OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
“It Wasn’t What I Expected”: Students’ Perspectives and Experiences on a Higher Education Merger	25
“Architects of Change or Its Victim”: University Presidents’ Perspectives on the Role of Competing Values During the COVID-19 Crisis	24
It’s Just Too Much: Narratives of International Educators Navigating COVID-19	19
Racialized Exclusion of Faculty Couples of Color at Predominantly White Institutions	19
Are Primary Funding Sources and Debt Level Associated with Career Outcomes Among Recent STEM Doctoral Graduates?	19
How Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) Initiatives Respond to Institutional Racism	18
Stated Value, Renewed Commitment? Community and Technical Colleges’ Response to Racial (In)equities During COVID-19	17
Correction	17
“Justice, Like Beauty, is in the Eye of the Beholder”*: A Critical Historical Reimagining of Justice Possibilities in an Anti-DEI Higher Education Landscape	16
Building Capacity for Collective Possibilities: Reimagining Research Teams in Higher Education	15
Time Poverty: A Hidden Factor Connecting Online Enrollment and College Outcomes?	15
Spillover Effects: A Comparison of Course and Institutional Outcomes for Traditional and Intensive Introductory Biology	15
Intersectional Dynamics and Academic Advancement in the United States	13
“I Don’t Think the System Will Ever be the Same”: Distance Education Leaders’ Predictions and Recommendations for the Use of Online Learning in Community Colleges Post-COVID	13
Seeking Tenure While Black: Lawsuit Composite Counterstories of Black Professors at Historically White Institutions	13
The Far Reach of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan: Consideration of Professional School Degrees	11
Expanding Faculty Members’ Zone of Proximal Development to Enact Collective Agency for Racial Equity in Faculty Hiring	10
Did Emergency Remote Teaching and the COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbate Inequities? Considering Institution Type, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity	10
How STEM Undergraduates Choose, Navigate, and Integrate Interdisciplinarity in College and Beyond	10
Quantity and Quality: Equity Considerations for the Funding of Categorical Programs in Community Colleges	10
Matching Potential with Promise: How Oklahoma’s Promise Shapes Academic Undermatch	9
“I Always Ended Up Getting Close to Other People Who are Autistic”: Autistic College Students’ Friendship Development	9
“So Proud of That Moment”: Black Queer Men Disrupting Masculinity and Heteronormativity in Mentorship Programs	9
Moscas en La Leche: A Critical Evaluation of Hispanic-Serving Institution Campus Spaces Through Photovoice Methodology	9
Well-Written: The Socialization and Transfer of Academic Writing	8

The Disruption in U.S. Public Higher Education Enrollments, 2009–2019: Sources of Inter-State Variation by Tier	8
Whose Last Dollar? Estimating the Effects of Promise Programs on Financial Aid Awards	8
The Value of Work Flexibility: Staff Perceptions in Higher Education	8
Where Do I Go from Here? Examining the Transition of Undocumented Students Graduating from College	8
“Don’t Let it Get in the Way of Work”: Black Women Academics’ Navigation of Romantic Relationships	7
“I Am Overworked and I’m Not Taking Care of Myself”: The Experiences of Black Men in Doctoral Programs Navigating Racial Battle Fatigue	7
Exploring How Faculty Apply Professional Legitimacy When Advising Students About Graduate Education	7
Institutionalizing Success: Practices and Policies at HBCUs that Promote Student Development and Degree Attainment	7
Committing to Racial Justice as a White Woman in STEM: Using Constructivist Grounded Theory to Explore White Activism	7
The View from the Top: The Relationship Between Parental Education and Graduate Enrollment	7
In the Seventh Year You Will Not Rest: Faculty Members’ Sensemaking of Productivity During the Sabbatical	7
The Community College Transfer and Articulation Network	7
The Costs of Time: Examining the Extent of the Credit Loss Penalty in College Transfer	7
Governing Boards as Institutional Umbrellas: A Framework for Strategic Governance Amid Legislative Challenges	7
Post-Baccalaureate Federal Loans De-Subsidization: Impacts on Compositional Attributes, Extensive and Intensive Borrowing Margins, and Anticipatory Effects	7
“People That Look Like Me Commit Crime”: Racial Beliefs Among Campus Police Officers	6
Preparing for the STEM Pathways? Dual Enrollment and College Major Choice in STEM	6
A Narrative Inquiry Study Examining Gender and Sexuality Center Professionals’ Engagement with Anti-Racism	6
Gender Equity and Due Process in Campus Sexual Assault Adjudication Procedures	6
The Legal Logic of Whiteness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Policymakers’ Rhetoric in CRT Legislation	6
Organizational Trust, Working Parents in Student Affairs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
“I Have to Be Very Intentional About How I Communicate:” Black Women Administrators’ Identity Navigation in Predominantly White Institutions	6
Toward Opportunity-Centered Institutional Logics: Evidence from Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Science Equity Efforts	5
Faith as Resistance: A Qualitative Examination of Black Doctoral Mothers in a Time of Covid-19	5
