OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Education and Training is 9. 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
All good things come in threes – required skill sets in the graduate labour market in Germany	83
Understanding the motivational predictors of students’ persistence in work placement learning tasks	60
Mobile game-based learning in cultural heritage education: a bibliometric analysis	53
Enhancing the effects of creativity training for business school students through art-based methods and blended learning	49
Does renaming improve public attitudes toward vocational education and training in higher education? Evidence from a survey experiment	44
Am I wasting my time? The influence of course unemployment in academic dropout	36
A disruptive model for delivering higher education programs within the context of entrepreneurship education	35
Editorial: international enterprise and entrepreneurship education	30
Virtual internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring IT students satisfaction	25
Girls in the combined cadet force: a qualitative exploration of the impact of their experiences on their graduate employability skills	25
The effect of role model teachers on students' entrepreneurial competencies and intentions	24
“Still haven't found what I am looking for”: rural black students' perceived work readiness and assessment of labor market access	23
Education and training for industry 4.0: a case study of a manufacturing ecosystem	23
Predicting students' soft skills: the role of psychological capital, psychological well-being and grade levels	22
Employability tautological trauma	22
Validation of measurement scales for undergraduate students' self-perceived employability and university commitment in the United Arab Emirates	22
Three decades of interventions for the unemployed – review of practices between 1990 and 2020 and their effects on (re) employment competencies	22
How to develop higher education curricula towards employability? A multi-stakeholder approach	22
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	21
Individual entrepreneurial orientation: comparison of business and STEM students	21
Multilevel comprehension for labor market inclusion: a qualitative study on experts' perspectives on Industry 4.0 competences	21
Utilizing mobile-learning and CAP(E) lesson framework in improving the productive skills of learners in a hybrid environment	20
Developing entrepreneurial competencies through deliberate practice	20
Narrative-based learning using mobile devices	19
The HEXACO, academic motivation and learning approaches: evidence from a central Asian country	17

Influence of role models on the entrepreneurial skills of science and technology undergraduates	17
Who will teach that class? Perspectives on teacher shortages from English and Australian vocational education and training sectors	17
Blended learning in entrepreneurship education: a systematic literature review	16
Continuing to choose the hospitality industry after graduation: the role of mentorship and internship satisfaction	16
Differences in self-perceived employability between university and VET students: an analysis of emerging adults in Spain	16
Variety of entrepreneurial skills measured in the entrepreneurship education literature	16
Mentoring students in higher education for reflection and development of employability competences: a pre-test post-test design	16
The expectations of employability skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the communication and media industry in Malaysia	16
Digital entrepreneurship intention and digital entrepreneurship behavior: the mediating role of managing learning and entrepreneurship education	16
Assessing graduates' transversal competences through an adapted MMI model: confidant interview vs stress interview	15
Perceived artificial intelligence literacy and employability of university students	15
STEM education in England: questioning the “leaky pipeline” metaphor	15
Retention of newcomers and factors influencing turnover intentions and behaviour: a review of the literature	15
The question of where: entrepreneurship education beyond curricular practices	14
Building Heroes: building bridges to support the transition from military to civilian employment in the construction industry	13
What makes better career opportunities for young graduates? Examining acquired employability skills in higher education institutions	13
Relationship between the informal social networks and entrepreneurial intentions of Chinese college students: the mediating role of entrepreneurial learning	13
Linkages between entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurship education: new evidence on the gender imbalance	13
Gendered personality traits and entrepreneurial intentions: insights from information technology education	12
Vulnerable workers and the demise of adult education in England	12
Analysing student satisfaction with teaching strategies in vocational education	12
The potential of virtual internships for management education: capturing student journey through experiential learning	12
All the lonely people, where do they all come from: age moderating the mediation effect of loneliness among Portuguese students	12
Unleashing entrepreneurial potential: venture creation and self-directed experiential learning on social media amongst secondary school-aged business owners	12
Systematic mapping: educational and social entrepreneurship innovations (2015–2020)	11
Built environment professionals’ perspective on digital technology skills	11
The importance of work experience as opposed to education on the opinion of waste management professionals in Tehran	11
TVET is under-resourced and held in low regard? Teachers’ perceptions of TVET in Bangladesh	11
Leading towards the students’ career development and career intentions through using multidimensional soft skills in the digital age	11
Guest editorial: Technology infused education, preparing graduates for a digital employment market	10
Experiential Entrepreneurship Education and the student-focused Entrepreneurial University	10
CompEntre 4.0: developing and validating a competency model for Industry 4.0 startups	10
Understanding undergraduates' work values as a tool to reduce organizational turnover	10
Student perceptions of Living Lab research internships in the COVID-19 pandemic – a Dutch case study	10
The effect of entrepreneurship education on graduate students' entrepreneurial alertness and the mediating role of entrepreneurial mindset	9
Situating imposter syndrome in the experience of becoming and being an entrepreneurship educator	9
Motivating university management students on studying research methods: influence of career applicability, and emotional and cognitive interests	9
The built environment craftmanship in higher education institutions: issues and prospects from stakeholders' perception	9
Education as a key to provide the growth of entrepreneurial intentions	9
Employer perspectives on workforce integration of self-initiated expatriates in Canada	9
Aligning institutional resource commitment with strategic pedagogical development to create online distance learning provision in UK HEIs	9