OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Higher Education Policy is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Policy Changes in Global Higher Education: What Lessons Do We Learn from the COVID-19 Pandemic?	28
From an Entrepreneurial University to a Sustainable Entrepreneurial University: Conceptualization and Evidence in the Contexts of European University Reforms	16
How Higher Education Institutions Walk Their Talk on the 2030 Agenda: A Systematic Literature Review	15
The Effects of a Master’s Degree on Wage and Job Satisfaction in Massified Higher Education: The Case of South Korea	14
Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education: Critical Reflections	13
Europeanizing Universities: Expanding and Consolidating Networks of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme (2004–2017)	12
CAEP Accreditation: Educational Neocolonialism and Non-US Teacher Education Programs	11
Overworked and Underpaid: Why Foreign-Born Academics in Central Europe Cannot Focus on Innovative Research and Quality Teaching	11
COVID-19 and Well-Being of Non-local Students: Implications for International Higher Education Governance	10
COVID Crisis, Culture Wars and Australian Higher Education	10
China’s Higher Education Policy Change from 211 Project and 985 Project to the Double-first-class Plan: Applying Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework	10
Job Satisfaction Among Ph.D. Holders: How much do Regional Divides and Employment Sectors matter?	9
Organizational Resilience of Higher Education Institutions: An Empirical Study during Covid-19 Pandemic	8
Master’s Education in Hong Kong: Access and Programme Diversity	8
Socioeconomic Segregation in Higher Education: Evidence for Chile (2009–2017)	8
Academics’ Societal Engagement in Cross-country Perspective: Large-n in Small-n Comparative Case Studies	8
The Role of Academic Inbreeding in Building Institutional and Research Habitus: A Case Study from Turkey	8
A Decade of Chilean Graduate Program Accreditation: A Push for Internationalization and Issues of Multidisciplinarity	8
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	8
The Relevance of the German Excellence Initiative for Inequality in University Funding	7
How University Leaders Shape Boundaries and Behaviors: An Empirical Examination of Trustee Involvement at Elite US Research Universities	7
Institutional Autonomy and Capacity of Higher Education Governance in South Asia: A Comparative Perspective	7
Performance-Based Research Funding and Its Impacts on Academics’ Publication Patterns in South Korea	6
Contesting Globalisation and Implications for Higher Education in the Asia–Pacific Region: Challenges and Prospects	6
Version 2.0 of Building World-Class Universities in China: Initial Outcomes and Problems of the Double World-Class Project	6

Shiny on the Outside, Rotten on the Inside? Perceptions of Female Early Career Researchers on Diversity Policies in Higher Education Institutions	6
Does Vertical University Stratification Foster or Hinder Academics’ Societal Engagement? Findings from Canada, Germany, Kazakhstan, and Russia	6
Academics’ Societal Engagement in Diverse European Binary Higher Education Systems: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis	6
Massified Master’s Education in Taiwan: A Credential Game?	6
Decoding Academic Integrity Policies: A Corpus Linguistics Investigation of AI and Other Technological Threats	6
Reimagining Higher Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Chinese Students’ Desires for Overseas Learning and Implications for University Governance	5
The Determinants of External Engagement of Hard Scientists: A Study of Generational and Country Differences in Europe	5
Emerging Resources of China’s Soft Power: A Case Study of Cambodian Participants from Chinese Higher Education Programs	5
Masked Resistance in Neoliberal Academia: Academics’ Responses to the Research Assessment Exercise 2020 in Hong Kong	5
Master’s Education in STEM Fields in China: Does Gender Matter?	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
Exploring Conflict of Interest in University Accreditation in Chile	5
Communicating COVID-19: Analyzing Higher Education Institutional Responses in Canada, China, and the USA	4
Does Revenue Diversification Strategy Affect the Financial Sustainability of Malaysian Public Universities? A Panel Data Analysis	4
