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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
It’s Just Too Much: Narratives of International Educators Navigating COVID-19	31
Racialized Exclusion of Faculty Couples of Color at Predominantly White Institutions	26
“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
Spillover Effects: A Comparison of Course and Institutional Outcomes for Traditional and Intensive Introductory Biology	23
Differentiation Dynamics in Recruiting Diversity: An Investigation of Student List Purchases Targeting Students of Color	18
Stated Value, Renewed Commitment? Community and Technical Colleges’ Response to Racial (In)equities During COVID-19	17
Expectations versus Lived Realities: Black Men Graduate Students and Their Evolving Epistemologies Toward Collaboration	17
Building Capacity for Collective Possibilities: Reimagining Research Teams in Higher Education	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
Correction	14
Time Poverty: A Hidden Factor Connecting Online Enrollment and College Outcomes?	13
How STEM Undergraduates Choose, Navigate, and Integrate Interdisciplinarity in College and Beyond	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
Moscas en La Leche: A Critical Evaluation of Hispanic-Serving Institution Campus Spaces Through Photovoice Methodology	12
The Far Reach of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan: Consideration of Professional School Degrees	12
Conflict or Complementary: Black Student Perspectives on Science and Religion	12
Faculty Resource Mobilization During the 2024 Liberate Palestine Student Protest Movement	12
Intersectional Dynamics and Academic Advancement in the United States	12
Contextualizing Undergraduate Research: A Within-Subject Comparison of Student Learning Gains	12
Quantity and Quality: Equity Considerations for the Funding of Categorical Programs in Community Colleges	12
Expanding Faculty Members’ Zone of Proximal Development to Enact Collective Agency for Racial Equity in Faculty Hiring	12
“So Proud of That Moment”: Black Queer Men Disrupting Masculinity and Heteronormativity in Mentorship Programs	11
Complicating Education Geographies: Examining the Relationship Between Postsecondary Transfer Landscapes and Student Outcomes	11
Did Emergency Remote Teaching and the COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbate Inequities? Considering Institution Type, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity	10

“I Always Ended Up Getting Close to Other People Who are Autistic”: Autistic College Students’ Friendship Development	10
The Value of Work Flexibility: Staff Perceptions in Higher Education	10
Matching Potential with Promise: How Oklahoma’s Promise Shapes Academic Undermatch	10
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 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
Where Do I Go from Here? Examining the Transition of Undocumented Students Graduating from College	9
Resource Dependence and Indirect Power: Explaining Inequality in Universities’ F&A Rates	8
Committing to Racial Justice as a White Woman in STEM: Using Constructivist Grounded Theory to Explore White Activism	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
The Community College Transfer and Articulation Network	8
Policing Black Life: Black Student Leaders’ Stories of Race and Racism	8
“Don’t Let it Get in the Way of Work”: Black Women Academics’ Navigation of Romantic Relationships	8
The View from the Top: The Relationship Between Parental Education and Graduate Enrollment	7
Post-Baccalaureate Federal Loans De-Subsidization: Impacts on Compositional Attributes, Extensive and Intensive Borrowing Margins, and Anticipatory Effects	7
The Public, the Private, and the Pandemic: Local Solutions and External Constraints to Serving First-Generation, Low-Income College Students During COVID-19	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	6
Organizational Trust, Working Parents in Student Affairs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Rising Tides Don’t Create Racialized Change: Analyzing Institutional Change Projects in Postsecondary Philanthropy’s College Completion Agenda	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
Identifying Ideal Worker Norms in Student Affairs Practice: An Analysis of Latinx/é Mid-Level Professional Experiences	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
Navigating Marginality Beyond the Shadows: The Experiences of Somali Bantu Students in U.S. Higher Education	5
The Legal Logic of Whiteness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Policymakers’ Rhetoric in CRT Legislation	5
“I Just Really Want to Do Something, Even if it’s Small, That is Changing the World for the better”—How Community College Students Grapple with Mental Health and Career Development	5
“I Have to Be Very Intentional About How I Communicate:” Black Women Administrators’ Identity Navigation in Predominantly White Institutions	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
Unlocking Narratives: Narrative Identity Theory and the Transformative Potential of College-In-Prison	5
“Nothing Will Change” : Black Staff Counternarratives on Anti-Black Racism and DEI in Higher Education	5
A Model of Engagement in Hostile Legislative Environments: University General Counsel’s Approaches to Advising Institutional Leaders	4
