Higher Education

Papers
(The TQCC of Higher Education is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dynamics of English in European higher education298
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences173
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?126
Higher education and public good: the case of China119
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education118
Feeling AI: Circulating emotions, institutional climates, and moral boundaries in student use of AI79
Dropout intent of students with disabilities74
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education73
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America70
Publish at home or abroad: How institutional involution shapes academic publishing practices in China69
Limitations to the perceived institutional autonomy coming from government steering: A study to the experiences of higher education institutions67
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities65
Do PhD students’ research styles predict their perceived competencies?63
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China57
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis55
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice55
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza55
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations49
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon42
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
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries36
The black box of faculty writing in the academy35
Surfacing the conceptualizations of international PhD student agency: the necessity for an integrative research agenda35
Measuring mentoring in employability-oriented higher education programs: scale development and validation34
Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change33
Unpacking the gendered interactions and relationship among students in male-dominated programs: perspectives of female students in mechanical engineering in Ghana33
Higher education retention in Ireland and Scotland: the role of admissions policies33
Revisiting the concept of highly skilled professionals: an analysis of support staff in Finnish universities32
Navigating gender identity development: composite narratives of Chinese women international students studying in the U.S.32
The role of first-semester career calling and career decidedness in pre-service teachers’ intentions to drop out after the first year of higher education: a longitudinal study31
Correction to: Keeping it regional: pseudo‑internationalisation of Slovak political science30
In search for employability strategy: emergent approaches by higher education institutions30
The paradox of technology in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of safety and security students in a Dutch university30
Student or customer? Mainland Chinese students’ self-identification and reflexivity in Hong Kong’s self-financed taught postgraduate programmes30
Assessing educational inequality in high participation systems: the role of educational expansion and skills diffusion in comparative perspective29
Reimagining the illusio of meritocracy: affective and reflexive reconfigurations in rural students’ transition to elite universities29
‘It’s like dominoes’: middle managers transversal agency and the complexity of navigating transformation in post-conflict higher education29
The multi-dimensional, multi-level impact of social capital on academic job search in China: A comparison between domestic PhDs and PhD returnees in the social sciences29
Localised learning: mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas28
Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility28
Epistemic injustice and neo-racism: how Zhihu users portray ‘Chinese doctoral supervisors’ working in Western academia28
Peer review in Chinese national journals: historical development and challenges28
Exploring master’s students’ perceptions of mentoring support for reflection in a one-year employability-oriented mentoring program28
LGBT + academics’ and PhD students’ experiences of visibility in STEM: more than raising the rainbow flag27
The European Universities initiative: between status hierarchies and inclusion27
Motivation is important, but can it be improved? Examining faculty perceptions of research motivation and productivity interventions26
The potential of tutoring in higher education: students’ preferences, consumption, and the role of information26
COVID-19 experience and student wellbeing amongst publicly funded higher education students in South Africa after the first, and second waves25
Metrics of student dissatisfaction and disagreement: longitudinal explorations of a national survey instrument25
Tokenized but remaining: how do international academics make sense of their decision to remain in Japanese universities?25
Higher education teachers’ professional well-being in the rise of managerialism: insights from China24
Supporting liberal democracy with curious students24
Crisis and policy imaginaries: higher education reform during a pandemic24
Global, Nordic, or institutional visions? An investigation into how Nordic universities are adapting to the SDGs23
Academic inbreeding and boundary-making in higher education institutions23
Diverse class participation formats as a heutagogical approach to integrate student voice in higher education22
The ever-growing private higher education, critical yet underexamined21
Revisiting higher vocational education within metropolis: an intrinsic case study of Shanghai, China21
Organizational factors affecting higher education collaboration networks: evidence from Europe20
Does the COVID-19 pandemic lower the admissions quality of higher education institutions in affected regions in China?20
Habitus in motion: a critical appraisal of Bourdieu’s relevance to cross-border higher education20
Correction to: Course leaders’ conceptions of the purpose of interdisciplinary education20
Towards decolonising higher education: a case study from a UK university20
Effect of active learning versus traditional lecturing on the learning achievement of college students in humanities and social sciences: a meta-analysis20
Adapting doctoral education to an evolving knowledge landscape: insights from Portugal20
The shifting happiness return to higher education over 50 years: causal mediation analysis of college completion, economic benefits, and happiness in the USA20
Employers’ conceptions of quality and value in higher education20
The post-racial myth: rethinking Chinese university students’ experiences and perceptions of racialised microaggressions in the UK20
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
“He who knows one, knows none”: Pluralism in global higher education development20
Negotiating meritocracy and gender equality across organisational spaces: the case of a tenure track system20
Competition as a catalyst for collaboration: how German universities navigate the paradox of organizational research governance19
Alone together: experiences of Palestinian East Jerusalem students studying at an Israeli university19
