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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education	184
Dynamics of English in European higher education	119
Strategies to boost international student success in US higher education: an analysis of direct and indirect effects of learning communities	101
University autonomy under democratic backsliding: a case study of a plagiarism investigation against Serbian Minister of Finance (2014–2019)	90
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?	80
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice	79
Moving beyond bureaucratic grey zones. Managing sexual harassment in Indian higher education	78
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences	59
Mastering humanitarianism? A survey of postgraduate humanitarian courses	59
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon	51
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis	50
Troubling/trouble in the academy: posttraumatic stress disorder and sexual abuse research	49
Situated transdisciplinarity in university policy: lessons for its institutionalization	48
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza	46
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China	46
The development and pilot of the university student embeddedness (USE) scale for student retention within universities: validation with an Australian student sample	44
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage	44
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	43
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America	43
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations	42
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities	39
Higher education and public good: the case of China	37
Dropout intent of students with disabilities	36
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education	35
Exploring master’s students’ perceptions of mentoring support for reflection in a one-year employability-oriented mentoring program	34

Going local: the time and place of higher education institutions	34
Assessing educational inequality in high participation systems: the role of educational expansion and skills diffusion in comparative perspective	33
The black box of faculty writing in the academy	32
The European Universities initiative: between status hierarchies and inclusion	32
Localised learning: mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas	30
Revisiting the concept of highly skilled professionals: an analysis of support staff in Finnish universities	30
To be or not to be a technical university: organisational categories as reference points in higher education	30
Higher education retention in Ireland and Scotland: the role of admissions policies	30