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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)122
(Un)divided work devotion? Navigating the ideal worker norm in academia92
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators88
How can scientists and designers find ways of working together? A case study of playful learning to co-design visual interpretations of immunology concepts84
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective74
Can a minimalistic tip sheet with a motivational focus foster high-quality, motivating peer-feedback? Results of two field experiments62
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists57
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands54
Marketisation meets welfare state ideology: tensions for Finnish higher education marketing and international student recruitment48
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses47
Early dropout predictors in social sciences and management degree students47
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how46
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda45
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature43
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study43
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education41
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools40
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty40
The professional learning of academic researchers through their career38
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening38
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions38
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty36
Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability35
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?33
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach32
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress30
Theorizing clock time-as-affect in the decolonization of higher education29
Understanding the experiences of neurodivergent research students: a mixed methods systematic review28
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data28
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?27
Personal values matter: international students’ university selection26
The Chinese idea of a university in flux: academic freedom and institutional autonomy under entrepreneurial reforms in the GBA26
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan26
Socially negotiating privacy boundaries and academic identities25
Internship in the impasse of the duality of theory and practice: representation, imitation, compatibility, and tension in the university-industry relationship25
Administrative positions, research performance, and winning awards25
Career capital and the MBA: how gender capital supports career capital development25
Entrepreneurial universities and the effect of the types of vocational education and internships on graduates’ employability24
How supervisor Machiavellianism affects graduate student creativity: a mediated moderation model24
When will scientists say yes? Antecedents, consequences and limitations of crowdfunding in research23
An adaptive methodology for curriculum redesign based on performance indicators of the student progression23
The impact of abusive supervision on the postgraduate students’ team creativity in higher education institutions23
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings23
How do deans of humanities understand and enact societal engagement within their broader experiences of leading? A Danish case study22
Implications of crib sheets for student well-being and exam performance: a mixed methods study22
Antecedents of undergraduate research skills and the mediating role of grit21
Capacity and willingness in higher education accreditation: when incentives are not enough20
Fostering social entrepreneurship in university students: the moderating role of entrepreneurial creativity20
Gender and leadership in public higher education in South Asia: examining the individual, socio-cultural and organizational barriers to female inclusion20
Undergraduates’ assessment enculturation in the neoliberal university: an anthropological study20
How social and emotional skills affect Chinese college student engagement in high-impact educational practices: a moderated mediation model20
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue19
COVID-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children19
The university at the crossroads of three ecologies: natural environment, culture and economy19
Diversity of undergraduates in STEM courses: individual and demographic differences in changes in self-efficacy, epistemic beliefs, and intrapersonal attribute profiles18
When a B becomes an A: causal evidence on the effects of a journal ranking update on academics’ publication behavior18
Subtypes of prescription stimulant misuse among students: a nuanced story18
Double transitions of Chinese students in the ‘2 + 2’ articulation program under the influence of field coupling and social capital17
A within-person perspective for investigating transitional students’ academic learning and adjustment during the first university semester17
Developmental trajectories during doctoral study: identifying heterogeneity in psychosocial factor’s development17
UK University teachers on inclusive education: conceptualizations, practices, opportunities and challenges17
Leveraging interorganizational networks to foster university-industry interactions16
Can a work-readiness program mitigate unemployment scarring: the case of a co-operative education job market16
Practices of active learning in public universities in Ethiopia: student and faculty perceptions16
Personal extenuating circumstances processes in higher education: are they helping or hindering?16
University entrepreneurship education and the emergence of radical and incremental innovation: a regional perspective16
