
Conceptualizing the discourse of student mobility between “periphery” and “semi-periphery”: the case of Africa and China34
The leaky pipeline in research grant peer review and funding decisions: challenges and future directions33
Gig qualifications for the gig economy: micro-credentials and the ‘hungry mile’33
International student mobility and labour market outcomes: an investigation of the role of level of study, type of mobility, and international prestige hierarchies32
Reconceptualising employability of returnees: what really matters and strategic navigating approaches32
Discipline-specific feedback literacies: A framework for curriculum design31
The impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK for doctoral and early career researchers31
Winners and losers in US-China scientific research collaborations31
Whiteness as futurity and globalization of higher education30
‘All things are in flux’: China in global science30
A path for ranking success: what does the expanded indicator-set of international university rankings suggest?27
What perspectives underlie ‘researcher identity’? A review of two decades of empirical studies27
Rethinking authentic assessment: work, well-being, and society27
The development of multicultural effectiveness in international student mobility25
University students’ epistemic profiles, conceptions of learning, and academic performance25
State formation and higher education (HE) policy: An analytical review of policy shifts and the internationalization of higher education (IHE) in China between 1949 and 201925
Inward international students in China and their contributions to global common goods24
The expansion of doctoral education and the changing nature and purpose of the doctorate24
Motivation matters: predicting students’ career decidedness and intention to drop out after the first year in higher education23
Effect of sport education on students’ perceived physical literacy, motivation, and physical activity levels in university required physical education: a cluster-randomized trial22
The impact of person-environment fit on grades, perceived gains, and satisfaction: an application of Holland’s theory21
“Teaching, my passion; publishing, my pain”: unpacking academics’ professional identity tensions through the lens of emotional resilience21
Drivers of student engagement in higher education: a behavioral reasoning theory perspective20
Academic self-concept, perceptions of the learning environment, engagement, and learning outcomes of university students: relationships and causal ordering20
Balancing finances, politics, and public health: international student enrollment and reopening plans at US higher education institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic20
Feedback literacy: a critical review of an emerging concept20
Academic accommodations for university students living with disability and the potential of universal design to address their needs20
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 countries19
Moving towards multipolarity: shifts in the core-periphery structure of international student mobility and world rankings (2000–2019)19
Move or perish? Sticky mobilities in the Swiss academic context19
What influences PhD graduate trajectories during the degree: a research-based policy agenda19
Rethinking student-teacher relationships in higher education: a multidimensional approach18
Administrative transformation and managerial growth: a longitudinal analysis of changes in the non-academic workforce at Australian universities18
Intercultural relationship development and higher education internationalisation: a qualitative investigation based on a three-stage ecological and person-in-context conceptual framework18
Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: ‘Punish[ing] Those Who Fail To Do Their Gender Right’18
Rewiring higher education for the Sustainable Development Goals: the case of the Intercultural University of Veracruz, Mexico18
The emergence of the higher education research field (1976–2018): preferential attachment, smallworldness and fragmentation in its collaboration networks18
Exploring explanations for the gender gap in study abroad: a case study of the Netherlands18
Exploring experiences of ableism in academia: a constructivist inquiry17
Student satisfaction and interaction in higher education17
Being highly prolific in academic science: characteristics of individuals and their departments17
Reaching for different ends through tenure track—institutional logics in university career systems17
What makes a difference for further advancement of engineers: socioeconomic background or education programs?16
Unaligned connections or enlarging engagements? Tertiary education in developing countries and the implementation of the SDGs16
Why do women more often intend to study abroad than men?16
The effect of providing learning analytics on student behaviour and performance in programming: a randomised controlled experiment16
Does the effect of studying abroad on labour income vary by graduates’ social origin? Evidence from Germany16
The emergence of university rankings: a historical‑sociological account16
‘The idea is nice… but not for me’: First-year students’ readiness for large-scale ‘flipped lectures’—what (de)motivates them?15
Towards a model of resilience protection: factors influencing doctoral completion15
International mobility of students in Italy and the UK: does it pay off and for whom?15
Yellow Peril and cash cows: the social positioning of Asian international students in the USA15
Knocking on employment’s door: internships and job attainment15
Are evaluative cultures national or global? A cross-national study on evaluative cultures in academic recruitment processes in Europe15
