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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Living in uncertainty: the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education in Hong Kong113
Higher education in troubled times: on the impact of Covid-19 in Italy78
Higher education and its post-coronial future: utopian hopes and dystopian fears at Cambridge University during Covid-1976
Turn crisis into opportunity in response to COVID-19: experience from a Chinese University and future prospects69
COVID-19 in Dutch higher education68
Moving beyond self-reports to estimate the prevalence of commercial contract cheating: an Australian study68
Nothing but publishing: the overriding goal of PhD students in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau50
What drives global science? The four competing narratives49
Belonging as situated practice49
Reflections on the public university sector and the covid-19 pandemic in South Africa45
Three-ring entrepreneurial university: in search of a new business model42
The role of teaching staff in fostering perceived employability of university students37
Construction and operationalisation of an Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM) via a systematic literature review (2016–2022)37
Leadership strategies for a higher education sector in flux34
Institutional logics analysis in higher education research32
Feedback that works: a realist review of feedback interventions for written tasks30
Development, validation and deployment of the EmployABILITY scale30
Enduring the impacts of COVID-19: experiences of the private higher education sector in Ethiopia28
Measuring what matters: the positioning of students in feedback processes within national student satisfaction surveys28
Visualizing the COVID-19 pandemic response in Canadian higher education: an extended photo essay28
Academics of colour in elite universities in the UK and the USA: the ‘unspoken system of exclusion’28
Universities and Covid-19 in Argentina: from community engagement to regulation28
Extending the university mission and business model: influences and implications27
Supporting the development of students with disabilities in higher education: access, stigma, identity, and power25
Fulfilling University third mission: towards an ecosystemic strategy of entrepreneurship education24
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education22
Introducing block mode to first-year university students: a natural experiment on satisfaction and performance22
Support for doctoral candidates in Australia during the pandemic: the case of the University of Melbourne22
Crisis – What Crisis?19
Cultural intelligence development during short-term study abroad programmes: the role of cultural distance and prior international experience19
Students’ online information use and learning progress in higher education – A critical literature review18
Impact of work-integrated learning and co-curricular activities on graduate labour force outcomes18
A ‘doctoral compass’: strategic reflection, self-assessment and recalibration for navigating the ‘twin’ doctoral journey18
Academic career progression from early career researcher to professor: what can we learn from job ads18
PhD holders entering non-academic workplaces: organisational culture shock18
Engaging transformed fundamentals to design global hybrid higher education17
Entrepreneurship education, academic major, and university students’ social entrepreneurial intention: the perspective of Planned Behavior Theory17
Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic17
Early-predicting dropout of university students: an application of innovative multilevel machine learning and statistical techniques17
National and institutional responses – reimagined operations – pandemic disruptions and academic continuity for a global university17
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach16
Pursuing doctoral research in an emerging knowledge hub: an exploration of international students’ experiences in China16
The state of work-based learning development in EU higher education: learnings from the WEXHE project16
Reimagining curricula: effects of cultural (in)sensitivity of curricula on racially minoritised students’ engagement15
The ‘Work-Work Balance’ in higher education: between over-work, falling short and the pleasures of multiplicity15
The heterogeneity of European Higher Education Institutions: a configurational approach14
The social impact of universities: assessing the effects of the three university missions on social engagement14
Sense of belonging in higher education students: an Australian longitudinal study from 2013 to 201914
What business schools do to support academic entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda14
The contributions of higher education to society: a conceptual approach13
Preparing for RAE 2020 in Hong Kong: academics’ research, writing and publishing trajectories in a neoliberal governance landscape13
Governing by narratives: REF impact case studies and restrictive storytelling in performance measurement13
Careers and employability learning: pedagogical principles for higher education13
Diversity approaches matter in international classrooms: how a multicultural approach buffers against cultural misunderstandings and encourages inclusion and psychological safety13
Facing the dropout crisis among PhD candidates: the role of supervisor support in emotional well-being and intended doctoral persistence among men and women13
The conceptualisation of socially responsible universities in higher education research: a systematic literature review13
Is there order in the mess? A single paper meta-analysis approach to identification of predictors of success in learning analytics13
Mapping the entrepreneurial university literature: a text mining approach12
An exploration of degree apprentice perspectives: a Q methodology study12
Competency-based learning and formative assessment feedback as precursors of college students’ soft skills acquisition12
Closing the middle-skills gap widened by digitalization: how technical universities can contribute through Challenge-Based Learning12
