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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
In memoriam: Vincent Lynn Meek (1948–2022)90
How can scientists and designers find ways of working together? A case study of playful learning to co-design visual interpretations of immunology concepts82
Using Activity Theory to understand the interactions of a university interdisciplinary team of scientists and science educators73
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective62
Procedural fairness during university education and students’ trust in science and scientists59
Entrepreneurial decision making in academic spinoffs: a bibliometric map and research agenda58
Are we answering the question that has been set? Exploring the gap between research and practice around examinations in higher education53
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum: finding out what to study, why, and how49
(Un)divided work devotion? Navigating the ideal worker norm in academia43
Early dropout predictors in social sciences and management degree students41
When negative feedback harms: a systematic review of the unintended consequences of negative feedback on psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral responses40
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature38
Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of academic success in higher education: a large-scale longitudinal study37
The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools37
Academic identity at the intersection of global scientific communities and national science policies: societal impact in the UK and Netherlands37
Progressions in Learning in the Age of (Mis)Information (PLATO) – Advances in Higher Education Learning Research35
PhD graduates’ appraisals of work demands: challenging, hindering, and not very threatening34
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
Personal values matter: international students’ university selection31
Behind the scenes of doctoral success: a mixed methods approach to exploring PhD supervision courses in Swedish higher education institutions31
Advancing women’s representation in top academic positions – what works?31
Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty29
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty29
University-enterprise cooperation for the employability of higher education graduates: a social capital approach28
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students?27
The Chinese idea of a university in flux: academic freedom and institutional autonomy under entrepreneurial reforms in the GBA26
Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients’ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data25
The university at the crossroads of three ecologies: natural environment, culture and economy24
Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability24
Internship in the impasse of the duality of theory and practice: representation, imitation, compatibility, and tension in the university-industry relationship24
The professional learning of academic researchers through their career24
Career capital and the MBA: how gender capital supports career capital development23
Delivering blended learning to transnational students: students’ perceptions and needs-satisfaction23
An adaptive methodology for curriculum redesign based on performance indicators of the student progression22
How supervisor Machiavellianism affects graduate student creativity: a mediated moderation model22
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
Fostering social entrepreneurship in university students: the moderating role of entrepreneurial creativity21
COVID-19 and the gender gap in research productivity: understanding the effect of having primary responsibility for the care of children21
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings20
How social and emotional skills affect Chinese college student engagement in high-impact educational practices: a moderated mediation model20
When will scientists say yes? Antecedents, consequences and limitations of crowdfunding in research20
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue19
How do deans of humanities understand and enact societal engagement within their broader experiences of leading? A Danish case study19
Administrative positions, research performance, and winning awards19
Entrepreneurial universities and the effect of the types of vocational education and internships on graduates’ employability19
Gender and leadership in public higher education in South Asia: examining the individual, socio-cultural and organizational barriers to female inclusion19
Undergraduates’ assessment enculturation in the neoliberal university: an anthropological study19
The impact of abusive supervision on the postgraduate students’ team creativity in higher education institutions19
Diversity of undergraduates in STEM courses: individual and demographic differences in changes in self-efficacy, epistemic beliefs, and intrapersonal attribute profiles17
Socially negotiating privacy boundaries and academic identities17
When a B becomes an A: causal evidence on the effects of a journal ranking update on academics’ publication behavior17
Capacity and willingness in higher education accreditation: when incentives are not enough17
A within-person perspective for investigating transitional students’ academic learning and adjustment during the first university semester16
Subtypes of prescription stimulant misuse among students: a nuanced story16
UK University teachers on inclusive education: conceptualizations, practices, opportunities and challenges16
Double transitions of Chinese students in the ‘2 + 2’ articulation program under the influence of field coupling and social capital15
University entrepreneurship education and the emergence of radical and incremental innovation: a regional perspective14
Personal extenuating circumstances processes in higher education: are they helping or hindering?14
Leveraging interorganizational networks to foster university-industry interactions14
Developmental trajectories during doctoral study: identifying heterogeneity in psychosocial factor’s development14
Practices of active learning in public universities in Ethiopia: student and faculty perceptions14
