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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)75
How can scientists and designers find ways of working together? A case study of playful learning to co-design visual interpretations of immunology concepts74
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators66
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses55
Automated and controlled processes in comprehending multiple documents51
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective51
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education47
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how46
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands44
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature42
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools41
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda41
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study37
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists34
Early dropout predictors in social sciences and management degree students33
Personal values matter: international students’ university selection33
Progressions in Learning in the Age of (Mis)Information (PLATO) – Advances in Higher Education Learning Research32
Partisan registration of faculty in flagship colleges32
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions31
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening31
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty30
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty30
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach29
The Chinese idea of a university in flux: academic freedom and institutional autonomy under entrepreneurial reforms in the GBA28
Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability27
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan25
The professional learning of academic researchers through their career25
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?25
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data24
‘Better than watching daytime TV': sickness presenteeism in UK academics24
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?23
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress23
Administrative positions, research performance, and winning awards23
Institutional logics analysis in higher education research23
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings22
Undergraduates’ assessment enculturation in the neoliberal university: an anthropological study22
The impact of abusive supervision on the postgraduate students’ team creativity in higher education institutions21
Socially negotiating privacy boundaries and academic identities21
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue21
Delivering blended learning to transnational students: students’ perceptions and needs-satisfaction20
The university at the crossroads of three ecologies: natural environment, culture and economy20
Internship in the impasse of the duality of theory and practice: representation, imitation, compatibility, and tension in the university-industry relationship20
Capacity and willingness in higher education accreditation: when incentives are not enough20
An adaptive methodology for curriculum redesign based on performance indicators of the student progression19
Career capital and the MBA: how gender capital supports career capital development19
Measuring student discussion engagement in the college classroom: a scale validation study19
Implications of crib sheets for student well-being and exam performance: a mixed methods study19
How supervisor Machiavellianism affects graduate student creativity: a mediated moderation model19
Entrepreneurial universities and the effect of the types of vocational education and internships on graduates’ employability17
COVID-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children17
Fostering social entrepreneurship in university students: the moderating role of entrepreneurial creativity17
Antecedents of undergraduate research skills and the mediating role of grit17
Gender and leadership in public higher education in South Asia: examining the individual, socio-cultural and organizational barriers to female inclusion16
How social and emotional skills affect Chinese college student engagement in high-impact educational practices: a moderated mediation model16
When will scientists say yes? Antecedents, consequences and limitations of crowdfunding in research16
Subtypes of prescription stimulant misuse among students: a nuanced story15
When a B becomes an A: causal evidence on the effects of a journal ranking update on academics’ publication behavior15
Diversity of undergraduates in STEM courses: individual and demographic differences in changes in self-efficacy, epistemic beliefs, and intrapersonal attribute profiles15
UK University teachers on inclusive education: conceptualizations, practices, opportunities and challenges15
Can a work-readiness program mitigate unemployment scarring: the case of a co-operative education job market15
Double transitions of Chinese students in the ‘2 + 2’ articulation program under the influence of field coupling and social capital15
Identifying critical factors in higher education studies: combining necessary condition and importance-performance map analyses15
Practices of active learning in public universities in Ethiopia: student and faculty perceptions14
A within-person perspective for investigating transitional students’ academic learning and adjustment during the first university semester14
Developmental trajectories during doctoral study: identifying heterogeneity in psychosocial factor’s development13
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: an Australian study13
Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes13
University entrepreneurship education and the emergence of radical and incremental innovation: a regional perspective13
