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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Thanks to IJAD peer reviewers	55
Malaysia: targeted academic development needed	35
Advancing academic development: a strategic, integrated model for recognition, professional development, and community-building	23
On holistic academic development in a pandemic (in verse)	21
Students as partners within a centre for teaching and learning: a qualitative analysis of challenges and benefits	15
This tale of ours: Pakistani academics’ challenges, struggles, and becoming	15
Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond	12
University teachers’ professional learning for academic development: Q methodology research	12
A longitudinal perspective of the experiences and career trajectories of discipline-based education specialists in teaching and learning in higher education	12
A narrative review of interdisciplinary teaching and learning scholarship: closing the gap between theory and practice	11
Consensus moderation and the sessional academic: valued or powerless and compliant?	11
Students with disabilities mentoring staff: supporting scalable academic development for inclusive education	11
Distributed leadership and peer review: a MOOC exemplar	9
Learning and developing during lesson study through professional conversations	9
Grasping at straws with academic development as a novice lecturer	8
Exploring the variation of educational developers’ teaching-related perceptions in higher education	8
Top Trumps: The Nottingham Trent University Educational Development Edition	8
Negative emotions, social isolation, and impostor syndrome in the pursuit of professional mastery in research universities	8
Commemorating 30 years of ICED: embracing academic development’s rich past, challenging present, and emerging future(s)	8
Teaching philosophies revalued: beyond personal development to academic and institutional capacity building	8
Enhancing reflective practice: lessons learned and adjustments in scaffolding critical reflection in peer observation of teaching	7
Third places: cultivating mobile communities of practice in the global south	7
“Students CAN be the center of their own learning”: lessons learnt from a transnational collaborative academic development project	7
Introducing brief mindfulness practices to mitigate faculty burnout in the post-COVID era	7
The disrupting interview: a framework to approach decolonization	6

Starting conversations and building connections: fostering a community of practice across disciplinary boundaries at a college of applied arts and technology	6
The evolution of a cooperative mentoring community: developing research leadership in early career (healthcare) faculty	6
The gendered nature of educational development in the United States	6
Digital disruption in the time of COVID-19: learning technologists’ accounts of institutional barriers to online learning, teaching and assessment in UK universities	6
Group-based journal review: opportunities for researcher development and enjoyment	5
Revisiting the impact of academic development: scholarship and practice	5
Thanks to IJAD peer reviewers	5
Community-led approaches to the academic development of pracademics in universities: evidence from Ghana	5
Trust and ethos in academic development: credibility, identity, and value	5
Belonging as an academic/educational developer: breathing for justice, together	4
Relational pedagogy in higher education: what might it look like in practice and how do we develop it?	4
An identity-agency perspective on overseas academic development of Thai university English teachers	4
Open networked learning – a course, a community, an approach	4
Collaboration and co-authorship in academic development: what should we be considering?	4
Off the side of the desk: equity work in Canadian teaching and learning centres	4
Mentoring in Saudi higher education: considering the role of culture in academic development	4
Our academic development stories: exploring identities, complexities, and experiences	4
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	4
Scaffolding trust to advance inclusive teaching through UDL: a model for academic development	4
Beyond academic development as institutional practice: advancing community-led approaches	4
‘They stare back at me, or down at the floor’: towards intercultural academic development	4
Less structure, more purpose	3
The creative self in the uncanny of complex practice	3
A model for nurturing a networked academic community: #ASCILITEMLSIG mobile learning special interest group	3
The complex transition to academic development: an ecological perspective	3
Evaluation in the time of crisis: evidencing value at a centre for teaching and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Small but mighty: a hybrid TILT academic development partnership	3
A complexity-informed examination of educational development services of a university’s teaching and learning centre	3
The role of the academic developer as broker in building trust	3
Entangled in context: addressing academic development and choice architecture	3
‘Accountable to whom, for what, and through what means’: educational developers in the audit culture	3
Professional development practices and preferences in Irish Higher Education: insights from a regional survey	3
Bringing educational development to Central and Eastern Europe: reflections on twenty years of supporting teachers	3
Fences, dancing, and the spaces between academic development	3
PhD students’ conversations that lead to learning about teaching: the interplay of formal and informal learning	3
Towards quality teaching in higher education: pedagogy-focused academic development for enhancing practice	3
Desired characteristics of continuing professional development for holistic academic development	2
Improvisation, advocacy and outreach to preserve an endangered tradition	2
A taught approach to personal tutoring	2
Why formulate a research team?	2