Career ambitions of women academics. Are women willing and able to rise to the top in higher education institutions?13
Can a work-readiness program mitigate unemployment scarring: the case of a co-operative education job market13
Identifying critical factors in higher education studies: combining necessary condition and importance-performance map analyses13
Managerialism, accreditation and insecure academic employment across different higher education traditions13
How does it fear? Exploring the role of emotion and cognition in the entrepreneurship education-entrepreneurial intention link13
AI’s learning paradox: how business students’ engagement with AI amplifies moral disengagement-driven misconduct13
Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes13
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: an Australian study13
Barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining campus food insecurity initiatives13
A systematic review of students’ habitus in the higher education field: challenge and resilience13
‘Walking through fog’: social inequalities and the journey to postgraduate taught study in England12
Managing the rules of recognition: how early career academics negotiate career scripts through identity work12
Mastering knowledge: the impact of generative AI on student learning outcomes12
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
Management scholars’ perception of barriers and bridges to use crowdsourcing in science: qualitative research12
Unlocking the black box of HPWPs-performance relationship in Vietnamese higher education context: the case of Ho Chi Minh City’s universities11
Investigating the factors influencing academic staff attitudes toward the formation of a technological university11
Are accreditation signals being recognised? Business professionals’ awareness and views on accredited university business programmes11
Academically inbred presidents and university performance11
Demographic influences on students’ self-efficacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion: a quantitative study in higher education in Sri Lanka11
Research quality criteria in the Creative Arts11
Student loan debt and family formation of youth in Japan11
The research experience of postgraduate students: a mixed-methods study11
Substantive or symbolic? The international strategies of Czech universities11
Governments harnessing the power of data to get ‘value for money’: a simulation study of England’s Office for Students B3 Proceed Metric10
Distributional properties of the statistic of online student evaluations the mean does not mean what you think it means10
Spatial–temporal heterogeneity and driving factors of resource allocation efficiency in regular higher education in China10
A text-mining analysis of Latin America Universities’ mission statements from a ‘Third Mission’ perspective10
Social events, bridging courses, and academic skills trainings – participation in first-year courses and higher education dropout in Germany10
A quantitative exploration of management undergraduates’ readiness for diversity and inclusion in the university environment10
More than just consumers? Alternative representations of students when higher education becomes ‘free’10
Institutional confidence, underreporting and academic consequences of gender-based violence among university staff and students in Europe10
Competing for research grants: institutional resource inequality and early-career academics’ research agenda setting10
A customer experience lens for higher education in India using journey mapping and experience quality10
The impact of teaching on third mission activities of higher education institutions: evidence from the UK10
‘Growing from an acorn to an oak tree’: a thematic analysis of international students’ cross-cultural adjustment in the United States10
Sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education: investment decisions on human capital in the presence of youth unemployment10
Mediated performance in the feedback process: reinforcing improvement10
Participatory parity as a way forward for critical internationalisation studies10
Mini-publics, student participation, and universities’ deliberative capacity9
A longitudinal examination: association between part-time faculty and student academic achievement at public two-year colleges9
Implicit resilience theories: a qualitative study of context-shapers at higher education institutions9
Internationalisation with Chinese characteristics: exploring the paradox in students' experiences at Sino-foreign cooperative universities9
Privatization and cost inefficiency at U.S. Public research universities9
Beyond the surface: unraveling the relationships between conflict, psychological safety, team learning, and performance in student teams9
Measuring changes in critical thinking skills among university economics students: insights from domain-specific assessment9
How you teach and who you teach both matter: lessons from learning analytics data9
The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability9
Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy9
Predicting university dropout: connecting big data and structural models9
Who borrows, and how much? Student borrowing across post-secondary pathways in Ontario, Canada9
Agreements between the state and higher education institutions – how do they matter for institutional autonomy?9
It is ambiguous, but I know what I am doing ’: undergraduates’ experiences and agency in an interdisciplinary programme8
Healthcare students’ perceptions of professional identity and program support8
The role of boards in Hungarian public interest foundation universities8
Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system8
To and from the university: employability discourses and narratives of PhD graduates from the social sciences and humanities in Denmark8
From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university8
The winner’s curse? Temporal and spatial impacts of higher education expansion on graduate employment and social mobility8
Choices and Wayfaring in Higher Education – Bachelor students’ movements between individual perspectives and institutional constraints8
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
True-belief, pragmatism or alienation: a study of HE academics’ response orientations to metrics-based evaluations8