The importance of collaboration and supervisor behaviour for gender differences in doctoral student performance and early career development12
Partisan registration of faculty in flagship colleges12
Managing the rules of recognition: how early career academics negotiate career scripts through identity work11
Assessing entrepreneurial intentions through experiential learning, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial attitude11
How entrepreneurial are social entrepreneurship education providers? The role of universities’ entrepreneurial ecosystems in the provision of elective social entrepreneurship courses to business stude11
Implications of immersive scheduling for student achievement and feedback11
Empowered or disempowered by mobility? Experience of international academics in China11
Choose wisely: intrinsic motivation for enrollment is associated with ongoing intrinsic learning motivation, study success and dropout10
Identifying skills, qualifications, and attributes expected to do a PhD10
Assessment as a matter of being and becoming: theorising student formation in assessment10
Challenges and success factors of transnational higher education: a systematic review10
Does university prestige lead to discrimination in the labor market? Evidence from a labor market field experiment in three countries10
University spin-offs: the past, the present, and the future10
Public engagement professionals in a prestige economy: Ghosts in the machine10
‘Growing from an acorn to an oak tree’: a thematic analysis of international students’ cross-cultural adjustment in the United States9
A micro level investigation of stakeholder motives on university technology transfer business models9
Social and emotional competencies as predictors of student engagement in youth: a cross-cultural multilevel study9
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress9
An inclusive multifaceted approach for the development of electronic work-integrated learning (eWIL) curriculum9
Interventions, practices and institutional arrangements for supporting PGR mental health and wellbeing: reviewing effectiveness and addressing barriers9
Formalising organisational responsibility for refugees in German higher education: the case of first contact positions9
Evaluating the efficacy of embedding employability into a second-year undergraduate module9
Navigating and negotiating global science: tensions in China’s national science system9
Who gets a job sooner? Results from a national survey of master’s graduates9
Student self-formation: an emerging paradigm in higher education8
Do rankings affect universities’ financial sustainability? – financial vulnerability to rankings and elite status as a positional good8
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets8
The personal and institutional impacts of a mass participation leadership programme for women working in Higher Education: a longitudinal analysis8
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy8
University spin-offs: entrepreneurship, growth and regional development8
Inclusive internationalisation: do different (social) groups of students need different internationalisation activities?8
Knowledge or science-based economy? The employment of UK PhD graduates in research roles beyond academia8
International students in Portuguese higher education: who are they and what are their choices?8
Human-AI collaboration patterns in AI-assisted academic writing8
Reconceptualising knowledge exchange and higher education institutions: broadening our understanding of motivations, channels, and stakeholders8
A review of resilience in higher education: toward the emerging concept of designer resilience8
Resources, norms, and dropout intentions of migrant students in Germany: the role of social networks and social capital8
Gender and leadership in public higher education in South Asia: examining the individual, socio-cultural and organizational barriers to female inclusion8
Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review8
When artificial intelligence substitutes humans in higher education: the cost of loneliness, student success, and retention8
Does the tenure track influence academic research? An empirical study of faculty members in China7
Students’ beliefs and attitudes towards cooperative learning, and their relationship to motivation and approach to learning7
Nuancing the roles of entrepreneurial universities in regional economic development7
Fostering the development of the entrepreneurial university: how PhD students create new ventures and are involved in technology transfer activities7
Design thinking mindset: scale development and validation7
Calibration of stakeholder influence in the UK higher education sector7
Beyond learning in higher education: an evaluation of the ‘Life Design’ initiative to improve student employability7
Out of sight but not out of mind: on the North–South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus7
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda6
‘Walking through fog’: social inequalities and the journey to postgraduate taught study in England6
Measuring the quality of patents among Latin-American universities6
On institutional belongingness and academic performance: mediating effects of social self-efficacy and metacognitive strategies6
Vietnamese early career academics’ identity work: balancing tensions between East and West6
Mergers in higher education: it’s not easy. Merger of two disparate institutions and the impact on faculty research productivity6
Understanding Chinese universities’ strategic responses to the ‘Double First-class’ initiative and the potential outcome on higher education diversity: an exploratory study6
How does engaging in authentic research at undergraduate level contribute to student well-being?6
An analysis of the organisational factors that determine education-related university-business cooperation activities in manufacturing SMEs6
Promoting progression in higher education teacher training: how does cognitive support enhance student physics teachers’ content knowledge development?6
Academic engagement in Portugal: the role of institutional diversity, individual characteristics and modes of knowledge production6
