OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Higher Education is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial intention: the role of social support and entrepreneurial self-efficacy	111
Living in uncertainty: the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education in Hong Kong	97
The need to disentangle assessment and feedback in higher education	78
What large-scale publication and citation data tell us about international research collaboration in Europe: changing national patterns in global contexts	70
Higher education and its post-coronial future: utopian hopes and dystopian fears at Cambridge University during Covid-19	68
Higher education in troubled times: on the impact of Covid-19 in Italy	67
Turn crisis into opportunity in response to COVID-19: experience from a Chinese University and future prospects	64
COVID-19 in Dutch higher education	62
Moving beyond self-reports to estimate the prevalence of commercial contract cheating: an Australian study	61
Mapping graduate employability and career development in higher education research: a citation network analysis	61
What drives global science? The four competing narratives	42
Nothing but publishing: the overriding goal of PhD students in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau	39
Interpreting the impact of knowledge management processes on organizational performance in Chinese higher education: mediating role of knowledge worker productivity	38
Reflections on the public university sector and the covid-19 pandemic in South Africa	38
Belonging as situated practice	38
Three-ring entrepreneurial university: in search of a new business model	37
Why do academics do unfunded research? Resistance, compliance and identity in the UK neo-liberal university	33
Constructivism, curriculum and the knowledge question: tensions and challenges for higher education	32
Doctoral graduates’ transition to industry: networks as a mechanism? Cases from Norway, Sweden and the UK	31
Leadership strategies for a higher education sector in flux	31
The role of universities in modern society	29
The impact of a wellbeing program imbedded in university classes: the importance of valuing happiness, baseline wellbeing and practice frequency	28
Visualizing the COVID-19 pandemic response in Canadian higher education: an extended photo essay	28
Universities and Covid-19 in Argentina: from community engagement to regulation	28
Institutional logics analysis in higher education research	27

Faculty satisfaction with online teaching: a comprehensive study with American faculty	27
Development, validation and deployment of the EmployABILITY scale	26
Employability profiles of higher education graduates: a person-oriented approach	26
Enduring the impacts of COVID-19: experiences of the private higher education sector in Ethiopia	26
Feedback that works: a realist review of feedback interventions for written tasks	24
The role of self and peer assessment in Higher Education	24
Extending the university mission and business model: influences and implications	24
Ideal and actual roles of university professors in academic integrity management: a comparative study	24
Measuring what matters: the positioning of students in feedback processes within national student satisfaction surveys	23
The role of teaching staff in fostering perceived employability of university students	22
How to promote the employability capital of university students? Developing and validating scales	21
Flipped learning with Wikipedia in higher education	21
Support for doctoral candidates in Australia during the pandemic: the case of the University of Melbourne	21
Wellbeing and work-life merge in Australian and UK academics	20
Supporting the development of students with disabilities in higher education: access, stigma, identity, and power	20
Fulfilling University third mission: towards an ecosystemic strategy of entrepreneurship education	20
How training and development practices contribute to research productivity: a moderated mediation model	19
Academics of colour in elite universities in the UK and the USA: the ‘unspoken system of exclusion’	19
A team-teaching approach for blended learning: an experiment	19
Assessing the role of entrepreneurship education in regulating emotions and fostering implementation intention: evidence from Nigerian universities	19
Crisis – What Crisis?	18
Strengthening the ties between theory and practice in higher education: an investigation into different levels of authenticity and processes of re- and de-contextualisation	18
The psychosocial hazards of academic work: an analysis of trends	17
National and institutional responses – reimagined operations – pandemic disruptions and academic continuity for a global university	17
Global university president leadership characteristics and dynamics	17
Introducing block mode to first-year university students: a natural experiment on satisfaction and performance	16
PhD holders entering non-academic workplaces: organisational culture shock	16
Integration into higher education: experiences of disabled students in South Africa	16
A ‘doctoral compass’: strategic reflection, self-assessment and recalibration for navigating the ‘twin’ doctoral journey	16
Sensemaking in supervisor-doctoral student relationships: revealing schemas on the fulfillment of basic psychological needs	16
Towards corporatized collaborative governance: the multiple networks model and entrepreneurial universities in Hong Kong	16
Engaging transformed fundamentals to design global hybrid higher education	16
‘It’s been a challenge finding new ways to learn’: first-year students’ perceptions of adapting to learning in a university environment	15
Cultural intelligence development during short-term study abroad programmes: the role of cultural distance and prior international experience	15
Construction and operationalisation of an Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM) via a systematic literature review (2016–2022)	15
Early-predicting dropout of university students: an application of innovative multilevel machine learning and statistical techniques	15
Continued use of e-learning technology in higher education: a managerial perspective	15
Students’ online information use and learning progress in higher education – A critical literature review	14
The boundary conditions under which teaching–research conflict leads to university teachers’ job burnout	14
Student partnership: exploring the dynamics in and between different conceptualizations	14
Can lean management change the managerial culture in higher education?	14
Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Disentangling the impact of social disadvantage on ‘becoming employable’: evidence from STEM student university-to-work transitions	13
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education	13
Institutionalization of competition-based funding under neoliberalism in East Asia	13
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach	13
Entrepreneurship education, academic major, and university students’ social entrepreneurial intention: the perspective of Planned Behavior Theory	12
The heterogeneity of European Higher Education Institutions: a configurational approach	12
