Studies in Higher Education

Papers
(The TQCC of Studies in Higher Education is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Marketisation meets welfare state ideology: tensions for Finnish higher education marketing and international student recruitment321
When the only thing familiar is the moon – initial transitions of Indian, Pakistani and Nigerian students into UK HE195
Can a minimalistic tip sheet with a motivational focus foster high-quality, motivating peer-feedback? Results of two field experiments170
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how165
Setting the ‘normal study time’: temporal acceleration and standardisation in 1960s Swedish higher education135
Prepared but not empowered: exploring the role of pre-doctoral research experience in a doctoral journey118
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists94
‘I am because we are’: unfolding role identity and tensions of South African middle leaders in engineering as change agents94
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective91
Early dropout predictors in social sciences and management degree students90
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators89
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education89
Gender gaps in academic promotions: does parenthood matter? An event history analysis of academic careers in Italian universities85
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda84
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses74
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands65
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study64
(Un)divided work devotion? Navigating the ideal worker norm in academia61
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools61
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature61
From shame to strength: emotional and meaning-making processes among academically suspended Chinese international students56
Rethinking teacher quality in Swedish higher education: insights from social sciences student perspectives and Q methodology54
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan53
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?51
With credentialing as well as academic quests: students’ bounded agency in pursuit and navigation of professional doctoral studies49
Theorizing clock time-as-affect in the decolonization of higher education49
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty48
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions44
‘If GAI has finished her job, why would I need her?’: a mixed-methods study on students’ perceptions of GAI-using teachers44
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty42
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening39
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?38
The professional learning of academic researchers through their career38
Understanding the experiences of neurodivergent research students: a mixed methods systematic review38
Personal values matter: international students’ university selection36
Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability35
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data35
The Chinese idea of a university in flux: academic freedom and institutional autonomy under entrepreneurial reforms in the GBA34
‘Doing something with society’: the emergent professional identity of sociology graduates34
Internship in the impasse of the duality of theory and practice: representation, imitation, compatibility, and tension in the university-industry relationship33
The human cost of digitally-driven organisational change in higher education: a phenomenographic study of employee well-being33
Employer perspectives on professional identity and its role in graduate recruitment31
Undergraduates’ assessment enculturation in the neoliberal university: an anthropological study31
Levelling the playing field? How social class and internships influence perceived employability amongst UK university students31
COVID-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children31
Career capital and the MBA: how gender capital supports career capital development31
An adaptive methodology for curriculum redesign based on performance indicators of the student progression30
How do deans of humanities understand and enact societal engagement within their broader experiences of leading? A Danish case study30
Socially negotiating privacy boundaries and academic identities30
Capacity and willingness in higher education accreditation: when incentives are not enough29
When will scientists say yes? Antecedents, consequences and limitations of crowdfunding in research29
Gender and leadership in public higher education in South Asia: examining the individual, socio-cultural and organizational barriers to female inclusion28
Antecedents of undergraduate research skills and the mediating role of grit28
How supervisor Machiavellianism affects graduate student creativity: a mediated moderation model28
The university at the crossroads of three ecologies: natural environment, culture and economy28
Administrative positions, research performance, and winning awards28
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue27
Chinese students’ motivations for enrolling in English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes in Germany: an ecological perspective26
Implications of crib sheets for student well-being and exam performance: a mixed methods study25
The impact of abusive supervision on the postgraduate students’ team creativity in higher education institutions25
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings25
How social and emotional skills affect Chinese college student engagement in high-impact educational practices: a moderated mediation model25
Fostering social entrepreneurship in university students: the moderating role of entrepreneurial creativity25
Can a work-readiness program mitigate unemployment scarring: the case of a co-operative education job market25
Identifying critical factors in higher education studies: combining necessary condition and importance-performance map analyses24
Personal extenuating circumstances processes in higher education: are they helping or hindering?24
A new perspective on knowledge exchange: the role of professors’ cross-employment outside academia in Germany24
Hysteresis in the neoliberal academy: inside- and outside-track academic lives under authoritarian neoliberalism24
A needs analysis for institutional analytics23
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: an Australian study23
Developmental trajectories during doctoral study: identifying heterogeneity in psychosocial factor’s development23
Double transitions of Chinese students in the ‘2 + 2’ articulation program under the influence of field coupling and social capital23
Practices of active learning in public universities in Ethiopia: student and faculty perceptions23
Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes23
University entrepreneurship education and the emergence of radical and incremental innovation: a regional perspective22
Subtypes of prescription stimulant misuse among students: a nuanced story22
When a B becomes an A: causal evidence on the effects of a journal ranking update on academics’ publication behavior22
Diversity of undergraduates in STEM courses: individual and demographic differences in changes in self-efficacy, epistemic beliefs, and intrapersonal attribute profiles21
Barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining campus food insecurity initiatives21
Career ambitions of women academics. Are women willing and able to rise to the top in higher education institutions?21
Managerialism, accreditation and insecure academic employment across different higher education traditions21
UK University teachers on inclusive education: conceptualizations, practices, opportunities and challenges20
The primacy of care in teacher strategies for promoting student engagement: a mixed-methods study in Chinese institutions of higher education20
A systematic review of students’ habitus in the higher education field: challenge and resilience20
Leveraging interorganizational networks to foster university-industry interactions20
AI’s learning paradox: how business students’ engagement with AI amplifies moral disengagement-driven misconduct20
A within-person perspective for investigating transitional students’ academic learning and adjustment during the first university semester20
Demographic influences on students’ self-efficacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion: a quantitative study in higher education in Sri Lanka20
Academically inbred presidents and university performance19
Management scholars’ perception of barriers and bridges to use crowdsourcing in science: qualitative research19
Grant counts, funding amount, and academic productivity: causal evidence from the NSFC18
Student loan debt and family formation of youth in Japan18
Navigating complexity: academics’ agency in establishing social innovation and entrepreneurship education at universities18
Unlocking the black box of HPWPs-performance relationship in Vietnamese higher education context: the case of Ho Chi Minh City’s universities18
Higher education and the imperative of social reconstruction: faculty perspectives on societal challenges, system responsiveness, and structural impediments18
How do cognitive and social factors shape learning? Unpacking the roles of procrastination, social disengagement, academic burden and prior knowledge18
A quantitative exploration of management undergraduates’ readiness for diversity and inclusion in the university environment18
The research experience of postgraduate students: a mixed-methods study17
How does it fear? Exploring the role of emotion and cognition in the entrepreneurship education-entrepreneurial intention link17
From defining to enacting interdisciplinary education: curriculum integration strategies among Hong Kong undergraduate interdisciplinary programmes17
Are accreditation signals being recognised? Business professionals’ awareness and views on accredited university business programmes17
Spatial–temporal heterogeneity and driving factors of resource allocation efficiency in regular higher education in China17
From the knowledge economy to the hidden curriculum: (In)equitable transitions to higher education in the UK17
University student perspectives on generative AI: reconfiguring competence, fairness, and authorship in academic work17
University spin-offs: the past, the present, and the future17
Substantive or symbolic? The international strategies of Czech universities16
Governments harnessing the power of data to get ‘value for money’: a simulation study of England’s Office for Students B3 Proceed Metric16
Managing the rules of recognition: how early career academics negotiate career scripts through identity work16
Research quality criteria in the Creative Arts16
Investigating the factors influencing academic staff attitudes toward the formation of a technological university16
Institutional confidence, underreporting and academic consequences of gender-based violence among university staff and students in Europe15
‘Check it again’: the cultural politics of mentoring in an engineering lab at a research university15
Distributional properties of the statistic of online student evaluations the mean does not mean what you think it means15
More than just consumers? Alternative representations of students when higher education becomes ‘free’15
An overnight success? Ireland as the ‘golden girl’ of gender equality in higher education15
Social events, bridging courses, and academic skills trainings – participation in first-year courses and higher education dropout in Germany15
Managerial practices in the student experience in England and Chile: an organizational translation perspective15
The impact of teaching on third mission activities of higher education institutions: evidence from the UK15
Mapping PALOP student mobility and institutional responses in Portuguese higher education15
Mastering knowledge: the impact of generative AI on student learning outcomes15
Institutional trust load: reframing trust as a structural demand in higher education governance15
Competing for research grants: institutional resource inequality and early-career academics’ research agenda setting14
International academic mobility and the temporality of contribution: a morphogenetic analysis of returnee scholars’ engagement in higher education14
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data14
The impact of personalised mentorship on the academic, personal, and professional development of black students in UK higher education14
A customer experience lens for higher education in India using journey mapping and experience quality14
A text-mining analysis of Latin America Universities’ mission statements from a ‘Third Mission’ perspective14
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support14
Mediated performance in the feedback process: reinforcing improvement14
Sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education: investment decisions on human capital in the presence of youth unemployment14
‘Growing from an acorn to an oak tree’: a thematic analysis of international students’ cross-cultural adjustment in the United States14
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada14
Beyond the surface: unraveling the relationships between conflict, psychological safety, team learning, and performance in student teams13
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?13
Living interdisciplinarity: negotiating identity and practice in higher education13
Measuring changes in critical thinking skills among university economics students: insights from domain-specific assessment13
When engaging students as partners fails: the ease of maintaining the status quo13
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges13
Nurturing merit: the role of alternative pathways to university13
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities13
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities13
First-year students’ sense of belonging in higher education: examining measurement invariance and longitudinal development across migration background and generation status13
Predicting university dropout: connecting big data and structural models13
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education12
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity12
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education12
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints12
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities12
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system12
Experiences and perceptions of sexual violence in a UK university: results from the second iteration of the OUR SPACE survey12