Career ambitions of women academics. Are women willing and able to rise to the top in higher education institutions?13
Leveraging interorganizational networks to foster university-industry interactions13
Managerialism, accreditation and insecure academic employment across different higher education traditions12
Personal extenuating circumstances processes in higher education: are they helping or hindering?12
A systematic review of students’ habitus in the higher education field: challenge and resilience12
Barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining campus food insecurity initiatives12
Management scholars’ perception of barriers and bridges to use crowdsourcing in science: qualitative research12
How does it fear? Exploring the role of emotion and cognition in the entrepreneurship education-entrepreneurial intention link11
A quantitative exploration of management undergraduates’ readiness for diversity and inclusion in the university environment11
Student loan debt and family formation of youth in Japan11
Academically inbred presidents and university performance11
Research quality criteria in the Creative Arts10
The research experience of postgraduate students: a mixed-methods study10
‘Walking through fog’: social inequalities and the journey to postgraduate taught study in England10
Demographic influences on students’ self-efficacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion: a quantitative study in higher education in Sri Lanka10
University spin-offs: the past, the present, and the future10
From defining to enacting interdisciplinary education: curriculum integration strategies among Hong Kong undergraduate interdisciplinary programmes10
Unlocking the black box of HPWPs-performance relationship in Vietnamese higher education context: the case of Ho Chi Minh City’s universities10
Governments harnessing the power of data to get ‘value for money’: a simulation study of England’s Office for Students B3 Proceed Metric10
Are accreditation signals being recognised? Business professionals’ awareness and views on accredited university business programmes10
Mastering knowledge: the impact of generative AI on student learning outcomes10
A customer experience lens for higher education in India using journey mapping and experience quality9
Students’ online information use and learning progress in higher education – A critical literature review9
‘Growing from an acorn to an oak tree’: a thematic analysis of international students’ cross-cultural adjustment in the United States9
A text-mining analysis of Latin America Universities’ mission statements from a ‘Third Mission’ perspective9
The relationship between debt aversion and college enrollment by gender, race, and ethnicity: a propensity scoring approach9
Managing the rules of recognition: how early career academics negotiate career scripts through identity work9
Mediated performance in the feedback process: reinforcing improvement9
More than just consumers? Alternative representations of students when higher education becomes ‘free’9
The impact of teaching on third mission activities of higher education institutions: evidence from the UK9
Sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education: investment decisions on human capital in the presence of youth unemployment9
Investigating the factors influencing academic staff attitudes toward the formation of a technological university9
Social events, bridging courses, and academic skills trainings – participation in first-year courses and higher education dropout in Germany9
Participatory parity as a way forward for critical internationalisation studies9
Distributional properties of the statistic of online student evaluations the mean does not mean what you think it means9
Institutional confidence, underreporting and academic consequences of gender-based violence among university staff and students in Europe9
Beyond the surface: unraveling the relationships between conflict, psychological safety, team learning, and performance in student teams8
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education8
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity8
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities8
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data8
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities8
Predicting university dropout: connecting big data and structural models8
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability8
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities8
It is ambiguous, but I know what I am doing ’: undergraduates’ experiences and agency in an interdisciplinary programme8
Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study8
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy8
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions8
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges8
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation8
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education8
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support8
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints8
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?8
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada8
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system8
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education8
Measuring changes in critical thinking skills among university economics students: insights from domain-specific assessment8
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions7
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark7
Academic return migration amidst North-to-South trend: an integrative inquiry into the case of Chinese international STEM researchers7
Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education7
