OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Higher Education Research & Development 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaping the time to be a good teacher: a case study on teacher excellence and time ownership in a British transnational university	92
Assessment for student transitions and success: a scoping review of assessment principles in Australian enabling education	91
The trade-off between career aspirations and class status: research on the influence of family background on the realization of doctoral graduates’ career aspirations	64
A model of academic developers’ formation and growth of professional identity: a focus on the affective factors	53
Beyond doctoral completions: researcher development expectations for promotion to associate professor in Australian universities	50
The homeification of learning in higher education	47
A deep dive into taught postgraduates’ participation in work-integrated learning	36
ParadAIse L0st?	35
Beyond language: fostering an intercultural mindset in foreign language classrooms in Japan	33
Student perceptions of peer cheating behaviour during COVID-19 induced online teaching and assessment	32
Accountability, ethics and knowledge production: racialised academic staff navigating competing expectations in the social production of research with marginalised communities	30
Re-weaving learning ecologies: a pluriversal framework for higher education learning spaces	28
Nation-bounded internationalization of higher education: a comparative analysis of two periphery countries	27
African challenges to western-centric metrics in evaluating international research collaboration	26
List of Reviewers	25
Wandering into the weeds or planting seeds? Balancing depth and breadth in early and late career research	24
Exploring the meaning of campus through lived experiences of students, staff, and visitors	23
Supporting the academic success of underrecognised higher education students through an immersive block model	23
The impact of large language models on university students’ literacy development: a dialogue with Lea and Street’s academic literacies framework	23
Re-storying career practitioners’ professional identities as career and employability specialists through an online WIL capstone	23
The impact of mandatory academic service-learning on university graduates’ continual civic engagement: evidence from a curriculum reform	22
Professional adaptation of international academics: a critical discussion through the lens of complexity theory	22
Active learning in authentic conditions has a positive effect on first-year student success	22
Drawing as thinking through: students’ use of collaborative drawing to examine ‘problemical’ situations	22
Responsibility and other dangerous ideas: who cares, who can, and who should in higher education	21

Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education	21
Embodied learning for wicked problems and societal transitions: perspectives from transdisciplinary higher education practitioners	21
How can we conceptualise the current position of the retrospective PhD through published work in British Universities?	21
‘Can teaching help me get promoted?’ A qualitative study of the career development of pre-tenure faculty in China	21
Settler nation-building through immigration as a rationale for higher education: a critical discourse analysis	21
European credit transfer and accumulation system as a time-based predictor of student workload	20
Measuring institutions’ country brand authenticity in transnational higher education	19
Dancing in a red dress: Empowering metaphors of academics’ experiences of the manuscript peer review process	19
Caught ‘in-between’: insights into international students’ doctoral thesis writing practices in China	19
College students’ sense of belonging in times of disruption: prospective changes from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Sustaining teaching and learning innovations: a scoping review	19
Joining forces: developing postgraduate education for teachers through university–municipality collaboration	18
Repairing epistemic harms through wellbeing in South African universities	18
‘Challenging from the start’: novice doctoral co-supervisors’ experiences of supervision culture and practice	18
Beyond the physical/virtual: connected learning spaces in postgraduate business education	17
Near-peer teaching in a university outdoor environmental education programme: following footprints in the sand	17
‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity	17
Narratives of success: high-achieving women with disabilities navigating higher education in Australia	17
The Empathy Compass for addressing Societal Challenges in Education. A tool for higher education to stimulate, facilitate and assess empathic awareness in multistakeholder collaborations	17
Direct instruction or active learning? The spectrum of first-year university teaching practices	16
Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing	16
Exploring the relationship between representation in the curricula and students’ engagement	16
