Higher Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Higher Education is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Policies and patterns of integration of science and religion in Indonesian Islamic higher education131
The role of doctorate in knowledge production—an institutional perspective88
Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine: implications for rebuilding destroyed higher education in Gaza84
Building higher education: the tension between espoused educational values and physical infrastructure81
Norwegian higher education futures75
Disrupting internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America63
Thinking with and between social orders: Corporate embedded colleges and their public rivals58
How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis55
Assistance at the starting line: rural education competition and rural student development55
Major transitions: how college students interpret the process of changing fields of study50
Mobile agency and relational webs in women’s narratives of international study47
Hyping the REF: promotional elements in impact submissions47
Contributions from Türkiye on grade inflation in higher education: educational landscapes before, during, and after COVID-1945
When doubts take over: a longitudinal study on emerging disengagement in the PhD process40
Academic anomie: implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education38
Removing institutional barriers or reframing inequality: effects of China’s college entrance exam reform on inequality in internal migrant students’ higher education attainment38
Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries37
Exploring collective identity of a group of teaching-oriented academics amid research discourse: a Chinese case37
International students and everyday multiculturalism: rethinking ‘connection’ through mundane sites of encounter36
Scientific collaboration amid geopolitical tensions: a comparison of Sweden and Australia36
Variable- and Person-centred meta-re-analyses of university students' learning strategies from a cross-cultural perspective35
Academic cheating as planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and individualism-collectivism orientations34
‘Living at work’: COVID-19, remote-working and the spatio-relational reorganisation of professional services in UK universities34
International student mobility as “aspiration on the go”: stories from African students at a Chinese university33
Australian universities’ approaches to transnational higher education in China: a Bourdieusian multiple correspondence analysis32
Narratives of ‘delayed success’: a life course perspective on understanding Vietnamese international students’ decisions to drop out of PhD programmes30
Making sense of political imbalance in American higher education30
Moving beyond bureaucratic grey zones. Managing sexual harassment in Indian higher education29
Faculty Engagement in University–Industry Linkages in Turkey and the United States: National Technocenters versus Ecosystems of Knowledge28
What makes a difference for further advancement of engineers: socioeconomic background or education programs?28
Can you do all in one professional label? Complementarity, substitution, and independence effects in academic life27
After Trow—mass higher education to high participation systems25
Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences24
Between decolonization and recolonization: investigating Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia as a case of global South-South student mobility24
Influence of entry pathway and equity group status on retention and the student experience in higher education24
Implementation of ambiguous governance instruments in higher education24
The ‘chosen’ UK? Remapping of international education mobility for prospective Chinese master’s students during and post the COVID-19 pandemic24
Exploring family and academic role conflict among undergraduate students of the University of Nigeria24
Australian PhD graduates’ agency in navigating their career pathways: stories from social sciences24
Attitudes towards students with disabilities achieving their educational and work-related goals: a factorial survey experiment among higher education institution employees in Norway24
Costs and benefits of a formal academic qualification beyond the PhD23
Academics’ susceptibility to disruptions of their research productivity: empirical insights from the COVID-19 pandemic23
Accelerated life in academic capitalism: PhD student’s time experience in project work23
Global aspirations of Chinese universities: towards a world-centred tianxia (all under heaven) imaginary of global higher education?23
Widening access and participation: Exploring discourses in academic writing from the USA and the UK23
Higher education and public good: the case of China22
‘Playing the same game differently’: constituting academic identities in four disciplines22
Analyzing the influence of regional security on international student flows in the MENA region: a social network approach22
Reconciling multiple institutional logics for ambidexterity: human resource management reforms in Chinese public universities22
Foreign early career academics’ well-being profiles at workplaces in Japan: a person-oriented approach21
Situated transdisciplinarity in university policy: lessons for its institutionalization21
Connecting academics’ disciplinary knowledge to their professional development as university teachers: a conceptual analysis of teacher expertise and teacher knowledge21
Translating rhetoric into reality: using the internationalization of humanities and social sciences in Chinese universities as the case21
Academic freedom as a source of rights’ violations: a European perspective21
Ontological congruence, discipline and academic identity in university schools of nursing21
China’s international higher education policies 2010–2019: multiple logics and HEI responses21
Perceptions and enablers of sustainable development: a comparative study of Ghanaian university students’ engagement with the SDGs20
Higher education and public good in England20
Industrial doctorates for regional development: the case of Le Marche Region20
Pedagogy of Belonging: Cultivating wellbeing literacy in higher education19
Enabling Indigenous wellbeing in higher education: Indigenous Australian youth-devised strategies and solutions18
Decolonising the curriculum: common sense, threshold concepts, and epistemic injustice18
