Studies in Higher Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Studies in 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)73
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how66
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists61
How can scientists and designers find ways of working together? A case study of playful learning to co-design visual interpretations of immunology concepts52
Early dropout predictors in social sciences and management degree students49
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators44
Automated and controlled processes in comprehending multiple documents44
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education39
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study39
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands38
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda36
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective35
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature33
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools33
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses32
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?31
Personal values matter: international students’ university selection30
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan29
Progressions in Learning in the Age of (Mis)Information (PLATO) – Advances in Higher Education Learning Research29
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions29
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach27
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?26
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data26
The Chinese idea of a university in flux: academic freedom and institutional autonomy under entrepreneurial reforms in the GBA25
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty24
Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability24
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty24
‘Better than watching daytime TV': sickness presenteeism in UK academics23
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening22
Partisan registration of faculty in flagship colleges21
Fostering disciplinary literacy through model annotations: the case of historical reasoning20
Institutional logics analysis in higher education research20
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress19
The impact of abusive supervision on the postgraduate students’ team creativity in higher education institutions19
Antecedents of undergraduate research skills and the mediating role of grit19
COVID-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children19
Administrative positions, research performance, and winning awards19
Capacity and willingness in higher education accreditation: when incentives are not enough19
Socially negotiating privacy boundaries and academic identities18
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings18
Undergraduates’ assessment enculturation in the neoliberal university: an anthropological study18
Delivering blended learning to transnational students: students’ perceptions and needs-satisfaction18
How supervisor Machiavellianism affects graduate student creativity: a mediated moderation model17
How social and emotional skills affect Chinese college student engagement in high-impact educational practices: a moderated mediation model17
Internship in the impasse of the duality of theory and practice: representation, imitation, compatibility, and tension in the university-industry relationship17
An adaptive methodology for curriculum redesign based on performance indicators of the student progression16
Career capital and the MBA: how gender capital supports career capital development16
Implications of crib sheets for student well-being and exam performance: a mixed methods study16
Measuring student discussion engagement in the college classroom: a scale validation study16
Society on board? External board members and the embedding of Swedish higher education organizations in society, 1998–201616
When will scientists say yes? Antecedents, consequences and limitations of crowdfunding in research16
The university at the crossroads of three ecologies: natural environment, culture and economy15
Fostering social entrepreneurship in university students: the moderating role of entrepreneurial creativity15
Entrepreneurial universities and the effect of the types of vocational education and internships on graduates’ employability15
Identifying critical factors in higher education studies: combining necessary condition and importance-performance map analyses14
Barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining campus food insecurity initiatives14
Gender and leadership in public higher education in South Asia: examining the individual, socio-cultural and organizational barriers to female inclusion14
Personal extenuating circumstances processes in higher education: are they helping or hindering?14
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue14
UK University teachers on inclusive education: conceptualizations, practices, opportunities and challenges13
When a B becomes an A: causal evidence on the effects of a journal ranking update on academics’ publication behavior13
Managerialism, accreditation and insecure academic employment across different higher education traditions12
Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes12
Diversity of undergraduates in STEM courses: individual and demographic differences in changes in self-efficacy, epistemic beliefs, and intrapersonal attribute profiles12
Practices of active learning in public universities in Ethiopia: student and faculty perceptions12
Can a work-readiness program mitigate unemployment scarring: the case of a co-operative education job market12
Double transitions of Chinese students in the ‘2 + 2’ articulation program under the influence of field coupling and social capital12
