OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Education and Training 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.)

Article	Citations
Perceived employability among master’s students in Hong Kong	79
Student perceptions of Living Lab research internships in the COVID-19 pandemic – a Dutch case study	56
Understanding the motivational predictors of students’ persistence in work placement learning tasks	50
From “chosen ones” to “leftovers”: a historical analysis of China's vocational education and training system, 1949–2023	46
Guest editorial	36
Enhancing the professional identity of master’s students: “knowing why,” “knowing how” and “knowing whom”	32
Understanding undergraduates' work values as a tool to reduce organizational turnover	30
Guest editorial: Technology infused education, preparing graduates for a digital employment market	29
Business students' perspectives on case method coaching for problem-based learning: impacts on student engagement and learning performance in higher education	28
Career planning and workforce preparation during economic downturn: perceptions of graduating business students	24
Together we can: enhancing key 21st-century skills with international virtual exchange	24
Strengthening precarity? A critical analysis of education and training programmes in the UK (Scotland)	23
The entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education: what can we learn from S-O-R models?	22
Preparing students for the future workplace: how online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic hone required transferable skills	22
Bridging the gap between reflective learning and reflective practice through anticipatory reflection	21
Changing the perception of core competency using student journey – tracking research on the core competencies of EECS students in technological universities	20
Gamification to enhance engagement and higher order learning in entrepreneurial education	20
Agile methodologies in times of pandemic: acquisition of employment skills in higher education	20
Enhancing digital literacy in education: educational directions	20
Does extending the internship period in vocational schools of higher education lead to better employment results?: the case of Turkey	18
Guest editorial: Teacher recruitment and retention challenges in the further education and skills sector: lessons and solutions from international perspectives	18
Triggering events in the decision to be an entrepreneur: an analysis of their influence on higher education graduates	15
Business students' psychological capital and quality of university life: the moderating role of study crafting	15
Gender, risk-taking and entrepreneurial intentions: assessing the impact of higher education longitudinally	15
Exploring the role of mobile game-based apps towards a smart learning city environment – the innovation of EduCITY	15

Teaching marketing to non-marketing majors: tools to enhance their engagement and academic performance	15
Coaching to prepare students for their school-to-work transition: conceptualizing core coaching competences	14
A deeper understanding of student preferences for in-class video use: a segmentation analyses of needs, group differences and preference clusters	14
Towards competence-oriented higher education: a systematic literature review of the different perspectives on successful exit profiles	14
Does renaming improve public attitudes toward vocational education and training in higher education? Evidence from a survey experiment	14
The interrelationships between emotional intelligence, achievement motivation and students’ employability: exploring the mediating effect of self-efficacy	13
The role of individual factors in perceived sustainable employability: an application in higher education	13
Enhancing the effects of creativity training for business school students through art-based methods and blended learning	13
All good things come in threes – required skill sets in the graduate labour market in Germany	12
Mobile game-based learning in cultural heritage education: a bibliometric analysis	12
Building employability in PASS leaders through peer-assisted study sessions (PASS) programs	11
The impact of company size on dual VET quality in Spanish companies	11
A disruptive model for delivering higher education programs within the context of entrepreneurship education	11
CompEntre 4.0: developing and validating a competency model for Industry 4.0 startups	11
Designing successful internships: exploring the role of duration, formalization and motivational practices	10
Entrepreneurship education and training in Indian higher education institutions: a suggested framework	10
The effect of entrepreneurial education on career choice intentions of college students: a social cognitive career theory approach	10
The effect of entrepreneurship education on graduate students' entrepreneurial alertness and the mediating role of entrepreneurial mindset	10
Factors influencing entrepreneurial intentions the most for university students in Vietnam: educational support, personality traits or TPB components?	10
LinkedIn as a pedagogical tool for careers and employability learning: a scoping review of the literature	10
Music major students' perception toward Chinese higher education curriculum in employability preparation	10
The early bird catches the flywheel: pedagogical components of entrepreneurship education in American higher education institutions	10
Girls in the combined cadet force: a qualitative exploration of the impact of their experiences on their graduate employability skills	9
Does fit matter? The impact of person-environment fit and internship quality on professional competence of TVET students: evidence from a large-scale competence assessment in China	9
Non-linear feature analysis of public emotion evolution for online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on architectural education: a case study of Jordanian Universities	9
To assess or not to assess an entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and training? Results from a case study of Italy	9
The influence of internship on student’s academic performance in industrial and management engineering program in Italy	9
Utilizing the push–pull–mooring framework to explore university teachers' intention to switch from traditional classrooms to smart classrooms in China	8
The effect of role model teachers on students' entrepreneurial competencies and intentions	8
A qualitative analysis of student reflections on public health internships	8
Motivating university management students on studying research methods: influence of career applicability, and emotional and cognitive interests	8
Editorial: international enterprise and entrepreneurship education	8
My future entrepreneurial self: antecedents of entrepreneurial identity aspiration	8
Validation of measurement scales for undergraduate students' self-perceived employability and university commitment in the United Arab Emirates	8
Does studying abroad matter? The case of entrepreneurial intention	7
Challenges of remote working, perceived peer support, mental health and well-being of WIL students	7
Predicting students' soft skills: the role of psychological capital, psychological well-being and grade levels	7
Is there a gender difference in STEM students' perceived employability?	7
Education and training for industry 4.0: a case study of a manufacturing ecosystem	7
Attitudes and intentions towards the adoption of mobile learning during COVID-19: building an exciting career through vocational education	6
How do vocational students evaluate vocational education internships – an evaluation scale development in China	6
“Still haven't found what I am looking for”: rural black students' perceived work readiness and assessment of labor market access	6
Extracurricular internships and university students’ evaluation of higher learning: a cross-cultural adaptation perspective	6
An examination of comparative perspectives on international internships	6
Examining the employability benefits of international case competitions	6
The role of work-integrated learning in preparing students for a corporate entrepreneurial career	6
The impact of digital technology training on developing academics’ digital competence in higher education context	6
Re-envisioning vocational education: critical discourse analysis of a government publicity campaign in Hong Kong	6
The built environment craftmanship in higher education institutions: issues and prospects from stakeholders' perception	6