The use of lectures: effective pedagogy or seeds scattered on the wind?18
Transformational leadership for sustainable productivity in higher education institutions of Cameroon18
Mastering humanitarianism? A survey of postgraduate humanitarian courses18
The elite exclusion: stratified access and production during the Chinese higher education expansion18
Researching inequality in higher education: tracing changing conceptions and approaches over fifty years17
Demands and design principles of a “heterodox” didactics for promoting critical thinking in higher education17
Do professional staff in universities really challenge academic norms? A perspective from the Netherlands17
The mental labyrinth of postgraduate research: a qualitative study of postgraduate mental health and wellbeing and the impact of the supervisory relationship17
Academic socialization: On a neglected effect of competition in science17
The rise of promotional communicative functions in medical research article abstracts: a diachronic (1940–2022) perspective17
Abstract(s) at the core: a case study of disciplinary identity in the field of linguistics17
Exposing the chameleon-like nature of racism: a multidisciplinary look at critical race theory in higher education17
Investigating PhDs’ early career occupational outcomes in Italy: individual motivations, role of supervisor and gender differences17
The portrayal of the future as legitimacy construction: discursive strategies in highly ranked business schools’ external communication16
“I’m not the only victim…” student perceptions of exploitative supervision relation in doctoral degree16
Rhizomic communication practices bridging international students and the host society and beyond16
Doing knowledge work differently: problem-based projects as encounters in coming-to-know16
Theoretical and empirical approach to how a professorship is organized in the German higher education system and how the organizational process works16
Troubling/trouble in the academy: posttraumatic stress disorder and sexual abuse research15
Higher education and the public good in France15
The gravity of the status quo: the response of research governance to system-level shocks15
Constructing radical community: an ecological model for shifting from an EdD to a We-dD in online doctoral programs14
The power in managing numbers: changing interdependencies and the rise of ranking expertise14
Power-conscious ecosystems: understanding how power dynamics in US doctoral advising shape students’ experiences14
Making sense of experiential education in Canada: the four lenses of faculty sensemaking14
Is it transformation or reform? The lived experiences of African women doctoral students in STEM disciplines in South African universities14
Supervisors’ emotion regulation in research supervision: navigating dilemmas in an accountability-based context14
The makings of an exclusive community: students’ perceptions of dangerous others14
Appreciating dyslexic thinking in qualitative research: reflections and recommendations for culturally competent, neuro-inclusive academia14
Processing societal expectations: entrepreneurship initiative decision-making at a research university13
Government scholarships for international higher education: pathways for social change in Kazakhstan13
LGBQ students’ experiences of heteronormativity in higher education institutions: focusing on Japan as the national context13
Does college level the playing field? Socioeconomic gaps in the earnings of similar graduates: evidence from South Korea13
The interrupted journey: factors and processes related to withdrawal, re-enrolment and dropout from doctoral education13
Correction to: Progressing to China-related careers: unveiling the hidden curriculum in Chinese international higher education13
The development and pilot of the university student embeddedness (USE) scale for student retention within universities: validation with an Australian student sample13
Emotional expression as a powerful strategy: how students use emotions to manage their relationships with supervisors12
Once highly productive, forever highly productive? Full professors’ research productivity from a longitudinal perspective12
Correction to: Revisiting organizational actorhood in higher education: the role of legitimate agency12
Strategies to boost international student success in US higher education: an analysis of direct and indirect effects of learning communities12
Fingers crossed behind the back: tactics of hidden resistance in Russian wartime academia12
Chinese university students’ intention to study abroad in times of Covid-19: the important role of student background characteristics12
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 data12
Research agendas and organizational commitment among academics in mainland China12
Behavioral characterization of critical thinking in higher education: perspectives from the theory of planned behavior11
A review of the benefits and drawbacks of high-stakes final examinations in higher education11
Dynamics of English in European higher education11
Creating the conditions for student success through curriculum reform: the impact of an active learning, immersive block model11
Disobedience, (dis)embodied knowledge management, and decolonization: higher education in The Gambia11
Promoting students’ interest through culturally sensitive curricula in higher education11
“Teaching, my passion; publishing, my pain”: unpacking academics’ professional identity tensions through the lens of emotional resilience11
Correction to: Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries11
Differentiated experiences of financial precarity and lived precariousness among international students in Australia11
Hate and harassment in academia: the rising concern of the online environment11
“Elder siblings assist younger ones in going to college”: the moral mission and choice of first-generation college students in rural China10
Dropout intent of students with disabilities10
Finding digital solutions in pandemic times: the case of appointment procedures for professors at German universities10
Does entrepreneurial education influence the entrepreneurial outcomes of university students in developing economies? Evidence from Ghana10
Displaced academics’ mobility and translocational positionalities: ‘academic poverty’, ‘academic death’, and ‘academic re-existence’10
Assessing learning processes rather than outcomes: using critical incidents to explore student learning abroad10
