OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Higher Education Research & Development is 8. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward a ‘new normal’ with e-learning in Vietnamese higher education during the post COVID-19 pandemic	109
International students in Australia – during and after COVID-19	79
China’s higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: some preliminary observations	74
The carelessness of entrepreneurial universities in a world risk society: a feminist reflection on the impact of Covid-19 in Australia	67
Educators’ emotions involved in the transition to online teaching in higher education	62
Academic networks and career trajectory: ‘There’s no career in academia without networks’	56
Precarity, fear and hope: reflecting and imagining in higher education during a global pandemic	52
‘This can’t be the new norm’: academics’ perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis for the Australian university sector	45
The isolation of doctoral education in the times of COVID-19: recommendations for building relationships within person-environment theory	39
A conceptual framework to enhance student online learning and engagement in higher education	33
Students’ views about the purpose of higher education: a comparative analysis of six European countries	33
Student life in the age of COVID-19	32
Making connections: authenticity and alienation within students’ relationships in higher education	32
The relative importance of work experience, extra-curricular and university-based activities on student employability	31
Students’ use of learning management systems and desired e-learning experiences: are they ready for next generation digital learning environments?	31
How can universities better support the mental wellbeing of higher degree research students? A study of students’ suggestions	29
Economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic for higher education: a circuit breaker in Australian universities’ business model?	29
Assessment for inclusion: rethinking contemporary strategies in assessment design	26
Reflections on COVID-19 and impacts on equitable participation: the case of culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and/or refugee (CALDM/R) students in Australian higher education	26
Reimagining recovery for a more robust internationalization	24
Publish, perish, or pursue? Early career academics’ perspectives on demands for research productivity in regional universities	23
A commentary on the criteria of effective teaching in post-COVID higher education	23
The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on PhD candidates’ study progress and study wellbeing	22
A mapping of graduate attributes: what can we expect from UK university students?	22
Writing in English as an additional language: challenges encountered by doctoral students	21

Does the group matter? Effects of trust, cultural diversity, and group formation on engagement in group work in higher education	20
Supervising the PhD: identifying common mismatches in expectations between candidate and supervisor to improve research training outcomes	20
Embracing the possibilities of disruption	20
The relentless price of high individualism in the pandemic	19
Improving the understanding of written peer feedback through face-to-face peer dialogue: students’ perspective	19
Faculty stressors and their relations to teacher efficacy, engagement and teaching satisfaction	19
Forty years of social justice research in Australasia: examining equity in inequitable settings	19
Theoretical foundations of phenomenography: a critical review	19
Service-learning: impacts of learning motivation and learning experience on extended social/civic engagement	19
Exploring the effects of the COVID-19 emergency remote education on students’ social and academic integration in higher education in Austria	19
Students’ approach to learning: evidence regarding the importance of the interest-to-effort ratio	18
Accelerated transformation: designing global online higher education	18
A comparative institutional analysis on strategies deployed by Australian and Japanese universities to prepare students for employment	18
Students’ preferences for seating arrangements and their engagement in cooperative learning activities in college English blended learning classrooms in higher education	18
How a professional development programme for university teachers impacts their teaching-related self-efficacy, self-concept, and subjective knowledge	17
Developing and evaluating nationwide expert-delivered academic integrity workshops for the higher education sector in Australia	17
Competencies or capabilities in the Australian higher education landscape and its implications for the development and delivery of sustainability education	17
Doctoral writing for publication	17
The impact of perceived psychosocial environment and academic emotions on higher education students’ intentions to drop out	16
Well-being and student–faculty interactions in higher education	16
The role of internationalisation in 40 years of higher education research: major themes from Higher Education Research & Development (1982–2020)	16
International student management in China: growing pains and system transitions	16
Academic identities research: mapping the field’s theoretical frameworks	15
Illuminating the liminality of the doctoral journey: precarity, agency and COVID-19	15
Peer feedback and teacher feedback: a comparative study of revision effectiveness in writing instruction for EFL learners	15
Exploring course experiences that predict psychological distress and mental wellbeing in Australian undergraduate and graduate coursework students	15
Evaluating critical success factors in the permanence in Higher Education using multi-criteria decision-making	15
Student peer review as a process of knowledge creation through dialogue	15
International education through a bioecological development lens – a case study of Chinese doctoral students in Australia	15
‘The university doesn’t care about the impact it is having on us’: academic experiences of the institutionalisation of blended learning	14
Responding to the call: talanoa, va-vā, early career network and enabling academic pathways at a university in New Zealand	14
The battle-hardened academic: an exploration of the resilience of university academics in the face of ongoing criticism and rejection of their research	14
Living, breathing settler-colonialism: the reification of settler norms in a common university space	14
Responsiveness vs. accessibility: pandemic-driven shift to remote teaching and online learning	14
Students as customers versus as active agents: conceptualising the student role in governance and quality assurance	14
Mapping the contours of digital journeys: a study of international students’ social networks in Australian higher education	13
Paying the piper: the governance of vice-chancellors’ remuneration in Australian and UK universities	13
Factors influencing PhD students’ intentions to pursue careers in the government and nonprofit sectors: evidence from a global survey	13
