OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal for Academic Development 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Malaysia: targeted academic development needed	42
Advancing academic development: a strategic, integrated model for recognition, professional development, and community-building	17
University teachers’ professional learning for academic development: Q methodology research	14
Students with disabilities mentoring staff: supporting scalable academic development for inclusive education	13
Distributed leadership and peer review: a MOOC exemplar	13
The importance of multiple pathways for engagement: a longitudinal study of educators going public with educational development	12
A narrative review of interdisciplinary teaching and learning scholarship: closing the gap between theory and practice	10
Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond	9
A longitudinal perspective of the experiences and career trajectories of discipline-based education specialists in teaching and learning in higher education	9
Grasping at straws with academic development as a novice lecturer	8
Educational design patterns for academic developers	8
Top Trumps: The Nottingham Trent University Educational Development Edition	8
Commemorating 30 years of ICED: embracing academic development’s rich past, challenging present, and emerging future(s)	8
Exploring the variation of educational developers’ teaching-related perceptions in higher education	7
The disrupting interview: a framework to approach decolonization	7
Introducing brief mindfulness practices to mitigate faculty burnout in the post-COVID era	7
Analogies as an overlooked tool for fostering students’ higher-order thinking: insights from graduate teaching assistant training	7
Enhancing reflective practice: lessons learned and adjustments in scaffolding critical reflection in peer observation of teaching	7
The gendered nature of educational development in the United States	6
The evolution of a cooperative mentoring community: developing research leadership in early career (healthcare) faculty	6
Group-based journal review: opportunities for researcher development and enjoyment	6
Trust and ethos in academic development: credibility, identity, and value	6
Thanks to IJAD peer reviewers	6
Teachers’ approaches to interdisciplinary teaching and learning initiatives in disciplinary programmes: a scoping review	6
Beyond sharing good practice: exploring academic developers’ use of teacher-generated artefacts	5

Beyond academic development as institutional practice: advancing community-led approaches	5
Belonging as an academic/educational developer: breathing for justice, together	5
Off the side of the desk: equity work in Canadian teaching and learning centres	5
Scaffolding trust to advance inclusive teaching through UDL: a model for academic development	5
Mentorship for early career academics in a long-term problem- and project-based university academic development program in Denmark: views of subject and pedagogy mentors	5
Community-led approaches to the academic development of pracademics in universities: evidence from Ghana	5
Relational pedagogy in higher education: what might it look like in practice and how do we develop it?	5
An identity-agency perspective on overseas academic development of Thai university English teachers	5
Enacting distributed leadership for educational transformation: a seven-year study of academic development in higher education	4
A model for nurturing a networked academic community: #ASCILITEMLSIG mobile learning special interest group	4
Impacts of three discipline-specific fora for discussing teaching and learning	4
The creative self in the uncanny of complex practice	4
A complexity-informed examination of educational development services of a university’s teaching and learning centre	4
‘They stare back at me, or down at the floor’: towards intercultural academic development	4
Our academic development stories: exploring identities, complexities, and experiences	4
Between care and complexity: an autoethnographic account of early-career academic development	4
Bringing educational development to Central and Eastern Europe: reflections on twenty years of supporting teachers	4
Less structure, more purpose	4
Collaboration and co-authorship in academic development: what should we be considering?	4
Open networked learning – a course, a community, an approach	4
Small but mighty: a hybrid TILT academic development partnership	4
Examining teacher development programs in higher education: a comparative analysis of traditional and online formats	4
The role of educational innovation projects and academic developers in the development of educational leadership	4
Fences, dancing, and the spaces between academic development	3
Exploring ways to support university teachers’ identity and agency in uncertain times: a literature review adopting Illeris’ workplace learning framework	3
Analysis of university lectures in the light of efforts to encourage students’ active learning	3
‘Capturing moments’ and ‘creating opportunities’: applications of the writerly peer observation framework	3
Supporting academic development during curriculum change: a co-operative inquiry of identity and engagement	3
Measurement and transformation: what, how, and why we measure in academic development research	3
Entangled in context: addressing academic development and choice architecture	3
A consortial community for VITAL faculty: fostering community, sense of belonging, & teaching excellence	3
Holistic academic development and academic identity in the liminal postdoctoral zone	3
A taught approach to personal tutoring	3
The role of the academic developer as broker in building trust	3
The complex transition to academic development: an ecological perspective	3
The long-term effects of educational development programmes: collaboration, trust and leadership	3
A guide to career development and work-life dynamics	3
Relationality, belonging, and inclusion in academic development	3
Parallels between philosophy and academic development: under-labourers, critics, or leaders?	2
Fostering research culture through virtual community learning towards academic development	2
Why formulate a research team?	2
Exploring the use of the Taxonomy of Significant Learning: a scoping review	2
Conceptions of peer review of teaching: a phenomenographic study	2
A call for sisterhood in academic development: reclaiming care and connection	2
Reaping the dividends of liminality	2