Negative student emotions and educator skill in experiential education: a taxonomy of classroom activities10
Academic self-concept, perceptions of the learning environment, engagement, and learning outcomes of university students: relationships and causal ordering10
Student mental health and dropout from higher education: an analysis of Australian administrative data10
Beyond cultural and geographical proximity: delving into the factors that influence the dynamics of academic relationships between students in higher education10
University autonomy under democratic backsliding: a case study of a plagiarism investigation against Serbian Minister of Finance (2014–2019)10
Generative AI and higher education: a review of claims from the first months of ChatGPT10
Trust and incentives in academic research and the position of universities within innovation systems9
War, higher education and development: the experience for educationalists at Gaza’s universities9
“I don’t think you know it”: racism against non-white native language educators in an English-speaking country9
Assessing educational inequality in high participation systems: the role of educational expansion and skills diffusion in comparative perspective9
Going local: the time and place of higher education institutions9
The origins and evolution of academic drift at the California State University, 1960–20059
Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change9
Collaborative writing among PhD holders in non-academic careers: disciplinary variations and their impact on work engagement and burnout9
University students’ concepts of nation in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau: Patriotism or nationalism?9
Who benefits most from studying abroad? A conceptual and empirical overview9
Whiteness as futurity and globalization of higher education9
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage9
Institutionalising a transdisciplinary curriculum: assemblages, territories, and refrains9
Higher education in Nordic countries: analyzing the construction of policy futures9
When the first degree isn’t enough—rational choice and social inequality in graduate enrollment in Germany9
Unequal expectations: First-generation and continuing-generation students’ anticipated relationships with doctoral advisors in STEM8
Student’s reported satisfaction at University: the role of personal characteristics and secondary school background8
Need satisfaction and achievement goals of university faculty: an international study of their interplay and relevance8
Whorephobia in Higher Education: a reflexive account of researching cis women’s experiences of stripping while at university8
Language and the cocurriculum: the need for decolonizing out-of-classroom experiences8
Administrative transformation and managerial growth: a longitudinal analysis of changes in the non-academic workforce at Australian universities8
Authenticity work in higher education learning environments: a double-edged sword?8
Personal factors in the career development of early career researchers in Kenya and implications for models of mentoring practice8
(Re)-production of caste in the classroom: a Dalit perspective8
What motivates Chinese students to study in the UK? A fresh perspective through a ‘small-lens’8
Correction to: Student formation in higher education: a comparison and combination of Confucian xiushen (self-cultivation) and Bildung8
50 years of Higher Education: a critical reflection and thoughts on an evolving agenda8
Conflicting language ideologies and practices of English medium instruction policy for international students in China’s higher education8
Flashbacks of the bad old days? The bureaucratization of Czech universities in the post-communist era8
PhD first-generation and continuing generation students’ academic experience and strengths8
International mobility after the PhD: exploring the characteristics and early labour market outcomes of UK doctoral graduates8
A conceptual and methodological framework for clustering and correlation analyses of the approaches and study skills inventory for students8
‘I am everywhere all at once’: pipelines, rhizomes and research writing8
In search for employability strategy: emergent approaches by higher education institutions8
Chain migration and student mobility in Sicily8
Mergers in Norwegian higher education: is there an effect on publication performance?8
Meeting at the margins: culturally affirming practices at HBCUs for underserved populations8
Revisiting the concept of highly skilled professionals: an analysis of support staff in Finnish universities8
International students and the neoliberal marketplace of higher education: the lived experiences of graduate students from sub-Saharan countries in Africa of a U.S. university’s internationalization p7
Correction to: The European Universities initiative: between status hierarchies and inclusion7
The importance of international and national publications for promotion and the impact of recruitment policies7
Measuring global common goods in higher education: dimensions and potential indicators7
“The hysteria of a little flu”: effects of COVID-19 on HEIs in Brazil7
Institution level awarding gap metrics for identifying educational inequity: useful tools or reductive distractions?7
The paradox of technology in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of safety and security students in a Dutch university7
Exploring perspectives: a scoping review of the challenges facing doctoral training in Africa7
Decolonising the African doctorate: transforming the foundations of knowledge7
Temporality and academic mobility: Shomoyscapes and time work in the narratives of Bangladeshi faculty7
Subject in motion: (de)capitalization and coping strategies of Tibetan “Sea Turtles” in China6
University’s shared vision for research and teaching: an international comparative study6
Determinants of Ph.D. progression: student’s abilities and lab local environment6
Making sense of change in higher education research: exploring the intersection of science and policy6
Inequality reproduction, higher education, and the double major choice in college6
Barriers to attracting the best researchers: perceptions of academics in economics and physics in three European countries6
The discursive resilience of university rankings6
Japan’s higher education and the public good6
Surfacing the conceptualizations of international PhD student agency: the necessity for an integrative research agenda6