Rising Tides Don’t Create Racialized Change: Analyzing Institutional Change Projects in Postsecondary Philanthropy’s College Completion Agenda	5
Advancing Presidential Careers: Operationalizing Sponsorship in Higher Education	5
The Enrollment of Racially Minoritized Students in Law School: Factors Predicting Within-School Changes Over Time	5
The Optics of Support: 2SLGBTQIA+ Students’ Perspectives on Institutional Leadership in Higher Education During Times of Political Hostility	5
“The COVID-19 Extension Needs to Be Unpacked”: Tenure-Seeking BIPOC Faculty Perspectives at Research-Intensive Institutions	5
To Give or to Take: Exploring Effects of Reductions in Pell Lifetime Eligibility	5
Reaffirming the Public Purposes of Higher Education: First-Generation and Continuing Generation Students’ Perspectives	5
“What I Had Experienced Was, in Fact, a Microaggression”: A Phenomenological Inquiry into International Students of Color Developing Critical Racial Consciousness	5
Correction	5
Occupational Factors and Faculty Well-Being: Investigating the Mediating Role of Need Frustration	4
Financial Aid as Whiteness as Property: Implications for Research and Practice	4
Organizing Shared Approaches to Equity Work	4
Advancing a Framework of Racialized Administrative Burdens in Higher Education Policy	4
From “Cliques” to “Common Ground”: Social Class, Layered Belonging, and Characteristics of Symbolic Boundaries in the Transition From Public High Schools to a Public University	4
College Student Sex Work: A Qualitative Content Analysis of U.S. Higher Education Sex Work Policies	4
Incentivizing Equity? The Effects of Performance-Based Funding on Race-Based Gaps in College Completion	4
International for Processing Purposes: A Critical Examination of DACA Recipients’ Post-Secondary Admissions in Ohio	4
Examining the Influence of Texas’ Strategic Plan for Increasing University Research: Loose Coupling and Research Production at Regional Public Universities	4
How Black Engineering and Computing Faculty Exercise an Equity Ethic to Racially Fortify and Enrich Black Students	4
Seeking STEM: The Causal Impact of Need-Based Grant Aid on Undergraduates’ Field of Study	4
A Model of Engagement in Hostile Legislative Environments: University General Counsel’s Approaches to Advising Institutional Leaders	4
Balancing Access and Success: Admissions Officers’ Sensemaking of Test-Optional Policies at Less-Selective Public Institutions	3
Using Punctuated Equilibrium to Understand Patterns of Institutional Budget Change in Higher Education	3
Recruitment Redlining by Public Research Universities in the Los Angeles and Dallas Metropolitan Areas	3
Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Psychological Well-Being and Distress Across the College Years	3
Unpacking Student-Facing Rationales for University Required Diversity Coursework	3

You Don’t Get to Say What I Believe, I Do: Provocative Encounters as Catalysts for Self-Authored Worldview Commitments During College	3
Latina Faculty at a Catholic Hispanic-Serving Institution: Critical Counter-Stories About Racialized & Gendered Experiences and Servingness	3
From Comprehensive Services to No Support at All: How Institutional Agents Shape Student-Mothers’ Academic Success	3
Staff Labor Organizing in Higher Education: How Imperfect Unions and Organizational Subjugation Shape Resistance and Change Efforts	3
Designing Effective Internships: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Sociocultural Aspects of Intern Satisfaction and Development	3
When Expectation Isn’t Reality: Racial Disparities in Overestimation and STEM Attrition Among First-Year Students in College	3
Editor’s Note	3
Horizontal and Vertical Racial Segregation in Higher Education: Examining Trends in California Public Colleges	3
The Backdrop of Equity Efforts: The Parallels of Campus Staff and Community Organizing	3
Advancing the Institution and the Individual: Women’s Enactment of Equity-Minded Leadership in Colleges and Universities	3
How Southeast Asian Students Develop Their Science Self-Efficacy During the First Year of College	2
Protecting Equity Together: Shared Equity Leadership in Restrictive and Precarious Legal Environments	2
At an Epistemological Crossroads: International Students’ Experiences with a Decolonizing Campus Tour	2
Investing in the Workforce: The Impact of Performance-Based Funding on Student Earnings Outcomes	2
Reconstructing PhD Admissions Through Organizational Learning	2
“The Least I Could Do is Get That Four-Year Degree That They Sacrificed so Much for” Undocumented Latina/o Families and the College Navigation Process	2
A Critical Discourse Analysis of University Responses to the Shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue	2
How Has the Post-9/11 GI Bill Affected Veteran Students’ College Loans? A Longitudinal Analysis of NPSAS Using Propensity Score Weighting	2
Autonomy and Privilege in Doctoral Education: An Analysis of STEM Students’ Academic and Professional Trajectories	2
The Outcomes of the American Renaissance Student	2
Affirmations of Black Being: Explicating the Potentialities of Self-Love in Higher Education	2
Electoral Accountability for Rising Tuition in the US: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Observational Data	2
Advancing a Model of Self-Definition for Transgender College Students	2