Virtual internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring IT students satisfaction	6
Exploration of employability perceptions with blended multi-criteria decision-making methods	5
Exploring the impact of family, school and society on the perception and reputation of vocational training in Pakistan:a statistical analysis	5
Examining perceptions of the tripartite relationship in higher degree apprenticeship programmes	5
Employer perspectives on workforce integration of self-initiated expatriates in Canada	5
How to develop higher education curricula towards employability? A multi-stakeholder approach	5
Education as a key to provide the growth of entrepreneurial intentions	5
Will university internship secure you a job?: interplaying factors from an emerging market perspective	5
What employers really want: a deep dive into résumés and holistic competencies	4
Professional skills development: foundational curriculum skills and competencies of UK construction management programmes	4
Developing entrepreneurial competencies through deliberate practice	4
Guest editorial “role of training for labour market integration”	4
Utilizing mobile-learning and CAP(E) lesson framework in improving the productive skills of learners in a hybrid environment	4
Does gender balance in entrepreneurship education make a difference to prospective start-up behaviour?	4
Construction and validation of the employability questionnaire for accounting graduates	4
Determinants of adoption and usage of the online examination portal (OEP) in Indian universities	4
A dynamic capability view of career adaptation: an exploratory study	4
“I will learn from my mistakes if we are close and supportive”: a moderated-mediating model of learning from mistakes	4
Thresholds for dis/trust: exploring the impact of standards-based reforms on the process of being and becoming a VET teacher in England and Austria	3
The impact of international internships on Japanese undergraduates’ English achievement: perspectives on cultural capital theory	3
International students' employability: a language socialization perspective	3
Entrepreneurial identity as a career compass – An exploration of the career narratives of entrepreneurial education graduates	3
Perceptions on the use of mixed reality in mobile environments in secondary education	3
Exploring employable profiles of elite student athletes through fsQCA: unleashing the power of their soft skills	3
Individual entrepreneurial orientation: comparison of business and STEM students	3
Industrial attachment and human capital of higher education students: constraints of Ghanaian technical universities	3
A critique of race-neutrality discourse among internship benefits: a critical discourse analysis	3
Students’ first professional placement: unravelling expectations and realities	3
Innovation and sustainability from the perspective of entrepreneurial intention: a cross-cultural approach	3
Examining teamwork competencies and team performance in experiential entrepreneurship education: emergent intragroup conflict as a learning triggering event	2
Do different types of vocational education and training programmes influence earnings? Recent evidence from India	2
The impact of cyber entrepreneurship education on Chinese college students’ self-efficacy and intention in cyber entrepreneurship	2
A systematic review of measures of employability	2
Evaluating the impact of social enterprise education on students' enterprising characteristics in the United Arab Emirates	2
Enterprise education: pre-service further education teachers' impressions and aspirations	2
Tech-ready teachers for Agriculture 4.0: a teacher–industry partnership case study	2
Narrative-based learning using mobile devices	2
Being a college student leader boosts career prospects: a panel survey in China	2
Attractiveness of technical vocational education and training among Ghanaian youth – any sign of hope?	2
How equity practices within universities facilitate women graduates' employability	2
VET ecosystems and labour market integration of at-risk youth in the Baltic countries: implications of Baltic neoliberalism	2
Mentoring students in higher education for reflection and development of employability competences: a pre-test post-test design	2
Artificial intelligence in entrepreneurship education: a scoping review	2
Multilevel comprehension for labor market inclusion: a qualitative study on experts' perspectives on Industry 4.0 competences	2
University students' perceptions of graduate employer selection tests	2
Supporting students' employability through structured, event-based engagement with employers	2
Policy, practice and skill development: a study of Kazakhstan’s higher education landscape	2
Application of simulation and virtual reality to production learning	2
Stories of employability: improving interview narratives with image-supported past-behaviour storytelling training	2
Breaking the silence: career guidance for self-initiated international placement students	2
Influence of role models on the entrepreneurial skills of science and technology undergraduates	2
Beyond the academic curriculum: embedding a career management program to improve the employability of business students	2
Improving graduateness: addressing the gap between employer needs and graduate employability in Palestine	2
Employability tautological trauma	2
Three decades of interventions for the unemployed – review of practices between 1990 and 2020 and their effects on (re) employment competencies	2
Artificial intelligence for education and its emphasis on assessment and adversity quotient: a review	2
Perceived personal benefits from study as determinants of student satisfaction in Australian vocational education and training	2
The development and validation of the student's employability competences questionnaire (SECQ)	2
Enterprise education in undergraduate business programmes advances students' negotiating competence and self-confidence	2
Perceptions of non-formal education by gender, level of education and field of study	2