OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Teaching in Higher Education is 7. 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
Academics’ perspectives on a student engagement and retention program: dilemmas and deficit discourses	99
‘It’s a lot of shame’: understanding the impact of gender-based violence on higher education access and participation	67
Teaching through ‘powerful knowledge’ in vocational higher education: tensions of ‘relational’ approaches in China	34
Beyond epistemology: the challenge of reconceptualising knowledge in higher education	33
Multiple aspects of simulation facilitators’ role in higher education: protecting and challenging the learners	32
Stress and predictive psychosocial variables in Ecuadorian university teachers	31
Anonymous assessment: is it still worth it?	29
Transmitting awareness from the body into writing: bringing the Feldenkrais method into the university classroom	28
Tutors’ beliefs about language and roles: practice as language policy in EMI contexts	24
From affirmative to transformative approaches to academic development	24
Exploring sources of engineering students’ academic well-being through Q-methodology research	23
Formative feedback in a multicultural classroom: a review	23
Post-anthropocentric pedagogies: purposes, practices, and insights for higher education	23
Scholarship and academic capitals: the boundaried nature of education-focused career tracks	23
ACalledecolonial hack: Afro-Latin theorizing of Philadelphia's spaces of learning and resistance	22
The transformation of doctoral education: responding to the needs and expectations of society and candidates	21
Deconstructing the constraints of justice-based environmental sustainability in higher education	21
The development of critical thinking: what university students have to say	19
Internationalisation at the expense of employment practices? Rethinking duty of care in transnational higher education	19
Why a dispositional view of ecological literacy is needed	19
Teacher power and authority: an analysis of exemplar faculty by career stage	19
Metamodern sensibilities: toward a pedagogical framework for a wicked world	19
Assessment as pedagogy: inviting authenticity through relationality, vulnerability and wonder	18
Faculty beliefs and the need for teaching improvement: a conceptual replication study	17
Changing cultures of critique: towards context, creativity and care in academic practice	17

What faculty already do: Universal Design for Learning strategies to support autistic students at university	17
Contemplative pedagogy for positive engagement in online teaching and learning in higher education	16
Measuring and mapping authentic assessment with a novel quantitative typology	16
Overt and symbolic linguistic violence: plantation ideology and language reclamation in Northern Ireland	15
Chinese international doctoral students’ perceptions of publishing: a time–space perspective	14
Breathing in, breathing out: the structure of conversational sense-making around equity in higher education teaching	14
University students’ conceptions and experiences of teacher care amidst online learning	14
Diversities in higher education: academics’ inclusive views and reported practices in a regional Australian university	14
Embedded approaches to academic literacy development: a systematic review of empirical research about impact	13
Informal collaborative learning (ICL) – student perspectives on the role of informal collaborative learning ICL in higher education	13
Embedding assessment flexibilities for future authentic learning	13
Socio-cultural and artistic disruption in the Spanish university: the ArtEduca experience	12
A moment in and out of time : precarity, liminality, and autonomy in crisis teaching	12
Supporting female and gender diverse students in undergraduate STEM courses through enhancing self-efficacy	12
Studying critique locally and pluralistically: a comparative study of critique from a Kuwaiti cultural perspective	12
Educational expertise as prestige: research-intensive curriculum change	11
Feedback in higher education: aligning academic intent and student sensemaking	11
Four questions for teaching conflict for peace, justice, and sustainability: higher education roles and responsibilities	11
Opening up spaces for researching multilingually in higher education	11
Identity positions of the resisting student in the academic student resistance discourse	11
AI amplifies the tough question: What is higher education really for?	11
Critiquing uncritical EDI in higher education	10
Students’ feedback literacy in higher education: an initial scale validation study	10
Lecture rapture: the place and case for lectures in the new normal	10
Precarity and illusions of certainty in higher education teaching	10
What predicts undergraduates’ student feedback literacy? Impacts of epistemic beliefs and mediation of critical thinking	10
Diverse experiences and belonging in an online, first-year, team-based engineering design course	10
Visualising tensions in undergraduate education: Clark’s triangle revisited	10
Collaboration and ‘potential space’: creative play in the writing alliance	10
Addressing imperial evasion : toward an anti-imperialist pedagogy in teacher education	10
Decolonising or anti-racism? Exploring the limits of possibility in higher education	9
Possibilities and complexities of decolonising higher education: critical perspectives on praxis	9
Building belonging in online classrooms: relationships at the core	9
Using velo-onto-epistemology to reimagine the candidate-supervisor-relationship	9
Problematizing the critique of culture: an alternative Chinese hermeneutics for teaching the humanities	9
Formal learning spaces in Higher Education – a systematic review	9
A scoping review of action research in higher education: implications for research-based teaching	9
Researching student competence development through the lens of cultural historical activity theory	8
Teacher experiences with online experiential legal education	8
Practising in an evaluative culture: an autoethnographic study of pedagogical practice in higher education	8
‘You don‘t get taught that’ – how ‘safe’ classrooms can hinder learning	8
Initial teacher education seminars and minority ethnic students: exploring dialogic teaching and engagement	8
The critical educator’s two bodies, or, why the personal is still not political	8
Life-on-campus or my-time-and-screen : identity and agency in online postgraduate courses	8
Reframing the ‘illegitimate’ academic: the critical role of professional development for sessional staff	8
Applying Sadler’s principles in holistic assessment design: a retrospective account	8
Does the format of an assessment (closed book or open book) affect learning? A systematic review of the literature	7
Epistemic outcomes of English medium instruction in a South Korean higher education institution	7
‘The shadows of “boundary” remain’: curriculum coherence and the spectre of practice	7
‘Every partnership [… is] an emotional experience’: towards a model of partnership support for addressing the emotional challenges of student–staff partnerships	7

Revisiting the notion of critical thinking in higher education: theorizing the thinking-feeling entanglement using affect theory	7
Disciplinary knowledge practices and powerful knowledge: a study on knowledge and curriculum structures in regions	7
Dancing with explicit criteria or marginalising them: the complexity of grading student work and the reconstruction of the meaning of criterion-referenced assessment	7
From active learners to knowledge contributors: authentic assessment as a catalyst for students' epistemic agency	7
English as an important but unfair resource: university students’ perception of English and English language education in South Korea	7
Re-contextualizing locus of enunciation and linguistic citizenship: a diary analysis of Chinese EFL teachers’ critical intercultural awareness development	7
Representation within the sport management curricula: exploring educators’ decision making-process	7
Beyond-Humans reinventions for criticality: posthumanism to disrupt the Anthropocene and solve (super) wicked environmental problems	7
Getting critical about critical world citizenship. Bottom-up skills development and in-classroom operationalization within a Dutch liberal arts college	7