OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Studies in Higher Education is 23. 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
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions	73
The entrepreneurial university concept as a narrative of change in HEIs	65
‘It’s like two Europes here, the West and the East’. Belonging and fitting in at an elite graduate school	61
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)	50
Struggling between emotionality and rationality: insights into research supervisors’ motives and strategies for regulating graduate students’ emotions	45
What motivates undergraduate students to read beyond their lecture notes?	41
Competing: an analytical framework and application in higher education	37
Industrial doctorates: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	35
Questions instead of majors: implementing a self-authored concentration program	35
Nuancing the roles of entrepreneurial universities in regional economic development	32
Sex differences in scientific productivity and impact are largely explained by the proportion of highly productive individuals: a whole-population study of researchers across six disciplines in Sweden	32
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?	31
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how	30
The critical-constructive potential of academic development: a case study	30
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges	30
Work-integrated learning in the humanities, arts and social sciences: where to from here?	29
Revisiting postliminal variation in threshold concepts: issues of unexpected transformation and legitimisation	28
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses	27
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands	26
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators	24
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data	24
When the university desires, but society refuses: a case study of universities’ missions in the context of contribution to development	24
Predicting dropout in Higher Education across borders	23
Predicting university dropout: connecting big data and structural models	23