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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education235
University autonomy under democratic backsliding: a case study of a plagiarism investigation against Serbian Minister of Finance (2014–2019)144
Dynamics of English in European higher education112
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?102
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences102
Higher education and public good: the case of China101
Mastering humanitarianism? A survey of postgraduate humanitarian courses73
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon64
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 data61
The development and pilot of the university student embeddedness (USE) scale for student retention within universities: validation with an Australian student sample59
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China57
Dropout intent of students with disabilities56
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice52
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities51
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America50
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis49
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations48
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza48
Situated transdisciplinarity in university policy: lessons for its institutionalization48
Higher education retention in Ireland and Scotland: the role of admissions policies47
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education47
Correction to: Keeping it regional: pseudo‑internationalisation of Slovak political science41
Unpacking the gendered interactions and relationship among students in male-dominated programs: perspectives of female students in mechanical engineering in Ghana41
The black box of faculty writing in the academy39
Measuring mentoring in employability-oriented higher education programs: scale development and validation34
Navigating gender identity development: composite narratives of Chinese women international students studying in the U.S.34
Student or customer? Mainland Chinese students’ self-identification and reflexivity in Hong Kong’s self-financed taught postgraduate programmes33
The paradox of technology in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of safety and security students in a Dutch university32
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries31
Assessing educational inequality in high participation systems: the role of educational expansion and skills diffusion in comparative perspective31
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
Surfacing the conceptualizations of international PhD student agency: the necessity for an integrative research agenda31
‘It’s like dominoes’: middle managers transversal agency and the complexity of navigating transformation in post-conflict higher education30
Epistemic injustice and neo-racism: how Zhihu users portray ‘Chinese doctoral supervisors’ working in Western academia29
Revisiting the concept of highly skilled professionals: an analysis of support staff in Finnish universities29
The potential of tutoring in higher education: students’ preferences, consumption, and the role of information29
In search for employability strategy: emergent approaches by higher education institutions28
The European Universities initiative: between status hierarchies and inclusion28
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 sciences27
Exploring master’s students’ perceptions of mentoring support for reflection in a one-year employability-oriented mentoring program27
Motivation is important, but can it be improved? Examining faculty perceptions of research motivation and productivity interventions27
Peer review in Chinese national journals: historical development and challenges27
Reimagining the illusio of meritocracy: affective and reflexive reconfigurations in rural students’ transition to elite universities27
LGBT + academics’ and PhD students’ experiences of visibility in STEM: more than raising the rainbow flag26
Localised learning: mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas26
Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change26
Rethinking authentic assessment: work, well-being, and society25
Global, Nordic, or institutional visions? An investigation into how Nordic universities are adapting to the SDGs25
Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility25
Tokenized but remaining: how do international academics make sense of their decision to remain in Japanese universities?24
Supporting liberal democracy with curious students24
COVID-19 experience and student wellbeing amongst publicly funded higher education students in South Africa after the first, and second waves24
Metrics of student dissatisfaction and disagreement: longitudinal explorations of a national survey instrument24
Crisis and policy imaginaries: higher education reform during a pandemic23
Diverse class participation formats as a heutagogical approach to integrate student voice in higher education23
Revisiting higher vocational education within metropolis: an intrinsic case study of Shanghai, China22
Organizational factors affecting higher education collaboration networks: evidence from Europe22
Higher education teachers’ professional well-being in the rise of managerialism: insights from China22
The ever-growing private higher education, critical yet underexamined22
Effect of active learning versus traditional lecturing on the learning achievement of college students in humanities and social sciences: a meta-analysis22
Intercultural adjustment of internationally mobile academics working in Thailand21
Towards decolonising higher education: a case study from a UK university21
The educational purposes of higher education: changing discussions of the societal outcomes of educating students21
The post-racial myth: rethinking Chinese university students’ experiences and perceptions of racialised microaggressions in the UK21
Employers’ conceptions of quality and value in higher education20
Programming education across disciplines: a nationwide study of Danish higher education20
Negotiating meritocracy and gender equality across organisational spaces: the case of a tenure track system20
Does the COVID-19 pandemic lower the admissions quality of higher education institutions in affected regions in China?20
Doctoral examiners’ narratives of learning to examine in the PhD viva: a call for support20
Has the public good of higher education been emptied out? The case of England20
Habitus in motion: a critical appraisal of Bourdieu’s relevance to cross-border higher education19
Correction to: Course leaders’ conceptions of the purpose of interdisciplinary education19
The shifting happiness return to higher education over 50 years: causal mediation analysis of college completion, economic benefits, and happiness in the USA19
