OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Education and Training is 8. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
All good things come in threes – required skill sets in the graduate labour market in Germany	80
Understanding the motivational predictors of students’ persistence in work placement learning tasks	58
Does renaming improve public attitudes toward vocational education and training in higher education? Evidence from a survey experiment	50
Enhancing the effects of creativity training for business school students through art-based methods and blended learning	47
A disruptive model for delivering higher education programs within the context of entrepreneurship education	36
Mobile game-based learning in cultural heritage education: a bibliometric analysis	33
Editorial: international enterprise and entrepreneurship education	32
Girls in the combined cadet force: a qualitative exploration of the impact of their experiences on their graduate employability skills	30
“Still haven't found what I am looking for”: rural black students' perceived work readiness and assessment of labor market access	24
How to develop higher education curricula towards employability? A multi-stakeholder approach	24
Validation of measurement scales for undergraduate students' self-perceived employability and university commitment in the United Arab Emirates	24
Education and training for industry 4.0: a case study of a manufacturing ecosystem	23
Virtual internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring IT students satisfaction	23
Developing entrepreneurial competencies through deliberate practice	22
Predicting students' soft skills: the role of psychological capital, psychological well-being and grade levels	22
The effect of role model teachers on students' entrepreneurial competencies and intentions	22
Narrative-based learning using mobile devices	21
Multilevel comprehension for labor market inclusion: a qualitative study on experts' perspectives on Industry 4.0 competences	21
Individual entrepreneurial orientation: comparison of business and STEM students	21
Employability tautological trauma	20
Three decades of interventions for the unemployed – review of practices between 1990 and 2020 and their effects on (re) employment competencies	20
Thresholds for dis/trust: exploring the impact of standards-based reforms on the process of being and becoming a VET teacher in England and Austria	19
Utilizing mobile-learning and CAP(E) lesson framework in improving the productive skills of learners in a hybrid environment	18
Mentoring students in higher education for reflection and development of employability competences: a pre-test post-test design	17
Who will teach that class? Perspectives on teacher shortages from English and Australian vocational education and training sectors	17

Influence of role models on the entrepreneurial skills of science and technology undergraduates	17
The HEXACO, academic motivation and learning approaches: evidence from a central Asian country	16
Digital entrepreneurship intention and digital entrepreneurship behavior: the mediating role of managing learning and entrepreneurship education	16
Variety of entrepreneurial skills measured in the entrepreneurship education literature	16
The expectations of employability skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the communication and media industry in Malaysia	16
Differences in self-perceived employability between university and VET students: an analysis of emerging adults in Spain	16
Analysing student satisfaction with teaching strategies in vocational education	15
What makes better career opportunities for young graduates? Examining acquired employability skills in higher education institutions	15
Blended learning in entrepreneurship education: a systematic literature review	15
Continuing to choose the hospitality industry after graduation: the role of mentorship and internship satisfaction	14
Building Heroes: building bridges to support the transition from military to civilian employment in the construction industry	14
Assessing graduates' transversal competences through an adapted MMI model: confidant interview vs stress interview	14
STEM education in England: questioning the “leaky pipeline” metaphor	13
Linkages between entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurship education: new evidence on the gender imbalance	12
Retention of newcomers and factors influencing turnover intentions and behaviour: a review of the literature	12
Perceived artificial intelligence literacy and employability of university students	12
Relationship between the informal social networks and entrepreneurial intentions of Chinese college students: the mediating role of entrepreneurial learning	12
The question of where: entrepreneurship education beyond curricular practices	12
Built environment professionals’ perspective on digital technology skills	11
The potential of virtual internships for management education: capturing student journey through experiential learning	11
TVET is under-resourced and held in low regard? Teachers’ perceptions of TVET in Bangladesh	11
Vulnerable workers and the demise of adult education in England	11
All the lonely people, where do they all come from: age moderating the mediation effect of loneliness among Portuguese students	11
Unleashing entrepreneurial potential: venture creation and self-directed experiential learning on social media amongst secondary school-aged business owners	11
Leading towards the students’ career development and career intentions through using multidimensional soft skills in the digital age	10
Gendered personality traits and entrepreneurial intentions: insights from information technology education	10
Systematic mapping: educational and social entrepreneurship innovations (2015–2020)	10
Experiential Entrepreneurship Education and the student-focused Entrepreneurial University	10
CompEntre 4.0: developing and validating a competency model for Industry 4.0 startups	9
Understanding undergraduates' work values as a tool to reduce organizational turnover	9
Guest editorial: Technology infused education, preparing graduates for a digital employment market	9
The built environment craftmanship in higher education institutions: issues and prospects from stakeholders' perception	8
Education as a key to provide the growth of entrepreneurial intentions	8
Students’ first professional placement: unravelling expectations and realities	8
Situating imposter syndrome in the experience of becoming and being an entrepreneurship educator	8
Aligning institutional resource commitment with strategic pedagogical development to create online distance learning provision in UK HEIs	8
Employer perspectives on workforce integration of self-initiated expatriates in Canada	8
Student perceptions of Living Lab research internships in the COVID-19 pandemic – a Dutch case study	8
The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention: the moderating role of perceived governmental support	8
Interns’ experience with human resource practices and loyalty toward host internship sites	8
Motivating university management students on studying research methods: influence of career applicability, and emotional and cognitive interests	8
The effect of entrepreneurship education on graduate students' entrepreneurial alertness and the mediating role of entrepreneurial mindset	8
Enterprise education: pre-service further education teachers' impressions and aspirations	8
Stories of employability: improving interview narratives with image-supported past-behaviour storytelling training	8