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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessment for student transitions and success: a scoping review of assessment principles in Australian enabling education	65
The homeification of learning in higher education	53
A deep dive into taught postgraduates’ participation in work-integrated learning	52
Shaping the time to be a good teacher: a case study on teacher excellence and time ownership in a British transnational university	42
A model of academic developers’ formation and growth of professional identity: a focus on the affective factors	41
International student flows into provincial China – the main motivations for higher education students	36
Exploring partnerships between public libraries and universities in regional low-socioeconomic communities: the student experience	36
The costs of and economies of scale in supporting students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds in Australian higher education	35
Exploring the meaning of campus through lived experiences of students, staff, and visitors	33
The impact of mandatory academic service-learning on university graduates’ continual civic engagement: evidence from a curriculum reform	32
Wandering into the weeds or planting seeds? Balancing depth and breadth in early and late career research	30
Accountability, ethics and knowledge production: racialised academic staff navigating competing expectations in the social production of research with marginalised communities	27
Re-weaving learning ecologies: a pluriversal framework for higher education learning spaces	26
Student perceptions of peer cheating behaviour during COVID-19 induced online teaching and assessment	25
Beyond language: fostering an intercultural mindset in foreign language classrooms in Japan	25
Re-storying career practitioners’ professional identities as career and employability specialists through an online WIL capstone	23
Supporting the academic success of underrecognised higher education students through an immersive block model	22
Diffusing innovation to support faculty engagement in the integration of language and content across the disciplines in an internationalized Canadian university	22
The impact of large language models on university students’ literacy development: a dialogue with Lea and Street’s academic literacies framework	22
Nation-bounded internationalization of higher education: a comparative analysis of two periphery countries	20
Drawing as thinking through: students’ use of collaborative drawing to examine ‘problemical’ situations	19
‘Can teaching help me get promoted?’ A qualitative study of the career development of pre-tenure faculty in China	19
How can we conceptualise the current position of the retrospective PhD through published work in British Universities?	18
Measuring institutions’ country brand authenticity in transnational higher education	18
Sustaining teaching and learning innovations: a scoping review	17

Dancing in a red dress: Empowering metaphors of academics’ experiences of the manuscript peer review process	17
Forty years of social justice research in Australasia: examining equity in inequitable settings	17
Professional adaptation of international academics: a critical discussion through the lens of complexity theory	17
European credit transfer and accumulation system as a time-based predictor of student workload	16
Early career researchers as active followers: perceived demands of supervisory interventions in academic workplaces	16
‘Challenging from the start’: novice doctoral co-supervisors’ experiences of supervision culture and practice	16
Narratives of success: high-achieving women with disabilities navigating higher education in Australia	16
Cultivating research skills through scholarly digital storytelling	16
Caught ‘in-between’: insights into international students’ doctoral thesis writing practices in China	16
College students’ sense of belonging in times of disruption: prospective changes from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Settler nation-building through immigration as a rationale for higher education: a critical discourse analysis	15
Embodied learning for wicked problems and societal transitions: perspectives from transdisciplinary higher education practitioners	15
Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education	15
Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing	14
Beyond the physical/virtual: connected learning spaces in postgraduate business education	14
‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity	14
Work-integrated learning: opportunities and challenges in Australia	14
Mapping course innovation in higher education: a multi-faceted analytical framework	13
Accommodation of students with physical disabilities in face-to-face based distance education in Ghana	13
What makes PhD researchers think seriously about discontinuing? an exploration of risk factors and risk profiles	13
The Empathy Compass for addressing Societal Challenges in Education. A tool for higher education to stimulate, facilitate and assess empathic awareness in multistakeholder collaborations	13
Internationalization of higher education in tumultuous times: transformative powers and problems in embattled Ukraine	13
Exploring the paradoxes and tensions encountered by business faculty teaching teamwork in a changing academic environment	13
Direct instruction or active learning? The spectrum of first-year university teaching practices	12
Cyberbullying in first-year university students and its influence on their intentions to drop out	12
(De)construction of stigma attached to global South-South student mobility: voices from Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia	12
Using peer feedback, teacher feedback and self-assessment to enhance students’ feedback literacy behaviour	12
Student learning ecologies in online higher education: a model to support connected learning across contexts	12
Heading the road less travelled: exploring Chinese students’ motivations to study in Tanzania	12
Who are learning designers in post-pandemic Australasian universities?	12
Challenges of delivering Australian research honours programmes for healthcare professions	12
Love, loss and a doctorate: an autoethnography of grieving while writing a PhD	12
Near-peer teaching in a university outdoor environmental education programme: following footprints in the sand	12
Plagiarism in EMI higher education: conceptual understanding of staff and students in four South Asian countries	12
Disrupting the self: self-identity, discomfort and (un)becoming through the research process	12
In the cleft of a rock: Experiences in the in-between space of learning among undergraduate arts and design students	11
Remote learning and its implications toward study-life conflicts and the mental health of university students: does studying at home or campus matter?	11
Student empowerment for internationalisation at a distance: enacting the students as partners approach in virtual mobility	11
Shaping a sustainable doctoral pathway: a critical analysis of reflexive mediation between structure and agency in the PhD experience	11
