OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Higher Education Policy is 1. 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
Policy Changes in Global Higher Education: What Lessons Do We Learn from the COVID-19 Pandemic?	41
From an Entrepreneurial University to a Sustainable Entrepreneurial University: Conceptualization and Evidence in the Contexts of European University Reforms	29
How Higher Education Institutions Walk Their Talk on the 2030 Agenda: A Systematic Literature Review	27
Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education: Critical Reflections	19
China’s Higher Education Policy Change from 211 Project and 985 Project to the Double-first-class Plan: Applying Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework	18
Organizational Resilience of Higher Education Institutions: An Empirical Study during Covid-19 Pandemic	13
What Has Been the Impact of COVID-19 on Driving Digitalization, Innovation and Crisis Management of Higher Education and Quality Assurance?—A Taiwan Case Study in Alignment with the INQAAHE Virtual Re	12
COVID-19 and Well-Being of Non-local Students: Implications for International Higher Education Governance	12
COVID Crisis, Culture Wars and Australian Higher Education	11
Socioeconomic Segregation in Higher Education: Evidence for Chile (2009–2017)	11
Decoding Academic Integrity Policies: A Corpus Linguistics Investigation of AI and Other Technological Threats	11
Version 2.0 of Building World-Class Universities in China: Initial Outcomes and Problems of the Double World-Class Project	10
Academics’ Societal Engagement in Cross-country Perspective: Large-n in Small-n Comparative Case Studies	9
Communicating COVID-19: Analyzing Higher Education Institutional Responses in Canada, China, and the USA	9
Toxic Leadership: A Slow Poison Killing Women Leaders in Higher Education in South Africa?	9
The Relevance of the German Excellence Initiative for Inequality in University Funding	8
Institutional Autonomy and Capacity of Higher Education Governance in South Asia: A Comparative Perspective	8
Emerging Resources of China’s Soft Power: A Case Study of Cambodian Participants from Chinese Higher Education Programs	8
Masked Resistance in Neoliberal Academia: Academics’ Responses to the Research Assessment Exercise 2020 in Hong Kong	8
Shiny on the Outside, Rotten on the Inside? Perceptions of Female Early Career Researchers on Diversity Policies in Higher Education Institutions	7
Reimagining Higher Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Chinese Students’ Desires for Overseas Learning and Implications for University Governance	7
Transnational Higher Education in China: Policies, Practices, and Development in a (Post-)Pandemic Era	6
Academics’ Societal Engagement in Diverse European Binary Higher Education Systems: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis	6
Performance-Based Research Funding and Its Impacts on Academics’ Publication Patterns in South Korea	6
Exploring Conflict of Interest in University Accreditation in Chile	6

Does Revenue Diversification Strategy Affect the Financial Sustainability of Malaysian Public Universities? A Panel Data Analysis	6
Does Vertical University Stratification Foster or Hinder Academics’ Societal Engagement? Findings from Canada, Germany, Kazakhstan, and Russia	6
International Student Recruitment During the Pandemic: The Unique Perspective of Recruiters from Small to Medium-Sized Higher Education Institutions	5
Higher Education Governance in Poland: Reform Pathway from the Communist Regime to Law 2.0	5
Development of a Haddon Matrix Framework for Higher Education Pandemic Preparedness: Scoping Review and Experiences of Malaysian Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Overcoming the Barriers to Establishing Interdisciplinary Degree Programmes: The Perspective of Managing Organisational Innovation	4
Reading the Internationalisation Imperative in Higher Education Institutions: External Contexts and Internal Positionings	4
Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Excellence in Academic Research? a Study of Science and Engineering Faculty Members in China	4
Conceptualising Graduate Outcomes with Critical Realism	4
A Social Ladder or a Glass Floor? The Role of Higher Education in Intergenerational Social Mobility: Empirical Evidence from South Korea	4
Problematizing Accreditation for Teacher Education	4
Can the Locked-In Be Unlocked? University Stratification in China Under State-Led Quest for World-Class Universities	4
Where to Publish: Chinese HSS Academics’ Responses to ‘Breaking SSCI Supremacy’ Policies	4
Academics’ Societal Engagement in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Generational Perspective from Argentina, Germany, Portugal, and Sweden	4
Of Performance and Impact: How AACSB Accreditation Contributes to Research in Business Schools	3
Meeting the Moment: Impact of TEACH Grant on US Undergraduate Education Degree Completion in High-Need Content Areas	3
Holding True or Caving in? Academics’ Values, Emotions, and Behaviors in Response to Higher Education Reforms	3