Academic return migration amidst North-to-South trend: an integrative inquiry into the case of Chinese international STEM researchers12
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation12
The ecosystem of constraints: faculty collaboration in resource-constrained higher education12
Navigating paradoxes of responsible management education (RME): insights from the Global South12
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability12
Do internships in master’s programmes help graduates to get a well-matched job?12
Faculty engagement in university-industry research partnerships: findings from a developing country11
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark11
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions11
Socioeconomic status or the teaching and learning environment: which is more important for adopting deep and organized study approaches to learning?11
It is ambiguous, but I know what I am doing ’: undergraduates’ experiences and agency in an interdisciplinary programme11
Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education11
Let the cat out of the bag: a critical incident analysis of teaching entrepreneurship competencies from the teachers’ perspective11
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education11
Examining the impacts of visa policy changes on international student enrolment and mobility11
Testing Zipf’s and Gibrat’s laws in the Spanish university system: evidence from a decade of institutional transformation11
Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study11
Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review11
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education11
The winner’s curse? Temporal and spatial impacts of higher education expansion on graduate employment and social mobility11
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations11
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university11
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities11
Morphology of mergers and their impact on performance and accounting metrics in HEIs: evidence from a small European country11
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia11
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing11
University lessons as interaction rituals: an observational study of student engagement in a set of problem-based learning (PBL) classes10
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective10
South–South student mobility and the myth of easy adaptation: lessons for higher education institutions in the Global South10
University education and entrepreneurial intentions of European students: insights into the Theory of Planned Behaviour complemented by skills10
De-westernising competition: ‘Harmony of competition’ in Chinese higher education10
Re-examining WIL quality frameworks: factors that impact sustained quality in work-integrated learning10
Competition dynamics in higher education systems in East Asia10
Studying Chinese, studying in Chinese and studying with the Chinese: international students’ experiences and identity construction in Chinese-medium instruction (CMI) programs10
Toward decoloniality of connectedness in higher education10
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets10
How do university faculty feel about grading? Insights from a control-value theory perspective10
Reimagining academic freedom as collective capability10
A bridge too far? Replication, transparency, and the politics of evidence in higher education research10
Integrating traditional knowledge of non-Western humanities and social sciences: a research agenda through the Chinese lens10
The illusion of impact: symbolic sustainability and the managerialization of sustainable development goals in higher education10
Positioning and repositioning in higher education: first year students engaging with the world10
Correction10
Organizational culture and educational aspirations of tribal students in higher education10
University-industry collaboration for academic success and employability: a connectivist perspective9
Time-as-affect in neoliberal academy: theorizing chronopolitics as affective milieus in higher education9
Does quality assurance matter for micro-credentials in higher education? Legitimacy, regulatory framework, and challenges in four Asian contexts9
Is merit-aid for all? The effects of aid-eligibility changes on college access in the United States9
Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary9
Chinese academics’ attitudes towards journal peer-review9
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students’ learning process9
Outpacing reforms: lived realities of organizational change in regional universities in a post-socialist context9
Understanding AIgiarism in higher education: the lens of general AI attitudes and moral disengagement9
The struggle for identity in doctoral supervision: a phenomenologically grounded qualitative study of power and conflict9
Perceived academic working conditions and career choices of Chinese PhD students9
Co-authorship as a traded commodity: the experiences of early career education academics in Hong Kong, Canada and the UK9
Multilevel research on factors impacting international branch campuses’ global integration and local responsiveness: an empirical investigation of two Canadian cases9
Beyond belonging: connecting across the STEMM + B student life course9
Back to the future: fifty years of Studies in Higher Education and emerging directions9
Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities9
The production of gender-specific scholarly literature in Romania: the weak institutionalisation of Gender Studies in higher education9
How interdisciplinary is it? A new method for quantifying interdisciplinarity in student teams & examination of a large project-based program9
Value generation and economic impact of the University of Granada9
On a pedagogy of authentic care in postgraduate research supervision9
Australia’s international alumni engagement strategy: an approach from soft power to knowledge diplomacy9
Global prescriptions and local adaptations: the role of political culture in shaping governance strategies for university funding9
Reimagining China–US university relations: a global ‘ecosystem’ perspective9
Merger decisions, their characteristics, and accounting performance: evidence from merging and non-merging HEIs in a small European country9
Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review9
Tracing topic evolution in higher education: a text mining study on Italian universities9
Hybrid reading practices: how GenAI summarisers can support rather than replace reading9
Supervisors matter, but what about peers? The distinct contributions of quality supervision and peer support to doctoral students’ research experience9
Early- and mid-career researchers’ agency in pursuing interdisciplinary careers: institutional support and hindrances9
Manifestations of professional identity work: an integrative review of research in professional identity formation9
How does assessment shape student identities? An integrative review9
Generative AI: is it a paradigm shift for higher education?9
Different universities for different students: mapping the socioeconomic and academic segmentation of the Chilean university system9
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