OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Higher Education is 30. 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
Dynamics of English in European higher education	298
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences	173
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?	126
Higher education and public good: the case of China	119
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education	118
Feeling AI: Circulating emotions, institutional climates, and moral boundaries in student use of AI	79
Dropout intent of students with disabilities	74
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education	73
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America	70
Publish at home or abroad: How institutional involution shapes academic publishing practices in China	69
Limitations to the perceived institutional autonomy coming from government steering: A study to the experiences of higher education institutions	67
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities	65
Do PhD students’ research styles predict their perceived competencies?	63
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China	57
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza	55
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis	55
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice	55
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations	49
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon	42
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
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries	36
The black box of faculty writing in the academy	35
Surfacing the conceptualizations of international PhD student agency: the necessity for an integrative research agenda	35
Measuring mentoring in employability-oriented higher education programs: scale development and validation	34
Higher education retention in Ireland and Scotland: the role of admissions policies	33

Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change	33
Unpacking the gendered interactions and relationship among students in male-dominated programs: perspectives of female students in mechanical engineering in Ghana	33
Revisiting the concept of highly skilled professionals: an analysis of support staff in Finnish universities	32
Navigating gender identity development: composite narratives of Chinese women international students studying in the U.S.	32
The role of first-semester career calling and career decidedness in pre-service teachers’ intentions to drop out after the first year of higher education: a longitudinal study	31
Student or customer? Mainland Chinese students’ self-identification and reflexivity in Hong Kong’s self-financed taught postgraduate programmes	30
Correction to: Keeping it regional: pseudo‑internationalisation of Slovak political science	30
In search for employability strategy: emergent approaches by higher education institutions	30
The paradox of technology in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of safety and security students in a Dutch university	30