Their wellbeing affects our wellbeing: student perspectives of lecturer wellbeing and its consequences for student wellbeing19
Study-to-work transitions of students-turned-migrants: ongoing struggles of mainland Chinese graduates in Hong Kong19
Counteroffers for faculty at research universities: who gets them, who doesn’t, and what factors produce them?19
Motivations for pursuing a master’s degree and changing expectations of its returns: mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong19
“He who knows one, knows none”: Pluralism in global higher education development18
Adapting doctoral education to an evolving knowledge landscape: insights from Portugal18
A systematic review of student agency in international higher education18
Renewing the Sydney undergraduate curriculum18
Alone together: experiences of Palestinian East Jerusalem students studying at an Israeli university17
Knowledge power or diplomacy? University alliances and the Belt and Road Initiative17
Which configurations promote the high-level university technology transfer? Evidence from China17
Can service scholarships boost academic performance? Causal evidence from China’s Free Teacher Education scholarship16
Mastering Fortuna: higher education as an international relations strategy for diplomacy, development, and sustainability16
Climbing the ivory tower: agency, reflexivity and the career pathways of care-experienced academics in higher education16
Performing ‘alterity’: global geographies of power, translocal subjectivity, and everyday identity negotiation of African students at a university in China16
Challenges and strategies for the internationalization of higher education in low-income East African countries16
Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education16
Transformational accounts of students’ undergraduate education are evoked by their engagement with knowledge16
Caught between academic calling and academic pressure? Working time characteristics, time pressure and time sovereignty predict PhD students’ research engagement16
Academics on the frontline. To what extent does global solidarity pervade the academic world? The case of ACADEMICS4GAZA16
Erasmus students’ motivations in motion: understanding super-mobility in higher education16
Student satisfaction and interaction in higher education15
Diverse socio-economic backgrounds and international pathways: European mobility opportunities through a scholarship programme for Mexican doctoral students15
Too stupid for PhD? Doctoral impostor syndrome among Finnish PhD students15
Waiting for the revolution: how higher education institutions initially responded to ChatGPT15
How the rise of the political right threatens higher education15
Giving substance to an idea15
Shaping choices: factors influencing Vietnamese high school students’ transition to higher education15
Subjectivity as the site of struggle: students’ perspectives toward sino-foreign cooperation universities in the era of discursive conflicts15
Brexit metaphors in UK higher education: loss, agency and interconnectedness15
A meta-synthesis on academic identity in the neoliberal context of academy15
Unravelling gender and ethnic bias in higher education: students’ experiences in access to ocean science education and career opportunities in Kenya15
A lexical comparison of the public good of higher education: concepts, contextual underpinnings and implications, focusing on Japanese, Chinese and English15
Uncertain futures: climate change and international student mobility in Europe15
Igniting doctoral students’ work engagement: the roles of managing up atmosphere and work passion within their research groups from a job demands-resources perspective15
Implications of losing a need- and merit-based scholarship on the educational trajectory: a curricular analytics approach15
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 education14
‘Whiteness is an immoral choice’: the idea of the University at the intersection of crises14
Higher education expansion and women’s access to higher education and the labor market: quasi-experimental evidence from Turkey14
A qualitative investigation of trans students’ experiences with microaggressions at a Canadian university14
Women go to college: Honour, risk, safety?14
Uplifting mechanism or equalizing force? The expansion of higher education and its role in intergenerational mobility in Chile14
Unveiling the evolving educational inequality from upper secondary to higher education in South Korea: from effectively maintained inequality theory perspective14
Representation of the academic workforce in English university strategy-making: an exploratory study14
Space and scale in higher education: the glonacal agency heuristic revisited14
Coping with adversity: mechanisms of resilience in Ukrainian universities during the Russian-Ukrainian War—a perspective from Lviv University students14
Emotional intercultural competence in contexts: an ethnographic study of Chinese international postgraduate students13
An analysis of the UK’s Turing Scheme as a response to socio-economic and geo-political challenges13
Exposing the chameleon-like nature of racism: a multidisciplinary look at critical race theory in higher education13
Correction to: Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries13
Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘The public good of higher education: A comparative study’13
‘Deeply and deliciously unsettled’? Mis-reading discourses of equity in the early stages of Covid1913
Food insecurity among international students’ studying in Melbourne, Australia: experiences and impacts13
Deciphering China’s higher education outreach paradigm in Southeast Asia: can a neo-tributary perspective work?13
Australian universities’ approaches to transnational higher education in China: a Bourdieusian multiple correspondence analysis13
Reconciling multiple institutional logics for ambidexterity: human resource management reforms in Chinese public universities13
Putting a stake in the ground: the development of a Professional Ethical Framework for Australian Academics13
The interplay of time management and academic self-efficacy and their influence on pre-service teachers’ commitment in the first year in higher education13
Higher education regionalization in East and Southeast Asia: between decolonization, recolonization, and self-colonization13
Capitals, capabilities, and the conversion of commodities: the case of neurodivergent graduates’ transitions to the labour market13
Analyzing the influence of regional security on international student flows in the MENA region: a social network approach13
Higher education and public good in England12
“We don’t need no thought control”: dealing with faculty members spreading conspiracy theories12