Identifying critical factors in higher education studies: combining necessary condition and importance-performance map analyses16
Career ambitions of women academics. Are women willing and able to rise to the top in higher education institutions?15
AI’s learning paradox: how business students’ engagement with AI amplifies moral disengagement-driven misconduct15
How does it fear? Exploring the role of emotion and cognition in the entrepreneurship education-entrepreneurial intention link14
Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes14
Unlocking the black box of HPWPs-performance relationship in Vietnamese higher education context: the case of Ho Chi Minh City’s universities14
A systematic review of students’ habitus in the higher education field: challenge and resilience14
Barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining campus food insecurity initiatives14
Spatial–temporal heterogeneity and driving factors of resource allocation efficiency in regular higher education in China14
Managerialism, accreditation and insecure academic employment across different higher education traditions14
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: an Australian study14
Are accreditation signals being recognised? Business professionals’ awareness and views on accredited university business programmes13
‘Walking through fog’: social inequalities and the journey to postgraduate taught study in England13
Substantive or symbolic? The international strategies of Czech universities13
Student loan debt and family formation of youth in Japan13
Governments harnessing the power of data to get ‘value for money’: a simulation study of England’s Office for Students B3 Proceed Metric13
Research quality criteria in the Creative Arts13
Management scholars’ perception of barriers and bridges to use crowdsourcing in science: qualitative research13
A quantitative exploration of management undergraduates’ readiness for diversity and inclusion in the university environment13
Academically inbred presidents and university performance12
Mastering knowledge: the impact of generative AI on student learning outcomes12
Managing the rules of recognition: how early career academics negotiate career scripts through identity work12
More than just consumers? Alternative representations of students when higher education becomes ‘free’12
How do cognitive and social factors shape learning? Unpacking the roles of procrastination, social disengagement, academic burden and prior knowledge12
Navigating complexity: academics’ agency in establishing social innovation and entrepreneurship education at universities12
Demographic influences on students’ self-efficacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion: a quantitative study in higher education in Sri Lanka12
From defining to enacting interdisciplinary education: curriculum integration strategies among Hong Kong undergraduate interdisciplinary programmes12
University spin-offs: the past, the present, and the future12
The research experience of postgraduate students: a mixed-methods study12
Investigating the factors influencing academic staff attitudes toward the formation of a technological university12
A text-mining analysis of Latin America Universities’ mission statements from a ‘Third Mission’ perspective11
Sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education: investment decisions on human capital in the presence of youth unemployment11
Social events, bridging courses, and academic skills trainings – participation in first-year courses and higher education dropout in Germany11
The impact of teaching on third mission activities of higher education institutions: evidence from the UK11
A customer experience lens for higher education in India using journey mapping and experience quality11
‘Growing from an acorn to an oak tree’: a thematic analysis of international students’ cross-cultural adjustment in the United States11
Distributional properties of the statistic of online student evaluations the mean does not mean what you think it means11
Participatory parity as a way forward for critical internationalisation studies11
Measuring changes in critical thinking skills among university economics students: insights from domain-specific assessment11
Mediated performance in the feedback process: reinforcing improvement11
Competing for research grants: institutional resource inequality and early-career academics’ research agenda setting11
Institutional confidence, underreporting and academic consequences of gender-based violence among university staff and students in Europe11
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation11
Predicting university dropout: connecting big data and structural models10
When engaging students as partners fails: the ease of maintaining the status quo10
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data10
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education10
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges10
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support10
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities10
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy10
Navigating paradoxes of responsible management education (RME): insights from the Global South10
Beyond the surface: unraveling the relationships between conflict, psychological safety, team learning, and performance in student teams10
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities10
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?10
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education9
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education9
Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study9
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity9
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints9
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system9