A within-person perspective for investigating transitional students’ academic learning and adjustment during the first university semester12
Subtypes of prescription stimulant misuse among students: a nuanced story12
Leveraging interorganizational networks to foster university-industry interactions11
Are accreditation signals being recognised? Business professionals’ awareness and views on accredited university business programmes11
A systematic review of students’ habitus in the higher education field: challenge and resilience11
Career ambitions of women academics. Are women willing and able to rise to the top in higher education institutions?11
Developmental trajectories during doctoral study: identifying heterogeneity in psychosocial factor’s development11
University entrepreneurship education and the emergence of radical and incremental innovation: a regional perspective11
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: an Australian study11
Management scholars’ perception of barriers and bridges to use crowdsourcing in science: qualitative research10
Research quality criteria in the Creative Arts10
Demographic influences on students’ self-efficacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion: a quantitative study in higher education in Sri Lanka10
Managing the rules of recognition: how early career academics negotiate career scripts through identity work10
University spin-offs: the past, the present, and the future10
A quantitative exploration of management undergraduates’ readiness for diversity and inclusion in the university environment10
Unlocking the black box of HPWPs-performance relationship in Vietnamese higher education context: the case of Ho Chi Minh City’s universities10
From defining to enacting interdisciplinary education: curriculum integration strategies among Hong Kong undergraduate interdisciplinary programmes9
What drives global science? The four competing narratives9
The research experience of postgraduate students: a mixed-methods study9
Governments harnessing the power of data to get ‘value for money’: a simulation study of England’s Office for Students B3 Proceed Metric9
Investigating the factors influencing academic staff attitudes toward the formation of a technological university9
Academically inbred presidents and university performance9
‘Walking through fog’: social inequalities and the journey to postgraduate taught study in England9
Student loan debt and family formation of youth in Japan9
Distributional properties of the statistic of online student evaluations the mean does not mean what you think it means8
Sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education: investment decisions on human capital in the presence of youth unemployment8
The impact of teaching on third mission activities of higher education institutions: evidence from the UK8
Mediated performance in the feedback process: reinforcing improvement8
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions8
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data8
How does it fear? Exploring the role of emotion and cognition in the entrepreneurship education-entrepreneurial intention link8
A customer experience lens for higher education in India using journey mapping and experience quality8
Social events, bridging courses, and academic skills trainings – participation in first-year courses and higher education dropout in Germany8
The relationship between debt aversion and college enrollment by gender, race, and ethnicity: a propensity scoring approach8
‘Growing from an acorn to an oak tree’: a thematic analysis of international students’ cross-cultural adjustment in the United States8
Measuring changes in critical thinking skills among university economics students: insights from domain-specific assessment8
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities8
Institutional confidence, underreporting and academic consequences of gender-based violence among university staff and students in Europe8
Participatory parity as a way forward for critical internationalisation studies8
More than just consumers? Alternative representations of students when higher education becomes ‘free’8
A text-mining analysis of Latin America Universities’ mission statements from a ‘Third Mission’ perspective8
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?8
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy8
Students’ online information use and learning progress in higher education – A critical literature review8
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system7
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education7
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education7
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support7
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities7
Predicting university dropout: connecting big data and structural models7
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges7
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities7
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada7
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation6
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints6
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark6
Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education6
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions6
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability6
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach6
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective6
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations6
The winner’s curse? Temporal and spatial impacts of higher education expansion on graduate employment and social mobility6
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities6
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity6
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university6
Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study6
Let the cat out of the bag: a critical incident analysis of teaching entrepreneurship competencies from the teachers’ perspective6
It is ambiguous, but I know what I am doing ’: undergraduates’ experiences and agency in an interdisciplinary programme6
Australia’s international alumni engagement strategy: an approach from soft power to knowledge diplomacy5
The production of gender-specific scholarly literature in Romania: the weak institutionalisation of Gender Studies in higher education5
De-westernising competition: ‘Harmony of competition’ in Chinese higher education5
Supervisors matter, but what about peers? The distinct contributions of quality supervision and peer support to doctoral students’ research experience5
Multilevel research on factors impacting international branch campuses’ global integration and local responsiveness: an empirical investigation of two Canadian cases5
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia5
Morphology of mergers and their impact on performance and accounting metrics in HEIs: evidence from a small European country5
Academic return migration amidst North-to-South trend: an integrative inquiry into the case of Chinese international STEM researchers5
Positioning and repositioning in higher education: first year students engaging with the world5
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students’ learning process5
Mapping the entrepreneurial university literature: a text mining approach5
On a pedagogy of authentic care in postgraduate research supervision5
Studying Chinese, studying in Chinese and studying with the Chinese: international students’ experiences and identity construction in Chinese-medium instruction (CMI) programs5
University education and entrepreneurial intentions of European students: insights into the Theory of Planned Behaviour complemented by skills5
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets5
Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary5
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education5
Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review5
How do university faculty feel about grading? Insights from a control-value theory perspective5
Organizational culture and educational aspirations of tribal students in higher education5
The post-study migration of EEA postgraduates: who is remaining to work in the UK?5
On institutional belongingness and academic performance: mediating effects of social self-efficacy and metacognitive strategies5
Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review5
Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities5
Integrating traditional knowledge of non-Western humanities and social sciences: a research agenda through the Chinese lens5
Tracing topic evolution in higher education: a text mining study on Italian universities5
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing5
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education5
Faculty engagement in university-industry research partnerships: findings from a developing country5
Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic5
Generative AI: is it a paradigm shift for higher education?4
Effects of academic dishonesty policy reminder on university students’ exam cheating – a double-blind randomized controlled experimental field study4
University-based social innovation and entrepreneurship education in Hong Kong: a curriculum analysis4
Ask ChatGPT first! Transforming learning experiences in the age of artificial intelligence4
Economic inclusion and ethnonational exclusion of Arabs in Israeli higher education: two tales of one policy4
What does it mean to be a nursing student? Exploring the development of professional identities in higher education4
Autonomy in decision-making and freshmen’s performance at university: evidence from Italy4
Careers and employability learning: pedagogical principles for higher education4
A comprehensive assessment of self-leadership among students in China’s ethnic regions: insights and implications for higher education4
Doctoral studies as a precarious identity process: deviance and the rational ideal of the doctoral process4
The reverse engagement gap: gender differences in external engagement among UK academics4
Manifestations of professional identity work: an integrative review of research in professional identity formation4
How does assessment shape student identities? An integrative review4
Does quality assurance matter for micro-credentials in higher education? Legitimacy, regulatory framework, and challenges in four Asian contexts4
How interdisciplinary is it? A new method for quantifying interdisciplinarity in student teams & examination of a large project-based program4
Factors influencing student help-seeking behavior during crisis: a mixed-method analysis in higher education4
The conceptualisation of socially responsible universities in higher education research: a systematic literature review4
The mediating role of self-regulatory emotions in the relationship between peer coaching and student learning in higher education4
Inclusive internationalisation: do different (social) groups of students need different internationalisation activities?4
An Elon Musk generalist or a specialist? The impacts of interdisciplinary learning on post-graduation outcomes4
Evaluating the efficacy of embedding employability into a second-year undergraduate module4
The implied peer: thesis writers’ feedback activities and experiences in group supervision4
Fragmentation of organizational identity in Saudi Universities: the impact of neoliberalism4
A tech-tonic shift: the complex dance of technology-enabled-learning and academic identity work in higher education4
‘Decent work’ as a higher education policy myopia: an ecosystem framework for policy-making4
