Studies in Higher Education

Papers
(The TQCC of Studies in Higher Education is 6. 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.)
ArticleCitations
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)74
How can scientists and designers find ways of working together? A case study of playful learning to co-design visual interpretations of immunology concepts70
Automated and controlled processes in comprehending multiple documents64
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators55
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective53
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study51
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education46
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists45
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how41
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses40
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools38
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands38
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda37
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 literature33
Personal values matter: international students’ university selection33
Progressions in Learning in the Age of (Mis)Information (PLATO) – Advances in Higher Education Learning Research31
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty30
Partisan registration of faculty in flagship colleges30
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty30
The Chinese idea of a university in flux: academic freedom and institutional autonomy under entrepreneurial reforms in the GBA29
Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability28
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan27
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening26
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress26
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach25
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?25
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data24
Institutional logics analysis in higher education research23
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?23
‘Better than watching daytime TV': sickness presenteeism in UK academics22
Socially negotiating privacy boundaries and academic identities21
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions21
Undergraduates’ assessment enculturation in the neoliberal university: an anthropological study21
The professional learning of academic researchers through their career21
Administrative positions, research performance, and winning awards21
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue20
The impact of abusive supervision on the postgraduate students’ team creativity in higher education institutions20
Capacity and willingness in higher education accreditation: when incentives are not enough20
When will scientists say yes? Antecedents, consequences and limitations of crowdfunding in research20
The university at the crossroads of three ecologies: natural environment, culture and economy20
Delivering blended learning to transnational students: students’ perceptions and needs-satisfaction19
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings19
Internship in the impasse of the duality of theory and practice: representation, imitation, compatibility, and tension in the university-industry relationship19
COVID-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children19
Career capital and the MBA: how gender capital supports career capital development18
How supervisor Machiavellianism affects graduate student creativity: a mediated moderation model17
Implications of crib sheets for student well-being and exam performance: a mixed methods study17
An adaptive methodology for curriculum redesign based on performance indicators of the student progression17
Measuring student discussion engagement in the college classroom: a scale validation study17
Identifying critical factors in higher education studies: combining necessary condition and importance-performance map analyses16
Gender and leadership in public higher education in South Asia: examining the individual, socio-cultural and organizational barriers to female inclusion16
Antecedents of undergraduate research skills and the mediating role of grit16
How social and emotional skills affect Chinese college student engagement in high-impact educational practices: a moderated mediation model16
Fostering social entrepreneurship in university students: the moderating role of entrepreneurial creativity16
Entrepreneurial universities and the effect of the types of vocational education and internships on graduates’ employability16
UK University teachers on inclusive education: conceptualizations, practices, opportunities and challenges15
When a B becomes an A: causal evidence on the effects of a journal ranking update on academics’ publication behavior15
Can a work-readiness program mitigate unemployment scarring: the case of a co-operative education job market14
Double transitions of Chinese students in the ‘2 + 2’ articulation program under the influence of field coupling and social capital14
Subtypes of prescription stimulant misuse among students: a nuanced story14
A within-person perspective for investigating transitional students’ academic learning and adjustment during the first university semester14
Diversity of undergraduates in STEM courses: individual and demographic differences in changes in self-efficacy, epistemic beliefs, and intrapersonal attribute profiles14
Leveraging interorganizational networks to foster university-industry interactions13
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: an Australian study13
Practices of active learning in public universities in Ethiopia: student and faculty perceptions13
University entrepreneurship education and the emergence of radical and incremental innovation: a regional perspective13
Managerialism, accreditation and insecure academic employment across different higher education traditions12
Career ambitions of women academics. Are women willing and able to rise to the top in higher education institutions?12
Developmental trajectories during doctoral study: identifying heterogeneity in psychosocial factor’s development12
Personal extenuating circumstances processes in higher education: are they helping or hindering?12
Barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining campus food insecurity initiatives12
Management scholars’ perception of barriers and bridges to use crowdsourcing in science: qualitative research11
How does it fear? Exploring the role of emotion and cognition in the entrepreneurship education-entrepreneurial intention link11
Academically inbred presidents and university performance11
A quantitative exploration of management undergraduates’ readiness for diversity and inclusion in the university environment11
Managing the rules of recognition: how early career academics negotiate career scripts through identity work11
The research experience of postgraduate students: a mixed-methods study11
A systematic review of students’ habitus in the higher education field: challenge and resilience11
Student loan debt and family formation of youth in Japan11
Governments harnessing the power of data to get ‘value for money’: a simulation study of England’s Office for Students B3 Proceed Metric11
Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes11