Democratic Backsliding and the Balance Wheel Hypothesis: Partisanship and State Funding for Higher Education in the United States	3
Separate But Equal? Diversity Policy Narratives in Israeli Higher Education	3
The Peripherality of Social Inclusion of Refugees into Higher Education: Insights from Practices of Different Institutions in Norway	3
Governing the Discourse of Internationalization in the USA: The Influence of Higher Education Professional Associations	3
Institutional Selectivity, Curricular Policy, and Field of Study Stratification in Expanded Higher Education Systems: The Case of Israel	3
The Economic and Cultural Withdrawal of Academic Teaching in Italy: Adjunct Professors as a Case Study	3
Children of a Lesser God? Demand-Driven Mechanism and the Potential Rise of Unequal Competition in IHES	3
For-Profit or Not-for-Profit: What Has Affected the Implementation of the Policy for Private Universities in China?	3
University Students’ Knowledge and Views on their Institutions’ Anti-Bullying Policy	3
Institutional Logics as a Theoretical Framework: A Comparison of Performance Based Funding Policies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France	3
Decolonization and Higher Education: A Critical Review of a Contemporary Concern, Policy and Theory	3
Returns to College Education in Colombia	3
The Transformations of Higher Education in 15 Post-Soviet Countries: The State, the Market and Institutional Diversification	2
“Internationalization by Stealth”: The U.S. National Higher Education Internationalization Policy-Making Arena in the Twenty-First Century	2
Quality Assurance in Nordic Higher Education: Relevance and Quality for the Welfare State?	2
Examining Project-Based Governance of Higher Vocational Education in China: A Case Study	2
Narrating the Belt and Road Education Policy: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis	2
Game of Brains: Examining Researcher Brain Gain and Brain Drain and Research University Policy	2
Bologna Process and Its Impact on Spanish Graduates Employability: Good News Yet to Come	2
Between Autonomy and Central Control: A Tale of Two University Reforms in Turkey During the Single-Party Era	2
Handling Multiple Institutional Logics in Professorial Recruitment	2
The University Couloir: Exploring Physical and Intellectual Connectivity	2
Aggregated Results of Access Programs Implemented by Universities in Chile: Students’ Persistence using a Matched Sample	2
Higher Education Expansion and Diversification: Privatization, Distance Learning, and Market Concentration in Brazil, 2002–2016	2
Does Uneven Proximity to Higher Education Oases Drive Inequality in Higher Education? The Application of Coarsened Exact Matching in Taiwan	2
The Implementation of Research Policy: The Case of Two State Universities in Cameroon	2
Information Needs in Higher Education Institutions: Stock Valuation or Decision-Making?	1
An Analysis of the COVID-19-Induced Flexible Grading Policy at a Public University	1
The Trying Game: Policy Experimentation According to Institutional Environment in China’s Education Reforms	1
Gendered Policies in Ethiopian Higher Education: Are Policy Promises Vanishing with Time?	1
Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Appointment, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Criteria: Does It Matter?	1
Formative Ideas of the National University: A Thematic Analysis of Texts from the Long 19th Century	1
University Umbrella Structures: The Slovak Route to Institutional Mergers or Organisational Semblance of Plausible Policy Imitation?	1

Changing the Culture of Sexual Violence at UK Universities: A Website Analysis of Definitions, Report/Support and Prevent Mechanisms	1
Correction: Organizational Resilience of Higher Education Institutions: An Empirical Study during Covid-19 Pandemic	1
Understanding Cancel Culture in Higher Education in the Arab World	1
Expansion of the Distance Modality in Brazilian Higher Education: Implications for Quality and Equity	1
Just Passing Through? Exploring Regional Disparities in Vertical Transfer Intent in Ontario, Canada	1
Cross-country Relationships Between Student Funding Policies and Student Labour	1
Diversification of Higher Education as Policy Diffusion: The Rise of the Non-university Sector in China	1
Can University Leaders Effectively Promote Research on Complex Societal Challenges? A Change-Agency Perspective	1
A Qualitative Exploration of the Microfoundations of Institutional Theory: Reflections from Higher Education Context	1
Problematising the Quality Assurance Policy Shift in Taiwan: From External Towards Internal Accreditation Mechanisms	1
Prominence, Promotion and Positioning of the ‘Thesis by Publication’ in Six Countries	1
North–South Partnerships as a Strategy for Internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions: Experiences in Sweden and Mozambique	1
Correction to: Aggregated Results of Access Programs Implemented by Universities in Chile: Students’ Persistence using a Matched Sample	1