OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Higher Education is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
“Architects of Change or Its Victim”: University Presidents’ Perspectives on the Role of Competing Values During the COVID-19 Crisis	54
Call for Nominations/Applications for Editorship of the Journal of Higher Education	26
Are Primary Funding Sources and Debt Level Associated with Career Outcomes Among Recent STEM Doctoral Graduates?	25
Seeking STEM: The Causal Impact of Need-Based Grant Aid on Undergraduates’ Field of Study	19
Racialized Exclusion of Faculty Couples of Color at Predominantly White Institutions	15
How Has the Post-9/11 GI Bill Affected Veteran Students’ College Loans? A Longitudinal Analysis of NPSAS Using Propensity Score Weighting	15
Toil and Trouble: Contextualizing Student Success Work at Research Universities	13
Exploring Race and Income Heterogeneity in the Effects of State Merit Aid Loss Among Four-Year College Entrants	13
Committing to Racial Justice as a White Woman in STEM: Using Constructivist Grounded Theory to Explore White Activism	12
Accelerating College Remediation: Examining the Effects of Math Course Redesign on Student Academic Success	12
“Third Floor Respect”: A Black Masculinist Examination of Morehouse College’s Mathematics Learning Community	11
University Memorials and Symbols of White Supremacy: Black Students’ Counternarratives	11
What We Talk about When We Talk about Rigor: Examining Conceptions of Academic Rigor	11
The Outcomes of the American Renaissance Student	10
The Price of Access: Graduate Student Debt for Students of Color 2000 to 2016	10
How Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) Initiatives Respond to Institutional Racism	9
“I Am Overworked and I’m Not Taking Care of Myself”: The Experiences of Black Men in Doctoral Programs Navigating Racial Battle Fatigue	9
Navigating the Recruitment Maze: Latinx Athletes’ Journey to College Athletics	9
How Southeast Asian Students Develop Their Science Self-Efficacy During the First Year of College	9
The Impact of Education Abroad Participation on College Student Success Among First-Generation Students	9
Do Promise Programs Reduce Student Loans? Evidence from Tennessee Promise	8
Bridges or Barriers? How Interactions between Individuals and Institutions Condition Community College Transfer	8
College President Departure After No-Confidence Votes: An Event History Analysis	8
Electoral Accountability for Rising Tuition in the US: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Observational Data	8
It’s Just Too Much: Narratives of International Educators Navigating COVID-19	8

Philanthropic Foundations and Higher Education: The Politics of Intermediary Organizations	8
Civic Preparation for the Digital Age: How College Students Evaluate Online Sources About Social and Political Issues	7
Strategic and Tactical Marketing Strategies for Regional Public Universities to Address the Enrollment Cliff	7
The Costs of Time: Examining the Extent of the Credit Loss Penalty in College Transfer	7
Advancing a Framework of Racialized Administrative Burdens in Higher Education Policy	7
Organizing Shared Approaches to Equity Work	7
Reconstructing PhD Admissions Through Organizational Learning	6
Building Capacity for Collective Possibilities: Reimagining Research Teams in Higher Education	6
“It Wasn’t What I Expected”: Students’ Perspectives and Experiences on a Higher Education Merger	6
Carrying the Weight of Campus Change: The Role of Student Equity Leaders in Community College	6
Retaining College Students Experiencing Shocks: The Power of Embeddedness and Normative Pressures	5
Epistemic Exclusion of Women Faculty and Faculty of Color: Understanding Scholar(ly) Devaluation as a Predictor of Turnover Intentions	5
Learning in the Wild: Fieldwork, Gender, and the Social Construction of Disciplinary Culture	5
Faculty Hiring: Exercising Professional Jurisdiction Over Epistemic Matters	4
You Don’t Get to Say What I Believe, I Do: Provocative Encounters as Catalysts for Self-Authored Worldview Commitments During College	4
Spillover Effects: A Comparison of Course and Institutional Outcomes for Traditional and Intensive Introductory Biology	4
Institutional Racial Representation and Equity Gaps in College Graduation	4
New Evidence on the Evolution and Landscape of Performance Funding for Higher Education	4
International for Processing Purposes: A Critical Examination of DACA Recipients’ Post-Secondary Admissions in Ohio	4
The View from the Top: The Relationship Between Parental Education and Graduate Enrollment	4
Time Poverty: A Hidden Factor Connecting Online Enrollment and College Outcomes?	4
Seeking Tenure While Black: Lawsuit Composite Counterstories of Black Professors at Historically White Institutions	4
Is Rejection a More Common Experience for Asian Americans? How Differences in College Application Strategy Affect Admissions Results	4
Can China’s Higher Education Expansion Reduce the Educational Inequality Between Urban and Rural Areas?	4
Post-Baccalaureate Federal Loans De-Subsidization: Impacts on Compositional Attributes, Extensive and Intensive Borrowing Margins, and Anticipatory Effects	4
Stated Value, Renewed Commitment? Community and Technical Colleges’ Response to Racial (In)equities During COVID-19	4
Lost in the Transition: The Cost of College-Readiness English Standards Misalignment for Students Initially Classified as English Learners	3
White Hoarders: A Portrait of Whiteness and Resource Allocation in College Algebra	3
Framing Corequisite Reform: Examining Staff Perceptions and Buy-in of a Statewide Dev-ed Reform Mandate	3
The Far Reach of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan: Consideration of Professional School Degrees	3
Black Queer Men Transgressing Masculine Normativity	3
The Push for Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions: Highlighting the Perspectives of Student Activists	3
“It Seems like They Purposefully Try to Make as Many Kids Drop”: An Analysis of Logics and Mechanisms of Racial-Gendered Inequality in Introductory Mathematics Instruction	3