Time-as-affect in neoliberal academy: theorizing chronopolitics as affective milieus in higher education4
Measuring the quality of patents among Latin-American universities4
Is merit-aid for all? The effects of aid-eligibility changes on college access in the United States4
Student (dis)satisfaction in UK higher education: teaching-only contracts, esteem uncertainty and research intensity4
Assessing students’ critical thinking abilities via a systematic evaluation of essays4
Undergraduate students’ perceptions of learning from foreign-born faculty in American university settings4
Cyberbullying of professors: what measures are in place in universities and what solutions are proposed by victims?4
Value generation and economic impact of the University of Granada4
A ‘doctoral compass’: strategic reflection, self-assessment and recalibration for navigating the ‘twin’ doctoral journey4
How does engaging in authentic research at undergraduate level contribute to student well-being?4
Reports of practitioners’ use of public affairs faculty published research4
Understanding AIgiarism in higher education: the lens of general AI attitudes and moral disengagement4
Validation of the revised scale of students’ attitudes towards research4
Teacher education students’ experiences navigating inherent requirements within their courses of study4
Reimagining China–US university relations: a global ‘ecosystem’ perspective4
Perceived academic working conditions and career choices of Chinese PhD students4
Global prescriptions and local adaptations: the role of political culture in shaping governance strategies for university funding4
Trust- and distrust-building mechanisms in academic spin-off relationships with a parent university3
A Bourdieusian exploration of international students’ WeChatting experiences in China: a habitus of digital learning3
The intergenerational climate of Spanish university research3
Understanding student success in higher education in Azerbaijan: the role of student engagement3
Interest–Major Fit predicts study satisfaction and/or achievement? Comparing different ways of assessment3
A systematic review of the conceptualization, interpretation, and implementation of shared governance in post-secondary contexts3
Get the balance right: lessons from UK higher education in managing environmental and economic performance3
Precarity of post doctorate career breaks: does gender matter?3
Personal Academic Tutors and student continuation: the importance of establishing relationships3
Research independence: drivers and impact on PhD students’ careers3
‘I am just a loser of higher education’: a framework for comparative analysis of the value of adult higher education derived from a Chinese study3
The regional impact of spin-offs’ innovative activity: unveiling the effect of scientific knowledge and parent university’s specialization3
Understanding continuous use intention of technology among higher education teachers in emerging economy: evidence from integrated TAM, TPACK, and UTAUT model3
Elite UK Business Schools: from cathedrals of learning to cathedrals of earning?3
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
Does gradeless learning affect students’ academic performance? A study of effects over time3
A temporal-agential lens on the reintegration experiences of Chinese early career STEM returnees3
Predictors of emotional engagement in doctoral education3
Exploring the experiences of Muslim doctoral students in UK higher education: challenges, implications, and pathways to inclusivity3
Correction3
Graduate socialization and anxiety: insights via hierarchical regression analysis and beyond3
Synergy effects in learning? The influence of mathematics as a second subject on teacher students’ physics content knowledge3
‘Your U-Well-Being Journal is due today’: on some possible intersections between surveillance and student wellbeing in the future university3
Employment of academic faculty after reaching retirement age: an asset or a burden? – Ariel University as a case study3
In-depth analysis of female pracademics’ experiences in Poland3
Out of sight but not out of mind: on the North–South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus3
A call for innovation culture in Polish academics’ vision of an ideal-type university3
Correction3
Assessing entrepreneurial intentions through experiential learning, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial attitude3
Gender, self-efficacy and attrition from STEM programmes: evidence from Danish survey and registry data3
Cosmopolitan agency and meaningful intercultural interactions: an ecological and person-in-context conceptualisation3
Instructor use of academic alerts and its impact on student outcomes: controlling for selection bias3
‘It’s like two Europes here, the West and the East’. Belonging and fitting in at an elite graduate school3
‘Transnational’ and ‘transcultural’: their divergence and convergence in international higher education*3
College students’ self-regulation in asynchronous online courses during COVID-193
Developing quality culture in higher education in Taiwan: the changes within quality assurance mechanisms3
Conceptualization and application of a healthcare systems thinking model for an educational system3
Investigating the interconnection between financial performance and eco-efficiency in British universities: a roadmap towards sustainable higher education3
Academic library expenditures and graduation rates: evidence from four-year colleges and universities in the US3
Gender identity and access to higher education3
Navigating challenges in social science research: the impact of halo effect and inadequate academic socialization on Chinese young researchers3
Ushering in industrial forces for teaching-focused university-industry collaboration in China: a resource-dependence perspective3
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