OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Higher Education is 28. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration	453
Higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals	167
Students’ motivation and engagement in higher education: the importance of attitude to online learning	103
What actually works to enhance graduate employability? The relative value of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular learning and paid work	94
Scientific globalism during a global crisis: research collaboration and open access publications on COVID-19	84
Higher education contributing to local, national, and global development: new empirical and conceptual insights	78
Neurodiversity in higher education: a narrative synthesis	77
Portuguese higher education students’ adaptation to online teaching and learning in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: personal and contextual factors	66
Telework in academia: associations with health and well-being among staff	55
The future of value in digitalised higher education: why data privacy should not be our biggest concern	55
Sustainable development goals and higher education: leaving many behind	52
Returnee faculty responses to internationalizing “academic ecology” for creating world-class universities in China’ elite universities	49
Mental health of Malaysian university students: UK comparison, and relationship between negative mental health attitudes, self-compassion, and resilience	45
The prestige economy of higher education journals: a quantitative approach	44
Gig qualifications for the gig economy: micro-credentials and the ‘hungry mile’	43
‘All things are in flux’: China in global science	38
Rethinking authentic assessment: work, well-being, and society	38
Reconceptualising employability of returnees: what really matters and strategic navigating approaches	36
Conceptualizing the discourse of student mobility between “periphery” and “semi-periphery”: the case of Africa and China	36
The leaky pipeline in research grant peer review and funding decisions: challenges and future directions	36
Whiteness as futurity and globalization of higher education	34
Winners and losers in US-China scientific research collaborations	34
The impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK for doctoral and early career researchers	33
Discipline-specific feedback literacies: A framework for curriculum design	33
The expansion of doctoral education and the changing nature and purpose of the doctorate	31

Discourses of artificial intelligence in higher education: a critical literature review	30
What perspectives underlie ‘researcher identity’? A review of two decades of empirical studies	30
A path for ranking success: what does the expanded indicator-set of international university rankings suggest?	29
The development of multicultural effectiveness in international student mobility	28