‘Don’t let anyone bring me down again’: applying ‘possible selves’ to understanding persistence of mature-age first-in-family students	13
Talanoa vā: indigenous masculinities and the intersections of indigeneity, race, and gender within higher education	12
From learner to teacher: (re)training graduate teaching assistants’ teaching approaches and developing self-efficacy for and interest in teaching	12
Enhancing co-supervision practice by setting expectations in a structured discussion using a research-informed tool	12
COVID19 – resilient education in the islands	12
‘I feel lost and somehow messy’: a narrative inquiry into the identity struggle of a first-year university student	12
Sense of belonging in second-year undergraduate students: the value of extracurricular activities	12
What critical thinking skills and dispositions do new graduates need for professional life? Views from Portuguese employers in different fields	12
Publishing and flourishing: writing for desire in higher education	12
Politicising inclusive learning environments: how to foster belonging and challenge ableism?	12
The contribution of different types of work-integrated learning to graduate employability	12
Mental health and wellbeing of postgraduate researchers: exploring the relationship between mental health literacy, help-seeking behaviour, psychological distress, and wellbeing	12

Decolonising the Indigenised curricula: preparing Australian graduates for a workplace and world in flux	12
Students’ perceptions of student voice in assessment within the context of Iran: the dynamics of culture, power relations, and student knowledge	11
English as a ‘double barrier’: English medium instruction and student learning at Vietnamese transnational universities	11
Reframing first-generation entry: how the familial habitus shapes aspirations for higher education among prospective first-generation students	11
An exploratory study on assessing reflective writing from teachers’ perspectives	11
Pandemic productivity in academia: using ecological momentary assessment to explore the impact of COVID-19 on research productivity	11
Academics’ dress: gender and aesthetic labour in the Australian university	11
Where does all the ‘know how’ go? The role of tacit knowledge in research impact	11
Students’ learning patterns and learning spaces in higher education: an empirical investigation in China	11
Student learning ecologies in online higher education: a model to support connected learning across contexts	11
Advancement and subordination of women academics in Saudi Arabia’s higher education	10
Perceived organisational support and university students’ career exploration: the mediation role of career adaptability	10
Enhancing student resilience by targeting staff resilience, attitudes and practices	10
How a centralised approach to learning design influences students: a mixed methods study	10
Working at a cultural interface: co-creating Aboriginal health curriculum for health professions	10
Graduate employability: the higher education landscape in Australia	10
African refugee youth in Australia: higher education participation	10
Enhancing students’ critical thinking skills through engagement with innovative pedagogical practices in Global South	10
‘Context’ matters: factors considered by employers when selecting new graduate veterinarians	10
Impacts of a professional practice doctorate: a collaborative enquiry	10
Academics’ perceptions and experiences of working with students with mental health problems: insights from across the UK higher education sector	10
The first steps on the journey towards curriculum reconciliation in science, medicine and health education	10
Amplifying Indigenous voice and curriculum within the public health academy – the emergence of Indigenous sovereign leadership in public health education	10
Pacific women’s experiences working in universities in Aotearoa New Zealand	10
Academic acculturation in 2 + 2 joint programmes: students’ perspectives	10
Credibility in educational development: trustworthiness, expertise, and identification	10
Dropping out of master’s degrees: objective predictors and subjective reasons	10
Students as partners practices and theorisations in Asia: a scoping review	10
COVID-19 and Indigenous resilience	10
Analogues of engagement: Assessing tertiary student engagement in contemporary face-to-face and blended learning contexts	9
Transforming lives: the power of an Australian enabling education	9
Unpacking vulnerability in academic writing and publishing: a tale of two non-native English speaker scholars in China	9
Understanding and expressing academic identity through systematic autoethnography	9
The paradoxical management of casual academics: an Australian case study	9
A voyage around the ideological islands of higher education research	9
Towards a pedagogical and sociotechnical framework for the strategic integration of mobile learning in higher education in low and middle income countries	9
Let nine universities blossom: opportunities and constraints on the development of higher education in China	9
Working to learn and learning to work: research on higher education and the world of work	9
Students matter: the role of doctoral students in university–industry collaborations	9
What do undergraduate students understand by excellent teaching?	9
Experiences of university employees of the impact of a mindful self-care and resiliency program on their well-being	9
Understanding international postgraduate students’ educational mobility to China: an ecological systematic perspective	9
Targeting student learning needs: the development and preliminary validation of the Learning Needs Questionnaire for a diverse university student population	9
A systematic literature review of micro-credentials in higher education: a non-zero-sum game	9
Comparison of workload and academic performances of transfer and native students in an Asian educational context	9
A year of change for Hong Kong: from east-meets-west to east-clashes-with-west	8
Appreciative inquiry as a developmental research approach for higher education pedagogy: space for the shadow	8
In our own words: Pacific Early Career Academics (PECA) and Pacific knowledges in higher education pedagogical praxis	8
Non-routine problem solving through the lens of self-efficacy	8
Peer learning and the undergraduate journey: a framework for student success	8
Employability development and career outcomes from short-term learning abroad programmes	8
Shifting sands: navigating being academic in an evolving sector	8
Critique of the article, ‘Theoretical foundations of phenomenography: a critical review’	8
Transforming educators’ practice: how university educators learned to teach online from home during the Covid-19 pandemic	8
Containing and harnessing uncertainty during postgraduate research supervision	8
‘I knew I had the support from them’: understanding student support through a student engagement lens	8
Layered spaces: a pedagogy of uncomfortable reflexivity in Indigenous education	8
Factors that enable Australian Aboriginal women’s persistence at university: a strengths-based approach	8