Supporting academic development during curriculum change: a co-operative inquiry of identity and engagement	2
Relationality, belonging, and inclusion in academic development	2
Advocating for accessibility: the gap in the academic development community	2
Improving teaching and learning: mathematics and science faculty reflections across time	2
Adding a scholarly analysis of teaching and learning to SoTL: the development of the hands-on Utrecht Roadmap for SoTL	2
Supporting writing a teaching portfolio by focusing on practice	2
Exploring international collaborative writing groups’ potential for community-based academic development around public SoTL	2
Connecting through contexts: positional awareness and interrelatedness	2
Holistic academic development and academic identity in the liminal postdoctoral zone	2
A guide to career development and work-life dynamics	2

Sustainable, affordable, and transferable approaches to experienced doctoral supervisor development	2
A consortial community for VITAL faculty: fostering community, sense of belonging, & teaching excellence	2
Parallels between philosophy and academic development: under-labourers, critics, or leaders?	2
Reaping the dividends of liminality	2
The precarious academic: professional development and academic identity in the neoliberal university	2
Pedagogical training for developing students’ metacognition: implications for educators	2
Motivating conversations in teaching excellence awards	2
Serendipitous conversations: the 10-year journey in becoming SoTL scholars and educators	2
Fostering research culture through virtual community learning towards academic development	2
Interior Design as an Analogy for Academic Development	2
The ‘naked’ syllabus as a model of faculty development: is this the missing link in Higher Education?	2
‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’: reflecting on, and refracting through, academic development in a pandemic year	2
Practice what you teach: trust and asset-based practices as the foundation of professional collaboration at a large university	2
Academic developers as flexible generalists: responding to COVID-19	2
Examining the overlapping identities of teaching focused academics and academic developers: expanding ideas	2
Conceptions of peer review of teaching: a phenomenographic study	2
The role of the facilitator in collective reflection on higher education teaching	1
Value of taught academic development programmes: building trust?	1
Academic development as distributed cognition and practice	1
Podcasting as professional development	1
Another set of eyes: an educational co-design story	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
The Change Laboratory as an approach to harnessing conversation for academic development	1
Valuing teaching: exploring how a university’s strategic documents reflect institutional teaching culture	1
Thanks to IJAD Peer Reviewers 2023	1
Conversations that make meaningful change in teaching, teachers, and academic development	1
Industry experience and supporting part-time academic professionals: professional sport and academic development parallels	1
Diffracting peer observation: talking about differences, not looking for perfection	1
The challenge of academic freedom at post-Soviet universities: pursuing critical inquiry through transformative academic development	1
Learning with the river: unblocking channels for academic development	1
Finding community through an academic development collective: overcoming constraints through strategic collaboration	1
Empowering early career academics to overcome low confidence	1
What university teachers need to know - perceptions of course content in higher education pedagogical courses	1
What hope for academic academic development?	1
Towards a conceptual framework of professional development: a phenomenographic study of academics’ mindsets in a business school	1
Investigating the authentic learning practices of teaching focused academics: leveraging Activity-Centred Analysis and Design (ACAD)	1
Academic developers’ perceptions of support for sessional staff in Australia	1
Assessing the teaching culture on campus: the development and validation of the Institutional Teaching Culture Perception Survey-Faculty	1
Creating reflective space for teachers in higher education: the use of story completion	1
We need each other: academic development work as necessary reciprocity	1
That place that is a teaching and learning center	1
Mentoring models in research in Polish academia	1
How facilitated multi-source feedback constructs new conversations about teaching: a positioning theory study	1
Navigating the complexities of higher education: towards a more holistic, relational understanding of academic development work	1
Guiding questions for evaluating IJAD submissions	1
Trust-building as inherent to academic development practice	1
Handbuch Hochschuldidaktik	1
PhD orals from the convenors’ perspective: implications for academics and candidates	1
Anti-racist, anti-oppressive curriculum development: a different entry point into work on racism and bias in higher education	1
Review of relationship-rich education. How human connections drive success in college	1
Understanding the impact of a pandemic on the work of educational developers	1
Exploring mentors’ perceptions of the benefits and challenges of mentoring in a constellation model	1
Academic developers developing: aspects of an expanding lifeworld	1
A neglected area: supervision development opportunities for doctoral researchers involved in undergraduate and masters project mentoring	1
How do I know who I am? Academic professional development, peer support, and identity for practitioners who teach	1
Unfolding educational innovation processes and teacher motivation in universities: a multiple-case study	1
Exploring how an experiential professional development program prepared instructors to teach with an unfamiliar pedagogical approach	1
What is the syllabus for? Revealing tensions through a scoping review of syllabus uses	1