Studies in Higher Education

Papers
(The TQCC of Studies in Higher Education is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions73
The entrepreneurial university concept as a narrative of change in HEIs65
‘It’s like two Europes here, the West and the East’. Belonging and fitting in at an elite graduate school61
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)50
Struggling between emotionality and rationality: insights into research supervisors’ motives and strategies for regulating graduate students’ emotions45
What motivates undergraduate students to read beyond their lecture notes?41
Competing: an analytical framework and application in higher education37
Questions instead of majors: implementing a self-authored concentration program35
Industrial doctorates: a systematic literature review and future research agenda35
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 Sweden32
Nuancing the roles of entrepreneurial universities in regional economic development32
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?31
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges30
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how30
The critical-constructive potential of academic development: a case study30
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 legitimisation28
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses27
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands26
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators24
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data24
When the university desires, but society refuses: a case study of universities’ missions in the context of contribution to development24
Predicting dropout in Higher Education across borders23
Predicting university dropout: connecting big data and structural models23
Causal evidence of the effect of a course specific mathematical learning and support center on economics students’ performance and affective variables22
Are university leaders always the same? A longitudinal analysis of Vice-chancellors’ profile in English universities over the last twenty years22
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study22
A systematic review of the conceptualization, interpretation, and implementation of shared governance in post-secondary contexts20
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda19
Knowledge production at a crossroads: rising antidemocracy and diminishing academic freedom19
Academic library expenditures and graduation rates: evidence from four-year colleges and universities in the US19
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists19
Early dropout predictors in social sciences and management degree students18
Endurance in the face of environmental transformations: a practice-oriented perspective on organizational identity18
Automated and controlled processes in comprehending multiple documents17
How can scientists and designers find ways of working together? A case study of playful learning to co-design visual interpretations of immunology concepts17
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective17
Lived experiences of diverse university staff during COVID-19: an examination of workplace wellbeing17
The intergenerational climate of Spanish university research17
Managing the harmful effects of perceived overqualification amongst students in China: the roles of student leader and extracurricular activities17
Higher education student engagement, leadership potential and self-perceived employability in the United Arab Emirates17
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities16
Women scientists in knowledge exchanges with nonacademic actors: participation gap and emerging gender patterns16
Supportive supervision and doctoral student creativity: the double-edged sword of family support16
Studying the gender gap in academic research production among Canadian university professors using the multilevel approach to gender inequalities framework16
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities15
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities14
Neoliberalism, internationalization, Japanese exclusionism: the integration experiences of international academics at Japanese universities14
A framework for using SET when evaluating faculty14
Student dissatisfaction in Higher Education: a ‘fuzzy’ index approach14
Coping with paradoxical demands: the dual position of deans in French business schools14
Which teachers feel good and adopt a motivating teaching style? The role of teaching identity and motivation to teach14
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada13
The regional mission in a merged multi-campus university college: a case study from Western Norway13
Understanding student success in higher education in Azerbaijan: the role of student engagement13
‘I am just a loser of higher education’: a framework for comparative analysis of the value of adult higher education derived from a Chinese study13
Player, Purist, Pragmatist: a comparison of employability strategies in access to the solicitors’ profession via alternative degree pathways12
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation12
Social moderation and calibration versus codification: a way forward for academic standards in higher education?12
Correction12
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability12
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education11
Measuring changes in critical thinking skills among university economics students: insights from domain-specific assessment11
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy11
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity11
Undergraduate dissertation problems: an aggregate cross-sectional analysis from five Latin American universities11
Micro-processes of knowledge sharing in higher education: international students as a source11
Reconceptualising knowledge exchange and higher education institutions: broadening our understanding of motivations, channels, and stakeholders11
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature11
Why do students plagiarise? Informing higher education teaching and learning policy and practice10
Plagiarism awareness efforts, students’ ethical judgment and behaviors: a longitudinal experiment study on ethical nuances of plagiarism in higher education10
Curricular, interactional, and structural diversity: identifying factors affecting learning outcomes10
Constructing a women-friendly academic ecology: understanding the push and pull forces on Pakistani women academics’ research productivity10
The community engagement for impact (CEFI) framework : an evidence-based strategy to facilitate social change10
Financial support differentially aids retention of students from households with lower incomes: a UK case study10
Electronic work-based learning (eWBL): a framework for trainers in companies and higher education10
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system9
Exploring the effects of international experiences on graduates’ employability development: a comparative study on Sino-UK international joint universities9
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools9
How do universities compete?9
In-depth analysis of female pracademics’ experiences in Poland8
Is a PhD worth more than a Master’s in the UK labour market? The role of specialisation and managerial position8
The regional impact of spin-offs’ innovative activity: unveiling the effect of scientific knowledge and parent university’s specialization8
Investigating the interconnection between financial performance and eco-efficiency in British universities: a roadmap towards sustainable higher education8
University teachers’ self-reported emotions and electrodermal activity during teaching-related working events8
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support8
The intellectual-state relationship and academic freedom in China: a reappraisal8
