OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“Architects of Change or Its Victim”: University Presidents’ Perspectives on the Role of Competing Values During the COVID-19 Crisis	28
Are Primary Funding Sources and Debt Level Associated with Career Outcomes Among Recent STEM Doctoral Graduates?	21
“It Wasn’t What I Expected”: Students’ Perspectives and Experiences on a Higher Education Merger	20
It’s Just Too Much: Narratives of International Educators Navigating COVID-19	20
Racialized Exclusion of Faculty Couples of Color at Predominantly White Institutions	19
How Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) Initiatives Respond to Institutional Racism	18
Time Poverty: A Hidden Factor Connecting Online Enrollment and College Outcomes?	17
Seeking Tenure While Black: Lawsuit Composite Counterstories of Black Professors at Historically White Institutions	17
Stated Value, Renewed Commitment? Community and Technical Colleges’ Response to Racial (In)equities During COVID-19	17
Building Capacity for Collective Possibilities: Reimagining Research Teams in Higher Education	16
Spillover Effects: A Comparison of Course and Institutional Outcomes for Traditional and Intensive Introductory Biology	15
Editor’s Comment	14
Intersectional Dynamics and Academic Advancement in the United States	14
Institutional Racial Representation and Equity Gaps in College Graduation	14
“I Don’t Think the System Will Ever be the Same”: Distance Education Leaders’ Predictions and Recommendations for the Use of Online Learning in Community Colleges Post-COVID	13
The Far Reach of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan: Consideration of Professional School Degrees	13
How STEM Undergraduates Choose, Navigate, and Integrate Interdisciplinarity in College and Beyond	13
Quantity and Quality: Equity Considerations for the Funding of Categorical Programs in Community Colleges	12
Expanding Faculty Members’ Zone of Proximal Development to Enact Collective Agency for Racial Equity in Faculty Hiring	12
Breaking Stereotypes About Alumni Donors: Who Gives First? A Discrete-Time Hazard Model	10
Did Emergency Remote Teaching and the COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbate Inequities? Considering Institution Type, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity	10
The Value of Work Flexibility: Staff Perceptions in Higher Education	9
The Disruption in U.S. Public Higher Education Enrollments, 2009–2019: Sources of Inter-State Variation by Tier	9
Moscas en La Leche: A Critical Evaluation of Hispanic-Serving Institution Campus Spaces Through Photovoice Methodology	9
Whose Last Dollar? Estimating the Effects of Promise Programs on Financial Aid Awards	9

Call for Nominations/Applications for Editorship of the Journal of Higher Education	8
Where Do I Go from Here? Examining the Transition of Undocumented Students Graduating from College	8
The Community College Transfer and Articulation Network	8
Institutionalizing Success: Practices and Policies at HBCUs that Promote Student Development and Degree Attainment	8
Post-Baccalaureate Federal Loans De-Subsidization: Impacts on Compositional Attributes, Extensive and Intensive Borrowing Margins, and Anticipatory Effects	7
“I Am Overworked and I’m Not Taking Care of Myself”: The Experiences of Black Men in Doctoral Programs Navigating Racial Battle Fatigue	7
Committing to Racial Justice as a White Woman in STEM: Using Constructivist Grounded Theory to Explore White Activism	7
The Costs of Time: Examining the Extent of the Credit Loss Penalty in College Transfer	7
“Don’t Let it Get in the Way of Work”: Black Women Academics’ Navigation of Romantic Relationships	7
Rising Tides Don’t Create Racialized Change: Analyzing Institutional Change Projects in Postsecondary Philanthropy’s College Completion Agenda	6
In the Seventh Year You Will Not Rest: Faculty Members’ Sensemaking of Productivity During the Sabbatical	6
Organizational Trust, Working Parents in Student Affairs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
“I Have to Be Very Intentional About How I Communicate:” Black Women Administrators’ Identity Navigation in Predominantly White Institutions	6
“People That Look Like Me Commit Crime”: Racial Beliefs Among Campus Police Officers	6
The View from the Top: The Relationship Between Parental Education and Graduate Enrollment	6
Gender Equity and Due Process in Campus Sexual Assault Adjudication Procedures	6
A Narrative Inquiry Study Examining Gender and Sexuality Center Professionals’ Engagement with Anti-Racism	6
Exploring How Faculty Apply Professional Legitimacy When Advising Students About Graduate Education	6
To Give or to Take: Exploring Effects of Reductions in Pell Lifetime Eligibility	5
Preparing for the STEM Pathways? Dual Enrollment and College Major Choice in STEM	5
Advancing Presidential Careers: Operationalizing Sponsorship in Higher Education	5
Reaffirming the Public Purposes of Higher Education: First-Generation and Continuing Generation Students’ Perspectives	5
Correction	5
From “Cliques” to “Common Ground”: Social Class, Layered Belonging, and Characteristics of Symbolic Boundaries in the Transition From Public High Schools to a Public University	5
