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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating university students’ conceptions of engineering: an implied identity perspective	65
International student flows into provincial China – the main motivations for higher education students	50
What value do PhD graduates offer? An organizational case study	39
The costs of and economies of scale in supporting students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds in Australian higher education	38
A model of academic developers’ formation and growth of professional identity: a focus on the affective factors	32
Exploring partnerships between public libraries and universities in regional low-socioeconomic communities: the student experience	31
Shaping the time to be a good teacher: a case study on teacher excellence and time ownership in a British transnational university	30
The homeification of learning in higher education	26
Re-weaving learning ecologies: a pluriversal framework for higher education learning spaces	25
The impact of mandatory academic service-learning on university graduates’ continual civic engagement: evidence from a curriculum reform	25
Place-based learning and student critical reflection at the Man From Snowy River Bush Festival: a model for embedding Indigenous perspectives in non-specialist subjects	24
Diffusing innovation to support faculty engagement in the integration of language and content across the disciplines in an internationalized Canadian university	24
The impact of large language models on university students’ literacy development: a dialogue with Lea and Street’s academic literacies framework	23
‘This can’t be the new norm’: academics’ perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis for the Australian university sector	23
Re-storying career practitioners’ professional identities as career and employability specialists through an online WIL capstone	22
Beyond language: fostering an intercultural mindset in foreign language classrooms in Japan	22
Exploring the meaning of campus through lived experiences of students, staff, and visitors	22
Student perceptions of peer cheating behaviour during COVID-19 induced online teaching and assessment	21
Accountability, ethics and knowledge production: racialised academic staff navigating competing expectations in the social production of research with marginalised communities	20
Nation-bounded internationalization of higher education: a comparative analysis of two periphery countries	19
Supporting the academic success of underrecognised higher education students through an immersive block model	19
Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education	18
‘Challenging from the start’: novice doctoral co-supervisors’ experiences of supervision culture and practice	18
Settler nation-building through immigration as a rationale for higher education: a critical discourse analysis	18
Drawing as thinking through: students’ use of collaborative drawing to examine ‘problemical’ situations	17

College students’ sense of belonging in times of disruption: prospective changes from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Caught ‘in-between’: insights into international students’ doctoral thesis writing practices in China	17
How can we conceptualise the current position of the retrospective PhD through published work in British Universities?	16
European credit transfer and accumulation system as a time-based predictor of student workload	16
Cultivating research skills through scholarly digital storytelling	15
Sustaining teaching and learning innovations: a scoping review	15
Early career researchers as active followers: perceived demands of supervisory interventions in academic workplaces	15
Professional adaptation of international academics: a critical discussion through the lens of complexity theory	14
Dancing in a red dress: Empowering metaphors of academics’ experiences of the manuscript peer review process	14
Measuring institutions’ country brand authenticity in transnational higher education	14
‘Can teaching help me get promoted?’ A qualitative study of the career development of pre-tenure faculty in China	14
Forty years of social justice research in Australasia: examining equity in inequitable settings	13
Student learning ecologies in online higher education: a model to support connected learning across contexts	13
Love, loss and a doctorate: an autoethnography of grieving while writing a PhD	13
A holistic approach to higher education plagiarism: agency and analysis levels	13
Beyond the physical/virtual: connected learning spaces in postgraduate business education	12
‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity	12
What makes PhD researchers think seriously about discontinuing? an exploration of risk factors and risk profiles	12
Accommodation of students with physical disabilities in face-to-face based distance education in Ghana	12
Direct instruction or active learning? The spectrum of first-year university teaching practices	12
Exploring the paradoxes and tensions encountered by business faculty teaching teamwork in a changing academic environment	12
Near-peer teaching in a university outdoor environmental education programme: following footprints in the sand	12
Cyberbullying in first-year university students and its influence on their intentions to drop out	12
Mapping course innovation in higher education: a multi-faceted analytical framework	12
Internationalization of higher education in tumultuous times: transformative powers and problems in embattled Ukraine	12
Work-integrated learning: opportunities and challenges in Australia	12
Challenges of delivering Australian research honours programmes for healthcare professions	11
Disrupting the self: self-identity, discomfort and (un)becoming through the research process	11
Co-design practice in higher education: practice theory insights into collaborative curriculum development	11
Student empowerment for internationalisation at a distance: enacting the students as partners approach in virtual mobility	11
Working at the level above: university promotion policies as a tool for wage theft and underpayment	11
Preparing for work placements: sensemaking among international health science students	11