Negotiated identity: a systematic review of the experiences and perceptions of supervisors of undergraduate academic supervision of the final year research project	2
Connecting through contexts: positional awareness and interrelatedness	2
Embedding generative AI literacy through academic development	2
Online collegial conversation as professional development: challenges and possibilities in an Indonesian context	2
Sustainable, affordable, and transferable approaches to experienced doctoral supervisor development	2

Practice what you teach: trust and asset-based practices as the foundation of professional collaboration at a large university	2
Continuous professional development in a digital micro-learning format and lecturer professional identities	2
Motivating conversations in teaching excellence awards	2
Improvisation, advocacy and outreach to preserve an endangered tradition	2
Supporting writing a teaching portfolio by focusing on practice	2
Effects of an in-depth training cohort in teaching and learning: case study of the Knighted faculty program	2
Exploring international collaborative writing groups’ potential for community-based academic development around public SoTL	2
Leadership as collaborative action to raise the profile of education for sustainable development in a UK university	2
Navigating tenure: a qualitative investigation into tenure committee members’ perspectives at a small university campus	2
Interior Design as an Analogy for Academic Development	2
Advocating for accessibility: the gap in the academic development community	2
The precarious academic: professional development and academic identity in the neoliberal university	2
Adding a scholarly analysis of teaching and learning to SoTL: the development of the hands-on Utrecht Roadmap for SoTL	2
Industry experience and supporting part-time academic professionals: professional sport and academic development parallels	2
Exploring profiles of novice and more experienced university teachers’ beliefs regarding their self-efficacy and teaching approaches	2
Pedagogical training for developing students’ metacognition: implications for educators	2
Teaching-focused faculty: the supports, structures, and policies that relate to their perceptions of influence on their colleagues’ teaching	1
Understanding the impact of a pandemic on the work of educational developers	1
Assessing the teaching culture on campus: the development and validation of the Institutional Teaching Culture Perception Survey-Faculty	1
International faculty in Sino-foreign cooperative education institutions: motivations for mobility and professional development	1
Development of three Higher Education professional learning networks in response to COVID-19: a case study	1
Norwegian higher education teachers’ conceptions of the scholarship of teaching and learning: a qualitative study	1
Unpacking faculty members’ collegiality in teaching through within-department discussion network	1
Academic thriving and online course design: a conceptual model	1
Navigating crisis: the role of beliefs, intentions, and contextual factors in adapting to emergency remote teaching	1
To liminality and beyond: threshold capabilities and the potential of variation, empathy, and play for the development of praxis	1
Navigating the complexities of higher education: towards a more holistic, relational understanding of academic development work	1
Podcasting as professional development	1
Building resilience in and through academic development	1
Academic development as distributed cognition and practice	1
Finding community through an academic development collective: overcoming constraints through strategic collaboration	1
Integrity in educational development	1
The role of the facilitator in collective reflection on higher education teaching	1
Exploring university educators’ readiness for changing to PBL: a case from India	1
The change architects: reimagining centers for teaching and learning as catalysts for 21st-century higher education transformation	1
Academic networks and disability: reflections by a disabled scholar	1
A new pedagogical approach to peer review of teaching in higher education	1
Creating reflective space for teachers in higher education: the use of story completion	1
Investigating the authentic learning practices of teaching focused academics: leveraging Activity-Centred Analysis and Design (ACAD)	1
Public relations as part of the work of academic developers: a vignette on our role at a Japanese university	1
Engaging in epistemic reflexivity: insights for new academic developers	1
Towards a conceptual framework of professional development: a phenomenographic study of academics’ mindsets in a business school	1
Learning with the river: unblocking channels for academic development	1
Valuing teaching: exploring how a university’s strategic documents reflect institutional teaching culture	1
What is the syllabus for? Revealing tensions through a scoping review of syllabus uses	1
Exploring mentors’ perceptions of the benefits and challenges of mentoring in a constellation model	1
Levels of holistic academic development and leadership	1
Professionalisation and professional identity in academic development: concepts, domains, and mechanisms	1
Value of taught academic development programmes: building trust?	1
Anti-racist, anti-oppressive curriculum development: a different entry point into work on racism and bias in higher education	1
Unfolding educational innovation processes and teacher motivation in universities: a multiple-case study	1
Thanks to IJAD Peer Reviewers 2023	1
That place that is a teaching and learning center	1
What hope for academic academic development?	1
Uncovering the emotional dimension of developing teaching practice through uncertainty: a multimodal methodology	1
Clinical education vs academic development	1
Expanding peer observation of teaching and learning through cross-institutional collaboration	1
The role of academic developers in initiating, developing, and supporting student-staff partnerships in learning and teaching in higher education: a systematic narrative literature review and a new fr	1
Handbuch Hochschuldidaktik	1
Exploring how an experiential professional development program prepared instructors to teach with an unfamiliar pedagogical approach	1
Another set of eyes: an educational co-design story	1
Exploring unchartered territory: the role of an educational developer in COIL	1
Trust-building as inherent to academic development practice	1