Studies in Higher Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Studies in 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)80
How can scientists and designers find ways of working together? A case study of playful learning to co-design visual interpretations of immunology concepts77
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators76
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education63
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists57
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses52
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda51
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study48
(Un)divided work devotion? Navigating the ideal worker norm in academia45
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective41
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how40
Early dropout predictors in social sciences and management degree students36
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature35
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands35
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools34
Personal values matter: international students’ university selection34
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening33
Progressions in Learning in the Age of (Mis)Information (PLATO) – Advances in Higher Education Learning Research33
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan32
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress32
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty29
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty29
The Chinese idea of a university in flux: academic freedom and institutional autonomy under entrepreneurial reforms in the GBA28
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data27
The professional learning of academic researchers through their career26
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?25
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?25
Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability25
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions25
Undergraduates’ assessment enculturation in the neoliberal university: an anthropological study24
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach24
The university at the crossroads of three ecologies: natural environment, culture and economy23
Socially negotiating privacy boundaries and academic identities23
The impact of abusive supervision on the postgraduate students’ team creativity in higher education institutions23
Capacity and willingness in higher education accreditation: when incentives are not enough22
Delivering blended learning to transnational students: students’ perceptions and needs-satisfaction22
Internship in the impasse of the duality of theory and practice: representation, imitation, compatibility, and tension in the university-industry relationship22
Career capital and the MBA: how gender capital supports career capital development21
How supervisor Machiavellianism affects graduate student creativity: a mediated moderation model21
Gender and leadership in public higher education in South Asia: examining the individual, socio-cultural and organizational barriers to female inclusion21
An adaptive methodology for curriculum redesign based on performance indicators of the student progression20
Entrepreneurial universities and the effect of the types of vocational education and internships on graduates’ employability20
Implications of crib sheets for student well-being and exam performance: a mixed methods study20
COVID-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children19
Fostering social entrepreneurship in university students: the moderating role of entrepreneurial creativity19
Antecedents of undergraduate research skills and the mediating role of grit19
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue18
How social and emotional skills affect Chinese college student engagement in high-impact educational practices: a moderated mediation model18
When will scientists say yes? Antecedents, consequences and limitations of crowdfunding in research18
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings18
When a B becomes an A: causal evidence on the effects of a journal ranking update on academics’ publication behavior17
Identifying critical factors in higher education studies: combining necessary condition and importance-performance map analyses17
Diversity of undergraduates in STEM courses: individual and demographic differences in changes in self-efficacy, epistemic beliefs, and intrapersonal attribute profiles17
Administrative positions, research performance, and winning awards17
A within-person perspective for investigating transitional students’ academic learning and adjustment during the first university semester16
Can a work-readiness program mitigate unemployment scarring: the case of a co-operative education job market16
Subtypes of prescription stimulant misuse among students: a nuanced story16
Double transitions of Chinese students in the ‘2 + 2’ articulation program under the influence of field coupling and social capital15
UK University teachers on inclusive education: conceptualizations, practices, opportunities and challenges15
University entrepreneurship education and the emergence of radical and incremental innovation: a regional perspective14
A systematic review of students’ habitus in the higher education field: challenge and resilience14
Leveraging interorganizational networks to foster university-industry interactions14
Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes14
Career ambitions of women academics. Are women willing and able to rise to the top in higher education institutions?13
Practices of active learning in public universities in Ethiopia: student and faculty perceptions13
Barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining campus food insecurity initiatives13
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: an Australian study13
