Studies in Higher Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Studies in Higher Education is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)160
(Un)divided work devotion? Navigating the ideal worker norm in academia107
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators95
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda94
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education94
Marketisation meets welfare state ideology: tensions for Finnish higher education marketing and international student recruitment64
Early dropout predictors in social sciences and management degree students63
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands61
When the only thing familiar is the moon – initial transitions of Indian, Pakistani and Nigerian students into UK HE59
Can a minimalistic tip sheet with a motivational focus foster high-quality, motivating peer-feedback? Results of two field experiments55
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how55
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses52
How can scientists and designers find ways of working together? A case study of playful learning to co-design visual interpretations of immunology concepts52
Setting the ‘normal study time’: temporal acceleration and standardisation in 1960s Swedish higher education52
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists50
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study49
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature45
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective43
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools41
The professional learning of academic researchers through their career40
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening40
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty40
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data38
Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability36
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?32
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan31
Personal values matter: international students’ university selection31
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress31
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach30
Understanding the experiences of neurodivergent research students: a mixed methods systematic review30
The Chinese idea of a university in flux: academic freedom and institutional autonomy under entrepreneurial reforms in the GBA30
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty28
From shame to strength: emotional and meaning-making processes among academically suspended Chinese international students28
Theorizing clock time-as-affect in the decolonization of higher education27
Administrative positions, research performance, and winning awards27
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions27
Career capital and the MBA: how gender capital supports career capital development27
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?27
How supervisor Machiavellianism affects graduate student creativity: a mediated moderation model25
Entrepreneurial universities and the effect of the types of vocational education and internships on graduates’ employability25
When will scientists say yes? Antecedents, consequences and limitations of crowdfunding in research24
The impact of abusive supervision on the postgraduate students’ team creativity in higher education institutions23
Implications of crib sheets for student well-being and exam performance: a mixed methods study23
An adaptive methodology for curriculum redesign based on performance indicators of the student progression23
The university at the crossroads of three ecologies: natural environment, culture and economy23
How do deans of humanities understand and enact societal engagement within their broader experiences of leading? A Danish case study22
Gender and leadership in public higher education in South Asia: examining the individual, socio-cultural and organizational barriers to female inclusion22
Antecedents of undergraduate research skills and the mediating role of grit21
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue21
Undergraduates’ assessment enculturation in the neoliberal university: an anthropological study21
COVID-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children20
Chinese students’ motivations for enrolling in English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes in Germany: an ecological perspective20
Levelling the playing field? How social class and internships influence perceived employability amongst UK university students20
Fostering social entrepreneurship in university students: the moderating role of entrepreneurial creativity20
Internship in the impasse of the duality of theory and practice: representation, imitation, compatibility, and tension in the university-industry relationship20
How social and emotional skills affect Chinese college student engagement in high-impact educational practices: a moderated mediation model19
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings19
Socially negotiating privacy boundaries and academic identities19
Capacity and willingness in higher education accreditation: when incentives are not enough19
Double transitions of Chinese students in the ‘2 + 2’ articulation program under the influence of field coupling and social capital18
Developmental trajectories during doctoral study: identifying heterogeneity in psychosocial factor’s development18
Diversity of undergraduates in STEM courses: individual and demographic differences in changes in self-efficacy, epistemic beliefs, and intrapersonal attribute profiles18
University entrepreneurship education and the emergence of radical and incremental innovation: a regional perspective18
Subtypes of prescription stimulant misuse among students: a nuanced story18
Leveraging interorganizational networks to foster university-industry interactions18
A within-person perspective for investigating transitional students’ academic learning and adjustment during the first university semester18