The winner’s curse? Temporal and spatial impacts of higher education expansion on graduate employment and social mobility7
Faculty engagement in university-industry research partnerships: findings from a developing country7
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations7
Let the cat out of the bag: a critical incident analysis of teaching entrepreneurship competencies from the teachers’ perspective7
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective7
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing7
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education7
Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary7
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university7
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities7
Morphology of mergers and their impact on performance and accounting metrics in HEIs: evidence from a small European country7
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach7
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia7
Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review7
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students’ learning process6
Tracing topic evolution in higher education: a text mining study on Italian universities6
On institutional belongingness and academic performance: mediating effects of social self-efficacy and metacognitive strategies6
University education and entrepreneurial intentions of European students: insights into the Theory of Planned Behaviour complemented by skills6
Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic6
Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities6
Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review6
Manifestations of professional identity work: an integrative review of research in professional identity formation6
Does quality assurance matter for micro-credentials in higher education? Legitimacy, regulatory framework, and challenges in four Asian contexts6
Global prescriptions and local adaptations: the role of political culture in shaping governance strategies for university funding6
Understanding AIgiarism in higher education: the lens of general AI attitudes and moral disengagement6
De-westernising competition: ‘Harmony of competition’ in Chinese higher education6
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets6
Organizational culture and educational aspirations of tribal students in higher education6
The production of gender-specific scholarly literature in Romania: the weak institutionalisation of Gender Studies in higher education6
Studying Chinese, studying in Chinese and studying with the Chinese: international students’ experiences and identity construction in Chinese-medium instruction (CMI) programs6
Multilevel research on factors impacting international branch campuses’ global integration and local responsiveness: an empirical investigation of two Canadian cases6
Time-as-affect in neoliberal academy: theorizing chronopolitics as affective milieus in higher education6
How interdisciplinary is it? A new method for quantifying interdisciplinarity in student teams & examination of a large project-based program6
On a pedagogy of authentic care in postgraduate research supervision6
Positioning and repositioning in higher education: first year students engaging with the world6
How do university faculty feel about grading? Insights from a control-value theory perspective6
Integrating traditional knowledge of non-Western humanities and social sciences: a research agenda through the Chinese lens6
Supervisors matter, but what about peers? The distinct contributions of quality supervision and peer support to doctoral students’ research experience6
Mapping the entrepreneurial university literature: a text mining approach6
Measuring the quality of patents among Latin-American universities6
The struggle for identity in doctoral supervision: a phenomenologically grounded qualitative study of power and conflict6
Is merit-aid for all? The effects of aid-eligibility changes on college access in the United States6
‘Decent work’ as a higher education policy myopia: an ecosystem framework for policy-making5
Fragmentation of organizational identity in Saudi Universities: the impact of neoliberalism5
Value generation and economic impact of the University of Granada5
A tech-tonic shift: the complex dance of technology-enabled-learning and academic identity work in higher education5
Validation of the revised scale of students’ attitudes towards research5
Student (dis)satisfaction in UK higher education: teaching-only contracts, esteem uncertainty and research intensity5
Perceived academic working conditions and career choices of Chinese PhD students5
The post-study migration of EEA postgraduates: who is remaining to work in the UK?5
The digital public sphere, universities and intellectualising the public5
University-based social innovation and entrepreneurship education in Hong Kong: a curriculum analysis5
Assessing students’ critical thinking abilities via a systematic evaluation of essays5
Factors influencing student help-seeking behavior during crisis: a mixed-method analysis in higher education5
The conceptualisation of socially responsible universities in higher education research: a systematic literature review5
What does it mean to be a nursing student? Exploring the development of professional identities in higher education5
Inclusive internationalisation: do different (social) groups of students need different internationalisation activities?5
Reimagining China–US university relations: a global ‘ecosystem’ perspective5
Generative AI: is it a paradigm shift for higher education?5
Evaluating the efficacy of embedding employability into a second-year undergraduate module5
Doctoral studies as a precarious identity process: deviance and the rational ideal of the doctoral process5
Careers and employability learning: pedagogical principles for higher education5