Let the cat out of the bag: a critical incident analysis of teaching entrepreneurship competencies from the teachers’ perspective8
Faculty engagement in university-industry research partnerships: findings from a developing country8
Social entrepreneurial intention: educating, experiencing and believing8
Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation8
Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study8
Navigating paradoxes of responsible management education (RME): insights from the Global South8
The impact of entrepreneurship pedagogy on nascent student entrepreneurship: an entrepreneurial process perspective8
Morphology of mergers and their impact on performance and accounting metrics in HEIs: evidence from a small European country8
Legislating gender equality in academia: direct and indirect effects of state-mandated gender quota policies in European academia8
‘As I would do in my own research’: a multiple-case study of faculty members’ undergraduate research designs in research-intensive universities8
The production of gender-specific scholarly literature in Romania: the weak institutionalisation of Gender Studies in higher education7
Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review7
How students use the space provided by broad and specialised programmes to develop their interests in higher education7
The effect of quality management practices on academics’ innovative performance in Malaysian higher education institutions7
Mapping the entrepreneurial university literature: a text mining approach7
How do university faculty feel about grading? Insights from a control-value theory perspective7
Multilevel research on factors impacting international branch campuses’ global integration and local responsiveness: an empirical investigation of two Canadian cases7
Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary7
On institutional belongingness and academic performance: mediating effects of social self-efficacy and metacognitive strategies7
University education and entrepreneurial intentions of European students: insights into the Theory of Planned Behaviour complemented by skills7
Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education7
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach7
Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities7
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students’ learning process7
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets7
Studying Chinese, studying in Chinese and studying with the Chinese: international students’ experiences and identity construction in Chinese-medium instruction (CMI) programs7
Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic7
De-westernising competition: ‘Harmony of competition’ in Chinese higher education7
Academic return migration amidst North-to-South trend: an integrative inquiry into the case of Chinese international STEM researchers7
A scoping review of experimental evidence on face-to-face components of blended learning in higher education7
Supervisors matter, but what about peers? The distinct contributions of quality supervision and peer support to doctoral students’ research experience7
Methods for assessing sustainability performance at higher education institutions: a review7
Organizational culture and educational aspirations of tribal students in higher education7
Positioning and repositioning in higher education: first year students engaging with the world7
Tracing topic evolution in higher education: a text mining study on Italian universities7
‘Decent work’ as a higher education policy myopia: an ecosystem framework for policy-making6
Validation of the revised scale of students’ attitudes towards research6
Measuring the quality of patents among Latin-American universities6
Student (dis)satisfaction in UK higher education: teaching-only contracts, esteem uncertainty and research intensity6
How interdisciplinary is it? A new method for quantifying interdisciplinarity in student teams & examination of a large project-based program6
Reimagining China–US university relations: a global ‘ecosystem’ perspective6
Does quality assurance matter for micro-credentials in higher education? Legitimacy, regulatory framework, and challenges in four Asian contexts6
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
Value generation and economic impact of the University of Granada6
What does it mean to be a nursing student? Exploring the development of professional identities in higher education6
Cyberbullying of professors: what measures are in place in universities and what solutions are proposed by victims?6
Shaping scientific careers: the role of early-career research topic dynamics in fostering novel knowledge6
Perceived academic working conditions and career choices of Chinese PhD students6
Different universities for different students: mapping the socioeconomic and academic segmentation of the Chilean university system6
Is merit-aid for all? The effects of aid-eligibility changes on college access in the United States6
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
A tech-tonic shift: the complex dance of technology-enabled-learning and academic identity work in higher education6
Time-as-affect in neoliberal academy: theorizing chronopolitics as affective milieus in higher education6
The digital public sphere, universities and intellectualising the public6
Teacher education students’ experiences navigating inherent requirements within their courses of study6
Fragmentation of organizational identity in Saudi Universities: the impact of neoliberalism6
Ask ChatGPT first! Transforming learning experiences in the age of artificial intelligence6
Generative AI: is it a paradigm shift for higher education?6
Integrating traditional knowledge of non-Western humanities and social sciences: a research agenda through the Chinese lens6
The struggle for identity in doctoral supervision: a phenomenologically grounded qualitative study of power and conflict6
On a pedagogy of authentic care in postgraduate research supervision6
Understanding AIgiarism in higher education: the lens of general AI attitudes and moral disengagement6
University-based social innovation and entrepreneurship education in Hong Kong: a curriculum analysis6
Evaluating the efficacy of embedding employability into a second-year undergraduate module6
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