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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘This can’t be the new norm’: academics’ perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis for the Australian university sector	57
A conceptual framework to enhance student online learning and engagement in higher education	41
Making connections: authenticity and alienation within students’ relationships in higher education	39
The relative importance of work experience, extra-curricular and university-based activities on student employability	35
Assessment for inclusion: rethinking contemporary strategies in assessment design	35
How can universities better support the mental wellbeing of higher degree research students? A study of students’ suggestions	33
The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on PhD candidates’ study progress and study wellbeing	29
A mapping of graduate attributes: what can we expect from UK university students?	28
A commentary on the criteria of effective teaching in post-COVID higher education	27
The contribution of different types of work-integrated learning to graduate employability	25
Does the group matter? Effects of trust, cultural diversity, and group formation on engagement in group work in higher education	24
Supervising the PhD: identifying common mismatches in expectations between candidate and supervisor to improve research training outcomes	24
Students’ approach to learning: evidence regarding the importance of the interest-to-effort ratio	23
Exploring the effects of the COVID-19 emergency remote education on students’ social and academic integration in higher education in Austria	22
Living, breathing settler-colonialism: the reification of settler norms in a common university space	21
Forty years of social justice research in Australasia: examining equity in inequitable settings	21
The role of internationalisation in 40 years of higher education research: major themes from Higher Education Research & Development (1982–2020)	21
Exploring course experiences that predict psychological distress and mental wellbeing in Australian undergraduate and graduate coursework students	20
Well-being and student–faculty interactions in higher education	20
Responsiveness vs. accessibility: pandemic-driven shift to remote teaching and online learning	20
The impact of perceived psychosocial environment and academic emotions on higher education students’ intentions to drop out	19
Developing and evaluating nationwide expert-delivered academic integrity workshops for the higher education sector in Australia	19
Students’ preferences for seating arrangements and their engagement in cooperative learning activities in college English blended learning classrooms in higher education	19
Peer feedback and teacher feedback: a comparative study of revision effectiveness in writing instruction for EFL learners	18
Evaluating critical success factors in the permanence in Higher Education using multi-criteria decision-making	18

‘The university doesn’t care about the impact it is having on us’: academic experiences of the institutionalisation of blended learning	17
Transforming lives: the power of an Australian enabling education	16
Politicising inclusive learning environments: how to foster belonging and challenge ableism?	16
Enhancing students’ critical thinking skills through engagement with innovative pedagogical practices in Global South	16
Illuminating the liminality of the doctoral journey: precarity, agency and COVID-19	16
Academic identities research: mapping the field’s theoretical frameworks	16
Factors influencing PhD students’ intentions to pursue careers in the government and nonprofit sectors: evidence from a global survey	15
A systematic literature review of micro-credentials in higher education: a non-zero-sum game	15
Credibility in educational development: trustworthiness, expertise, and identification	15
Paying the piper: the governance of vice-chancellors’ remuneration in Australian and UK universities	14
Analogues of engagement: Assessing tertiary student engagement in contemporary face-to-face and blended learning contexts	14
Responding to the call: talanoa, va-vā, early career network and enabling academic pathways at a university in New Zealand	14
Mapping the contours of digital journeys: a study of international students’ social networks in Australian higher education	14
Students’ perceptions of student voice in assessment within the context of Iran: the dynamics of culture, power relations, and student knowledge	14
Perceived organisational support and university students’ career exploration: the mediation role of career adaptability	14
Where does all the ‘know how’ go? The role of tacit knowledge in research impact	14
Peer learning and the undergraduate journey: a framework for student success	14
Advancement and subordination of women academics in Saudi Arabia’s higher education	13
Unpacking vulnerability in academic writing and publishing: a tale of two non-native English speaker scholars in China	13
Mental health and wellbeing of postgraduate researchers: exploring the relationship between mental health literacy, help-seeking behaviour, psychological distress, and wellbeing	13
Decolonising the Indigenised curricula: preparing Australian graduates for a workplace and world in flux	13
English as a ‘double barrier’: English medium instruction and student learning at Vietnamese transnational universities	13
Graduate employability: the higher education landscape in Australia	13
Working to learn and learning to work: research on higher education and the world of work	12
Talanoa vā: indigenous masculinities and the intersections of indigeneity, race, and gender within higher education	12
Enhancing co-supervision practice by setting expectations in a structured discussion using a research-informed tool	12
Pandemic productivity in academia: using ecological momentary assessment to explore the impact of COVID-19 on research productivity	12
Student learning ecologies in online higher education: a model to support connected learning across contexts	12
Let nine universities blossom: opportunities and constraints on the development of higher education in China	12
Sense of belonging in second-year undergraduate students: the value of extracurricular activities	12
Enhancing student resilience by targeting staff resilience, attitudes and practices	12
Working at a cultural interface: co-creating Aboriginal health curriculum for health professions	11
Critique of the article, ‘Theoretical foundations of phenomenography: a critical review’	11
African refugee youth in Australia: higher education participation	11
Using learner-centred feedback design to promote students’ engagement with feedback	11
The first steps on the journey towards curriculum reconciliation in science, medicine and health education	11
Understanding international postgraduate students’ educational mobility to China: an ecological systematic perspective	11
‘I knew I had the support from them’: understanding student support through a student engagement lens	11
Exploring the professional development of doctoral supervisors through workplace learning: a literature review	10
What do undergraduate students understand by excellent teaching?	10
International student flows into provincial China – the main motivations for higher education students	10
Factors that enable Australian Aboriginal women’s persistence at university: a strengths-based approach	10