Undergraduate students’ perceptions of learning from foreign-born faculty in American university settings5
How does engaging in authentic research at undergraduate level contribute to student well-being?5
Teacher education students’ experiences navigating inherent requirements within their courses of study5
Ask ChatGPT first! Transforming learning experiences in the age of artificial intelligence5
Cyberbullying of professors: what measures are in place in universities and what solutions are proposed by victims?5
How does assessment shape student identities? An integrative review5
Australia’s international alumni engagement strategy: an approach from soft power to knowledge diplomacy5
The reverse engagement gap: gender differences in external engagement among UK academics5
Engagement in learning during times of crisis5
Personal Academic Tutors and student continuation: the importance of establishing relationships4
Autonomy in decision-making and freshmen’s performance at university: evidence from Italy4
Out of sight but not out of mind: on the North–South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus4
Field of study and the subjective labour market outcomes of UK graduates: examining meaningful work, career progression, and skills utilisation4
A temporal-agential lens on the reintegration experiences of Chinese early career STEM returnees4
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 Sweden4
‘It’s like two Europes here, the West and the East’. Belonging and fitting in at an elite graduate school4
Struggling between emotionality and rationality: insights into research supervisors’ motives and strategies for regulating graduate students’ emotions4
A Bourdieusian exploration of international students’ WeChatting experiences in China: a habitus of digital learning4
The mediating role of self-regulatory emotions in the relationship between peer coaching and student learning in higher education4
Economic inclusion and ethnonational exclusion of Arabs in Israeli higher education: two tales of one policy4
Studying the gender gap in academic research production among Canadian university professors using the multilevel approach to gender inequalities framework4
How academics at an Italian University respond to the sustainability challenge: a quantitative study of the research-teaching nexus4
Cosmopolitan agency and meaningful intercultural interactions: an ecological and person-in-context conceptualisation4
Synergy effects in learning? The influence of mathematics as a second subject on teacher students’ physics content knowledge4
Research independence: drivers and impact on PhD students’ careers4
Correction4
Reports of practitioners’ use of public affairs faculty published research4
In-depth analysis of female pracademics’ experiences in Poland4
Foreword4
Academic library expenditures and graduation rates: evidence from four-year colleges and universities in the US4
The intergenerational climate of Spanish university research4
Graduate socialization and anxiety: insights via hierarchical regression analysis and beyond4
The implied peer: thesis writers’ feedback activities and experiences in group supervision4
Employment of academic faculty after reaching retirement age: an asset or a burden? – Ariel University as a case study4
Precarity of post doctorate career breaks: does gender matter?4
An Elon Musk generalist or a specialist? The impacts of interdisciplinary learning on post-graduation outcomes4
Industrial doctorates: a systematic literature review and future research agenda4
Does gradeless learning affect students’ academic performance? A study of effects over time4
Get the balance right: lessons from UK higher education in managing environmental and economic performance4
‘Your U-Well-Being Journal is due today’: on some possible intersections between surveillance and student wellbeing in the future university4
Instructor use of academic alerts and its impact on student outcomes: controlling for selection bias4
College students’ self-regulation in asynchronous online courses during COVID-194
Investigating the interconnection between financial performance and eco-efficiency in British universities: a roadmap towards sustainable higher education4
Foreword4
First impressions matter: the effects of third-party reports, experience, and qualifications on students’ expectancies of a lecturer’s competency4
‘Transnational’ and ‘transcultural’: their divergence and convergence in international higher education*4
A comprehensive assessment of self-leadership among students in China’s ethnic regions: insights and implications for higher education4
Conceptualization and application of a healthcare systems thinking model for an educational system4
Exploring the experiences of Muslim doctoral students in UK higher education: challenges, implications, and pathways to inclusivity4
Effects of academic dishonesty policy reminder on university students’ exam cheating – a double-blind randomized controlled experimental field study4
Understanding student success in higher education in Azerbaijan: the role of student engagement4
A systematic review of the conceptualization, interpretation, and implementation of shared governance in post-secondary contexts4
Interest–Major Fit predicts study satisfaction and/or achievement? Comparing different ways of assessment4
Aligning sustainability management with general management in higher education institutions3
The ‘Work-Work Balance’ in higher education: between over-work, falling short and the pleasures of multiplicity3
Approach versus avoidance strategies in job crafting and their relationship to prosocial service behavior in university professors3
Academic work, hyper-performativity and the professoriate: an agenda to re-conceptualise the higher doctorate as an integrated higher doctorate3
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