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

Article	Citations
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	50
A Social Ladder or a Glass Floor? The Role of Higher Education in Intergenerational Social Mobility: Empirical Evidence from South Korea	48
Does University Level the Playing Field? Impacts of Spatial Inequalities on the Gap in the Earnings of Similar Graduates: Evidence from the UK	41
Scholarship Schemes in Cambodian Higher Education: Unpacking Why Lower-Income Students are Lagging Behind	34
From an Input to an Output: The Discursive Uses of External Research Funding in Academic Career Assessment	24
Decoding Academic Integrity Policies: A Corpus Linguistics Investigation of AI and Other Technological Threats	22
In Search of Organizational Actorhood: Institutional Positioning Statements of Turkish Public Universities	15
Formative Ideas of the National University: A Thematic Analysis of Texts from the Long 19th Century	14
How do Quality Assurance Agencies in Asia Measure Higher Education? Exploring Approaches, Emerging Standards, and Challenges	14
Institutional Logics as a Theoretical Framework: A Comparison of Performance Based Funding Policies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France	14
A Dialectical Perspective on an Institutional Change Process in Higher Education	12
Decolonization and Higher Education: A Critical Review of a Contemporary Concern, Policy and Theory	12
University Students’ Knowledge and Views on their Institutions’ Anti-Bullying Policy	11
The Politics of Higher Education: The Battle Over the Control of Knowledge in Africa	11
Elusive Politics: De-internationalizing Higher Education in the Context of International Recognition Conventions	11
Higher Education Expansion and Diversification: Privatization, Distance Learning, and Market Concentration in Brazil, 2002–2016	10
Publishing Local Articles and Book Chapters: A Gamer’s Shortcut to Promotion in a Metric-Based Academic System	9
Gendered Policies in Ethiopian Higher Education: Are Policy Promises Vanishing with Time?	9
A Comparative Analysis of University Investment Policies and Procedures Related to Responsible Investing	8
Systematic Oppression of Tertiary Education in Iran Under the Islamic Republic	8
Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Gender Equality Perception Scale for Universities (G.E.P.S.U.)	6
Fertile Ground for Establishing American-Style Universities in Post-conflict Societies: Historical Comparisons and Current Rationales	6
From Academic Autonomy to Close Collaboration: The Employability Strategies of Local Higher Education Institutions in Portugal	6
Women’s Leadership Dilemma: Why Ethiopian Women in Academia Prefer to Stay away from Decision-Making?	6
“A Seat at the Table”: A Conceptual Model to Frame Shared Governance from the Perspectives of Faculty Senate Presidents	5