Key factors influencing psychological distress in university students: the effects of tertiary entrance scores	12
Placement training and learning outcomes in social work education	12

Publication or pregnancy? Employment contracts and childbearing of women academics in China	12
Governing by narratives: REF impact case studies and restrictive storytelling in performance measurement	12
The state of work-based learning development in EU higher education: learnings from the WEXHE project	12
Using the theory of planned behaviour to understand Thai students’ conceptions of plagiarism within their undergraduate programmes in higher education	12
Preparing for RAE 2020 in Hong Kong: academics’ research, writing and publishing trajectories in a neoliberal governance landscape	11
The importance of collaboration and supervisor behaviour for gender differences in doctoral student performance and early career development	11
Academic career progression from early career researcher to professor: what can we learn from job ads	11
The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL): the thorn in the flesh of educational research	11
‘You’re thrown in the deep end’: adult learner identity formation in higher education	11
Early career training and development of academic independence: a case of life sciences in Japan	11
The ‘Work-Work Balance’ in higher education: between over-work, falling short and the pleasures of multiplicity	11
The contributions of higher education to society: a conceptual approach	10
Partisan registration of faculty in flagship colleges	10
Pursuing doctoral research in an emerging knowledge hub: an exploration of international students’ experiences in China	10
An exploration of degree apprentice perspectives: a Q methodology study	10
What business schools do to support academic entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	10
Does the international Baccalaureate ‘work’ as an alternative to mainstream schooling? Perceptions of university students in Hong Kong	10
‘Entitlement’ and ‘Legitimacy’ as emotional capital: living out class through a critical educational failure by community-college students in Hong Kong	10
Diversity approaches matter in international classrooms: how a multicultural approach buffers against cultural misunderstandings and encourages inclusion and psychological safety	9
University spin-offs: the past, the present, and the future	9
Academic motivations to engage in university-business cooperation: a fuzzy set analysis	9
The social impact of universities: assessing the effects of the three university missions on social engagement	9
A micro level investigation of stakeholder motives on university technology transfer business models	9
Government spending on local higher education institutions (LHEIs) in China: analysing the determinants of general appropriations and their contributions	9
How entrepreneurial are social entrepreneurship education providers? The role of universities’ entrepreneurial ecosystems in the provision of elective social entrepreneurship courses to business stude	9
Writing knowledge: Wikipedia, public review, and peer review	9
Empowered or disempowered by mobility? Experience of international academics in China	8
Institutionalising intra-organisational change for responsible management education	8
Formalising organisational responsibility for refugees in German higher education: the case of first contact positions	8
Does university prestige lead to discrimination in the labor market? Evidence from a labor market field experiment in three countries	8
Is there order in the mess? A single paper meta-analysis approach to identification of predictors of success in learning analytics	8
Impact of work-integrated learning and co-curricular activities on graduate labour force outcomes	8
Mapping the entrepreneurial university literature: a text mining approach	8
Public engagement professionals in a prestige economy: Ghosts in the machine	8
Creating dialogic spaces: developing doctoral students’ critical writing skills through peer assessment and review	8
Careers and employability learning: pedagogical principles for higher education	8
Effects of high school students’ noncognitive factors on their success at college	8
Navigating and negotiating global science: tensions in China’s national science system	8
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress	8
Managing the rules of recognition: how early career academics negotiate career scripts through identity work	7
Do rankings affect universities’ financial sustainability? – financial vulnerability to rankings and elite status as a positional good	7
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets	7
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy	7
‘Growing from an acorn to an oak tree’: a thematic analysis of international students’ cross-cultural adjustment in the United States	7
The conceptualisation of socially responsible universities in higher education research: a systematic literature review	7
Interventions, practices and institutional arrangements for supporting PGR mental health and wellbeing: reviewing effectiveness and addressing barriers	7
International students in Portuguese higher education: who are they and what are their choices?	7
University spin-offs: entrepreneurship, growth and regional development	7
Evaluating the efficacy of embedding employability into a second-year undergraduate module	7
Resources, norms, and dropout intentions of migrant students in Germany: the role of social networks and social capital	7
I’m a unicorn, ask me how! What the rise of ‘quit lit’ and ‘staypieces’ says about higher education and academia	7
Reimagining curricula: effects of cultural (in)sensitivity of curricula on racially minoritised students’ engagement	6
Social and emotional competencies as predictors of student engagement in youth: a cross-cultural multilevel study	6
Why and how medical schools, peer-reviewed journals, and research funders should promote Wikipedia editing	6
A review of resilience in higher education: toward the emerging concept of designer resilience	6
Internationalisation of higher education in an uneven world: an integrated approach to internationalisation of universities in the academic periphery	6
Beyond learning in higher education: an evaluation of the ‘Life Design’ initiative to improve student employability	6
Academic engagement in Portugal: the role of institutional diversity, individual characteristics and modes of knowledge production	6
Endless palimpsest: Wikipedia and the future’s historian	6
An inclusive multifaceted approach for the development of electronic work-integrated learning (eWIL) curriculum	6
An analysis of the organisational factors that determine education-related university-business cooperation activities in manufacturing SMEs	6
Challenges and success factors of transnational higher education: a systematic review	6
Identifying skills, qualifications, and attributes expected to do a PhD	6
Exploring the development of students’ identities as educational leaders and educational researchers in a professional practice doctoral program	6
Facing the dropout crisis among PhD candidates: the role of supervisor support in emotional well-being and intended doctoral persistence among men and women	6