The winner’s curse? Temporal and spatial impacts of higher education expansion on graduate employment and social mobility8
‘Re-thinking a Bachelor of Arts for the 21st-Century precariat’8
Does institutional performance matter under competition-based funding for higher education in East Asia? A comparative study in Korea and Taiwan8
Multiple roles of the state – federal states and their roles in how universities compete in Germany8
Identifying disability-related barriers to academic employment8
Personal values matter: international students’ university selection8
Students' proficiency evaluation: a non-parametric multilevel latent variable model approach8
Faculty perspectives on the changing research and teaching career tracks of academics at private universities in Kazakhstan7
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university7
Exploring the influence of innovativeness on the pace of internationalisation of university spin-outs: a born global perspective7
Portraying a growing field of study: a scientometric review of research on international branch campuses7
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark7
Editorial7
Does PBL improve own apprenticeship abilities’ development and subject’s overcoming? The reality behind students’ professional success7
Supporting students from equity groups: experiences of staff and considerations for institutions7
Progressions in Learning in the Age of (Mis)Information (PLATO) – Advances in Higher Education Learning Research7
A temporal-agential lens on the reintegration experiences of Chinese early career STEM returnees7
A comparative study of the survival of university spin-off companies (USOs) in the post-industrial UK West Midlands region7
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints6
Foreword6
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?6
Academic engagement in Portugal: the role of institutional diversity, individual characteristics and modes of knowledge production6
Faculty engagement in university-industry research partnerships: findings from a developing country6
Out of sight but not out of mind: on the North–South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus6
Foreword6
Incentivizing knowledge exchange engagement: direct and indirect benefits of external engagement6
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data6
Trust- and distrust-building mechanisms in academic spin-off relationships with a parent university6
The gap between knowledge and belief: narrative, affect and students’ deeper learning in higher education6
Why are lower socioeconomic background students underrepresented in Erasmus? A focus on the selection into mobility and degree course organization6
Fostering disciplinary literacy through model annotations: the case of historical reasoning6
Developing quality culture in higher education in Taiwan: the changes within quality assurance mechanisms6
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty5
How do self-regulation and effort in test-taking contribute to undergraduate students’ critical thinking performance?5
Impostor feelings and academic decision making: an anchoring vignette approach5
Compensatory advantage after the first year at university in the Catalan system: between continuing, transferring and dropping out5
Can you feel the change of seasons? Perspectives of academic staff on organizational change5
Editorial5
A Bourdieusian exploration of international students’ WeChatting experiences in China: a habitus of digital learning5
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing5
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations5
Academic return migration amidst North-to-South trend: an integrative inquiry into the case of Chinese international STEM researchers5
Synergy effects in learning? The influence of mathematics as a second subject on teacher students’ physics content knowledge5
Measuring what matters: the positioning of students in feedback processes within national student satisfaction surveys5
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions5
Relationship between team learning profiles and outcomes in team project-based learning: a cluster analysis5
Foreword5
Engagement and emotional exhaustion among higher education students; a mixed-methods study of four student profiles5
What influences university graduates’ entrepreneurship within different time horizons after graduation?5
Morphology of mergers and their impact on performance and accounting metrics in HEIs: evidence from a small European country5
Interest–Major Fit predicts study satisfaction and/or achievement? Comparing different ways of assessment5
Stakeholder-centered development of new curriculum content in higher education: a case study in creating a course on the green and digital transformation of SMEs5
Examining the influence of human and psychological capital variables on post-secondary students’ academic stress5
How institutional resources affect university students’ learning outcomes: evidence from the 2023 university student learning experience survey in China4
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening4
When artificial intelligence substitutes humans in higher education: the cost of loneliness, student success, and retention4
Can student evaluations be made more representative? Testing alternative strategies4
‘Transnational’ and ‘transcultural’: their divergence and convergence in international higher education*4
A lucky draw? Theorising how work placements develop diverse university students’ career stories4
Correction4
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions4
‘Better than watching daytime TV': sickness presenteeism in UK academics4
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities4
Antagonistic identity discourses in career transitions: an autoethnographic study in higher education4
The impact of community engagement on undergraduate social responsibility attitudes4
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty4
Institutional logics analysis in higher education research4
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education4
Get the balance right: lessons from UK higher education in managing environmental and economic performance4
Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education4
The agency-structure complex in international research collaboration: evidence from a Chinese elite university4
Instructor use of academic alerts and its impact on student outcomes: controlling for selection bias4
Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability4
Transitioning beyond Academia: engagement and disengagement experiences of HASS PhD holders4
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach4
Learning from senior academics’ perspectives of success and failure4
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?4
Partisan registration of faculty in flagship colleges4
The Chinese idea of a university in flux: academic freedom and institutional autonomy under entrepreneurial reforms in the GBA4
Identifying skills, qualifications, and attributes expected to do a PhD4
A holistic approach to student empowerment and assessment of its impact on educational outcomes through psychological ownership4
Design thinking mindset: scale development and validation4
Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study4
The association between course selection and academic performance: exploring psychological interpretations4
Correction4
Predictors of emotional engagement in doctoral education4
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia4
Modeling appeals in university accreditation in Chile: an exploratory study4
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach4
Students’ beliefs and attitudes towards cooperative learning, and their relationship to motivation and approach to learning4
Revisiting the institutionalization of Tongshi education in Chinese universities: a comparative-historical lens4
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