International students’ self-determined motivation, beliefs about classroom assessment, learning strategies, and academic adjustment in higher education15
Who benefits most from studying abroad? A conceptual and empirical overview15
Space and scale in higher education: the glonacal agency heuristic revisited15
Stakeholder pressure to obtain world-class status among Indonesian universities15
Does conflict of interest distort global university rankings?15
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage15
Using critical race theory to reframe mentor training: theoretical considerations regarding the ecological systems of mentorship14
The emergence of academic capitalism and university neoliberalism: perspectives of Australian higher education leadership14
In/visibility on campus? Gender and sexuality diversity in tertiary institutions14
Pathways to student engagement: beyond triggers and mechanisms at the engagement interface14
Abusive comments in student evaluations of courses and teaching: the attacks women and marginalised academics endure14
International student mobility and the transition from higher education to work in Norway14
Rethinking employability: how students build on interest in a subject to plan a career14
Accumulation and conversion of capitals in professorial careers. The importance of scientific reputation, network relations, and internationality in economics and business studies14
Locked out, locked in and stuck: exploring migrant academics’ experiences of moving to the UK14
Academic (dis)qualifications of Turkish rectors: their career paths, H-index, and the number of articles and citations14
International student recruitment campaign: experiences of selected flagship universities in China14
Discourses of artificial intelligence in higher education: a critical literature review13
In search of intangible connections: intellectual capital, performance and quality of life in higher education institutions13
Eyes on the enterprise: problematising the concept of a teaching-research nexus in UK higher education13
The post-Soviet publication landscape for higher education research13
Back out or hang on? An event history analysis of withdrawal from doctoral education in Germany13
Women academics in Chinese universities: a historical perspective13
Faculty perceptions of work-life balance: the role of marital/relationship and family status12
Transnational academic mobility in universities: the impact on a departmental and an interpersonal level12
Does trust play a role when it comes to donations? A comparison of Italian and US higher education institutions12
How does research performativity and selectivity impact on the non-core regions of Europe? The case for a new research agenda12
What are their thoughts about inclusion? Beliefs of faculty members about inclusive education12
Emerging principles for the allocation of academic work in universities12
How do international faculty at Japanese universities view their integration?12
Sticky care and conference travel: unpacking care as an explanatory factor for gendered academic immobility12
Higher education and sustainable development goal 16 in fragile and conflict-affected contexts12
Sticky and slippery destinations for academic mobility: the case of Singapore12
Preliminary evidence of key factors in successful flipping: predicting positive student experiences in flipped classrooms12
Impact of student-supervisor relationship on postgraduate students’ subjective well-being: a study based on longitudinal data in China12
Student voice in higher education: the importance of distinguishing student representation and student partnership12
Exploring socioeconomic inequalities and access to elite postgraduate education among English graduates12
Teachers as brokers: adding a university-society perspective to higher education teacher competence profiles12
Crises in international education, and government responses: a comparative analysis of racial discrimination and violence towards international students11
Unequal expectations: First-generation and continuing-generation students’ anticipated relationships with doctoral advisors in STEM11
Innovations in an institutionalised higher education system: the role of embedded agency11
Crowdfunding in higher education: evidence from UK Universities11
Unveiling ableism and disablism in assessment: a critical analysis of disabled students’ experiences of assessment and assessment accommodations11
From fragmented toward relational academic teacher identity: the role of research-teaching nexus11
Challenging career models in higher education: the influence of internal career scripts and the rise of the “concertina” career11
 A comparative analysis of the Chilean and Colombian systems of quality assurance in higher education11
Being an academic: how junior female academics in Korea survive in the neoliberal context of a patriarchal society11
Women’s empowerment in the period of the rapid expansion of higher education in Turkey: developments and paradoxes of gender equality in the labour market10
Plagiarism and the commodification of knowledge10
Higher education expansion, system transformation, and social inequality. Social origin effects on tertiary education attainment in Poland for birth cohorts 1960 to 198810
Language and communication in international students’ adaptation: a bibliometric and content analysis review10
The elite exclusion: stratified access and production during the Chinese higher education expansion10
Hate and harassment in academia: the rising concern of the online environment10
Student formation in higher education: a comparison and combination of Confucian xiushen (self-cultivation) and Bildung10
