OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Higher Education Research & Development is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The homeification of learning in higher education	77
The costs of and economies of scale in supporting students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds in Australian higher education	65
A deep dive into taught postgraduates’ participation in work-integrated learning	60
Assessment for student transitions and success: a scoping review of assessment principles in Australian enabling education	44
ParadAIse L0st?	43
Shaping the time to be a good teacher: a case study on teacher excellence and time ownership in a British transnational university	43
A model of academic developers’ formation and growth of professional identity: a focus on the affective factors	41
The trade-off between career aspirations and class status: research on the influence of family background on the realization of doctoral graduates’ career aspirations	40
Beyond language: fostering an intercultural mindset in foreign language classrooms in Japan	39
Re-storying career practitioners’ professional identities as career and employability specialists through an online WIL capstone	38
The impact of mandatory academic service-learning on university graduates’ continual civic engagement: evidence from a curriculum reform	35
Exploring the meaning of campus through lived experiences of students, staff, and visitors	29
Wandering into the weeds or planting seeds? Balancing depth and breadth in early and late career research	28
List of Reviewers	28
Accountability, ethics and knowledge production: racialised academic staff navigating competing expectations in the social production of research with marginalised communities	27
African challenges to western-centric metrics in evaluating international research collaboration	26
Student perceptions of peer cheating behaviour during COVID-19 induced online teaching and assessment	25
Re-weaving learning ecologies: a pluriversal framework for higher education learning spaces	22
Supporting the academic success of underrecognised higher education students through an immersive block model	22
Diffusing innovation to support faculty engagement in the integration of language and content across the disciplines in an internationalized Canadian university	21
Active learning in authentic conditions has a positive effect on first-year student success	21
Measuring institutions’ country brand authenticity in transnational higher education	20
Nation-bounded internationalization of higher education: a comparative analysis of two periphery countries	20
Drawing as thinking through: students’ use of collaborative drawing to examine ‘problemical’ situations	20
The impact of large language models on university students’ literacy development: a dialogue with Lea and Street’s academic literacies framework	20

Dancing in a red dress: Empowering metaphors of academics’ experiences of the manuscript peer review process	19
‘Can teaching help me get promoted?’ A qualitative study of the career development of pre-tenure faculty in China	19
Settler nation-building through immigration as a rationale for higher education: a critical discourse analysis	18
Early career researchers as active followers: perceived demands of supervisory interventions in academic workplaces	18
Repairing epistemic harms through wellbeing in South African universities	18
Embodied learning for wicked problems and societal transitions: perspectives from transdisciplinary higher education practitioners	18
European credit transfer and accumulation system as a time-based predictor of student workload	18
Professional adaptation of international academics: a critical discussion through the lens of complexity theory	18
How can we conceptualise the current position of the retrospective PhD through published work in British Universities?	18
College students’ sense of belonging in times of disruption: prospective changes from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
‘Challenging from the start’: novice doctoral co-supervisors’ experiences of supervision culture and practice	17
Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education	17
Beyond the physical/virtual: connected learning spaces in postgraduate business education	16
Sustaining teaching and learning innovations: a scoping review	16
Caught ‘in-between’: insights into international students’ doctoral thesis writing practices in China	16
Narratives of success: high-achieving women with disabilities navigating higher education in Australia	16
Forty years of social justice research in Australasia: examining equity in inequitable settings	16
Work-integrated learning: opportunities and challenges in Australia	15
Cyberbullying in first-year university students and its influence on their intentions to drop out	15
Internationalization of higher education in tumultuous times: transformative powers and problems in embattled Ukraine	15
Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing	15
Near-peer teaching in a university outdoor environmental education programme: following footprints in the sand	15
‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity	15
Love, loss and a doctorate: an autoethnography of grieving while writing a PhD	15
Challenges of delivering Australian research honours programmes for healthcare professions	14
Shaping a sustainable doctoral pathway: a critical analysis of reflexive mediation between structure and agency in the PhD experience	14
Direct instruction or active learning? The spectrum of first-year university teaching practices	14
In the cleft of a rock: Experiences in the in-between space of learning among undergraduate arts and design students	14
The feedback process as a scaffold of evaluative judgement	14
Who are learning designers in post-pandemic Australasian universities?	14
Preparing for work placements: sensemaking among international health science students	14
The Empathy Compass for addressing Societal Challenges in Education. A tool for higher education to stimulate, facilitate and assess empathic awareness in multistakeholder collaborations	14
Using peer feedback, teacher feedback and self-assessment to enhance students’ feedback literacy behaviour	13
Working at the level above: university promotion policies as a tool for wage theft and underpayment	13
Disrupting the self: self-identity, discomfort and (un)becoming through the research process	13
Intersectionality and equality policies in Higher Education and Research organizations: a critical scoping review and future research agenda	13
Plagiarism in EMI higher education: conceptual understanding of staff and students in four South Asian countries	13
Academic casualisation and precarity: a scoping review	13