Examining the Influence of Texas’ Strategic Plan for Increasing University Research: Loose Coupling and Research Production at Regional Public Universities	5
Toward Opportunity-Centered Institutional Logics: Evidence from Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Science Equity Efforts	5
The Enrollment of Racially Minoritized Students in Law School: Factors Predicting Within-School Changes Over Time	5
College Student Sex Work: A Qualitative Content Analysis of U.S. Higher Education Sex Work Policies	5
Financial Aid as Whiteness as Property: Implications for Research and Practice	4
How Black Engineering and Computing Faculty Exercise an Equity Ethic to Racially Fortify and Enrich Black Students	4
International for Processing Purposes: A Critical Examination of DACA Recipients’ Post-Secondary Admissions in Ohio	4
Seeking STEM: The Causal Impact of Need-Based Grant Aid on Undergraduates’ Field of Study	4
Incentivizing Equity? The Effects of Performance-Based Funding on Race-Based Gaps in College Completion	4
Organizing Shared Approaches to Equity Work	4
Balancing Access and Success: Admissions Officers’ Sensemaking of Test-Optional Policies at Less-Selective Public Institutions	4
Occupational Factors and Faculty Well-Being: Investigating the Mediating Role of Need Frustration	4
Advancing a Framework of Racialized Administrative Burdens in Higher Education Policy	4
You Don’t Get to Say What I Believe, I Do: Provocative Encounters as Catalysts for Self-Authored Worldview Commitments During College	4
When Expectation Isn’t Reality: Racial Disparities in Overestimation and STEM Attrition Among First-Year Students in College	3
Horizontal and Vertical Racial Segregation in Higher Education: Examining Trends in California Public Colleges	3
Editor’s Note	3
Advancing the Institution and the Individual: Women’s Enactment of Equity-Minded Leadership in Colleges and Universities	3
“The Least I Could Do is Get That Four-Year Degree That They Sacrificed so Much for” Undocumented Latina/o Families and the College Navigation Process	3
Cultural Capital and Opportunities for Exceptionalism: Bias in University Admissions	3
Recruitment Redlining by Public Research Universities in the Los Angeles and Dallas Metropolitan Areas	3
Unpacking Student-Facing Rationales for University Required Diversity Coursework	3
A Critical Discourse Analysis of University Responses to the Shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue	3
Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Psychological Well-Being and Distress Across the College Years	3
Latina Faculty at a Catholic Hispanic-Serving Institution: Critical Counter-Stories About Racialized & Gendered Experiences and Servingness	3
Using Punctuated Equilibrium to Understand Patterns of Institutional Budget Change in Higher Education	3

From Comprehensive Services to No Support at All: How Institutional Agents Shape Student-Mothers’ Academic Success	3
Designing Effective Internships: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Sociocultural Aspects of Intern Satisfaction and Development	3
Affirmations of Black Being: Explicating the Potentialities of Self-Love in Higher Education	3
Investing in the Workforce: The Impact of Performance-Based Funding on Student Earnings Outcomes	2
Who are the “Scholars” in “Scholarship?”: How Higher Education Researchers Represent Positionality in Their Studies	2
Does Tuition-Setting Authority Determine Whether Tuition Increases at Community Colleges with New Promise Programs?	2
Leveraging Power: A Multiple Embedded Case Study of Institutional Change Efforts for Racial Equity at Four Private Universities	2
How Southeast Asian Students Develop Their Science Self-Efficacy During the First Year of College	2
How Has the Post-9/11 GI Bill Affected Veteran Students’ College Loans? A Longitudinal Analysis of NPSAS Using Propensity Score Weighting	2
Reconstructing PhD Admissions Through Organizational Learning	2
Retaining College Students Experiencing Shocks: The Power of Embeddedness and Normative Pressures	2
Changing Undergraduate Funding Mix and Graduate Degree Attainment	2
The Push for Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions: Highlighting the Perspectives of Student Activists	2
A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Understanding Study Abroad’s Impact on Academic Success Among Community College Students	2
The Outcomes of the American Renaissance Student	2
At an Epistemological Crossroads: International Students’ Experiences with a Decolonizing Campus Tour	2
Autonomy and Privilege in Doctoral Education: An Analysis of STEM Students’ Academic and Professional Trajectories	2
The Privilege of Choice: How Prospective College Students’ Financial Concerns Influence Their Choice of Higher Education Institution and Subject of Study in England	2
Carrying the Weight of Campus Change: The Role of Student Equity Leaders in Community College	2
Reframing Higher Education for Refugees: Pathways, Policies, and Community Cultural Wealth	2
Black Queer Men Transgressing Masculine Normativity	2
Electoral Accountability for Rising Tuition in the US: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Observational Data	2
Faculty Hiring: Exercising Professional Jurisdiction Over Epistemic Matters	2