Curricular fit perspective on motivation in higher education10
Between ‘here-now’ and ‘there-then’: the West and Asia’s colonial entanglements in international higher education10
The discursive resilience of university rankings10
Does university have an effect on young people’s active citizenship in England?10
Do grants improve the outcomes of university students in a challenging context? Evidence from a matching approach10
Instructional leadership structures across five university departments10
The transformation of doctoral education: a systematic literature review10
Implications of performance-based funding on equity-based missions in US higher education10
Negative student emotions and educator skill in experiential education: a taxonomy of classroom activities10
How to motivate student engagement in emergency online learning? Evidence from the COVID-19 situation9
China’s international higher education policies 2010–2019: multiple logics and HEI responses9
Help me help myself: examining an electronic mental health self-monitoring system in college students9
Stuck and sticky in mobile academia: reconfiguring the im/mobility binary9
“Messy transitions”: Students’ perspectives on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education9
Tournament in academia: a comparative analysis of faculty evaluation systems in research universities in China and the USA9
Identifying gender disparities in research performance: the importance of comparing apples with apples9
Higher education institutions and entrepreneurship in underserved communities9
Metacognitive illusion or self-regulated learning? Assessing engineering students’ learning strategies against the backdrop of recent advances in cognitive science9
Unemployed graduate to the next Jack Ma? A counter-narrative to the entrepreneurship movement in higher education9
The affective assemblage of internationalisation in Japanese higher education9
Reconceptualising fair access to highly academically selective universities9
The impact of adverse childhood experiences and recent life events on anxiety and quality of life in university students9
Heterogeneous effects of graduates’ international mobility on employers’ hiring intentions—experimental evidence from Germany9
Graduate employability as a professional proto-jurisdiction in higher education9
Academic expectations among university students and staff: addressing the role of psychological contracts and social norms9
“Does Chinese philosophy count as philosophy?”: decolonial awareness and practices in international English medium instruction programs9
Mapping the field of research on African higher education: a review of 6483 publications from 1980 to 20199
The process of building European university alliances: a rhizomatic analysis of the European Universities Initiative9
“It’s hard to feel a part of something when you’ve never met people”: defining “learning community” in an online era9
Reducing inequality in access to university in Chile: the relative contribution of cultural capital and financial aid8
Challenges and strategies for the internationalization of higher education in low-income East African countries8
The politics of university rankings in China8
Developing capacities for meeting the SDGs: exploring the role of a public land-grant institution in the civic engagement of its African alumni8
Transformation impossible: policy, evidence and change in South African higher education8
Factors fostering and hindering research collaboration with doctoral students among academics in Hong Kong8
“It’s where learning and teaching begins ‒ is this relationship” — insights on the teacher-student relationship at university from the teachers’ perspective8
Taking issue with how the Work-integrated Learning discourse ascribes a dualistic meaning to graduate employability8
Approaches to teaching in higher education: the perspective of network analysis using the revised approaches to teaching inventory8
Understanding Chinese female university teachers’ intention to pursue a PhD degree: some insights from a Chinese university8
Enhancing graduates’ enterprise capabilities through work-integrated learning in co-working spaces8
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
Autonomy and weak governments: challenges to university quality in Latin America8
Submission or subversion: survival and resilience of Chinese international research students in neoliberalised Australian universities8
Erasmus students’ motivations in motion: understanding super-mobility in higher education8
‘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 England8
A liberal higher education for all? The massification of higher education and its implications for graduates’ participation in civil society8
The educational purposes of higher education: changing discussions of the societal outcomes of educating students8
Narratives of ‘stuckness’ among North–South academic migrants in Thailand: interrogating normative logics and global power asymmetries of transnational academic migration8
Faculty research productivity: differences between foreign and local doctoral degree holders in Pakistan8
Governance for excellence and diversity? The impact of central and regional affiliation for the strategic positioning of Chinese top universities8
Non-globalized ties between Japanese higher education and industry: crafting publicity-driven calls for domestic and foreign students with global qualities8
Mergers and missions: investigating consequences for system diversity8
“Stuck in the middle of what?”: the pursuit of academic careers by mothers and non-mothers in higher education institutions in occupied Palestine8
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