Internationalization of higher education in tumultuous times: transformative powers and problems in embattled Ukraine	16
Work-integrated learning: opportunities and challenges in Australia	16
How a responsive digital pedagogy using the students against academic misconduct framework decreased academic integrity breaches	15
Who are learning designers in post-pandemic Australasian universities?	15
Using peer feedback, teacher feedback and self-assessment to enhance students’ feedback literacy behaviour	15
Student empowerment for internationalisation at a distance: enacting the students as partners approach in virtual mobility	15
Bridging the divide: glowing possibilities of transcultural doctoral education in a Balinese-Australian case study	15
‘Undisciplining’ higher education without losing disciplines: furthering transformative potential for students	15
Challenges of delivering Australian research honours programmes for healthcare professions	15
Plagiarism in EMI higher education: conceptual understanding of staff and students in four South Asian countries	15
(De)construction of stigma attached to global South-South student mobility: voices from Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia	14
Supporting lived experience teaching academics through co-reflection	14
Disrupting the self: self-identity, discomfort and (un)becoming through the research process	14
Working at the level above: university promotion policies as a tool for wage theft and underpayment	14
Heading the road less travelled: exploring Chinese students’ motivations to study in Tanzania	14
Knowledge from displacement: war trauma in higher education	14
Academic casualisation and precarity: a scoping review	13
The feedback process as a scaffold of evaluative judgement	13
Collegiality as collective affect: who carries the burden of the labour of attunement?	13
Intersectionality and equality policies in Higher Education and Research organizations: a critical scoping review and future research agenda	13
In the cleft of a rock: Experiences in the in-between space of learning among undergraduate arts and design students	13
The reshaping of higher education: technological impacts, pedagogical change, and future projections	13
Shaping a sustainable doctoral pathway: a critical analysis of reflexive mediation between structure and agency in the PhD experience	13
Preparing for work placements: sensemaking among international health science students	13
Co-design practice in higher education: practice theory insights into collaborative curriculum development	13
Unveiling the hidden key: can help-seeking behaviors bridge the gap between doctoral supervision relationship and research self-efficacy of PhD candidates?	12
‘No university without community’: engaging the community in social work simulations	12
Finding their way: becoming a researcher in higher education studies	12

Global diffusion of quality assurance research in higher education: a study on collaboration and concepts	12
Capturing connections during COVID-19: Using photography to assess US college students’ sense of belonging	11
Optimism bias as a barrier to accessing mental health support amongst tertiary students	11
Compassion in higher education: fashion or future for relational pedagogies?	11
Mobilising resilience to symbolic violence with Chinese international research students in Australia: a Bourdieusian perspective	11
Perceived organisational support and university students’ career exploration: the mediation role of career adaptability	11
Common misunderstandings of phenomenographic research in higher education	11
AI and its implications for research in higher education: a critical dialogue	11
A preliminary study on the reality of autonomy in Georgian universities	11
Academics’ perceptions and experiences of demographic influences on peer review: a qualitative study	10
Navigating tensions between institutional and cultural quandaries: reflexive journey of Chinese female doctoral students	10
Master’s programmes at transnational higher education institutions in China: who enrols and why?	10
Spatial fluencies: acts of navigation and negotiation in the postdigital learning environment	10
Fostering a culture of qualitative research and scholarly publication in a leading university in the West Bank: a Palestinian-UK capacity-building collaboration	9
Fostering technology-inclusive transitions in Irish higher education for students with disabilities	9
Major-based undergraduate curriculum as an obstacle to graduate employability development	9
Undergraduate perceptions of graduate teaching assistants: competence, relatedness, and autonomy in practice	9
Priority setting in higher education research using a mixed methods approach	9
Academic performance of first-year university students: modelling the role of reading competence	9
Status and belonging beyond academia: social identity threat and social approach/avoidance motivation of full-time doctoral students	9
Challenging structural racism through the development of equity-driven core Māori hauora ā iwi/public health competencies for university hauora ā iwi/public health teaching	9