From classroom to career: Self-efficacy and employment success of graduates with disabilities19
Caught between academic calling and academic pressure? Working time characteristics, time pressure and time sovereignty predict PhD students’ research engagement19
Renewing the Sydney undergraduate curriculum19
Doctoral examiners’ narratives of learning to examine in the PhD viva: a call for support19
Counteroffers for faculty at research universities: who gets them, who doesn’t, and what factors produce them?19
Which configurations promote the high-level university technology transfer? Evidence from China18
Programming education across disciplines: a nationwide study of Danish higher education18
Their wellbeing affects our wellbeing: student perspectives of lecturer wellbeing and its consequences for student wellbeing18
Motivations for pursuing a master’s degree and changing expectations of its returns: mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong18
Study-to-work transitions of students-turned-migrants: ongoing struggles of mainland Chinese graduates in Hong Kong18
Diverse socio-economic backgrounds and international pathways: European mobility opportunities through a scholarship programme for Mexican doctoral students17
Transformational accounts of students’ undergraduate education are evoked by their engagement with knowledge17
A systematic review of student agency in international higher education17
Mastering Fortuna: higher education as an international relations strategy for diplomacy, development, and sustainability17
Climbing the ivory tower: agency, reflexivity and the career pathways of care-experienced academics in higher education17
Performing ‘alterity’: global geographies of power, translocal subjectivity, and everyday identity negotiation of African students at a university in China17
Challenges and strategies for the internationalization of higher education in low-income East African countries17
Can service scholarships boost academic performance? Causal evidence from China’s Free Teacher Education scholarship17
Too stupid for PhD? Doctoral impostor syndrome among Finnish PhD students17
Politicized identity and language practices: Understanding Chinese international students’ language ideologies amid U.S.-China geopolitical tensions17
Igniting doctoral students’ work engagement: the roles of managing up atmosphere and work passion within their research groups from a job demands-resources perspective17
Knowledge power or diplomacy? University alliances and the Belt and Road Initiative17
Brexit metaphors in UK higher education: loss, agency and interconnectedness16
Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education16
Affective economies of AI in digitalised higher education16
Student satisfaction and interaction in higher education16
Giving substance to an idea16
Academics on the frontline. To what extent does global solidarity pervade the academic world? The case of ACADEMICS4GAZA16
A meta-synthesis on academic identity in the neoliberal context of academy16
How the rise of the political right threatens higher education16
Implications of losing a need- and merit-based scholarship on the educational trajectory: a curricular analytics approach16
Shaping choices: factors influencing Vietnamese high school students’ transition to higher education16
Uncertain futures: climate change and international student mobility in Europe16
Waiting for the revolution: how higher education institutions initially responded to ChatGPT16
A lexical comparison of the public good of higher education: concepts, contextual underpinnings and implications, focusing on Japanese, Chinese and English16
Unravelling gender and ethnic bias in higher education: students’ experiences in access to ocean science education and career opportunities in Kenya15
Deciphering China’s higher education outreach paradigm in Southeast Asia: can a neo-tributary perspective work?15
Developing the PhD thesis project in relation to individual contexts: a multiple case study of five doctoral researchers15
Student perceptions of college—how to move beyond transactional approaches to higher education15
A qualitative investigation of trans students’ experiences with microaggressions at a Canadian university15
The totalizing tournament15
Food insecurity among international students’ studying in Melbourne, Australia: experiences and impacts15
Unveiling the evolving educational inequality from upper secondary to higher education in South Korea: from effectively maintained inequality theory perspective15
Mapping scholarly resources for strategy: a resource-based view of two management faculties14
Higher education regionalization in East and Southeast Asia: between decolonization, recolonization, and self-colonization14
An analysis of the UK’s Turing Scheme as a response to socio-economic and geo-political challenges14
Women go to college: Honour, risk, safety?14
Higher education expansion and women’s access to higher education and the labor market: quasi-experimental evidence from Turkey14
Representation of the academic workforce in English university strategy-making: an exploratory study14
Emotional intercultural competence in contexts: an ethnographic study of Chinese international postgraduate students14
Putting a stake in the ground: the development of a Professional Ethical Framework for Australian Academics14
Coping with adversity: mechanisms of resilience in Ukrainian universities during the Russian-Ukrainian War—a perspective from Lviv University students14
Uplifting mechanism or equalizing force? The expansion of higher education and its role in intergenerational mobility in Chile14
Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘The public good of higher education: A comparative study’13
Space and scale in higher education: the glonacal agency heuristic revisited13
Higher education in prison: a comparative policy analysis of five countries13
Capitals, capabilities, and the conversion of commodities: the case of neurodivergent graduates’ transitions to the labour market13
“We don’t need no thought control”: dealing with faculty members spreading conspiracy theories13
Implementation of ambiguous governance instruments in higher education13
Designing belonging in higher education13
Constructing a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area social space: cross-sectoral experiences of key node university faculties13
Analyzing the influence of regional security on international student flows in the MENA region: a social network approach13
Correction to: Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries13
The interplay of time management and academic self-efficacy and their influence on pre-service teachers’ commitment in the first year in higher education13
Assistance at the starting line: rural education competition and rural student development13
Australian universities’ approaches to transnational higher education in China: a Bourdieusian multiple correspondence analysis13
Dropout of Dalit women in collegiate education: An exploratory study of rural India13
