OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Higher Education Policy is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	52
Affirmative Action and Gender Parity in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Ghana's Legal Framework	51
Does University Level the Playing Field? Impacts of Spatial Inequalities on the Gap in the Earnings of Similar Graduates: Evidence from the UK	49
Scholarship Schemes in Cambodian Higher Education: Unpacking Why Lower-Income Students are Lagging Behind	32
More Similarities than Differences: Mid-Level Administrators’ Perceptions of Resource Allocation in Chinese Universities	25
From an Input to an Output: The Discursive Uses of External Research Funding in Academic Career Assessment	17
Evaluating the Higher Education Enrollment Crisis in Hunan Province, China: Sustainable Strategies and Pathways Amidst Declining Birth Rates	15
Decoding Academic Integrity Policies: A Corpus Linguistics Investigation of AI and Other Technological Threats	15
Formative Ideas of the National University: A Thematic Analysis of Texts from the Long 19th Century	15
In Search of Organizational Actorhood: Institutional Positioning Statements of Turkish Public Universities	15
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
Decolonization and Higher Education: A Critical Review of a Contemporary Concern, Policy and Theory	14
A Dialectical Perspective on an Institutional Change Process in Higher Education	13
Elusive Politics: De-internationalizing Higher Education in the Context of International Recognition Conventions	10
The Politics of Higher Education: The Battle Over the Control of Knowledge in Africa	10
Gendered Policies in Ethiopian Higher Education: Are Policy Promises Vanishing with Time?	9
Higher Education Expansion and Diversification: Privatization, Distance Learning, and Market Concentration in Brazil, 2002–2016	9
Publishing Local Articles and Book Chapters: A Gamer’s Shortcut to Promotion in a Metric-Based Academic System	9
From Academic Autonomy to Close Collaboration: The Employability Strategies of Local Higher Education Institutions in Portugal	8
Systematic Oppression of Tertiary Education in Iran Under the Islamic Republic	8
Women’s Leadership Dilemma: Why Ethiopian Women in Academia Prefer to Stay away from Decision-Making?	7
A Comparative Analysis of University Investment Policies and Procedures Related to Responsible Investing	6
Fertile Ground for Establishing American-Style Universities in Post-conflict Societies: Historical Comparisons and Current Rationales	6
“A Seat at the Table”: A Conceptual Model to Frame Shared Governance from the Perspectives of Faculty Senate Presidents	6

Explaining Government Policy Inaction on International Student Housing in Australia: The Perspectives of Stakeholders	6
Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Gender Equality Perception Scale for Universities (G.E.P.S.U.)	6
Handling Multiple Institutional Logics in Professorial Recruitment	5
How Higher Education Institutions Walk Their Talk on the 2030 Agenda: A Systematic Literature Review	5
Power to the People: Measuring Social Media and Mass Media Impact for Promotion and Tenure in Social and Applied Sciences	5
University Umbrella Structures: The Slovak Route to Institutional Mergers or Organisational Semblance of Plausible Policy Imitation?	5
Of Performance and Impact: How AACSB Accreditation Contributes to Research in Business Schools	5
Beyond Common Sense: An inquiry into Neoliberalism and English as the Medium of Instruction in Taiwanese Higher Education	4
Managing Crisis Overload in Israeli Higher Education: Exploring the Servant Leadership Roles of Program and Department Heads During Uncertain Times	4
Notions of Quality and Excellence Within a Centre for Excellence Initiative in Higher Education	4
Publisher Correction: Promoting an Inclusive Self-Study: Lessons Learned and Strategies for Accreditation	4
Reading the Internationalisation Imperative in Higher Education Institutions: External Contexts and Internal Positionings	4
Reactive Management of University Reputation During the COVID Crisis: Governance and the Control of Public Narratives in Chinese Higher Education	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
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
Democratic Backsliding and the Balance Wheel Hypothesis: Partisanship and State Funding for Higher Education in the United States	3
COVID-19 and Well-Being of Non-local Students: Implications for International Higher Education Governance	3
Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education: Critical Reflections	3
COVID Crisis, Culture Wars and Australian Higher Education	3
Meeting the Moment: Impact of TEACH Grant on US Undergraduate Education Degree Completion in High-Need Content Areas	3
Barriers to Teaching and Research Provision in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Changing the Culture of Sexual Violence at UK Universities: A Website Analysis of Definitions, Report/Support and Prevent Mechanisms	3
Can the Locked-In Be Unlocked? University Stratification in China Under State-Led Quest for World-Class Universities	3
The Price of Pathways: Student Borrowing Behavior across Postsecondary Pathways Revisited	3
Faculty Promotion Policy and the Academic Capitalist Regime: Professors’ Actions in Two Colombian Academic Departments	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
Problematizing Accreditation for Teacher Education	3
Can University Leaders Effectively Promote Research on Complex Societal Challenges? A Change-Agency Perspective	3
Performance-Based Research Funding and Its Impacts on Academics’ Publication Patterns in South Korea	3
Early Career Academic’s Associations: A Study of Resistance and Empowerment on Social Media	3
Narrating the Belt and Road Education Policy: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis	3
Building Institutional Research Workforce in Postsecondary Education: Exploring Institutional Research Professionals’ Conceptualizations of their Professional Identities	3