Mobilization and stigmatization: PhD admissions in wartime	9
Caring for educational concerns	9
Why shouldn't teacher education produce ‘ready-to-teach’ graduates? Mapping a pathway to alternative teacher education and teacher becomings	9
The role of extra-/co-curricular activities and work on law graduates’ initial employment outcomes	9
Enriching work-integrated learning: conceptions of integrating Indigenous reflective practices	8
Capturing the shifting work of teaching in higher education through postcards of practice	8
Implications of ChatGPT for higher education institutions: exploring Nepali university students’ perspectives	8
Troubling knowledge in Australian Indigenous Studies: how prior knowledge affects undergraduate student learning	8
Uncovering design considerations for embedding transdisciplinarity in higher education – an empirical exploration of a transdisciplinary global health program	8
Academics’ perceived space in negotiating university-industry collaboration: a case study in two universities in Mainland China	8
Are international students relatively resilient? Comparing international and domestic students’ levels of self-compassion, mental health and wellbeing	8
Doctoral intelligence: a framework for developing mindsets for doctorateness in changing doctoral contexts	8
Compassion as governance: neuro-ableism, benevolent pathology, and the moral economy of care in higher education	8
Keep it brief: Can a 4-item stress screener predict university adjustment over 18 months?	8
What factors contribute to higher grades in a first-year undergraduate management unit: an exploratory study at an Australian university	8
Universities Australia 2017–2020 Indigenous Strategy: a meta-synthesis of the issues and challenges	8
Peer-mentoring and doctoral student retention: a longitudinal investigation	8
Mapping future work skills in the bachelor of arts: findings from an Australian study	8
Global citizenship education in Korean higher education: moving beyond transformative calls to praxes	8
An Indigenous Australian Cultural Wealth Mentoring Model	8
Enhancing perceptions of employability amongst first-year arts students and implications for student belonging	8
Gaining insights into employability capitals: experiences of Chinese international graduates in the Australian labor market	7
The role of agency in social justice education: insights from a practising inclusion in higher education micro-credential	7
Visual university studies since the Cold War: mapping journal articles published in Englishes from 1992 to 2023	7
Are Confucian educational values a barrier to engaging students as partners in Chinese universities?	7
Strengthening responses to sexual and/or intimate partner violence against women international students: Australian stakeholder perspectives	7
Beyond the ivory tower: a survey of European university board members’ perspectives on institutional policy priorities	7
Time to act: Mental health and desired university supports among graduate students	7
Facing inequalities in academia: understanding Chinese early-career academics’ identity formation	7
Stakeholder perceptions of what industry wants from doctoral students: a systematic literature review	7
Rethinking the student journey with voice of student: unstructured data-driven approach	7
Academics’ practices and perceptions of career development learning in the curriculum	7
Integration of growth mindset concepts into academic writing courses for novice researchers’ academic writing skills and competence	7
Critique of the article, ‘Theoretical foundations of phenomenography: a critical review’	7
Student partners as co-contributors in research: a collective autoethnographic account	7
Gender and the symbolic power of academic conferences in fictional texts	6
Ableism in higher education: the negation of crip temporalities within the neoliberal academy	6
Do students perceive faculty as responsible for equitable learning environments? Results from a mixed-methods study	6
Dropouts and transfers: socioeconomic segregation in entrance to and exit from the Chilean higher education	6
Mentoring communication in higher education: a qualitative exploration	6
Bridging disciplinary divides: insights and recommendations for fostering interdisciplinary research	6
Australian doctoral employability: a systematic review of challenges and opportunities	6
Stereotypes and biases in recruiting PhD holders: a professional profile experiment	6
Intentions versus outcomes in doctoral degree completion	6
Autonomy, competence, and relatedness: unpacking faculty motivation in service-learning	6
‘It was building a plane as we were flying it!’ Adapting teaching through a crisis: lessons from educational leadership staff in Higher Education	6
Transdisciplinary work-integrated learning’s contribution to societal transition: a scoping review	6
‘Time’ and international students	6
Theorising new possibilities for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and teaching-focused academics	6
‘The harder you work, the luckier you get?’: cruel optimism in rural students’ affective transitions into an elite Chinese university	6