Identifying critical factors in higher education studies: combining necessary condition and importance-performance map analyses17
A systematic review of students’ habitus in the higher education field: challenge and resilience17
Barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining campus food insecurity initiatives17
Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes17
Personal extenuating circumstances processes in higher education: are they helping or hindering?17
Can a work-readiness program mitigate unemployment scarring: the case of a co-operative education job market17
Career ambitions of women academics. Are women willing and able to rise to the top in higher education institutions?17
UK University teachers on inclusive education: conceptualizations, practices, opportunities and challenges17
When a B becomes an A: causal evidence on the effects of a journal ranking update on academics’ publication behavior17
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: an Australian study16
AI’s learning paradox: how business students’ engagement with AI amplifies moral disengagement-driven misconduct16
A needs analysis for institutional analytics16
Practices of active learning in public universities in Ethiopia: student and faculty perceptions16
Unlocking the black box of HPWPs-performance relationship in Vietnamese higher education context: the case of Ho Chi Minh City’s universities15
Managerialism, accreditation and insecure academic employment across different higher education traditions15
Demographic influences on students’ self-efficacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion: a quantitative study in higher education in Sri Lanka15
How does it fear? Exploring the role of emotion and cognition in the entrepreneurship education-entrepreneurial intention link15
From defining to enacting interdisciplinary education: curriculum integration strategies among Hong Kong undergraduate interdisciplinary programmes14
Substantive or symbolic? The international strategies of Czech universities14
Investigating the factors influencing academic staff attitudes toward the formation of a technological university14
Academically inbred presidents and university performance14
The research experience of postgraduate students: a mixed-methods study14
Student loan debt and family formation of youth in Japan14
A quantitative exploration of management undergraduates’ readiness for diversity and inclusion in the university environment14
Research quality criteria in the Creative Arts14
How do cognitive and social factors shape learning? Unpacking the roles of procrastination, social disengagement, academic burden and prior knowledge14
Management scholars’ perception of barriers and bridges to use crowdsourcing in science: qualitative research14
‘Walking through fog’: social inequalities and the journey to postgraduate taught study in England14
Are accreditation signals being recognised? Business professionals’ awareness and views on accredited university business programmes14
Navigating complexity: academics’ agency in establishing social innovation and entrepreneurship education at universities13
Governments harnessing the power of data to get ‘value for money’: a simulation study of England’s Office for Students B3 Proceed Metric13
Spatial–temporal heterogeneity and driving factors of resource allocation efficiency in regular higher education in China13
Institutional confidence, underreporting and academic consequences of gender-based violence among university staff and students in Europe12
The impact of teaching on third mission activities of higher education institutions: evidence from the UK12
More than just consumers? Alternative representations of students when higher education becomes ‘free’12
A text-mining analysis of Latin America Universities’ mission statements from a ‘Third Mission’ perspective12
An overnight success? Ireland as the ‘golden girl’ of gender equality in higher education12
Managing the rules of recognition: how early career academics negotiate career scripts through identity work12
A customer experience lens for higher education in India using journey mapping and experience quality12
University spin-offs: the past, the present, and the future12
‘Growing from an acorn to an oak tree’: a thematic analysis of international students’ cross-cultural adjustment in the United States12
Competing for research grants: institutional resource inequality and early-career academics’ research agenda setting12
Distributional properties of the statistic of online student evaluations the mean does not mean what you think it means12
Mastering knowledge: the impact of generative AI on student learning outcomes12
Sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education: investment decisions on human capital in the presence of youth unemployment12
Mapping PALOP student mobility and institutional responses in Portuguese higher education12
‘Check it again’: the cultural politics of mentoring in an engineering lab at a research university12
Social events, bridging courses, and academic skills trainings – participation in first-year courses and higher education dropout in Germany11
Measuring changes in critical thinking skills among university economics students: insights from domain-specific assessment11
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities11
Mediated performance in the feedback process: reinforcing improvement11
When engaging students as partners fails: the ease of maintaining the status quo11
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities11
Participatory parity as a way forward for critical internationalisation studies11
Predicting university dropout: connecting big data and structural models11
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support11
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges10
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada10
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?10
