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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Malaysia: targeted academic development needed	34
Advancing academic development: a strategic, integrated model for recognition, professional development, and community-building	24
University teachers’ professional learning for academic development: Q methodology research	15
Students with disabilities mentoring staff: supporting scalable academic development for inclusive education	13
Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond	13
Distributed leadership and peer review: a MOOC exemplar	12
Commemorating 30 years of ICED: embracing academic development’s rich past, challenging present, and emerging future(s)	10
A narrative review of interdisciplinary teaching and learning scholarship: closing the gap between theory and practice	10
A longitudinal perspective of the experiences and career trajectories of discipline-based education specialists in teaching and learning in higher education	10
Top Trumps: The Nottingham Trent University Educational Development Edition	9
Grasping at straws with academic development as a novice lecturer	8
Teachers’ approaches to interdisciplinary teaching and learning initiatives in disciplinary programmes: a scoping review	7
The disrupting interview: a framework to approach decolonization	7
Analogies as an overlooked tool for fostering students’ higher-order thinking: insights from graduate teaching assistant training	7
Negative emotions, social isolation, and impostor syndrome in the pursuit of professional mastery in research universities	7
Exploring the variation of educational developers’ teaching-related perceptions in higher education	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
Introducing brief mindfulness practices to mitigate faculty burnout in the post-COVID era	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
The evolution of a cooperative mentoring community: developing research leadership in early career (healthcare) faculty	6
Off the side of the desk: equity work in Canadian teaching and learning centres	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

An identity-agency perspective on overseas academic development of Thai university English teachers	5
Scaffolding trust to advance inclusive teaching through UDL: a model for academic development	5
Belonging as an academic/educational developer: breathing for justice, together	5
Enacting distributed leadership for educational transformation: a seven-year study of academic development in higher education	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
Beyond academic development as institutional practice: advancing community-led approaches	5
Small but mighty: a hybrid TILT academic development partnership	4
‘They stare back at me, or down at the floor’: towards intercultural academic development	4
Open networked learning – a course, a community, an approach	4
The creative self in the uncanny of complex practice	4
Collaboration and co-authorship in academic development: what should we be considering?	4
Our academic development stories: exploring identities, complexities, and experiences	4
Bringing educational development to Central and Eastern Europe: reflections on twenty years of supporting teachers	4
A model for nurturing a networked academic community: #ASCILITEMLSIG mobile learning special interest group	4
Examining teacher development programs in higher education: a comparative analysis of traditional and online formats	4
Entangled in context: addressing academic development and choice architecture	3
Measurement and transformation: what, how, and why we measure in academic development research	3
The complex transition to academic development: an ecological perspective	3
Advocating for accessibility: the gap in the academic development community	3
Holistic academic development and academic identity in the liminal postdoctoral zone	3
A taught approach to personal tutoring	3
Less structure, more purpose	3
The role of the academic developer as broker in building trust	3
Towards quality teaching in higher education: pedagogy-focused academic development for enhancing practice	3
The long-term effects of educational development programmes: collaboration, trust and leadership	3
A guide to career development and work-life dynamics	3
Sustainable, affordable, and transferable approaches to experienced doctoral supervisor development	3
Fences, dancing, and the spaces between academic development	3
A complexity-informed examination of educational development services of a university’s teaching and learning centre	3
A consortial community for VITAL faculty: fostering community, sense of belonging, & teaching excellence	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
Relationality, belonging, and inclusion in academic development	3
We need each other: academic development work as necessary reciprocity	2
Examining the overlapping identities of teaching focused academics and academic developers: expanding ideas	2
Motivating conversations in teaching excellence awards	2
Parallels between philosophy and academic development: under-labourers, critics, or leaders?	2
Navigating tenure: a qualitative investigation into tenure committee members’ perspectives at a small university campus	2
Practice what you teach: trust and asset-based practices as the foundation of professional collaboration at a large university	2
Supporting writing a teaching portfolio by focusing on practice	2
Academic networks and disability: reflections by a disabled scholar	2
