OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Higher Education is 29. 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
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education	161
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America	104
Dynamics of English in European higher education	92
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage	90
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis	80
Strategies to boost international student success in US higher education: an analysis of direct and indirect effects of learning communities	73
University autonomy under democratic backsliding: a case study of a plagiarism investigation against Serbian Minister of Finance (2014–2019)	69
Higher education and public good: the case of China	65
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?	55
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice	54
Moving beyond bureaucratic grey zones. Managing sexual harassment in Indian higher education	46
Mastering humanitarianism? A survey of postgraduate humanitarian courses	44
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences	43
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon	43
Troubling/trouble in the academy: posttraumatic stress disorder and sexual abuse research	42
Situated transdisciplinarity in university policy: lessons for its institutionalization	41
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza	40
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China	40
Dropout intent of students with disabilities	39
The relationships between family socioeconomic status, gender inequality, and higher education selection from 1962 to 2018: a secondary analysis of the China General Social Survey data	39
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities	37
The development and pilot of the university student embeddedness (USE) scale for student retention within universities: validation with an Australian student sample	35
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education	34
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations	34
In search for employability strategy: emergent approaches by higher education institutions	32

Localised learning: mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas	31
Going local: the time and place of higher education institutions	31
Exploring master’s students’ perceptions of mentoring support for reflection in a one-year employability-oriented mentoring program	30
LGBT + academics’ and PhD students’ experiences of visibility in STEM: more than raising the rainbow flag	29
Higher education retention in Ireland and Scotland: the role of admissions policies	29