‘Undisciplining’ higher education without losing disciplines: furthering transformative potential for students	11
Digital reading and gender inequality in higher education	11
Preparing for work placements: sensemaking among international health science students	11
The reshaping of higher education: technological impacts, pedagogical change, and future projections	11
The feedback process as a scaffold of evaluative judgement	11
AI and its implications for research in higher education: a critical dialogue	10
Student agency: two students’ agentic actions in challenging oppressive practices on a diverse university campus	10
Unveiling the hidden key: can help-seeking behaviors bridge the gap between doctoral supervision relationship and research self-efficacy of PhD candidates?	10
Working at the level above: university promotion policies as a tool for wage theft and underpayment	10
Common misunderstandings of phenomenographic research in higher education	10
‘No university without community’: engaging the community in social work simulations	10

Mobilising resilience to symbolic violence with Chinese international research students in Australia: a Bourdieusian perspective	10
Capturing connections during COVID-19: Using photography to assess US college students’ sense of belonging	10
Co-design practice in higher education: practice theory insights into collaborative curriculum development	10
Optimism bias as a barrier to accessing mental health support amongst tertiary students	10
The contribution of different types of work-integrated learning to graduate employability	10
Compassion in higher education: fashion or future for relational pedagogies?	9
Perceived organisational support and university students’ career exploration: the mediation role of career adaptability	9
Collegiality as collective affect: who carries the burden of the labour of attunement?	9
Priority setting in higher education research using a mixed methods approach	9
Does university attendance affect students’ critical and creative thinking skills? A longitudinal research with pre-service teaching and psychology undergraduates	9
Spatial fluencies: acts of navigation and negotiation in the postdigital learning environment	9
Navigating tensions between institutional and cultural quandaries: reflexive journey of Chinese female doctoral students	9
Global diffusion of quality assurance research in higher education: a study on collaboration and concepts	9
A preliminary study on the reality of autonomy in Georgian universities	9
Transforming lives: the power of an Australian enabling education	8
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	8
Mapping future work skills in the bachelor of arts: findings from an Australian study	8
Fostering technology-inclusive transitions in Irish higher education for students with disabilities	8
Towards an effective change framework for scholarly teaching in higher education professional degrees	8
Caring for educational concerns	8
Toward a consensual definition of educational research and development: a Delphi study	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
Student–faculty interaction and academic self-concept: the intersection of race and gender	8
Mobilization and stigmatization: PhD admissions in wartime	8
Academic performance of first-year university students: modelling the role of reading competence	8
The role of extra-/co-curricular activities and work on law graduates’ initial employment outcomes	8
Why shouldn't teacher education produce ‘ready-to-teach’ graduates? Mapping a pathway to alternative teacher education and teacher becomings	8
Major-based undergraduate curriculum as an obstacle to graduate employability development	8
Adjustment to higher education among students with mental health disorders	8
Implications of ChatGPT for higher education institutions: exploring Nepali university students’ perspectives	7
Keep it brief: Can a 4-item stress screener predict university adjustment over 18 months?	7
Are international students relatively resilient? Comparing international and domestic students’ levels of self-compassion, mental health and wellbeing	7
Time to act: Mental health and desired university supports among graduate students	7
Academics’ practices and perceptions of career development learning in the curriculum	7
Academics’ perceived space in negotiating university-industry collaboration: a case study in two universities in Mainland China	7
Capturing the shifting work of teaching in higher education through postcards of practice	7
An Indigenous Australian Cultural Wealth Mentoring Model	7
Universities Australia 2017–2020 Indigenous Strategy: a meta-synthesis of the issues and challenges	7
Enhancing perceptions of employability amongst first-year arts students and implications for student belonging	7
Global citizenship education in Korean higher education: moving beyond transformative calls to praxes	7
Undergraduate perceptions of graduate teaching assistants: competence, relatedness, and autonomy in practice	7
What factors contribute to higher grades in a first-year undergraduate management unit: an exploratory study at an Australian university	7
Doctoral intelligence: a framework for developing mindsets for doctorateness in changing doctoral contexts	7
Enriching work-integrated learning: conceptions of integrating Indigenous reflective practices	7
Nature vs nurture: learning conceptions and environment as precursors to learning strategy patterns and their outcomes	6
The role of agency in social justice education: insights from a practising inclusion in higher education micro-credential	6
Visual university studies since the Cold War: mapping journal articles published in Englishes from 1992 to 2023	6
Are Confucian educational values a barrier to engaging students as partners in Chinese universities?	6
Theorising new possibilities for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and teaching-focused academics	6
Peer-mentoring and doctoral student retention: a longitudinal investigation	6
Beyond the ivory tower: a survey of European university board members’ perspectives on institutional policy priorities	6
Gaining insights into employability capitals: experiences of Chinese international graduates in the Australian labor market	6
Dropouts and transfers: socioeconomic segregation in entrance to and exit from the Chilean higher education	6
Rethinking the student journey with voice of student: unstructured data-driven approach	6
HERD college of reviewers, 2021	6
Uncovering design considerations for embedding transdisciplinarity in higher education – an empirical exploration of a transdisciplinary global health program	6
Troubling knowledge in Australian Indigenous Studies: how prior knowledge affects undergraduate student learning	6
Critique of the article, ‘Theoretical foundations of phenomenography: a critical review’	6
Integration of growth mindset concepts into academic writing courses for novice researchers’ academic writing skills and competence	6
Student partners as co-contributors in research: a collective autoethnographic account	6