Universities as providers of shadow education at upper-secondary education level: Market-driven preparatory courses for the Saber 11 exam in Colombia13
Can you do all in one professional label? Complementarity, substitution, and independence effects in academic life12
Exposing the chameleon-like nature of racism: a multidisciplinary look at critical race theory in higher education12
Language and the cocurriculum: the need for decolonizing out-of-classroom experiences12
Research agendas and organizational commitment among academics in mainland China12
The portrayal of the future as legitimacy construction: discursive strategies in highly ranked business schools’ external communication12
Higher education and public good in England12
Student affairs work under neoliberalism and within the global class war12
The Role of Higher Education Journal in Shaping Global Knowledge Networks12
Reconciling multiple institutional logics for ambidexterity: human resource management reforms in Chinese public universities12
The evolution of self-regulated learning in psychology students. Longitudinal insights across pre-pandemic, remote, and post-pandemic cohorts12
Rethinking the voluntariness of academic return migration in times of crisis: the case of Chinese early career scientists11
Institution level awarding gap metrics for identifying educational inequity: useful tools or reductive distractions?11
A conceptual and methodological framework for clustering and correlation analyses of the approaches and study skills inventory for students11
Conflicting language ideologies and practices of English medium instruction policy for international students in China’s higher education11
When tianxia meets the global common good: how to evaluate the contributions of higher education to tianxia?11
Exploring Chinese doctoral graduates’ career choices and gender differences through the lens of rational choice theory11
The (In)visibilisation of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in higher education equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in England and Wales11
Women STEM faculty’s intentions to engage in entrepreneurship education programs11
A scaffolding model for designing and implementing work-integrated learning experiences based on the analysis of the university and company's arrangements11
The role of geopolitics of knowledge in the mediatization of global university rankings11
Language and communication in international students’ adaptation: a bibliometric and content analysis review11
Chain migration and student mobility in Sicily11
Opening the black box of student government in authoritarian contexts: institutional work and intra-organisational conflicts in the Students’ Guild at Makerere University, Uganda11
A dual-process model of early career researchers’ well-being: Satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs as central mechanism11
Language inequalities and business school accreditation: voices from non-English-speaking countries11
Did free tuition change the choices of students applying for university admission?11
The role of academic institutions in a state of war: the Gaza-Israel conflict11
Board governance priorities in higher education institutions: comparative analysis of board members’ visions in Finland and Sweden11
University students’ concepts of nation in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau: Patriotism or nationalism?11
Flashbacks of the bad old days? The bureaucratization of Czech universities in the post-communist era11
“Why I was born a woman”: Female students’ challenges in Afghanistan higher education under the Taliban rule11
Correction to: The crises of US higher education: an outlier or a bellwether for what lies ahead?10
From access to inclusion: a call for a cultural shift in higher education10
Active methodologies in Higher Education: reasons to use them (or not) from the voices of faculty teaching staff10
International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges10
The geographies of segregation in French universities from 2006 to 201610
‘I just think it’s really awkward’: transitioning to higher education and the implications for student retention10
Conceptualizing student voice in teacher-student curriculum partnerships within Iran’s higher education10
The recontextualisation and cultural compatibility of student-centred education: the case of the United Arab Emirates10
Do mothers get lost at the postdoc stage? Event history analysis of psychologists at German universities (1980–2019)10
Students in the global higher education market: identities, pathways, and political agency10
Epistemic agency: a link between assessment, knowledge and society10
Quantifying the mover’s advantage: transatlantic migration, employment prestige, and scientific performance10
Assetizing academic content and the emergence of the ‘assetizen’: education platforms, publisher databases, and AI model training10
From margin to center: positioning centers for teaching and learning as strategic partners in Israeli higher education10
Performing excellence and gender balance in higher education10
The European university alliances—an examination of organizational potentials and perils10
I can be a “normal” student: the role of lecture capture in supporting disabled and neurodivergent students’ participation in higher education10
Exploring the influence of contemporary global music on national music education: a PLS-SEM analysis10
Planning for a delay? Horizontal stratification in higher education and the intended age at marriage9
Predicting university enrollment choices in Italy: a machine learning analysis of high school background and gender differences9
Investigating the dynamics of managerial dialogue in HE merger reform9
Contextualizing and hybridizing academic identity formation: an analysis of international returnees and locally trained scholars in China9
Measuring students’ self-perceived employability capital attainment: the development and validation of a scale9
Decolonial practices and faculty perceptions within sociology and political science in Irish higher education9
Promoting student empowerment in student partnership-student representation integrations9
Institutional constraints to higher education datafication: an English case study9
Neurodivergent (Autism and ADHD) student experiences of access and inclusion in higher education: an ecological systems theory perspective9
Context matters: varieties of capitalism and the governance of transnational education partnerships in China9
Graduates’ responses to student loan debt in England: “sort of like an acceptance, but with anxiety attached”9
Exploring perceptions of public good(s), government, and global contributions in Japanese higher education: a phenomenographic approach9
The contributions of study abroad to home countries: an agential perspective9
What impedes and enables flourishing among early career academics?9
Unlocking the power of mentorship: a comprehensive mapping of strategies to combat student attrition in higher education9
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