The reshaping of higher education: technological impacts, pedagogical change, and future projections	13
Optimism bias as a barrier to accessing mental health support amongst tertiary students	12
Mobilising resilience to symbolic violence with Chinese international research students in Australia: a Bourdieusian perspective	12
(De)construction of stigma attached to global South-South student mobility: voices from Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia	12
Heading the road less travelled: exploring Chinese students’ motivations to study in Tanzania	12
‘No university without community’: engaging the community in social work simulations	12
Co-design practice in higher education: practice theory insights into collaborative curriculum development	12
‘Undisciplining’ higher education without losing disciplines: furthering transformative potential for students	12
Student agency: two students’ agentic actions in challenging oppressive practices on a diverse university campus	12
The contribution of different types of work-integrated learning to graduate employability	12
Student empowerment for internationalisation at a distance: enacting the students as partners approach in virtual mobility	12
Perceived organisational support and university students’ career exploration: the mediation role of career adaptability	11

Global diffusion of quality assurance research in higher education: a study on collaboration and concepts	11
Unveiling the hidden key: can help-seeking behaviors bridge the gap between doctoral supervision relationship and research self-efficacy of PhD candidates?	11
Collegiality as collective affect: who carries the burden of the labour of attunement?	11
Capturing connections during COVID-19: Using photography to assess US college students’ sense of belonging	11
Common misunderstandings of phenomenographic research in higher education	11
Does university attendance affect students’ critical and creative thinking skills? A longitudinal research with pre-service teaching and psychology undergraduates	11
Compassion in higher education: fashion or future for relational pedagogies?	11
Towards an effective change framework for scholarly teaching in higher education professional degrees	10
Adjustment to higher education among students with mental health disorders	10
A preliminary study on the reality of autonomy in Georgian universities	10
Priority setting in higher education research using a mixed methods approach	10
Spatial fluencies: acts of navigation and negotiation in the postdigital learning environment	10
Mobilization and stigmatization: PhD admissions in wartime	10
AI and its implications for research in higher education: a critical dialogue	10
Fostering a culture of qualitative research and scholarly publication in a leading university in the West Bank: a Palestinian-UK capacity-building collaboration	9
Implications of ChatGPT for higher education institutions: exploring Nepali university students’ perspectives	9
Academic performance of first-year university students: modelling the role of reading competence	9
Navigating tensions between institutional and cultural quandaries: reflexive journey of Chinese female doctoral students	9
Toward a consensual definition of educational research and development: a Delphi study	9
Challenging structural racism through the development of equity-driven core Māori hauora ā iwi/public health competencies for university hauora ā iwi/public health teaching	9
Caring for educational concerns	9
Why shouldn't teacher education produce ‘ready-to-teach’ graduates? Mapping a pathway to alternative teacher education and teacher becomings	9
Mapping future work skills in the bachelor of arts: findings from an Australian study	9
Undergraduate perceptions of graduate teaching assistants: competence, relatedness, and autonomy in practice	8
Global citizenship education in Korean higher education: moving beyond transformative calls to praxes	8
Enriching work-integrated learning: conceptions of integrating Indigenous reflective practices	8
Peer-mentoring and doctoral student retention: a longitudinal investigation	8
The role of extra-/co-curricular activities and work on law graduates’ initial employment outcomes	8
Major-based undergraduate curriculum as an obstacle to graduate employability development	8
Doctoral intelligence: a framework for developing mindsets for doctorateness in changing doctoral contexts	8
An Indigenous Australian Cultural Wealth Mentoring Model	8
Troubling knowledge in Australian Indigenous Studies: how prior knowledge affects undergraduate student learning	8
Fostering technology-inclusive transitions in Irish higher education for students with disabilities	8
Academics’ perceived space in negotiating university-industry collaboration: a case study in two universities in Mainland China	8
Keep it brief: Can a 4-item stress screener predict university adjustment over 18 months?	8
Beyond the ivory tower: a survey of European university board members’ perspectives on institutional policy priorities	8
Universities Australia 2017–2020 Indigenous Strategy: a meta-synthesis of the issues and challenges	7
Are international students relatively resilient? Comparing international and domestic students’ levels of self-compassion, mental health and wellbeing	7
Uncovering design considerations for embedding transdisciplinarity in higher education – an empirical exploration of a transdisciplinary global health program	7
Rethinking the student journey with voice of student: unstructured data-driven approach	7
Visual university studies since the Cold War: mapping journal articles published in Englishes from 1992 to 2023	7
Capturing the shifting work of teaching in higher education through postcards of practice	7
Academics’ practices and perceptions of career development learning in the curriculum	7
The role of agency in social justice education: insights from a practising inclusion in higher education micro-credential	7
Time to act: Mental health and desired university supports among graduate students	7
Dropouts and transfers: socioeconomic segregation in entrance to and exit from the Chilean higher education	7
Theorising new possibilities for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and teaching-focused academics	7
Enhancing perceptions of employability amongst first-year arts students and implications for student belonging	7
What factors contribute to higher grades in a first-year undergraduate management unit: an exploratory study at an Australian university	7
Student partners as co-contributors in research: a collective autoethnographic account	7
Integration of growth mindset concepts into academic writing courses for novice researchers’ academic writing skills and competence	7
Critique of the article, ‘Theoretical foundations of phenomenography: a critical review’	7