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation10
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity10
Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study10
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions10
Beyond the surface: unraveling the relationships between conflict, psychological safety, team learning, and performance in student teams10
Navigating paradoxes of responsible management education (RME): insights from the Global South10
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education10
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy10
It is ambiguous, but I know what I am doing ’: undergraduates’ experiences and agency in an interdisciplinary programme10
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data10
The impact of personalised mentorship on the academic, personal, and professional development of black students in UK higher education10
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education10
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities10
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability10
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system10
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints10
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions9
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach9
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark9
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective9
Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review9
The winner’s curse? Temporal and spatial impacts of higher education expansion on graduate employment and social mobility9
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university9
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets9
Studying Chinese, studying in Chinese and studying with the Chinese: international students’ experiences and identity construction in Chinese-medium instruction (CMI) programs9
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations9
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities9
Let the cat out of the bag: a critical incident analysis of teaching entrepreneurship competencies from the teachers’ perspective9
Faculty engagement in university-industry research partnerships: findings from a developing country9
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia9
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education9
Toward decoloniality of connectedness in higher education9
Academic return migration amidst North-to-South trend: an integrative inquiry into the case of Chinese international STEM researchers9
Morphology of mergers and their impact on performance and accounting metrics in HEIs: evidence from a small European country9
Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education9
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing9
Multilevel research on factors impacting international branch campuses’ global integration and local responsiveness: an empirical investigation of two Canadian cases9
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education9
How do university faculty feel about grading? Insights from a control-value theory perspective9
Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary8
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students’ learning process8
Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review8
Mapping the entrepreneurial university literature: a text mining approach8
Supervisors matter, but what about peers? The distinct contributions of quality supervision and peer support to doctoral students’ research experience8
Organizational culture and educational aspirations of tribal students in higher education8
University-industry collaboration for academic success and employability: a connectivist perspective8
Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic8
Positioning and repositioning in higher education: first year students engaging with the world8
On institutional belongingness and academic performance: mediating effects of social self-efficacy and metacognitive strategies8
Competition dynamics in higher education systems in East Asia8
Integrating traditional knowledge of non-Western humanities and social sciences: a research agenda through the Chinese lens8
Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities8
De-westernising competition: ‘Harmony of competition’ in Chinese higher education8
Chinese academics’ attitudes towards journal peer-review8
University education and entrepreneurial intentions of European students: insights into the Theory of Planned Behaviour complemented by skills8
Australia’s international alumni engagement strategy: an approach from soft power to knowledge diplomacy7
Global prescriptions and local adaptations: the role of political culture in shaping governance strategies for university funding7
Does quality assurance matter for micro-credentials in higher education? Legitimacy, regulatory framework, and challenges in four Asian contexts7
Tracing topic evolution in higher education: a text mining study on Italian universities7
On a pedagogy of authentic care in postgraduate research supervision7
Different universities for different students: mapping the socioeconomic and academic segmentation of the Chilean university system7
Shaping scientific careers: the role of early-career research topic dynamics in fostering novel knowledge7
Value generation and economic impact of the University of Granada7
The digital public sphere, universities and intellectualising the public7
Understanding AIgiarism in higher education: the lens of general AI attitudes and moral disengagement7
How does assessment shape student identities? An integrative review7
Outpacing reforms: lived realities of organizational change in regional universities in a post-socialist context7
Perceived academic working conditions and career choices of Chinese PhD students7
Manifestations of professional identity work: an integrative review of research in professional identity formation7
Fragmentation of organizational identity in Saudi Universities: the impact of neoliberalism7