Managerialism, accreditation and insecure academic employment across different higher education traditions13
Developmental trajectories during doctoral study: identifying heterogeneity in psychosocial factor’s development13
Personal extenuating circumstances processes in higher education: are they helping or hindering?13
AI’s learning paradox: how business student’ engagement with AI amplifies moral disengagement-driven misconduct13
Substantive or symbolic? The international strategies of Czech universities12
How does it fear? Exploring the role of emotion and cognition in the entrepreneurship education-entrepreneurial intention link12
A quantitative exploration of management undergraduates’ readiness for diversity and inclusion in the university environment12
Managing the rules of recognition: how early career academics negotiate career scripts through identity work12
Demographic influences on students’ self-efficacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion: a quantitative study in higher education in Sri Lanka11
The research experience of postgraduate students: a mixed-methods study11
University spin-offs: the past, the present, and the future11
Research quality criteria in the Creative Arts11
Student loan debt and family formation of youth in Japan11
Unlocking the black box of HPWPs-performance relationship in Vietnamese higher education context: the case of Ho Chi Minh City’s universities11
Academically inbred presidents and university performance11
Social events, bridging courses, and academic skills trainings – participation in first-year courses and higher education dropout in Germany10
From defining to enacting interdisciplinary education: curriculum integration strategies among Hong Kong undergraduate interdisciplinary programmes10
Investigating the factors influencing academic staff attitudes toward the formation of a technological university10
Distributional properties of the statistic of online student evaluations the mean does not mean what you think it means10
A customer experience lens for higher education in India using journey mapping and experience quality10
Are accreditation signals being recognised? Business professionals’ awareness and views on accredited university business programmes10
‘Walking through fog’: social inequalities and the journey to postgraduate taught study in England10
Mastering knowledge: the impact of generative AI on student learning outcomes10
Sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education: investment decisions on human capital in the presence of youth unemployment10
‘Growing from an acorn to an oak tree’: a thematic analysis of international students’ cross-cultural adjustment in the United States10
Management scholars’ perception of barriers and bridges to use crowdsourcing in science: qualitative research10
Governments harnessing the power of data to get ‘value for money’: a simulation study of England’s Office for Students B3 Proceed Metric10
Participatory parity as a way forward for critical internationalisation studies10
The relationship between debt aversion and college enrollment by gender, race, and ethnicity: a propensity scoring approach9
Mediated performance in the feedback process: reinforcing improvement9
Predicting university dropout: connecting big data and structural models9
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data9
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges9
Students’ online information use and learning progress in higher education – A critical literature review9
A text-mining analysis of Latin America Universities’ mission statements from a ‘Third Mission’ perspective9
More than just consumers? Alternative representations of students when higher education becomes ‘free’9
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system9
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada9
The impact of teaching on third mission activities of higher education institutions: evidence from the UK9
Institutional confidence, underreporting and academic consequences of gender-based violence among university staff and students in Europe9
Measuring changes in critical thinking skills among university economics students: insights from domain-specific assessment9
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions9
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities9
Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study8
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education8
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education8
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities8
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy8
It is ambiguous, but I know what I am doing ’: undergraduates’ experiences and agency in an interdisciplinary programme8
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education8
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing8
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability8
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities8
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support8
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation8
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints8
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective8
The winner’s curse? Temporal and spatial impacts of higher education expansion on graduate employment and social mobility8
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity8
Beyond the surface: unraveling the relationships between conflict, psychological safety, team learning, and performance in student teams8
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?8
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach8
Academic return migration amidst North-to-South trend: an integrative inquiry into the case of Chinese international STEM researchers8
Faculty engagement in university-industry research partnerships: findings from a developing country8
