Studies in Higher Education

Papers
(The TQCC of Studies in Higher Education is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions68
The entrepreneurial university concept as a narrative of change in HEIs50
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)49
Sex differences in scientific productivity and impact are largely explained by the proportion of highly productive individuals: a whole-population study of researchers across six disciplines in Sweden49
Preparing for RAE 2020 in Hong Kong: academics’ research, writing and publishing trajectories in a neoliberal governance landscape44
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities41
Financial support differentially aids retention of students from households with lower incomes: a UK case study37
Questions instead of majors: implementing a self-authored concentration program36
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support32
Micro-processes of knowledge sharing in higher education: international students as a source30
Undergraduate dissertation problems: an aggregate cross-sectional analysis from five Latin American universities30
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity30
Industrial doctorates: a systematic literature review and future research agenda27
The intergenerational climate of Spanish university research25
Early dropout predictors in social sciences and management degree students24
Coping with paradoxical demands: the dual position of deans in French business schools22
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?20
Studying the gender gap in academic research production among Canadian university professors using the multilevel approach to gender inequalities framework20
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how19
The critical-constructive potential of academic development: a case study18
Multiple roles of the state – federal states and their roles in how universities compete in Germany18
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges18
How do universities compete?18
Work-integrated learning in the humanities, arts and social sciences: where to from here?17
The community engagement for impact (CEFI) framework : an evidence-based strategy to facilitate social change17
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators17
Revisiting postliminal variation in threshold concepts: issues of unexpected transformation and legitimisation17
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data16
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands16
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses16
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study15
Causal evidence of the effect of a course specific mathematical learning and support center on economics students’ performance and affective variables15
Endurance in the face of environmental transformations: a practice-oriented perspective on organizational identity15
Predicting dropout in Higher Education across borders15
Are university leaders always the same? A longitudinal analysis of Vice-chancellors’ profile in English universities over the last twenty years14
A systematic review of the conceptualization, interpretation, and implementation of shared governance in post-secondary contexts14
‘It’s like two Europes here, the West and the East’. Belonging and fitting in at an elite graduate school14
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists14
Lived experiences of diverse university staff during COVID-19: an examination of workplace wellbeing14
Academic library expenditures and graduation rates: evidence from four-year colleges and universities in the US13
Reconceptualising knowledge exchange and higher education institutions: broadening our understanding of motivations, channels, and stakeholders13
Automated and controlled processes in comprehending multiple documents13
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda13
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective13
Knowledge production at a crossroads: rising antidemocracy and diminishing academic freedom12
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities12
Managing the harmful effects of perceived overqualification amongst students in China: the roles of student leader and extracurricular activities12
Which teachers feel good and adopt a motivating teaching style? The role of teaching identity and motivation to teach12
Women scientists in knowledge exchanges with nonacademic actors: participation gap and emerging gender patterns12
Neoliberalism, internationalization, Japanese exclusionism: the integration experiences of international academics at Japanese universities11
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education11
Higher education student engagement, leadership potential and self-perceived employability in the United Arab Emirates11
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education11
Identifying disability-related barriers to academic employment10
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities10
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools10
Student dissatisfaction in Higher Education: a ‘fuzzy’ index approach10
A framework for using SET when evaluating faculty10
Is a PhD worth more than a Master’s in the UK labour market? The role of specialisation and managerial position10
Why do students plagiarise? Informing higher education teaching and learning policy and practice10
Supportive supervision and doctoral student creativity: the double-edged sword of family support10
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy9
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature9
How can scientists and designers find ways of working together? A case study of playful learning to co-design visual interpretations of immunology concepts9
Understanding student success in higher education in Azerbaijan: the role of student engagement9
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada9
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system9
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education9
Social moderation and calibration versus codification: a way forward for academic standards in higher education?8
What motivates undergraduate students to read beyond their lecture notes?8
The regional impact of spin-offs’ innovative activity: unveiling the effect of scientific knowledge and parent university’s specialization8
‘I am just a loser of higher education’: a framework for comparative analysis of the value of adult higher education derived from a Chinese study8
Constructing a women-friendly academic ecology: understanding the push and pull forces on Pakistani women academics’ research productivity8
The regional mission in a merged multi-campus university college: a case study from Western Norway8
Public engagement professionals in a prestige economy: Ghosts in the machine8
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective8
Nuancing the roles of entrepreneurial universities in regional economic development8
Curricular, interactional, and structural diversity: identifying factors affecting learning outcomes8
