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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“It Wasn’t What I Expected”: Students’ Perspectives and Experiences on a Higher Education Merger	30
It’s Just Too Much: Narratives of International Educators Navigating COVID-19	25
Racialized Exclusion of Faculty Couples of Color at Predominantly White Institutions	24
Expectations versus Lived Realities: Black Men Graduate Students and Their Evolving Epistemologies Toward Collaboration	23
“Architects of Change or Its Victim”: University Presidents’ Perspectives on the Role of Competing Values During the COVID-19 Crisis	23
Time Poverty: A Hidden Factor Connecting Online Enrollment and College Outcomes?	22
Stated Value, Renewed Commitment? Community and Technical Colleges’ Response to Racial (In)equities During COVID-19	21
Spillover Effects: A Comparison of Course and Institutional Outcomes for Traditional and Intensive Introductory Biology	21
Correction	19
Building Capacity for Collective Possibilities: Reimagining Research Teams in Higher Education	18
Seeking Tenure While Black: Lawsuit Composite Counterstories of Black Professors at Historically White Institutions	15
Differentiation Dynamics in Recruiting Diversity: An Investigation of Student List Purchases Targeting Students of Color	14
Conflict or Complementary: Black Student Perspectives on Science and Religion	13
“Justice, Like Beauty, is in the Eye of the Beholder”*: A Critical Historical Reimagining of Justice Possibilities in an Anti-DEI Higher Education Landscape	13
The Far Reach of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan: Consideration of Professional School Degrees	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
Contextualizing Undergraduate Research: A Within-Subject Comparison of Student Learning Gains	12
Expanding Faculty Members’ Zone of Proximal Development to Enact Collective Agency for Racial Equity in Faculty Hiring	12
Intersectional Dynamics and Academic Advancement in the United States	12
Moscas en La Leche: A Critical Evaluation of Hispanic-Serving Institution Campus Spaces Through Photovoice Methodology	11
How STEM Undergraduates Choose, Navigate, and Integrate Interdisciplinarity in College and Beyond	11
Quantity and Quality: Equity Considerations for the Funding of Categorical Programs in Community Colleges	11
Faculty Resource Mobilization During the 2024 Liberate Palestine Student Protest Movement	11
“So Proud of That Moment”: Black Queer Men Disrupting Masculinity and Heteronormativity in Mentorship Programs	10
The Value of Work Flexibility: Staff Perceptions in Higher Education	10

Complicating Education Geographies: Examining the Relationship Between Postsecondary Transfer Landscapes and Student Outcomes	10
“I Always Ended Up Getting Close to Other People Who are Autistic”: Autistic College Students’ Friendship Development	10
Matching Potential with Promise: How Oklahoma’s Promise Shapes Academic Undermatch	10
Did Emergency Remote Teaching and the COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbate Inequities? Considering Institution Type, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity	10
Institutionalizing Success: Practices and Policies at HBCUs that Promote Student Development and Degree Attainment	9
The Specificity of Anti-Blackness: A Critical Co-Constructed Autoethnography on the Marginalizing Experiences of Early-Career Black Faculty	9
Whose Last Dollar? Estimating the Effects of Promise Programs on Financial Aid Awards	9
The Disruption in U.S. Public Higher Education Enrollments, 2009–2019: Sources of Inter-State Variation by Tier	9
Where Do I Go from Here? Examining the Transition of Undocumented Students Graduating from College	9
Experiencing Harm and Betrayal: Black Staff Members’ Narratives During the Height and Ongoing Wake of COVID-19	9
Well-Written: The Socialization and Transfer of Academic Writing	9
The Costs of Time: Examining the Extent of the Credit Loss Penalty in College Transfer	8
“I Am Overworked and I’m Not Taking Care of Myself”: The Experiences of Black Men in Doctoral Programs Navigating Racial Battle Fatigue	8
“Don’t Let it Get in the Way of Work”: Black Women Academics’ Navigation of Romantic Relationships	8
The Community College Transfer and Articulation Network	8
Committing to Racial Justice as a White Woman in STEM: Using Constructivist Grounded Theory to Explore White Activism	8
Post-Baccalaureate Federal Loans De-Subsidization: Impacts on Compositional Attributes, Extensive and Intensive Borrowing Margins, and Anticipatory Effects	7
Policing Black Life: Black Student Leaders’ Stories of Race and Racism	7
Organizational Trust, Working Parents in Student Affairs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Identifying Ideal Worker Norms in Student Affairs Practice: An Analysis of Latinx/é Mid-Level Professional Experiences	6
Governing Boards as Institutional Umbrellas: A Framework for Strategic Governance Amid Legislative Challenges	6
The Effects of Federal Work-Study on First-Year College Outcomes: A Regression Discontinuity Approach	6
Exploring How Faculty Apply Professional Legitimacy When Advising Students About Graduate Education	6
The View from the Top: The Relationship Between Parental Education and Graduate Enrollment	6
Navigating Uncertainty: Chinese International Students’ Decision-Making and Coping Strategies in Response to Trump’s Return	6
“People That Look Like Me Commit Crime”: Racial Beliefs Among Campus Police Officers	6
The Public, the Private, and the Pandemic: Local Solutions and External Constraints to Serving First-Generation, Low-Income College Students During COVID-19	6