College Student Sex Work: A Qualitative Content Analysis of U.S. Higher Education Sex Work Policies	4
Correction	4
To Give or to Take: Exploring Effects of Reductions in Pell Lifetime Eligibility	4
Toward Opportunity-Centered Institutional Logics: Evidence from Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Science Equity Efforts	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
The Development of Student Autonomy in the Undergraduate Research Lab	4
The Enrollment of Racially Minoritized Students in Law School: Factors Predicting Within-School Changes Over Time	4
“What I Had Experienced Was, in Fact, a Microaggression”: A Phenomenological Inquiry into International Students of Color Developing Critical Racial Consciousness	4
Racial Battle Fatigue Among Black Undergraduates: Examining the Role of General, Academic, and Racial Campus Climates	4
Antagonistic Categories: An Afropessimist Examination of Black Undergraduates' Experiences in the Afterlife of School Segregation	4
Examining the Influence of Texas’ Strategic Plan for Increasing University Research: Loose Coupling and Research Production at Regional Public Universities	4
Financial Aid as Whiteness as Property: Implications for Research and Practice	4
Advancing Presidential Careers: Operationalizing Sponsorship in Higher Education	4
Faith as Resistance: A Qualitative Examination of Black Doctoral Mothers in a Time of Covid-19	4
Polarized Access to Higher Education: A Geospatial Analysis in Metro Atlanta	4

The Optics of Support: 2SLGBTQIA+ Students’ Perspectives on Institutional Leadership in Higher Education During Times of Political Hostility	4
Seeking STEM: The Causal Impact of Need-Based Grant Aid on Undergraduates’ Field of Study	3
Balancing Access and Success: Admissions Officers’ Sensemaking of Test-Optional Policies at Less-Selective Public Institutions	3
Editor’s Note	3
Latina Faculty at a Catholic Hispanic-Serving Institution: Critical Counter-Stories About Racialized & Gendered Experiences and Servingness	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
“I Just Really Like Us”: A Mixed Methods Social Network Analysis of the Longstanding Support Networks of Black Women Faculty	3
Influence of Anti-DEI Legislation on Biology Instructors’ Agency Regarding Inclusive Content	3
Advancing a Framework of Racialized Administrative Burdens in Higher Education Policy	3
When Expectation Isn’t Reality: Racial Disparities in Overestimation and STEM Attrition Among First-Year Students in College	3
Staff Labor Organizing in Higher Education: How Imperfect Unions and Organizational Subjugation Shape Resistance and Change Efforts	3
Unpacking Student-Facing Rationales for University Required Diversity Coursework	2
“Seeing How the System Works…”: How Do Institutions of Higher Education Support Black Undergraduate Women’s Religious and Spiritual Development?	2
Affirmations of Black Being: Explicating the Potentialities of Self-Love in Higher Education	2
The Backdrop of Equity Efforts: The Parallels of Campus Staff and Community Organizing	2
Introduction: Countering Legislative Attacks on Higher Education: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions	2
Carrying the Weight of Campus Change: The Role of Student Equity Leaders in Community College	2
“The Selectivity Divide: A Longitudinal Study of Religious Pluralism in United States Higher Education”	2
How Has the Post-9/11 GI Bill Affected Veteran Students’ College Loans? A Longitudinal Analysis of NPSAS Using Propensity Score Weighting	2
“Related to Race but Not Equal to Race”: An Intersectional Analysis of Asian International Students’ Sensemaking of Racism	2
Designing Effective Internships: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Sociocultural Aspects of Intern Satisfaction and Development	2
Protecting Equity Together: Shared Equity Leadership in Restrictive and Precarious Legal Environments	2
From Comprehensive Services to No Support at All: How Institutional Agents Shape Student-Mothers’ Academic Success	2
How Southeast Asian Students Develop Their Science Self-Efficacy During the First Year of College	2
Advancing a Model of Self-Definition for Transgender College Students	2
The Outcomes of the American Renaissance Student	2
Who are the “Scholars” in “Scholarship?”: How Higher Education Researchers Represent Positionality in Their Studies	2
Reconstructing PhD Admissions Through Organizational Learning	2
Electoral Accountability for Rising Tuition in the US: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Observational Data	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
Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Psychological Well-Being and Distress Across the College Years	2
Horizontal and Vertical Racial Segregation in Higher Education: Examining Trends in California Public Colleges	2
Advancing the Institution and the Individual: Women’s Enactment of Equity-Minded Leadership in Colleges and Universities	2
Investing in the Workforce: The Impact of Performance-Based Funding on Student Earnings Outcomes	2
Analyzing the Purposes and Mechanisms of Faculty Cluster Hiring Initiatives to Promote Racial Equity	2
Faculty Hiring: Exercising Professional Jurisdiction Over Epistemic Matters	2
At an Epistemological Crossroads: International Students’ Experiences with a Decolonizing Campus Tour	2