Let the cat out of the bag: a critical incident analysis of teaching entrepreneurship competencies from the teachers’ perspective7
The production of gender-specific scholarly literature in Romania: the weak institutionalisation of Gender Studies in higher education7
Organizational culture and educational aspirations of tribal students in higher education7
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets7
Morphology of mergers and their impact on performance and accounting metrics in HEIs: evidence from a small European country7
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education7
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities7
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university7
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students’ learning process7
How do university faculty feel about grading? Insights from a control-value theory perspective7
On institutional belongingness and academic performance: mediating effects of social self-efficacy and metacognitive strategies7
Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education7
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions7
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark7
University education and entrepreneurial intentions of European students: insights into the Theory of Planned Behaviour complemented by skills7
Integrating traditional knowledge of non-Western humanities and social sciences: a research agenda through the Chinese lens7
Tracing topic evolution in higher education: a text mining study on Italian universities7
Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review7
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia7
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations7
Supervisors matter, but what about peers? The distinct contributions of quality supervision and peer support to doctoral students’ research experience6
Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities6
Multilevel research on factors impacting international branch campuses’ global integration and local responsiveness: an empirical investigation of two Canadian cases6
Does quality assurance matter for micro-credentials in higher education? Legitimacy, regulatory framework, and challenges in four Asian contexts6
Factors influencing student help-seeking behavior during crisis: a mixed-method analysis in higher education6
Perceived academic working conditions and career choices of Chinese PhD students6
Measuring the quality of patents among Latin-American universities6
Is merit-aid for all? The effects of aid-eligibility changes on college access in the United States6
Reimagining China–US university relations: a global ‘ecosystem’ perspective6
Positioning and repositioning in higher education: first year students engaging with the world6
Mapping the entrepreneurial university literature: a text mining approach6
Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary6
Generative AI: is it a paradigm shift for higher education?6
Manifestations of professional identity work: an integrative review of research in professional identity formation6
Australia’s international alumni engagement strategy: an approach from soft power to knowledge diplomacy6
How interdisciplinary is it? A new method for quantifying interdisciplinarity in student teams & examination of a large project-based program6
Global prescriptions and local adaptations: the role of political culture in shaping governance strategies for university funding6
How does assessment shape student identities? An integrative review6
Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review6
Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic6
Studying Chinese, studying in Chinese and studying with the Chinese: international students’ experiences and identity construction in Chinese-medium instruction (CMI) programs6
Understanding AIgiarism in higher education: the lens of general AI attitudes and moral disengagement6
The struggle for identity in doctoral supervision: a phenomenologically grounded qualitative study of power and conflict6
Different universities for different students: mapping the socioeconomic and academic segmentation of the Chilean university system6
Cyberbullying of professors: what measures are in place in universities and what solutions are proposed by victims?6
De-westernising competition: ‘Harmony of competition’ in Chinese higher education6
Time-as-affect in neoliberal academy: theorizing chronopolitics as affective milieus in higher education6
On a pedagogy of authentic care in postgraduate research supervision6
The post-study migration of EEA postgraduates: who is remaining to work in the UK?6
Validation of the revised scale of students’ attitudes towards research5
Student (dis)satisfaction in UK higher education: teaching-only contracts, esteem uncertainty and research intensity5
The implied peer: thesis writers’ feedback activities and experiences in group supervision5
Economic inclusion and ethnonational exclusion of Arabs in Israeli higher education: two tales of one policy5
Reports of practitioners’ use of public affairs faculty published research5
The conceptualisation of socially responsible universities in higher education research: a systematic literature review5
Assessing students’ critical thinking abilities via a systematic evaluation of essays5
Ask ChatGPT first! Transforming learning experiences in the age of artificial intelligence5
Evaluating the efficacy of embedding employability into a second-year undergraduate module5
Undergraduate students’ perceptions of learning from foreign-born faculty in American university settings5
Fragmentation of organizational identity in Saudi Universities: the impact of neoliberalism5
Inclusive internationalisation: do different (social) groups of students need different internationalisation activities?5
The reverse engagement gap: gender differences in external engagement among UK academics5