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach9
Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education9
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia9
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions9
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada9
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education9
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities9
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective9
The winner’s curse? Temporal and spatial impacts of higher education expansion on graduate employment and social mobility9
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations9
It is ambiguous, but I know what I am doing ’: undergraduates’ experiences and agency in an interdisciplinary programme9
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability9
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities9
Let the cat out of the bag: a critical incident analysis of teaching entrepreneurship competencies from the teachers’ perspective9
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing9
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions8
Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review8
The production of gender-specific scholarly literature in Romania: the weak institutionalisation of Gender Studies in higher education8
How do university faculty feel about grading? Insights from a control-value theory perspective8
Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities8
Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review8
Tracing topic evolution in higher education: a text mining study on Italian universities8
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university8
Morphology of mergers and their impact on performance and accounting metrics in HEIs: evidence from a small European country8
University-industry collaboration for academic success and employability: a connectivist perspective8
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets8
On institutional belongingness and academic performance: mediating effects of social self-efficacy and metacognitive strategies8
Mapping the entrepreneurial university literature: a text mining 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
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark8
Organizational culture and educational aspirations of tribal students in higher education8
Positioning and repositioning in higher education: first year students engaging with the world8
Supervisors matter, but what about peers? The distinct contributions of quality supervision and peer support to doctoral students’ research experience8
University education and entrepreneurial intentions of European students: insights into the Theory of Planned Behaviour complemented by skills7
De-westernising competition: ‘Harmony of competition’ in Chinese higher education7
Multilevel research on factors impacting international branch campuses’ global integration and local responsiveness: an empirical investigation of two Canadian cases7
Is merit-aid for all? The effects of aid-eligibility changes on college access in the United States7
Does quality assurance matter for micro-credentials in higher education? Legitimacy, regulatory framework, and challenges in four Asian contexts7
Time-as-affect in neoliberal academy: theorizing chronopolitics as affective milieus in higher education7
Manifestations of professional identity work: an integrative review of research in professional identity formation7
Integrating traditional knowledge of non-Western humanities and social sciences: a research agenda through the Chinese lens7
Studying Chinese, studying in Chinese and studying with the Chinese: international students’ experiences and identity construction in Chinese-medium instruction (CMI) programs7
Outpacing reforms: lived realities of organizational change in regional universities in a post-socialist context7
How interdisciplinary is it? A new method for quantifying interdisciplinarity in student teams & examination of a large project-based program7
How does assessment shape student identities? An integrative review7
Reimagining China–US university relations: a global ‘ecosystem’ perspective7
Measuring the quality of patents among Latin-American universities7
Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary7
Competition dynamics in higher education systems in East Asia7
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students’ learning process7
Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic7
Understanding AIgiarism in higher education: the lens of general AI attitudes and moral disengagement7
The struggle for identity in doctoral supervision: a phenomenologically grounded qualitative study of power and conflict7
Australia’s international alumni engagement strategy: an approach from soft power to knowledge diplomacy7
Different universities for different students: mapping the socioeconomic and academic segmentation of the Chilean university system7
The implied peer: thesis writers’ feedback activities and experiences in group supervision6
Inclusive internationalisation: do different (social) groups of students need different internationalisation activities?6
How does engaging in authentic research at undergraduate level contribute to student well-being?6
Engagement in learning during times of crisis6
Ask ChatGPT first! Transforming learning experiences in the age of artificial intelligence6
What does it mean to be a nursing student? Exploring the development of professional identities in higher education6
On a pedagogy of authentic care in postgraduate research supervision6
Shaping scientific careers: the role of early-career research topic dynamics in fostering novel knowledge6
Factors influencing student help-seeking behavior during crisis: a mixed-method analysis in higher education6
