Studies in Higher Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Studies in 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.)
ArticleCitations
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions68
The entrepreneurial university concept as a narrative of change in HEIs50
Sex differences in scientific productivity and impact are largely explained by the proportion of highly productive individuals: a whole-population study of researchers across six disciplines in Sweden49
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)49
Preparing for RAE 2020 in Hong Kong: academics’ research, writing and publishing trajectories in a neoliberal governance landscape44
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities41
Financial support differentially aids retention of students from households with lower incomes: a UK case study37
Questions instead of majors: implementing a self-authored concentration program36
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support32
Undergraduate dissertation problems: an aggregate cross-sectional analysis from five Latin American universities30
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity30
Micro-processes of knowledge sharing in higher education: international students as a source30
Industrial doctorates: a systematic literature review and future research agenda27
The intergenerational climate of Spanish university research25
Early dropout predictors in social sciences and management degree students24
Coping with paradoxical demands: the dual position of deans in French business schools22
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?20
Studying the gender gap in academic research production among Canadian university professors using the multilevel approach to gender inequalities framework20
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how19
The critical-constructive potential of academic development: a case study18
Multiple roles of the state – federal states and their roles in how universities compete in Germany18
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges18
How do universities compete?18
Work-integrated learning in the humanities, arts and social sciences: where to from here?17
The community engagement for impact (CEFI) framework : an evidence-based strategy to facilitate social change17
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators17
Revisiting postliminal variation in threshold concepts: issues of unexpected transformation and legitimisation17
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data16
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands16
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses16
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study15
Causal evidence of the effect of a course specific mathematical learning and support center on economics students’ performance and affective variables15
Endurance in the face of environmental transformations: a practice-oriented perspective on organizational identity15
Predicting dropout in Higher Education across borders15
‘It’s like two Europes here, the West and the East’. Belonging and fitting in at an elite graduate school14
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists14
Lived experiences of diverse university staff during COVID-19: an examination of workplace wellbeing14
Are university leaders always the same? A longitudinal analysis of Vice-chancellors’ profile in English universities over the last twenty years14
A systematic review of the conceptualization, interpretation, and implementation of shared governance in post-secondary contexts14
Reconceptualising knowledge exchange and higher education institutions: broadening our understanding of motivations, channels, and stakeholders13
Automated and controlled processes in comprehending multiple documents13
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda13
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective13
Academic library expenditures and graduation rates: evidence from four-year colleges and universities in the US13
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities12
Managing the harmful effects of perceived overqualification amongst students in China: the roles of student leader and extracurricular activities12
Which teachers feel good and adopt a motivating teaching style? The role of teaching identity and motivation to teach12
Women scientists in knowledge exchanges with nonacademic actors: participation gap and emerging gender patterns12
Knowledge production at a crossroads: rising antidemocracy and diminishing academic freedom12
Neoliberalism, internationalization, Japanese exclusionism: the integration experiences of international academics at Japanese universities11
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education11
Higher education student engagement, leadership potential and self-perceived employability in the United Arab Emirates11
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education11
Identifying disability-related barriers to academic employment10
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities10
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools10
Student dissatisfaction in Higher Education: a ‘fuzzy’ index approach10
A framework for using SET when evaluating faculty10
Is a PhD worth more than a Master’s in the UK labour market? The role of specialisation and managerial position10
Why do students plagiarise? Informing higher education teaching and learning policy and practice10
Supportive supervision and doctoral student creativity: the double-edged sword of family support10
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature9
How can scientists and designers find ways of working together? A case study of playful learning to co-design visual interpretations of immunology concepts9
Understanding student success in higher education in Azerbaijan: the role of student engagement9
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada9
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system9
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education9
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy9
‘I am just a loser of higher education’: a framework for comparative analysis of the value of adult higher education derived from a Chinese study8
Constructing a women-friendly academic ecology: understanding the push and pull forces on Pakistani women academics’ research productivity8
The regional mission in a merged multi-campus university college: a case study from Western Norway8
Public engagement professionals in a prestige economy: Ghosts in the machine8
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective8
Nuancing the roles of entrepreneurial universities in regional economic development8
Curricular, interactional, and structural diversity: identifying factors affecting learning outcomes8
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation8
Promoting progression in higher education teacher training: how does cognitive support enhance student physics teachers’ content knowledge development?8
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability8
Player, Purist, Pragmatist: a comparison of employability strategies in access to the solicitors’ profession via alternative degree pathways8
Correction8
Social moderation and calibration versus codification: a way forward for academic standards in higher education?8
What motivates undergraduate students to read beyond their lecture notes?8
The regional impact of spin-offs’ innovative activity: unveiling the effect of scientific knowledge and parent university’s specialization8