Of Performance and Impact: How AACSB Accreditation Contributes to Research in Business Schools	5
Explaining Government Policy Inaction on International Student Housing in Australia: The Perspectives of Stakeholders	5
How Higher Education Institutions Walk Their Talk on the 2030 Agenda: A Systematic Literature Review	5
Notions of Quality and Excellence Within a Centre for Excellence Initiative in Higher Education	4
Handling Multiple Institutional Logics in Professorial Recruitment	4
Reactive Management of University Reputation During the COVID Crisis: Governance and the Control of Public Narratives in Chinese Higher Education	4
University Umbrella Structures: The Slovak Route to Institutional Mergers or Organisational Semblance of Plausible Policy Imitation?	4
Beyond Common Sense: An inquiry into Neoliberalism and English as the Medium of Instruction in Taiwanese Higher Education	4
Power to the People: Measuring Social Media and Mass Media Impact for Promotion and Tenure in Social and Applied Sciences	4
Reading the Internationalisation Imperative in Higher Education Institutions: External Contexts and Internal Positionings	4
Policy Tensions Between Discourses on Internationalisation and Gender in Swedish Higher Education	3
Transnational Higher Education in China: Policies, Practices, and Development in a (Post-)Pandemic Era	3
Performance-Based Research Funding and Its Impacts on Academics’ Publication Patterns in South Korea	3
Internationalization of Higher Education and Emerging National Rationales: Comparative Analysis of the Global North and South	3
Multi-actor Policy Dynamics in Research Evaluation: Experts, Databases, and Academics	3
Managing Crisis Overload in Israeli Higher Education: Exploring the Servant Leadership Roles of Program and Department Heads During Uncertain Times	3
Publisher Correction: Promoting an Inclusive Self-Study: Lessons Learned and Strategies for Accreditation	3
Creating an Identity of Impact in a Newly Developing Irish Technological University Sector: A Qualitative Case Study of Impact Influences at the Technological University of the Shannon	3
COVID Crisis, Culture Wars and Australian Higher Education	3
Barriers to Teaching and Research Provision in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Meeting the Moment: Impact of TEACH Grant on US Undergraduate Education Degree Completion in High-Need Content Areas	3
Problematizing Accreditation for Teacher Education	3
Changing the Culture of Sexual Violence at UK Universities: A Website Analysis of Definitions, Report/Support and Prevent Mechanisms	3
Can University Leaders Effectively Promote Research on Complex Societal Challenges? A Change-Agency Perspective	3
Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education: Critical Reflections	2
Early Career Academic’s Associations: A Study of Resistance and Empowerment on Social Media	2
International Higher Education and Cross-Border Connections: Evidence from Asia	2
Correction: Difference-in-Difference Estimation of the Global Diasporas Attraction Program Effects on International Research Publications in Top Chinese Research Institutions	2
Building Institutional Research Workforce in Postsecondary Education: Exploring Institutional Research Professionals’ Conceptualizations of their Professional Identities	2
COVID-19 and Well-Being of Non-local Students: Implications for International Higher Education Governance	2
International Student Recruitment During the Pandemic: The Unique Perspective of Recruiters from Small to Medium-Sized Higher Education Institutions	2
Just Passing Through? Exploring Regional Disparities in Vertical Transfer Intent in Ontario, Canada	2
Skills Mismatch or Skills Mishmash? Problem Representation in England’s Lifelong Loan Entitlement Policy	2
Democratic Backsliding and the Balance Wheel Hypothesis: Partisanship and State Funding for Higher Education in the United States	2
Faculty Promotion Policy and the Academic Capitalist Regime: Professors’ Actions in Two Colombian Academic Departments	2
The Price of Pathways: Student Borrowing Behavior across Postsecondary Pathways Revisited	2
Socioeconomic Segregation in Higher Education: Evidence for Chile (2009–2017)	2
Examining the Disconnect Between College Access and Choice: Low-income Chinese Students Amid Massification	2
Can the Locked-In Be Unlocked? University Stratification in China Under State-Led Quest for World-Class Universities	2
Narrating the Belt and Road Education Policy: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis	2
Governing the Discourse of Internationalization in the USA: The Influence of Higher Education Professional Associations	1
Between Autonomy and Central Control: A Tale of Two University Reforms in Turkey During the Single-Party Era	1
The Hybrid Model of Academic Capitalism in Iranian Higher Education: A Complex Interplay of Neoliberal and State-Controlled Practices	1
Game of Brains: Examining Researcher Brain Gain and Brain Drain and Research University Policy	1
Time Matters in Higher Education: How the ECTS Changes Ideas of Desired Student Conduct	1
Academic Publishing in Small Island Developing States: Does University Research Support Development?	1
Quality Assurance in Nordic Higher Education: Relevance and Quality for the Welfare State?	1
The Right to be Fairly Assessed	1
Examining Project-Based Governance of Higher Vocational Education in China: A Case Study	1
North–South Partnerships as a Strategy for Internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions: Experiences in Sweden and Mozambique	1

Correction: Organizational Resilience of Higher Education Institutions: An Empirical Study during Covid-19 Pandemic	1
Political Capital Imbalance Between University Leaders and University Academic Publications: Evidence from Elite Universities in China	1
Measuring Geographic Opportunity for Higher Education in US Metropolitan Areas	1
Reforming Doctoral Education in Uzbekistan: Models, Rules and Norms of Behaviour	1
Gendered Time-Use Patterns in Academic Activities Among Researchers in Germany and Norway	1
A Systematic Review of the Impact of Performance-Based Funding in the US	1
Institutional Selectivity, Curricular Policy, and Field of Study Stratification in Expanded Higher Education Systems: The Case of Israel	1
Expansion of the Distance Modality in Brazilian Higher Education: Implications for Quality and Equity	1
‘Homo Metricus’: The New Academic Worker. How Quantitative Research Evaluation Practices Reshape the Intellectual Capital Needed to Succeed in Contemporary Universities?	1
University Networks for Higher Education Quality Development: Between Mutual Trust and Control	1
Academic Freedom as a Fundamental Feature of Academia: A European Union Perspective	1
Discipline Rankings and University Admission Attractiveness: Quasi-Natural Experimental Evidence from China	1
Challenges in Career Development for Women Academics: A Case Study of a First-Tier University in Mainland China	1
A Process for Institutional Adoption and Diffusion of Blended Learning in Higher Education	1
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Interplay Between Scientific and Entrepreneurial Passion in Shaping the Frustration–Intention Relationship in the Academia	1
Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Appointment, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Criteria: Does It Matter?	1
Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Excellence in Academic Research? a Study of Science and Engineering Faculty Members in China	1
Cross-country Relationships Between Student Funding Policies and Student Labour	1
Studying the Relation Between Stakeholder Input and Higher Education Policy	1