‘Your U-Well-Being Journal is due today’: on some possible intersections between surveillance and student wellbeing in the future university6
Student (dis)satisfaction in UK higher education: teaching-only contracts, esteem uncertainty and research intensity6
A tech-tonic shift: the complex dance of technology-enabled-learning and academic identity work in higher education6
Cyberbullying of professors: what measures are in place in universities and what solutions are proposed by victims?6
Mentor-mentee similarity in college peer mentoring: untangling conflicting results6
Evaluating the efficacy of embedding employability into a second-year undergraduate module6
Teacher education students’ experiences navigating inherent requirements within their courses of study6
Validation of the revised scale of students’ attitudes towards research6
The digital public sphere, universities and intellectualising the public6
Perceived academic working conditions and career choices of Chinese PhD students6
Assessing students’ critical thinking abilities via a systematic evaluation of essays6
Careers and employability learning: pedagogical principles for higher education6
First impressions matter: the effects of third-party reports, experience, and qualifications on students’ expectancies of a lecturer’s competency6
Doctoral studies as a precarious identity process: deviance and the rational ideal of the doctoral process6
University-based social innovation and entrepreneurship education in Hong Kong: a curriculum analysis6
‘Decent work’ as a higher education policy myopia: an ecosystem framework for policy-making6
Undergraduate students’ perceptions of learning from foreign-born faculty in American university settings6
The reverse engagement gap: gender differences in external engagement among UK academics6
Generative AI: is it a paradigm shift for higher education?6
Value generation and economic impact of the University of Granada6
Fragmentation of organizational identity in Saudi Universities: the impact of neoliberalism6
Global prescriptions and local adaptations: the role of political culture in shaping governance strategies for university funding6
A comprehensive assessment of self-leadership among students in China’s ethnic regions: insights and implications for higher education6
The conceptualisation of socially responsible universities in higher education research: a systematic literature review6
Field of study and the subjective labour market outcomes of UK graduates: examining meaningful work, career progression, and skills utilisation5
Understanding student success in higher education in Azerbaijan: the role of student engagement5
Industrial doctorates: a systematic literature review and future research agenda5
Graduate socialization and anxiety: insights via hierarchical regression analysis and beyond5
An Elon Musk generalist or a specialist? The impacts of interdisciplinary learning on post-graduation outcomes5
Conceptualization and application of a healthcare systems thinking model for an educational system5
Reports of practitioners’ use of public affairs faculty published research5
Academic library expenditures and graduation rates: evidence from four-year colleges and universities in the US5
‘I want to create a path for latecomer’: a photovoice study of disabled young adults in China’s higher-education institutions5
Struggling between emotionality and rationality: insights into research supervisors’ motives and strategies for regulating graduate students’ emotions5
Studying the gender gap in academic research production among Canadian university professors using the multilevel approach to gender inequalities framework5
Effects of academic dishonesty policy reminder on university students’ exam cheating – a double-blind randomized controlled experimental field study5
The mediating role of self-regulatory emotions in the relationship between peer coaching and student learning in higher education5
Exploring the experiences of Muslim doctoral students in UK higher education: challenges, implications, and pathways to inclusivity5
Autonomy in decision-making and freshmen’s performance at university: evidence from Italy5
Exploring academics' societal engagement patterns amid knowledge-based competitions in East Asia: evidence from the APIKS survey5
College students’ self-regulation in asynchronous online courses during COVID-195
A systematic review of the conceptualization, interpretation, and implementation of shared governance in post-secondary contexts5
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 Sweden5
‘It’s like two Europes here, the West and the East’. Belonging and fitting in at an elite graduate school5
Precarity of post doctorate career breaks: does gender matter?5
Research independence: drivers and impact on PhD students’ careers5
Economic inclusion and ethnonational exclusion of Arabs in Israeli higher education: two tales of one policy5
Employment of academic faculty after reaching retirement age: an asset or a burden? – Ariel University as a case study5
The intergenerational climate of Spanish university research5
A temporal-agential lens on the reintegration experiences of Chinese early career STEM returnees5
Digital wellbeing amid ‘Choiceless digital companionship’: a qualitative investigation of doctoral students’ digital engagement4
Wanting somewhere else: institutional and department support for foreign-born leadership educators4
Correction4
Invisible forces: the management of resources by professional staff as a contribution to knowledge development in universities4
A call for innovation culture in Polish academics’ vision of an ideal-type university4
Navigating challenges in social science research: the impact of halo effect and inadequate academic socialization on Chinese young researchers4
Elite UK Business Schools: from cathedrals of learning to cathedrals of earning?4
Gender identity and access to higher education4
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