Governance of entrepreneurial universities in the context of entrepreneurial ecosystems: the perspective of the university technology transfer offices6
The university as a Just anchor: universities, anchor networks and participatory research6
Entrepreneurial universities and the effect of the types of vocational education and internships on graduates’ employability6
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions6
College students’ self-regulation in asynchronous online courses during COVID-195
Analyzing the relative efficiency of internationalization in the university business model: the case of Germany5
‘I can succeed at this’: engagement in service learning in schools enhances university students’ self-efficacy5
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings5
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?5
Lived experiences of diverse university staff during COVID-19: an examination of workplace wellbeing5
Participatory parity as a way forward for critical internationalisation studies5
How do US universities want to be perceived? Factors affecting the (inter)national identity claims in mission statements5
When austerity means inequality: the case of the Italian university compensation system in the period 2010–20205
Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review5
Cosmopolitan agency and meaningful intercultural interactions: an ecological and person-in-context conceptualisation5
E-learning experiences in tertiary education: patterns and trends in research over the last 20 years5
Developing entrepreneurial career intention in entrepreneurial university: the role of counterfactual thinking5
Gender, self-efficacy and attrition from STEM programmes: evidence from Danish survey and registry data5
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach5
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools5
Entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and performance of academic spin-offs: a pre and postfoundation analysis4
Governance of agents in the recruitment of international students: a typology of contractual management approaches in higher education4
Academic entrepreneurial engagement with weak institutional support: roles of motivation, intention and perceptions4
The young and the old, the fast and the slow: a large-scale study of productivity classes and rank advancement4
Feedback as socialization in doctoral education: towards the enactment of authentic feedback4
How research-based learning affects students’ self-rated research competences: evidence from a longitudinal study across disciplines4
The effect of journal metrics on academic resume assessment4
Measuring student discussion engagement in the college classroom: a scale validation study4
‘Better than watching daytime TV': sickness presenteeism in UK academics4
Private higher education and programmatic differentiation: examining the institutional positioning of private universities in Ontario4
Shareholder networks of university spinoff companies: firm development and regional characteristics4
The regional impact of spin-offs’ innovative activity: unveiling the effect of scientific knowledge and parent university’s specialization4
Populating the science-policy co-production space: academic and policymaker perspectives on knowledge exchange4
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity4
Administrative scale economies in public organisations: evidence from Australian public universities4
Navigating academic habitus in a higher education system that prioritises external funding – the case of Israel4
Career ambitions of women academics. Are women willing and able to rise to the top in higher education institutions?4
The private higher education provider landscape in the UK4
Delivering blended learning to transnational students: students’ perceptions and needs-satisfaction4
Are half of the published papers in top-management-journals never cited? Refuting the myth and examining the reason for its creation4
Supporting students from equity groups: experiences of staff and considerations for institutions4
A lockdown journal from Catalonia4
‘Re-thinking a Bachelor of Arts for the 21st-Century precariat’4
Automated and controlled processes in comprehending multiple documents4
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities4
ChatGPT adoption and anxiety: a cross-country analysis utilising the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT)4
Reports of practitioners’ use of public affairs faculty published research4
Cyberbullying of professors: what measures are in place in universities and what solutions are proposed by victims?4
Elite Mobility and Conversions of Different Forms of Capital: An Investigation of Patterns of Study Abroad amongst Elite Graduates from Peking University in China4
COVID-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children4
Understanding continuous use intention of technology among higher education teachers in emerging economy: evidence from integrated TAM, TPACK, and UTAUT model4
Assessing creative thinking skills in higher education: deficits and improvements4
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing4
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data4
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective4
How social and emotional skills affect Chinese college student engagement in high-impact educational practices: a moderated mediation model3
Society on board? External board members and the embedding of Swedish higher education organizations in society, 1998–20163
Synergy effects in learning? The influence of mathematics as a second subject on teacher students’ physics content knowledge3
Precarity of post doctorate career breaks: does gender matter?3
Women scientists in knowledge exchanges with nonacademic actors: participation gap and emerging gender patterns3
The impact of work placements on graduate earnings3
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada3
PhD graduates’ professional transitions and academic habitus. The role of tacit knowledge3
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators3
Academic staff’s participation in university governance - a move towards autonomy and its practical problems3