Negotiating identities in western academia: an autoethnographic study of international doctoral students in Australia	10
Transformational leadership and the psychological empowerment of female leaders in Saudi higher education: an empirical study	10
Taking a ‘whole-university’ approach to student mental health: the contribution of academic libraries	10
Curriculum internationalization and the ‘decolonizing academic’	10
Pacific women’s experiences working in universities in Aotearoa New Zealand	10
Internationalization of higher education in tumultuous times: transformative powers and problems in embattled Ukraine	10
A voyage around the ideological islands of higher education research	10
Amplifying Indigenous voice and curriculum within the public health academy – the emergence of Indigenous sovereign leadership in public health education	10

Shifting sands: navigating being academic in an evolving sector	9
Broadening academia: an epistemic shift towards relationality	9
What value do PhD graduates offer? An organizational case study	9
What undergraduates say about choosing an online or in-person course: qualitative results from a large-sample, multi-discipline survey	9
‘Ways of being’: a model for supportive doctoral supervisory relationships and supervision	9
Employability development and career outcomes from short-term learning abroad programmes	9
International internships and employability: a game-based assessment approach	9
Transforming educators’ practice: how university educators learned to teach online from home during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Glitches and hitches: sessional academic staff viewpoints on academic integrity and academic misconduct	8
Ambiguity and peripherality in doctoral co-supervision workload allocation	8
Common misunderstandings of phenomenographic research in higher education	8
Higher Education for forcibly displaced migrants in Turkey	8
In our own words: Pacific Early Career Academics (PECA) and Pacific knowledges in higher education pedagogical praxis	8
Doctoral supervision: sharpening the focus of the practice lens	8
Conducting doctoral research in China: an exploration of international students’ motivation to study at Chinese universities	8
Partnering with doctoral students in research supervision: opportunities and challenges	8
Shifting to team-based faculty development: a programme designed to facilitate change in medical education	8
College students’ sense of belonging in times of disruption: prospective changes from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Cultural cultivation for the mobility of Bangladeshi higher education students in Australia	8
Developing the education research capability of education-focused academics: building skills, identities and communities	8
How international higher education graduates contribute to their home country: an example from government scholarship recipients in Kazakhstan	8
New developments in internationalisation of higher education	7
Remote learning and its implications toward study-life conflicts and the mental health of university students: does studying at home or campus matter?	7
Transitioning from in person to online learning during a pandemic: an experimental study of the impact of time management training	7
What makes PhD researchers think seriously about discontinuing? an exploration of risk factors and risk profiles	7
Models of transdisciplinary knowledge production at universities: a Romanian case study	7
Gender stereotyping in student perceptions of teaching excellence: applying the shifting standards theory	7
‘We don’t talk enough’: voices from a Māori and Pasifika lead research fellowship in higher education	7
Is teaching and learning in Chinese higher education classrooms internationalized? Perspectives from international students in China	7
The doctorate in pieces: a scoping review of research on the PhD thesis by publication	7
Adjustment to higher education among students with mental health disorders	7
Comparison of workload and academic performances of transfer and native students in an Asian educational context	7
Are Confucian educational values a barrier to engaging students as partners in Chinese universities?	7
Cyberbullying in first-year university students and its influence on their intentions to drop out	7
Going ‘grade-free’? – Teachers’ and students’ perceived value and grading preferences for holistic competency assessment	7
Communicating research in academia and beyond: sources of self-efficacy for early career researchers	7
Student empowerment for internationalisation at a distance: enacting the students as partners approach in virtual mobility	6
Gender inequality and bias in Chinese universities: perceptions of male and female academics	6
Where are we now? Patterns of Māori and Pasifika enrolment in the Natural and Physical Science and Society and Culture fields in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Transformative learning within Australian Indigenous studies: a scoping review of non-Indigenous student experiences in tertiary Indigenous studies education	6
What drives Chinese scholars to publish in international journals? Motivations and implications	6
Stoking the Fires for Māori & Pacific Student Success in Psychology	6
Introducing Strategic Design in Education (SDxE): an approach to navigating complexity and ambiguity at the micro, meso and macro layers of Higher Education Institutions	6
What makes scientists collaborate? International collaboration between scientists in traditionally non-central science systems	6
Double closet, heteronormativity, and a gay academic living with HIV in China	6
Challenges to international students in work-integrated learning: a scoping review	6
Perceptions on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on university students’ wellbeing in Kenya – a thematic analysis approach	6
Mapping course innovation in higher education: a multi-faceted analytical framework	6
Facilitating self-efficacy in university students: an interactive approach with Flipped Classroom	6
Perceptions of reputation drivers: evidence from Australian non-accredited business schools	6
Nation-bounded internationalization of higher education: a comparative analysis of two periphery countries	6
Exploring the role of conflict in co-creation of curriculum through engaging students as partners in the classroom	6
Student evaluation of teaching: gender bias in a country at the forefront of gender equality	6
To be or not to be (in academia)? ‘Inward calling’ and ‘academic hazards’ in aspiring academics’ career prospects in Australia	6
Making peer-feedback more efficient: what conditions of its delivery make the difference?	6
Transforming higher education spaces through ethical research publication: a critique of the publish or perish aphorism	6
Is cultivating reciprocal learning the gold standard for high impact pedagogies?	6
COVID-19 impacts on early career trajectories and mobility of doctoral graduates in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
A framework for supporting postgraduate research writing: insights from students’ writing experiences	6
A systematic review of Australian higher education students’ and graduates’ work readiness	6
‘Students as partners rather than followers but … ’: understanding academics’ conceptions of changing learner-teacher relationships in Chinese higher education	6