Students' proficiency evaluation: a non-parametric multilevel latent variable model approach7
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?7
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan7
Incentivizing knowledge exchange engagement: direct and indirect benefits of external engagement7
‘Re-thinking a Bachelor of Arts for the 21st-Century precariat’7
University teachers’ self-reported emotions and electrodermal activity during teaching-related working events7
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education6
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark6
Progressions in Learning in the Age of (Mis)Information (PLATO) – Advances in Higher Education Learning Research6
Faculty engagement in university-industry research partnerships: findings from a developing country6
A temporal-agential lens on the reintegration experiences of Chinese early career STEM returnees6
Faculty perspectives on the changing research and teaching career tracks of academics at private universities in Kazakhstan6
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university6
Exploring the influence of innovativeness on the pace of internationalisation of university spin-outs: a born global perspective6
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening6
Editorial6
Assessing creative thinking skills in higher education: deficits and improvements6
Portraying a growing field of study: a scientometric review of research on international branch campuses6
Does PBL improve own apprenticeship abilities’ development and subject’s overcoming? The reality behind students’ professional success6
Probing university teachers’ self-study experiences: insights from a systematic review spanning two decades6
Institutional logics analysis in higher education research5
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education5
Foreword5
Developing quality culture in higher education in Taiwan: the changes within quality assurance mechanisms5
Trust- and distrust-building mechanisms in academic spin-off relationships with a parent university5
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data5
Assessing entrepreneurial intentions through experiential learning, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial attitude5
Shareholder networks of university spinoff companies: firm development and regional characteristics5
Synergy effects in learning? The influence of mathematics as a second subject on teacher students’ physics content knowledge5
Fostering disciplinary literacy through model annotations: the case of historical reasoning5
Academic engagement in Portugal: the role of institutional diversity, individual characteristics and modes of knowledge production5
Out of sight but not out of mind: on the North–South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus5
Get the balance right: lessons from UK higher education in managing environmental and economic performance5
Measuring what matters: the positioning of students in feedback processes within national student satisfaction surveys5
Impostor feelings and academic decision making: an anchoring vignette approach5
Foreword5
The gap between knowledge and belief: narrative, affect and students’ deeper learning in higher education5
A comparative study of the survival of university spin-off companies (USOs) in the post-industrial UK West Midlands region5
What influences university graduates’ entrepreneurship within different time horizons after graduation?5
A holistic approach to student empowerment and assessment of its impact on educational outcomes through psychological ownership5
Partisan registration of faculty in flagship colleges4
University students’ socio-emotional skills: the role of the teaching and learning environment4
The personal and institutional impacts of a mass participation leadership programme for women working in Higher Education: a longitudinal analysis4
An exploration of degree apprentice perspectives: a Q methodology study4
Supporting the development of students with disabilities in higher education: access, stigma, identity, and power4
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations4
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints4
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty4
Human-AI collaboration patterns in AI-assisted academic writing4
When artificial intelligence substitutes humans in higher education: the cost of loneliness, student success, and retention4
Cosmopolitan agency and meaningful intercultural interactions: an ecological and person-in-context conceptualisation4
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach4
Learning from senior academics’ perspectives of success and failure4
The impact of community engagement on undergraduate social responsibility attitudes4
Identifying skills, qualifications, and attributes expected to do a PhD4
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?4
Why are lower socioeconomic background students underrepresented in Erasmus? A focus on the selection into mobility and degree course organization4
Let the cat out of the bag: a critical incident analysis of teaching entrepreneurship competencies from the teachers’ perspective4
Modeling appeals in university accreditation in Chile: an exploratory study4
Moving beyond self-reports to estimate the prevalence of commercial contract cheating: an Australian study4
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing4
Relationship between team learning profiles and outcomes in team project-based learning: a cluster analysis4
Predictors of emotional engagement in doctoral education4
‘Better than watching daytime TV': sickness presenteeism in UK academics4
Closing the middle-skills gap widened by digitalization: how technical universities can contribute through Challenge-Based Learning4
Soft skills centrality in graduate studies offerings4
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia4
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities4
Supporting students from equity groups: experiences of staff and considerations for institutions4
How do self-regulation and effort in test-taking contribute to undergraduate students’ critical thinking performance?4
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions4
Foreword4
Can you feel the change of seasons? Perspectives of academic staff on organizational change4
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions4
From surface to deep learning approaches with Generative AI in higher education: an analytical framework of student agency4
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress4
In-depth analysis of female pracademics’ experiences in Poland3
The heterogeneity of European Higher Education Institutions: a configurational approach3
Does gradeless learning affect students’ academic performance? A study of effects over time3
How institutional resources affect university students’ learning outcomes: evidence from the 2023 university student learning experience survey in China3
Sense of belonging in higher education students: an Australian longitudinal study from 2013 to 20193
The association between course selection and academic performance: exploring psychological interpretations3
Construction and operationalisation of an Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM) via a systematic literature review (2016–2022)3
Correction3
The agency-structure complex in international research collaboration: evidence from a Chinese elite university3
Engagement and emotional exhaustion among higher education students; a mixed-methods study of four student profiles3