The role of scholarly identity and basic needs support during doctoral studies on career aspirations of early career scientists3
Life is not always linear: expanding the notion of transitions in higher education to challenge structural, static and linear processes facing Indigenous and older adult students3
Reimagining China–US university relations: a global ‘ecosystem’ perspective3
Supervisors matter, but what about peers? The distinct contributions of quality supervision and peer support to doctoral students’ research experience3
Career capital and the MBA: how gender capital supports career capital development3
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students’ learning process3
Understanding student success in higher education in Azerbaijan: the role of student engagement3
Translating student evaluation of teaching: how discourse and cultural environments pressure rationalizing procedures3
Endurance in the face of environmental transformations: a practice-oriented perspective on organizational identity3
Understanding social entrepreneurial intention in higher education: does gender and type of study matter?3
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands3
Developing reflection and critical thinking in a leadership education course: leading learning and change3
The intergenerational climate of Spanish university research3
How and why do students’ career interests change during higher education?3
Governments harnessing the power of data to get ‘value for money’: a simulation study of England’s Office for Students B3 Proceed Metric3
Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes3
A phenomenological inquiry into students’ research practice experiences in Iran’s higher education: special focus on supervisor-student relationships3
Financial support differentially aids retention of students from households with lower incomes: a UK case study3
Institutional habitus and individual postgraduation plans: an analysis of Chinese students in transnational higher education3
Narrowing awarding gaps: the contributory role of policy and assessment type3
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia3
The role of anchor institutions in creating value for SMEs: insights from North East of England owner-managers3
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities3
Political power of Italian rectors: an analysis of recruitments in the period 2001–20213
Predicting dropout in Higher Education across borders3
How do professional staff influence academic knowledge development? A literature review and research agenda3
The community engagement for impact (CEFI) framework : an evidence-based strategy to facilitate social change3
Matching by value congruence for high-quality mentoring: evidence from a student peer mentoring program3
Value generation and economic impact of the University of Granada3
The research experience of postgraduate students: a mixed-methods study3
Barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining campus food insecurity initiatives3
Best practice learning in cooperative entrepreneurship to engage business students in the SDGs3
Are university leaders always the same? A longitudinal analysis of Vice-chancellors’ profile in English universities over the last twenty years2
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?2
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support2
Exploring the spatial belonging of students in higher education2
Competing worlds: the private lives of women nurse students and gender equity in higher education2
Stakeholder-centered development of new curriculum content in higher education: a case study in creating a course on the green and digital transformation of SMEs2
A comparative study of the survival of university spin-off companies (USOs) in the post-industrial UK West Midlands region2
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan2
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education2
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system2
‘I am just a loser of higher education’: a framework for comparative analysis of the value of adult higher education derived from a Chinese study2
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses2
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability2
Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary2
Questions instead of majors: implementing a self-authored concentration program2
University in the rear-view mirror: psychological needs in pleasant and unpleasant memories of alumni2
Towards a framework for the promotion of business management graduate employability: an extended CareerEDGE model2
A lucky draw? Theorising how work placements develop diverse university students’ career stories2
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening2
Neoliberalism, internationalization, Japanese exclusionism: the integration experiences of international academics at Japanese universities2
Is a PhD worth more than a Master’s in the UK labour market? The role of specialisation and managerial position2
Student dissatisfaction in Higher Education: a ‘fuzzy’ index approach2
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education2
Studying the gender gap in academic research production among Canadian university professors using the multilevel approach to gender inequalities framework2
Micro-processes of knowledge sharing in higher education: international students as a source2
Fostering social entrepreneurship in university students: the moderating role of entrepreneurial creativity2
When will scientists say yes? Antecedents, consequences and limitations of crowdfunding in research2
The diversity of the English higher education system: a multilevel quantitative analysis2
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations2
Incentivizing knowledge exchange engagement: direct and indirect benefits of external engagement2
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education2
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature2
Why do students plagiarise? Informing higher education teaching and learning policy and practice2
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