Conceptualization and application of a healthcare systems thinking model for an educational system5
The mediating role of self-regulatory emotions in the relationship between peer coaching and student learning in higher education5
Effects of academic dishonesty policy reminder on university students’ exam cheating – a double-blind randomized controlled experimental field study5
Precarity of post doctorate career breaks: does gender matter?5
Engagement in learning during times of crisis5
The digital public sphere, universities and intellectualising the public5
How does engaging in authentic research at undergraduate level contribute to student well-being?5
Value generation and economic impact of the University of Granada5
What does it mean to be a nursing student? Exploring the development of professional identities in higher education5
A tech-tonic shift: the complex dance of technology-enabled-learning and academic identity work in higher education5
An Elon Musk generalist or a specialist? The impacts of interdisciplinary learning on post-graduation outcomes5
Employment of academic faculty after reaching retirement age: an asset or a burden? – Ariel University as a case study5
College students’ self-regulation in asynchronous online courses during COVID-195
Teacher education students’ experiences navigating inherent requirements within their courses of study5
University-based social innovation and entrepreneurship education in Hong Kong: a curriculum analysis5
Careers and employability learning: pedagogical principles for higher education5
‘Decent work’ as a higher education policy myopia: an ecosystem framework for policy-making5
Doctoral studies as a precarious identity process: deviance and the rational ideal of the doctoral process5
Elite UK Business Schools: from cathedrals of learning to cathedrals of earning?4
Correction4
Investigating the interconnection between financial performance and eco-efficiency in British universities: a roadmap towards sustainable higher education4
Trust- and distrust-building mechanisms in academic spin-off relationships with a parent university4
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 Sweden4
Developing quality culture in higher education in Taiwan: the changes within quality assurance mechanisms4
Exploring the experiences of Muslim doctoral students in UK higher education: challenges, implications, and pathways to inclusivity4
Out of sight but not out of mind: on the North–South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus4
Exploring academics' societal engagement patterns amid knowledge-based competitions in East Asia: evidence from the APIKS survey4
Autonomy in decision-making and freshmen’s performance at university: evidence from Italy4
‘Transnational’ and ‘transcultural’: their divergence and convergence in international higher education*4
Cosmopolitan agency and meaningful intercultural interactions: an ecological and person-in-context conceptualisation4
Gender identity and access to higher education4
Wanting somewhere else: institutional and department support for foreign-born leadership educators4
Assessing entrepreneurial intentions through experiential learning, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial attitude4
The regional impact of spin-offs’ innovative activity: unveiling the effect of scientific knowledge and parent university’s specialization4
Stakeholder-centered development of new curriculum content in higher education: a case study in creating a course on the green and digital transformation of SMEs4
The intergenerational climate of Spanish university research4
Interest–Major Fit predicts study satisfaction and/or achievement? Comparing different ways of assessment4
Field of study and the subjective labour market outcomes of UK graduates: examining meaningful work, career progression, and skills utilisation4
University teachers’ self-reported emotions and electrodermal activity during teaching-related working events4
Research independence: drivers and impact on PhD students’ careers4
‘Your U-Well-Being Journal is due today’: on some possible intersections between surveillance and student wellbeing in the future university4
‘It’s like two Europes here, the West and the East’. Belonging and fitting in at an elite graduate school4
Personal Academic Tutors and student continuation: the importance of establishing relationships4
A call for innovation culture in Polish academics’ vision of an ideal-type university4
Reference universe and competition in higher education: Israeli higher education organizations constituting excellence4
Does gradeless learning affect students’ academic performance? A study of effects over time4
A Bourdieusian exploration of international students’ WeChatting experiences in China: a habitus of digital learning4
Struggling between emotionality and rationality: insights into research supervisors’ motives and strategies for regulating graduate students’ emotions4
Predictors of emotional engagement in doctoral education4
Studying the gender gap in academic research production among Canadian university professors using the multilevel approach to gender inequalities framework4
How academics at an Italian University respond to the sustainability challenge: a quantitative study of the research-teaching nexus4
Academic library expenditures and graduation rates: evidence from four-year colleges and universities in the US4
Get the balance right: lessons from UK higher education in managing environmental and economic performance4
Graduate socialization and anxiety: insights via hierarchical regression analysis and beyond4
First impressions matter: the effects of third-party reports, experience, and qualifications on students’ expectancies of a lecturer’s competency4
Instructor use of academic alerts and its impact on student outcomes: controlling for selection bias4
Correction4
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