What does it mean to be a nursing student? Exploring the development of professional identities in higher education7
Time-as-affect in neoliberal academy: theorizing chronopolitics as affective milieus in higher education7
Reimagining China–US university relations: a global ‘ecosystem’ perspective7
Is merit-aid for all? The effects of aid-eligibility changes on college access in the United States7
The production of gender-specific scholarly literature in Romania: the weak institutionalisation of Gender Studies in higher education7
How interdisciplinary is it? A new method for quantifying interdisciplinarity in student teams & examination of a large project-based program7
The struggle for identity in doctoral supervision: a phenomenologically grounded qualitative study of power and conflict7
Validation of the revised scale of students’ attitudes towards research7
Teacher education students’ experiences navigating inherent requirements within their courses of study7
Generative AI: is it a paradigm shift for higher education?7
The unseen disciplinary divide: insights from REF data6
Ask ChatGPT first! Transforming learning experiences in the age of artificial intelligence6
Assessing students’ critical thinking abilities via a systematic evaluation of essays6
Undergraduate students’ perceptions of learning from foreign-born faculty in American university settings6
The conceptualisation of socially responsible universities in higher education research: a systematic literature review6
How does engaging in authentic research at undergraduate level contribute to student well-being?6
Conceptualization and application of a healthcare systems thinking model for an educational system6
The mediating role of self-regulatory emotions in the relationship between peer coaching and student learning in higher education6
Exploring academics' societal engagement patterns amid knowledge-based competitions in East Asia: evidence from the APIKS survey6
Reports of practitioners’ use of public affairs faculty published research6
‘Decent work’ as a higher education policy myopia: an ecosystem framework for policy-making6
‘Your U-Well-Being Journal is due today’: on some possible intersections between surveillance and student wellbeing in the future university6
Careers and employability learning: pedagogical principles for higher education6
Engagement in learning during times of crisis6
Cyberbullying of professors: what measures are in place in universities and what solutions are proposed by victims?6
Doctoral studies as a precarious identity process: deviance and the rational ideal of the doctoral process6
University-based social innovation and entrepreneurship education in Hong Kong: a curriculum analysis6
First impressions matter: the effects of third-party reports, experience, and qualifications on students’ expectancies of a lecturer’s competency6
Effects of academic dishonesty policy reminder on university students’ exam cheating – a double-blind randomized controlled experimental field study6
Research independence: drivers and impact on PhD students’ careers6
From scholars to militants: university leadership and the demographics of senior administrators in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan6
Exploring the experiences of Muslim doctoral students in UK higher education: challenges, implications, and pathways to inclusivity6
The reverse engagement gap: gender differences in external engagement among UK academics6
Employment of academic faculty after reaching retirement age: an asset or a burden? – Ariel University as a case study6
A tech-tonic shift: the complex dance of technology-enabled-learning and academic identity work in higher education6
Mentor-mentee similarity in college peer mentoring: untangling conflicting results6
Christofascism in higher education: creative disobedience against authoritarian moral order6
Student (dis)satisfaction in UK higher education: teaching-only contracts, esteem uncertainty and research intensity6
Factors influencing student help-seeking behavior during crisis: a mixed-method analysis in higher education6
Inclusive internationalisation: do different (social) groups of students need different internationalisation activities?6
Autonomy in decision-making and freshmen’s performance at university: evidence from Italy6
An Elon Musk generalist or a specialist? The impacts of interdisciplinary learning on post-graduation outcomes6
A comprehensive assessment of self-leadership among students in China’s ethnic regions: insights and implications for higher education6
Precarity of post doctorate career breaks: does gender matter?6
From denial to window dressing? Resistance to gender equality plans at technical universities and the role of formalized implementation structures5
How academics at an Italian University respond to the sustainability challenge: a quantitative study of the research-teaching nexus5
Personal Academic Tutors and student continuation: the importance of establishing relationships5
‘Transnational’ and ‘transcultural’: their divergence and convergence in international higher education5
Predictors of emotional engagement in doctoral education5
Instructor use of academic alerts and its impact on student outcomes: controlling for selection bias5
Stakeholder-centered development of new curriculum content in higher education: a case study in creating a course on the green and digital transformation of SMEs5
Investigating the interconnection between financial performance and eco-efficiency in British universities: a roadmap towards sustainable higher education5
The regional impact of spin-offs’ innovative activity: unveiling the effect of scientific knowledge and parent university’s specialization5
A Bourdieusian exploration of international students’ WeChatting experiences in China: a habitus of digital learning5
University teachers’ self-reported emotions and electrodermal activity during teaching-related working events5
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