Formally Alive yet Practically Complex: An Exploration of Academics’ Perceptions of Their Autonomy as Researchers	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
Engaged Versus Disengaged Teaching Staff: A Case Study of Continuous Curriculum Improvement in Higher Education	4
Legitimacy Dynamics of Professional Support Staff at Higher Education Institutions	4
Master’s Education in Massified, Internationalized, and Marketized East Asian Higher Education Systems	4
Transnational Higher Education in China: Policies, Practices, and Development in a (Post-)Pandemic Era	4
Academics’ Societal Engagement in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Generational Perspective from Argentina, Germany, Portugal, and Sweden	4
Patterns of Ownership and Management in Vietnam’s Private Higher Education: An Exploratory Study	3
Holding True or Caving in? Academics’ Values, Emotions, and Behaviors in Response to Higher Education Reforms	3
Evaluating China’s Double First-Class Project from the Perspective of Economics	3
Can the Locked-In Be Unlocked? University Stratification in China Under State-Led Quest for World-Class Universities	3
For-Profit or Not-for-Profit: What Has Affected the Implementation of the Policy for Private Universities in China?	3
Institutional Selectivity, Curricular Policy, and Field of Study Stratification in Expanded Higher Education Systems: The Case of Israel	3
Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Excellence in Academic Research? a Study of Science and Engineering Faculty Members in China	3
International Student Recruitment During the Pandemic: The Unique Perspective of Recruiters from Small to Medium-Sized Higher Education Institutions	3
The Influence of Internationalization Policy on Master’s Education in Japan: A Comparison of “Super Global” and Mass-Market Universities	3
Teaching by Conscience or Accountability? Academics’ Perceptions and Responsibilities at two Universities in China	3
Higher Education Governance in Poland: Reform Pathway from the Communist Regime to Law 2.0	3
Overcoming the Barriers to Establishing Interdisciplinary Degree Programmes: The Perspective of Managing Organisational Innovation	3
Chinese University Administrations: Chinese Characteristics or Global Influence?	3
Where to Publish: Chinese HSS Academics’ Responses to ‘Breaking SSCI Supremacy’ Policies	3
University Students’ Knowledge and Views on their Institutions’ Anti-Bullying Policy	2
Decolonization and Higher Education: A Critical Review of a Contemporary Concern, Policy and Theory	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
Do Chinese Government Foreign Student Scholarships Target Natural Resources in Africa?	2
Bologna Process and Its Impact on Spanish Graduates Employability: Good News Yet to Come	2
Toxic Leadership: A Slow Poison Killing Women Leaders in Higher Education in South Africa?	2
Between Autonomy and Central Control: A Tale of Two University Reforms in Turkey During the Single-Party Era	2
Institutional Logics as a Theoretical Framework: A Comparison of Performance Based Funding Policies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France	2
Democratic Backsliding and the Balance Wheel Hypothesis: Partisanship and State Funding for Higher Education in the United States	2
Of Performance and Impact: How AACSB Accreditation Contributes to Research in Business Schools	2
The Transformations of Higher Education in 15 Post-Soviet Countries: The State, the Market and Institutional Diversification	2
Problematizing Accreditation for Teacher Education	2
Affirmative Action and Women in Uganda’s Public University Education	2

The Economic and Cultural Withdrawal of Academic Teaching in Italy: Adjunct Professors as a Case Study	2
Does Uneven Proximity to Higher Education Oases Drive Inequality in Higher Education? The Application of Coarsened Exact Matching in Taiwan	2
Reading the Internationalisation Imperative in Higher Education Institutions: External Contexts and Internal Positionings	2
The University Couloir: Exploring Physical and Intellectual Connectivity	2
The Peripherality of Social Inclusion of Refugees into Higher Education: Insights from Practices of Different Institutions in Norway	2
Aggregated Results of Access Programs Implemented by Universities in Chile: Students’ Persistence using a Matched Sample	2