“Nothing Will Change” : Black Staff Counternarratives on Anti-Black Racism and DEI in Higher Education	5
A Narrative Inquiry Study Examining Gender and Sexuality Center Professionals’ Engagement with Anti-Racism	5
Racial Battle Fatigue Among Black Undergraduates: Examining the Role of General, Academic, and Racial Campus Climates	5
To Give or to Take: Exploring Effects of Reductions in Pell Lifetime Eligibility	5
Gender Equity and Due Process in Campus Sexual Assault Adjudication Procedures	5
“I Have to Be Very Intentional About How I Communicate:” Black Women Administrators’ Identity Navigation in Predominantly White Institutions	5
Rising Tides Don’t Create Racialized Change: Analyzing Institutional Change Projects in Postsecondary Philanthropy’s College Completion Agenda	5
The Enrollment of Racially Minoritized Students in Law School: Factors Predicting Within-School Changes Over Time	5
Correction	5
The Legal Logic of Whiteness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Policymakers’ Rhetoric in CRT Legislation	5
“The COVID-19 Extension Needs to Be Unpacked”: Tenure-Seeking BIPOC Faculty Perspectives at Research-Intensive Institutions	5
Preparing for the STEM Pathways? Dual Enrollment and College Major Choice in STEM	5
Faith as Resistance: A Qualitative Examination of Black Doctoral Mothers in a Time of Covid-19	5
Navigating Marginality Beyond the Shadows: The Experiences of Somali Bantu Students in U.S. Higher Education	5
Advancing Presidential Careers: Operationalizing Sponsorship in Higher Education	4
The Development of Student Autonomy in the Undergraduate Research Lab	4
Financial Aid as Whiteness as Property: Implications for Research and Practice	4
The Optics of Support: 2SLGBTQIA+ Students’ Perspectives on Institutional Leadership in Higher Education During Times of Political Hostility	4
“What I Had Experienced Was, in Fact, a Microaggression”: A Phenomenological Inquiry into International Students of Color Developing Critical Racial Consciousness	4
Examining the Influence of Texas’ Strategic Plan for Increasing University Research: Loose Coupling and Research Production at Regional Public Universities	4
College Student Sex Work: A Qualitative Content Analysis of U.S. Higher Education Sex Work Policies	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
Toward Opportunity-Centered Institutional Logics: Evidence from Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Science Equity Efforts	4

Incentivizing Equity? The Effects of Performance-Based Funding on Race-Based Gaps in College Completion	4
A Model of Engagement in Hostile Legislative Environments: University General Counsel’s Approaches to Advising Institutional Leaders	4
Antagonistic Categories: An Afropessimist Examination of Black Undergraduates' Experiences in the Afterlife of School Segregation	4
When Expectation Isn’t Reality: Racial Disparities in Overestimation and STEM Attrition Among First-Year Students in College	3
Seeking STEM: The Causal Impact of Need-Based Grant Aid on Undergraduates’ Field of Study	3
Influence of Anti-DEI Legislation on Biology Instructors’ Agency Regarding Inclusive Content	3
Editor’s Note	3
Advancing a Framework of Racialized Administrative Burdens in Higher Education Policy	3
Balancing Access and Success: Admissions Officers’ Sensemaking of Test-Optional Policies at Less-Selective Public Institutions	3
Staff Labor Organizing in Higher Education: How Imperfect Unions and Organizational Subjugation Shape Resistance and Change Efforts	3
Organizing Shared Approaches to Equity Work	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
Introduction: Countering Legislative Attacks on Higher Education: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions	2
Advancing the Institution and the Individual: Women’s Enactment of Equity-Minded Leadership in Colleges and Universities	2
Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Psychological Well-Being and Distress Across the College Years	2
The Backdrop of Equity Efforts: The Parallels of Campus Staff and Community Organizing	2
Protecting Equity Together: Shared Equity Leadership in Restrictive and Precarious Legal Environments	2
The Outcomes of the American Renaissance Student	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
Affirmations of Black Being: Explicating the Potentialities of Self-Love in Higher Education	2
From Comprehensive Services to No Support at All: How Institutional Agents Shape Student-Mothers’ Academic Success	2
Horizontal and Vertical Racial Segregation in Higher Education: Examining Trends in California Public Colleges	2
Designing Effective Internships: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Sociocultural Aspects of Intern Satisfaction and Development	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
Advancing a Model of Self-Definition for Transgender College Students	2
Unpacking Student-Facing Rationales for University Required Diversity Coursework	2
“I Just Really Like Us”: A Mixed Methods Social Network Analysis of the Longstanding Support Networks of Black Women Faculty	2
“Seeing How the System Works…”: How Do Institutions of Higher Education Support Black Undergraduate Women’s Religious and Spiritual Development?	2
Investing in the Workforce: The Impact of Performance-Based Funding on Student Earnings Outcomes	2
Electoral Accountability for Rising Tuition in the US: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Observational Data	2
A Critical Discourse Analysis of University Responses to the Shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue	2