OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Higher Education is 32. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?	369
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education	131
Limitations to the perceived institutional autonomy coming from government steering: A study to the experiences of higher education institutions	98
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America	98
Do PhD students’ research styles predict their perceived competencies?	97
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis	88
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice	87
Higher education and public good: the case of China	84
What does it mean to widen participation? a machine learning analysis of historical and contemporary access discourses	78
Publish at home or abroad: How institutional involution shapes academic publishing practices in China	73
Dropout intent of students with disabilities	66
Navigating forcibly displaced learners’ pathways to higher education and beyond: Ukrainian students in French higher education	55
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China	55
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon	41
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education	41
Dynamics of English in European higher education	40
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
Feeling AI: Circulating emotions, institutional climates, and moral boundaries in student use of AI	39
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries	38
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations	38
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza	38
Navigating gender identity development: composite narratives of Chinese women international students studying in the U.S.	37
The black box of faculty writing in the academy	37
Revisiting the concept of highly skilled professionals: an analysis of support staff in Finnish universities	36
Motivation is important, but can it be improved? Examining faculty perceptions of research motivation and productivity interventions	36

The multi-dimensional, multi-level impact of social capital on academic job search in China: A comparison between domestic PhDs and PhD returnees in the social sciences	35
Correction to: Keeping it regional: pseudo‑internationalisation of Slovak political science	35
‘It’s like dominoes’: middle managers transversal agency and the complexity of navigating transformation in post-conflict higher education	35
Student or customer? Mainland Chinese students’ self-identification and reflexivity in Hong Kong’s self-financed taught postgraduate programmes	33
Peer review in Chinese national journals: historical development and challenges	33
Unpacking the gendered interactions and relationship among students in male-dominated programs: perspectives of female students in mechanical engineering in Ghana	33
Exploring master’s students’ perceptions of mentoring support for reflection in a one-year employability-oriented mentoring program	32