Editor’s Comment	3
Equalizing or Stratifying? Intergenerational Persistence across College Degrees	3
Exploring How Faculty Apply Professional Legitimacy When Advising Students About Graduate Education	3
The Privilege of Choice: How Prospective College Students’ Financial Concerns Influence Their Choice of Higher Education Institution and Subject of Study in England	3
Balancing Access and Success: Admissions Officers’ Sensemaking of Test-Optional Policies at Less-Selective Public Institutions	3
Debating Diversity and Social Justice Curricular Requirements: How Organizational Culture at a Liberal Arts College Informed the Change Process	3
Editor’s Comment	3
Grade Expectations: The Role of First-Year Grades in Predicting the Pursuit of STEM Majors for First- and Continuing-Generation Students	3
Using Punctuated Equilibrium to Understand Patterns of Institutional Budget Change in Higher Education	2
Cultural Capital and Opportunities for Exceptionalism: Bias in University Admissions	2
Gender Equity and Due Process in Campus Sexual Assault Adjudication Procedures	2
Latina Faculty at a Catholic Hispanic-Serving Institution: Critical Counter-Stories About Racialized & Gendered Experiences and Servingness	2
Black Graduate Students’ Counternarratives and Interrogations of a Hate Crime	2
“Because I’m from a Rural Background”: An Examination of Rural Students in Higher Education Through a Critical, Non-Deficit Framework	2
Intersectional Dynamics and Academic Advancement in the United States	2
Institutional and Agentic Mechanisms of Educational Mobility Justice in Study Abroad	2
“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	2

Organizational Trust, Working Parents in Student Affairs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Bus-Riding from Barrio to College: A Qualitative Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analysis	2
When Expectation Isn’t Reality: Racial Disparities in Overestimation and STEM Attrition Among First-Year Students in College	2
Exploring the Impact of Clery Sexual Assault Timely Warnings on a Campus Community	2
Does Tuition-Setting Authority Determine Whether Tuition Increases at Community Colleges with New Promise Programs?	2
“People That Look Like Me Commit Crime”: Racial Beliefs Among Campus Police Officers	2
Changing Undergraduate Funding Mix and Graduate Degree Attainment	2
Underprepared Overachievers: A Study of Latin American Graduate Students Studying Abroad in the United States	2
In the Seventh Year You Will Not Rest: Faculty Members’ Sensemaking of Productivity During the Sabbatical	2
Developing Appreciative Attitudes Toward Jews: A Multi-Campus Investigation	2
How STEM Undergraduates Choose, Navigate, and Integrate Interdisciplinarity in College and Beyond	2
Expanding Faculty Members’ Zone of Proximal Development to Enact Collective Agency for Racial Equity in Faculty Hiring	2
Horizontal and Vertical Racial Segregation in Higher Education: Examining Trends in California Public Colleges	1
Relationships and Identity Influences on Engineering Doctoral Degree Completion Intentions	1
Student-Faculty Interactions, University Environment, and Academic Attitudes Among Black College Students: The Role of School Racial Composition	1
The Power of One More Course: How Different First Semester Credit Loads Affect Community College Student Persistence	1
Examining Mathematics Self-Efficacy as a Mediator and a Moderator of the Gender Gap in STEM Education	1
“I Have to Be Very Intentional About How I Communicate:” Black Women Administrators’ Identity Navigation in Predominantly White Institutions	1
Emotional Distress and Access to Mental Healthcare Among First-Generation College Students During the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Identity in Doctoral Supervision: Perspectives on Agency and Structure	1
Unsung Heroes on Campus: Minority Veterans’ Transition Experiences by Race	1
A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Understanding Study Abroad’s Impact on Academic Success Among Community College Students	1
The Imperative to Promote Diversity Post- Students for Fair Admissions Analyzing the Effects of Student-Body Diversity on Attrition, GPA, and Bar Passage in Law Students	1
Rising Tides Don’t Create Racialized Change: Analyzing Institutional Change Projects in Postsecondary Philanthropy’s College Completion Agenda	1
Do Performance-Based Funding Policies Promote Prestige Ambitions? An Interest-Convergence Analysis	1
Advancing Equity in Graduate Pathways: Examining the Factors that Sustain and Develop Computing Graduate Aspirations	1
Quantity and Quality: Equity Considerations for the Funding of Categorical Programs in Community Colleges	1
From Comprehensive Services to No Support at All: How Institutional Agents Shape Student-Mothers’ Academic Success	1
Preparing for the STEM Pathways? Dual Enrollment and College Major Choice in STEM	1
Editor’s Note	1
Latent Growth Modeling of the Attitudes of Non-Muslims Toward Muslims in College: A Longitudinal Analysis	1
“May I Contribute Some Data to the Discussion?”: Negotiating Data Politics Through General Education Reform	1
A Narrative Inquiry Study Examining Gender and Sexuality Center Professionals’ Engagement with Anti-Racism	1
Examining Motivator Factors of STEM Undergraduate Persistence through Two-Factor Theory	1
Leveraging Power: A Multiple Embedded Case Study of Institutional Change Efforts for Racial Equity at Four Private Universities	1
Recruitment Redlining by Public Research Universities in the Los Angeles and Dallas Metropolitan Areas	1
Tuition, Targeting, and Tradeoffs: A Conjoint Analysis of Americans’ Preferences over the Design of Higher Education Subsidies	1
(In)visibility to Advocacy: The Insider–Outsider Experiences of AfroLatinX Higher Education Professionals	1
Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Psychological Well-Being and Distress Across the College Years	1
The Impacts and Experiences of Corequisite Remediation for Latino Students	1