Compensatory advantage after the first year at university in the Catalan system: between continuing, transferring and dropping out3
A call for innovation culture in Polish academics’ vision of an ideal-type university3
Personal values matter: international students’ university selection3
‘Transnational’ and ‘transcultural’: their divergence and convergence in international higher education*3
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach3
The winner’s curse? Temporal and spatial impacts of higher education expansion on graduate employment and social mobility3
Correction3
The role of teaching staff in fostering perceived employability of university students3
Revisiting the institutionalization of Tongshi education in Chinese universities: a comparative-historical lens3
Social network analysis and educational change: unravelling the role of innovative teaching staff in a higher education environment3
Explaining academic researchers’ performance from the Ability–Motivation–Opportunity (AMO) perspective3
Agency in academic promotion: self-oriented and socially-oriented strategies among Australian academics3
Academic return migration amidst North-to-South trend: an integrative inquiry into the case of Chinese international STEM researchers3
A phenomenographic exploration of course leaders’ understandings of interdisciplinarity3
Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic3
On university competition3
Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education3
Students’ beliefs and attitudes towards cooperative learning, and their relationship to motivation and approach to learning3
Instructor use of academic alerts and its impact on student outcomes: controlling for selection bias3
Investigating the interconnection between financial performance and eco-efficiency in British universities: a roadmap towards sustainable higher education3
The intellectual-state relationship and academic freedom in China: a reappraisal3
The Chinese idea of a university in flux: academic freedom and institutional autonomy under entrepreneurial reforms in the GBA3
Interest–Major Fit predicts study satisfaction and/or achievement? Comparing different ways of assessment3
Antagonistic identity discourses in career transitions: an autoethnographic study in higher education3
A lucky draw? Theorising how work placements develop diverse university students’ career stories3
Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability3
Beyond markets. On field competition in higher education3
Morphology of mergers and their impact on performance and accounting metrics in HEIs: evidence from a small European country3
Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review3
Wanting somewhere else: institutional and department support for foreign-born leadership educators3
Stakeholder-centered development of new curriculum content in higher education: a case study in creating a course on the green and digital transformation of SMEs3
Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study3
Design thinking mindset: scale development and validation3
Addressing authorship dilemmas in scholarly publications: a solution-oriented study2
COVID-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children2
How supervisor Machiavellianism affects graduate student creativity: a mediated moderation model2
Capacity and willingness in higher education accreditation: when incentives are not enough2
Challenges and success factors of transnational higher education: a systematic review2
Referee quality and article citations: a case study of a finance journal2
On institutional belongingness and academic performance: mediating effects of social self-efficacy and metacognitive strategies2
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings2
University education and entrepreneurial intentions of European students: insights into the Theory of Planned Behaviour complemented by skills2
Administrative positions, research performance, and winning awards2
Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary2
Extending the university mission and business model: influences and implications2
Spirit at work and its impact on employee outcomes in Australian higher education2
The state of work-based learning development in EU higher education: learnings from the WEXHE project2
Gender, self-efficacy and attrition from STEM programmes: evidence from Danish survey and registry data2
What impacts matriculation decisions? Identifying students’ university choice factors on a global scale with Artificial Intelligence2
Enabling and exploiting student expertise: the case of a Norwegian centre for excellence in education2
‘It’s paradoxical, but it works' – Towards ambidexterity in external quality assurance: the case of Roman Catholic ecclesiastical higher education2
Academic procrastination and inappropriate use of social networks among university students2
Understanding continuous use intention of technology among higher education teachers in emerging economy: evidence from integrated TAM, TPACK, and UTAUT model2
Towards a framework for the promotion of business management graduate employability: an extended CareerEDGE model2
Exploring the spatial belonging of students in higher education2
The diversity of the English higher education system: a multilevel quantitative analysis2
Entrepreneurial universities and the effect of the types of vocational education and internships on graduates’ employability2
Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities2
Reimagining curricula: effects of cultural (in)sensitivity of curricula on racially minoritised students’ engagement2
Who gets a job sooner? Results from a national survey of master’s graduates2
The effect of journal metrics on academic resume assessment2
The university at the crossroads of three ecologies: natural environment, culture and economy2
Best practice learning in cooperative entrepreneurship to engage business students in the SDGs2
Gender identity and access to higher education2
Gender and leadership in public higher education in South Asia: examining the individual, socio-cultural and organizational barriers to female inclusion2
Antecedents of undergraduate research skills and the mediating role of grit2
Positioning and repositioning in higher education: first year students engaging with the world2
Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review2
Measuring student discussion engagement in the college classroom: a scale validation study2
Development, validation and deployment of the EmployABILITY scale2
An adaptive methodology for curriculum redesign based on performance indicators of the student progression2
Navigating and negotiating global science: tensions in China’s national science system2
Elite UK Business Schools: from cathedrals of learning to cathedrals of earning?2
Delivering blended learning to transnational students: students’ perceptions and needs-satisfaction2
Socially negotiating privacy boundaries and academic identities2
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets2
International students in Portuguese higher education: who are they and what are their choices?2
Expecting better: effectively conveying time allocation expectations to students2
How do university faculty feel about grading? Insights from a control-value theory perspective2
An international exploration of post-PhD careers. Discussing the issues of employability and intersectorial mobility2
The production of gender-specific scholarly literature in Romania: the weak institutionalisation of Gender Studies in higher education2
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