The conundrums of formal and informal meritocracy: dealing with gender segregation in the academy6
Global pedigree and national imperative: Hong Kong universities’ response to China’s grand strategies6
Graduate employability as a professional proto-jurisdiction in higher education6
Abusive comments in student evaluations of courses and teaching: the attacks women and marginalised academics endure6
Exploring Chinese doctoral graduates’ career choices and gender differences through the lens of rational choice theory6
Institutional dual identity in research capacity building in IBCs: the case of NYU Shanghai6
Educational success in a new democracy: modeling university student persistence and completion in Kosovo6
Negotiating access and belonging in a higher education institution: a postqualitative narrative6
PhD candidates’ and supervisors’ wellbeing and experiences of supervision6
Rachel Gable, The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities6
Supporting thinking about thinking: examining the metacognition theory-practice gap in higher education6
Student affairs work under neoliberalism and within the global class war6
Including student voice in Chinese higher education classrooms: possibilities and challenges of practicing a student-led pedagogical method6
Unpacking the gendered interactions and relationship among students in male-dominated programs: perspectives of female students in mechanical engineering in Ghana6
A gender affinity effect: the role of gender in teaching evaluations at a Danish university6
Cultivating criticality in a neoliberal system: a case study of an English literature curriculum at a mega distance university5
Social class origin and income variations among degree holders: evidence from Italy5
The performance effects of international study placements versus work placements5
The potential of tutoring in higher education: students’ preferences, consumption, and the role of information5
Quality teaching and learning in a fully online large university class: a mixed methods study on students’ behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement5
Is higher education worth it?5
Higher education trajectories of migrants and the role of age of arrival: evidence from native and migrant students in Chile5
A study of interdisciplinarity in Chinese higher education research: a citation analysis5
The growth and threats of a globalised science5
How free tuition became a policy in Chile: the importance of policy actors and their beliefs5
The role of rankings in shaping the institutional enrollment of international students5
Navigating gender identity development: composite narratives of Chinese women international students studying in the U.S.5
Correction to: Keeping it regional: pseudo‑internationalisation of Slovak political science5
Pulling back the curtains: the realities and complexities of juggling parenthood and a career in academia5
Epistemic injustice and neo-racism: how Zhihu users portray ‘Chinese doctoral supervisors’ working in Western academia5
Overcoming stigma: how academic ghostwriting companies neutralize their services in Chinese and English markets5
The European Universities initiative: between status hierarchies and inclusion5
Care and academic work in a pandemic lockdown: a study of women academics in South Africa5
Did free tuition change the choices of students applying for university admission?5
“Writing for English-medium publication is a journey to nowhere — no route and no tools”: Russian academics’ perceptions of the existing publication support5
International students in higher education: the effect of student employment on academic performance and study progress5
UK Higher Education staff experiences of moral injury during the COVID-19 pandemic5
LGBT + academics’ and PhD students’ experiences of visibility in STEM: more than raising the rainbow flag5
Course design as a stronger predictor of student evaluation of quality and student engagement than teacher ratings5
To be or not to be a technical university: organisational categories as reference points in higher education5
The role of geopolitics of knowledge in the mediatization of global university rankings5
Measuring mentoring in employability-oriented higher education programs: scale development and validation5
Pathways to exploration in higher education: status and institutional logic in public and private higher education institutions5
Parental gender role attitudes and children’s college major choices in STEM5
Effects of career development learning on students’ perceived employability: a longitudinal study5
Reframing race and widening access into higher education5
University managers or institutional leaders? An exploration of top-level leadership in Chinese universities5
The educational purposes of higher education: changing discussions of the societal outcomes of educating students4
The European university alliances—an examination of organizational potentials and perils4
Migrant academics’ career capital experiences in Australian universities: a qualitative study4
Gareth Williams, 1935–2021: an obituary4
College integration and social class4
The (In)visibilisation of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in higher education equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in England and Wales4
Kaleidoscopic collegiality and the use of performance research metrics. The case of French universities4
International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges4
How to motivate student engagement in emergency online learning? Evidence from the COVID-19 situation4
Origins, motives, and challenges in Western–Chinese research collaborations amid recent geopolitical tensions: findings from Swedish–Chinese research collaborations4
Language inequalities and business school accreditation: voices from non-English-speaking countries4
Mass higher education and the slow road to freedom4
Towards decolonising higher education: a case study from a UK university4
Revisiting organizational actorhood in higher education: the role of legitimate agency4
Crisis and policy imaginaries: higher education reform during a pandemic4
Speaking truth to power: a conversation on Complaint! and Experiences of Power Abuse in Academia4
Yulong Li, Educational Change Amongst English Language College Teachers in China: Transitioning from Teaching for General to Academic Purposes, Springer Singapore, 20204
Multi-layered exclusion in premier higher education institutions of India4
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