Demographic influences on students’ self-efficacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion: a quantitative study in higher education in Sri Lanka10
Research quality criteria in the Creative Arts10
Unlocking the black box of HPWPs-performance relationship in Vietnamese higher education context: the case of Ho Chi Minh City’s universities10
Mastering knowledge: the impact of generative AI on student learning outcomes9
University spin-offs: the past, the present, and the future9
‘Walking through fog’: social inequalities and the journey to postgraduate taught study in England9
More than just consumers? Alternative representations of students when higher education becomes ‘free’9
Distributional properties of the statistic of online student evaluations the mean does not mean what you think it means9
Are accreditation signals being recognised? Business professionals’ awareness and views on accredited university business programmes9
What drives global science? The four competing narratives9
Social events, bridging courses, and academic skills trainings – participation in first-year courses and higher education dropout in Germany9
A text-mining analysis of Latin America Universities’ mission statements from a ‘Third Mission’ perspective9
From defining to enacting interdisciplinary education: curriculum integration strategies among Hong Kong undergraduate interdisciplinary programmes9
Investigating the factors influencing academic staff attitudes toward the formation of a technological university9
Participatory parity as a way forward for critical internationalisation studies9
Mediated performance in the feedback process: reinforcing improvement9
A customer experience lens for higher education in India using journey mapping and experience quality8
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education8
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities8
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy8
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data8
Measuring changes in critical thinking skills among university economics students: insights from domain-specific assessment8
The impact of teaching on third mission activities of higher education institutions: evidence from the UK8
The relationship between debt aversion and college enrollment by gender, race, and ethnicity: a propensity scoring approach8
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada8
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system8
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education8
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions8
Predicting university dropout: connecting big data and structural models8
Students’ online information use and learning progress in higher education – A critical literature review8
Sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education: investment decisions on human capital in the presence of youth unemployment8
‘Growing from an acorn to an oak tree’: a thematic analysis of international students’ cross-cultural adjustment in the United States8
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity8
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?8
Beyond the surface: unraveling the relationships between conflict, psychological safety, team learning, and performance in student teams8
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation8
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges8
Institutional confidence, underreporting and academic consequences of gender-based violence among university staff and students in Europe8
It is ambiguous, but I know what I am doing ’: undergraduates’ experiences and agency in an interdisciplinary programme7
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities7
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach7
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective7
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education7
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing7
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities7
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability7
Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study7
The winner’s curse? Temporal and spatial impacts of higher education expansion on graduate employment and social mobility7
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions7
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support7
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints7
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia7
Faculty engagement in university-industry research partnerships: findings from a developing country7
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations7
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students’ learning process6
Mapping the entrepreneurial university literature: a text mining approach6
Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic6
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities6
Multilevel research on factors impacting international branch campuses’ global integration and local responsiveness: an empirical investigation of two Canadian cases6
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education6
Academic return migration amidst North-to-South trend: an integrative inquiry into the case of Chinese international STEM researchers6
Organizational culture and educational aspirations of tribal students in higher education6
Positioning and repositioning in higher education: first year students engaging with the world6
On a pedagogy of authentic care in postgraduate research supervision6
De-westernising competition: ‘Harmony of competition’ in Chinese higher education6
Supervisors matter, but what about peers? The distinct contributions of quality supervision and peer support to doctoral students’ research experience6
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets6
Integrating traditional knowledge of non-Western humanities and social sciences: a research agenda through the Chinese lens6
Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary6
Let the cat out of the bag: a critical incident analysis of teaching entrepreneurship competencies from the teachers’ perspective6
Morphology of mergers and their impact on performance and accounting metrics in HEIs: evidence from a small European country6
Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review6
Tracing topic evolution in higher education: a text mining study on Italian universities6
Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities6
University education and entrepreneurial intentions of European students: insights into the Theory of Planned Behaviour complemented by skills6
On institutional belongingness and academic performance: mediating effects of social self-efficacy and metacognitive strategies6
The production of gender-specific scholarly literature in Romania: the weak institutionalisation of Gender Studies in higher education6
Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review6
Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education6
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university6
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark6
Studying Chinese, studying in Chinese and studying with the Chinese: international students’ experiences and identity construction in Chinese-medium instruction (CMI) programs6
How do university faculty feel about grading? Insights from a control-value theory perspective6
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