In the cleft of a rock: Experiences in the in-between space of learning among undergraduate arts and design students	11
Shaping a sustainable doctoral pathway: a critical analysis of reflexive mediation between structure and agency in the PhD experience	10
A business faculty, Jindaola and a path to embedding Aboriginal knowledges	10
Plagiarism in EMI higher education: conceptual understanding of staff and students in four South Asian countries	10
Digital reading and gender inequality in higher education	10
‘Undisciplining’ higher education without losing disciplines: furthering transformative potential for students	10
The reshaping of higher education: technological impacts, pedagogical change, and future projections	10
The contribution of different types of work-integrated learning to graduate employability	9
Optimism bias as a barrier to accessing mental health support amongst tertiary students	9
Does university attendance affect students’ critical and creative thinking skills? A longitudinal research with pre-service teaching and psychology undergraduates	9
Compassion in higher education: fashion or future for relational pedagogies?	9
AI and its implications for research in higher education: a critical dialogue	9
‘No university without community’: engaging the community in social work simulations	9
Remote learning and its implications toward study-life conflicts and the mental health of university students: does studying at home or campus matter?	9
Global diffusion of quality assurance research in higher education: a study on collaboration and concepts	9
Capturing connections during COVID-19: Using photography to assess US college students’ sense of belonging	9
Mobilising resilience to symbolic violence with Chinese international research students in Australia: a Bourdieusian perspective	9
Navigating tensions between institutional and cultural quandaries: reflexive journey of Chinese female doctoral students	9

Perceived organisational support and university students’ career exploration: the mediation role of career adaptability	9
Student agency: two students’ agentic actions in challenging oppressive practices on a diverse university campus	9
(De)construction of stigma attached to global South-South student mobility: voices from Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia	9
Collegiality as collective affect: who carries the burden of the labour of attunement?	9
Towards an effective change framework for scholarly teaching in higher education professional degrees	9
Spatial fluencies: acts of navigation and negotiation in the postdigital learning environment	9
Common misunderstandings of phenomenographic research in higher education	9
Priority setting in higher education research using a mixed methods approach	8
Fostering a culture of qualitative research and scholarly publication in a leading university in the West Bank: a Palestinian-UK capacity-building collaboration	8
Adjustment to higher education among students with mental health disorders	8
Are student reflections on professional engagement activities correlated to academic performance?	8
Mobilization and stigmatization: PhD admissions in wartime	8
A preliminary study on the reality of autonomy in Georgian universities	8
Why shouldn't teacher education produce ‘ready-to-teach’ graduates? Mapping a pathway to alternative teacher education and teacher becomings	7
Transforming lives: the power of an Australian enabling education	7
Undergraduate perceptions of graduate teaching assistants: competence, relatedness, and autonomy in practice	7
Student–faculty interaction and academic self-concept: the intersection of race and gender	7
Mapping future work skills in the bachelor of arts: findings from an Australian study	7
Academic performance of first-year university students: modelling the role of reading competence	7
The role of extra-/co-curricular activities and work on law graduates’ initial employment outcomes	7
Toward a consensual definition of educational research and development: a Delphi study	7
Major-based undergraduate curriculum as an obstacle to graduate employability development	7
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	7
Mental health and wellbeing of postgraduate researchers: exploring the relationship between mental health literacy, help-seeking behaviour, psychological distress, and wellbeing	7
Implications of ChatGPT for higher education institutions: exploring Nepali university students’ perspectives	7
Troubling knowledge in Australian Indigenous Studies: how prior knowledge affects undergraduate student learning	7
Are international students relatively resilient? Comparing international and domestic students’ levels of self-compassion, mental health and wellbeing	6
Time to act: Mental health and desired university supports among graduate students	6
Academics’ practices and perceptions of career development learning in the curriculum	6
Enhancing perceptions of employability amongst first-year arts students and implications for student belonging	6
Nature vs nurture: learning conceptions and environment as precursors to learning strategy patterns and their outcomes	6
Global citizenship education in Korean higher education: moving beyond transformative calls to praxes	6
What factors contribute to higher grades in a first-year undergraduate management unit: an exploratory study at an Australian university	6
Keep it brief: Can a 4-item stress screener predict university adjustment over 18 months?	6
Universities Australia 2017–2020 Indigenous Strategy: a meta-synthesis of the issues and challenges	6
Doctoral intelligence: a framework for developing mindsets for doctorateness in changing doctoral contexts	6
Capturing the shifting work of teaching in higher education through postcards of practice	6
What drives Chinese scholars to publish in international journals? Motivations and implications	6
Uncovering design considerations for embedding transdisciplinarity in higher education – an empirical exploration of a transdisciplinary global health program	6
Academics’ perceived space in negotiating university-industry collaboration: a case study in two universities in Mainland China	6
Peer-mentoring and doctoral student retention: a longitudinal investigation	6
Framework for analyzing conceptions of excellence in higher education: a reflective tool	6