Conceptions of peer review of teaching: a phenomenographic study	2
A new pedagogical approach to peer review of teaching in higher education	2
Pedagogical training for developing students’ metacognition: implications for educators	2
That place that is a teaching and learning center	2
Adding a scholarly analysis of teaching and learning to SoTL: the development of the hands-on Utrecht Roadmap for SoTL	2
Improvisation, advocacy and outreach to preserve an endangered tradition	2
Fostering research culture through virtual community learning towards academic development	2
Interior Design as an Analogy for Academic Development	2

Negotiated identity: a systematic review of the experiences and perceptions of supervisors of undergraduate academic supervision of the final year research project	2
Exploring profiles of novice and more experienced university teachers’ beliefs regarding their self-efficacy and teaching approaches	2
Professionalisation and professional identity in academic development: concepts, domains, and mechanisms	2
The change architects: reimagining centers for teaching and learning as catalysts for 21st-century higher education transformation	2
Exploring international collaborative writing groups’ potential for community-based academic development around public SoTL	2
International faculty in Sino-foreign cooperative education institutions: motivations for mobility and professional development	2
Industry experience and supporting part-time academic professionals: professional sport and academic development parallels	2
Development of three Higher Education professional learning networks in response to COVID-19: a case study	2
Embedding generative AI literacy through academic development	2
Online collegial conversation as professional development: challenges and possibilities in an Indonesian context	2
Why formulate a research team?	2
The precarious academic: professional development and academic identity in the neoliberal university	2
Reaping the dividends of liminality	2
Unfolding educational innovation processes and teacher motivation in universities: a multiple-case study	2
Thanks to IJAD Peer Reviewers 2023	2
Connecting through contexts: positional awareness and interrelatedness	2
Valuing teaching: exploring how a university’s strategic documents reflect institutional teaching culture	1
To liminality and beyond: threshold capabilities and the potential of variation, empathy, and play for the development of praxis	1
Value of taught academic development programmes: building trust?	1
Towards a conceptual framework of professional development: a phenomenographic study of academics’ mindsets in a business school	1
The challenge of academic freedom at post-Soviet universities: pursuing critical inquiry through transformative academic development	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
Navigating the complexities of higher education: towards a more holistic, relational understanding of academic development work	1
What hope for academic academic development?	1
Building resilience in and through academic development	1
Anti-racist, anti-oppressive curriculum development: a different entry point into work on racism and bias in higher education	1
Expanding peer observation of teaching and learning through cross-institutional collaboration	1
Integrity in educational development	1
Podcasting as professional development	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
Exploring how an experiential professional development program prepared instructors to teach with an unfamiliar pedagogical approach	1
Finding community through an academic development collective: overcoming constraints through strategic collaboration	1
Uncovering the emotional dimension of developing teaching practice through uncertainty: a multimodal methodology	1
Public relations as part of the work of academic developers: a vignette on our role at a Japanese university	1
Preparing for distributed pedagogical leadership: mentor identity and readiness during institutional change	1
Empowering early career academics to overcome low confidence	1
Handbuch Hochschuldidaktik	1
Understanding the impact of a pandemic on the work of educational developers	1
Levels of holistic academic development and leadership	1
Another set of eyes: an educational co-design story	1
Exploring mentors’ perceptions of the benefits and challenges of mentoring in a constellation model	1
Unpacking faculty members’ collegiality in teaching through within-department discussion network	1
Creating reflective space for teachers in higher education: the use of story completion	1
The role of the facilitator in collective reflection on higher education teaching	1
Curriculum review for a community of practice of an article reviewing professional development program: participant stories	1
Assessing the teaching culture on campus: the development and validation of the Institutional Teaching Culture Perception Survey-Faculty	1
Clinical education vs academic development	1
What is the syllabus for? Revealing tensions through a scoping review of syllabus uses	1
Academic development as distributed cognition and practice	1
Learning with the river: unblocking channels for academic development	1
Exploring university educators’ readiness for changing to PBL: a case from India	1
Trust-building as inherent to academic development practice	1
Investigating the authentic learning practices of teaching focused academics: leveraging Activity-Centred Analysis and Design (ACAD)	1