Assistance at the starting line: rural education competition and rural student development12
Can you do all in one professional label? Complementarity, substitution, and independence effects in academic life12
Designing belonging in higher education12
Dropout of Dalit women in collegiate education: An exploratory study of rural India12
Implementation of ambiguous governance instruments in higher education12
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
Constructing a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area social space: cross-sectoral experiences of key node university faculties12
Universities as providers of shadow education at upper-secondary education level: Market-driven preparatory courses for the Saber 11 exam in Colombia12
Higher education in prison: a comparative policy analysis of five countries12
Language and the cocurriculum: the need for decolonizing out-of-classroom experiences12
Board governance priorities in higher education institutions: comparative analysis of board members’ visions in Finland and Sweden11
Did free tuition change the choices of students applying for university admission?11
Flashbacks of the bad old days? The bureaucratization of Czech universities in the post-communist era11
Chain migration and student mobility in Sicily11
The role of academic institutions in a state of war: the Gaza-Israel conflict11
Language and communication in international students’ adaptation: a bibliometric and content analysis review11
Abusive comments in student evaluations of courses and teaching: the attacks women and marginalised academics endure11
The role of geopolitics of knowledge in the mediatization of global university rankings11
Does geodemographic segmentation influence higher education opportunity? A spatial investigation of enrollment at one Taiwanese university11
University students’ concepts of nation in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau: Patriotism or nationalism?11
A conceptual and methodological framework for clustering and correlation analyses of the approaches and study skills inventory for students11
Exploring Chinese doctoral graduates’ career choices and gender differences through the lens of rational choice theory11
“Why I was born a woman”: Female students’ challenges in Afghanistan higher education under the Taliban rule11
Student affairs work under neoliberalism and within the global class war11
When tianxia meets the global common good: how to evaluate the contributions of higher education to tianxia?11
Conflicting language ideologies and practices of English medium instruction policy for international students in China’s higher education11
The evolution of self-regulated learning in psychology students. Longitudinal insights across pre-pandemic, remote, and post-pandemic cohorts11
A scaffolding model for designing and implementing work-integrated learning experiences based on the analysis of the university and company's arrangements11
Performing excellence and gender balance in higher education10
Women STEM faculty’s intentions to engage in entrepreneurship education programs10
International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges10
A dual-process model of early career researchers’ well-being: Satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs as central mechanism10
Rethinking the voluntariness of academic return migration in times of crisis: the case of Chinese early career scientists10
Opening the black box of student government in authoritarian contexts: institutional work and intra-organisational conflicts in the Students’ Guild at Makerere University, Uganda10
Students in the global higher education market: identities, pathways, and political agency10
I can be a “normal” student: the role of lecture capture in supporting disabled and neurodivergent students’ participation in higher education10
The European university alliances—an examination of organizational potentials and perils10
Do mothers get lost at the postdoc stage? Event history analysis of psychologists at German universities (1980–2019)10
‘I just think it’s really awkward’: transitioning to higher education and the implications for student retention10
Epistemic agency: a link between assessment, knowledge and society10
The (In)visibilisation of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in higher education equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in England and Wales10
Language inequalities and business school accreditation: voices from non-English-speaking countries10
Institution level awarding gap metrics for identifying educational inequity: useful tools or reductive distractions?10
Conceptualizing student voice in teacher-student curriculum partnerships within Iran’s higher education10
From access to inclusion: a call for a cultural shift in higher education10
What impedes and enables flourishing among early career academics?9
Investigating the dynamics of managerial dialogue in HE merger reform9
Exploring the influence of contemporary global music on national music education: a PLS-SEM analysis9
From margin to center: positioning centers for teaching and learning as strategic partners in Israeli higher education9
Decolonial practices and faculty perceptions within sociology and political science in Irish higher education9
Neurodivergent (Autism and ADHD) student experiences of access and inclusion in higher education: an ecological systems theory perspective9
Promoting student empowerment in student partnership-student representation integrations9
Contextualizing and hybridizing academic identity formation: an analysis of international returnees and locally trained scholars in China9
Quantifying the mover’s advantage: transatlantic migration, employment prestige, and scientific performance9
The recontextualisation and cultural compatibility of student-centred education: the case of the United Arab Emirates9
Graduates’ responses to student loan debt in England: “sort of like an acceptance, but with anxiety attached”9
Institutional constraints to higher education datafication: an English case study9
Predicting university enrollment choices in Italy: a machine learning analysis of high school background and gender differences9
Exploring perceptions of public good(s), government, and global contributions in Japanese higher education: a phenomenographic approach9
Planning for a delay? Horizontal stratification in higher education and the intended age at marriage9
Active methodologies in Higher Education: reasons to use them (or not) from the voices of faculty teaching staff9
The geographies of segregation in French universities from 2006 to 20169
The contributions of study abroad to home countries: an agential perspective9
Market mechanisms' distortions of higher education: Punjabi international students in Canada9
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