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation8
Promoting progression in higher education teacher training: how does cognitive support enhance student physics teachers’ content knowledge development?8
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability8
Player, Purist, Pragmatist: a comparison of employability strategies in access to the solicitors’ profession via alternative degree pathways8
Correction8
Students' proficiency evaluation: a non-parametric multilevel latent variable model approach7
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?7
‘Re-thinking a Bachelor of Arts for the 21st-Century precariat’7
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan7
Incentivizing knowledge exchange engagement: direct and indirect benefits of external engagement7
University teachers’ self-reported emotions and electrodermal activity during teaching-related working events7
Faculty perspectives on the changing research and teaching career tracks of academics at private universities in Kazakhstan6
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university6
Exploring the influence of innovativeness on the pace of internationalisation of university spin-outs: a born global perspective6
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening6
Editorial6
Assessing creative thinking skills in higher education: deficits and improvements6
Portraying a growing field of study: a scientometric review of research on international branch campuses6
Does PBL improve own apprenticeship abilities’ development and subject’s overcoming? The reality behind students’ professional success6
Probing university teachers’ self-study experiences: insights from a systematic review spanning two decades6
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education6
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark6
Progressions in Learning in the Age of (Mis)Information (PLATO) – Advances in Higher Education Learning Research6
Faculty engagement in university-industry research partnerships: findings from a developing country6
A temporal-agential lens on the reintegration experiences of Chinese early career STEM returnees6
Foreword5
Developing quality culture in higher education in Taiwan: the changes within quality assurance mechanisms5
Trust- and distrust-building mechanisms in academic spin-off relationships with a parent university5
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data5
Assessing entrepreneurial intentions through experiential learning, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial attitude5
Shareholder networks of university spinoff companies: firm development and regional characteristics5
Synergy effects in learning? The influence of mathematics as a second subject on teacher students’ physics content knowledge5
Fostering disciplinary literacy through model annotations: the case of historical reasoning5
Academic engagement in Portugal: the role of institutional diversity, individual characteristics and modes of knowledge production5
Out of sight but not out of mind: on the North–South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus5
Get the balance right: lessons from UK higher education in managing environmental and economic performance5
Measuring what matters: the positioning of students in feedback processes within national student satisfaction surveys5
Impostor feelings and academic decision making: an anchoring vignette approach5
Foreword5
The gap between knowledge and belief: narrative, affect and students’ deeper learning in higher education5
A comparative study of the survival of university spin-off companies (USOs) in the post-industrial UK West Midlands region5
What influences university graduates’ entrepreneurship within different time horizons after graduation?5
A holistic approach to student empowerment and assessment of its impact on educational outcomes through psychological ownership5
Institutional logics analysis in higher education research5
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education5
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty4
Human-AI collaboration patterns in AI-assisted academic writing4
When artificial intelligence substitutes humans in higher education: the cost of loneliness, student success, and retention4
Cosmopolitan agency and meaningful intercultural interactions: an ecological and person-in-context conceptualisation4
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach4
Learning from senior academics’ perspectives of success and failure4
The impact of community engagement on undergraduate social responsibility attitudes4
Identifying skills, qualifications, and attributes expected to do a PhD4
Why are lower socioeconomic background students underrepresented in Erasmus? A focus on the selection into mobility and degree course organization4
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?4
Let the cat out of the bag: a critical incident analysis of teaching entrepreneurship competencies from the teachers’ perspective4
Modeling appeals in university accreditation in Chile: an exploratory study4
Moving beyond self-reports to estimate the prevalence of commercial contract cheating: an Australian study4
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing4
Relationship between team learning profiles and outcomes in team project-based learning: a cluster analysis4
Predictors of emotional engagement in doctoral education4
‘Better than watching daytime TV': sickness presenteeism in UK academics4
Closing the middle-skills gap widened by digitalization: how technical universities can contribute through Challenge-Based Learning4
Soft skills centrality in graduate studies offerings4
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia4
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities4
How do self-regulation and effort in test-taking contribute to undergraduate students’ critical thinking performance?4
Supporting students from equity groups: experiences of staff and considerations for institutions4
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions4
Foreword4
Can you feel the change of seasons? Perspectives of academic staff on organizational change4
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions4
From surface to deep learning approaches with Generative AI in higher education: an analytical framework of student agency4
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress4
Partisan registration of faculty in flagship colleges4
University students’ socio-emotional skills: the role of the teaching and learning environment4
The personal and institutional impacts of a mass participation leadership programme for women working in Higher Education: a longitudinal analysis4
An exploration of degree apprentice perspectives: a Q methodology study4
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations4
Supporting the development of students with disabilities in higher education: access, stigma, identity, and power4
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints4
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