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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The homeification of learning in higher education	70
International student flows into provincial China – the main motivations for higher education students	57
The costs of and economies of scale in supporting students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds in Australian higher education	55
Shaping the time to be a good teacher: a case study on teacher excellence and time ownership in a British transnational university	42
A deep dive into taught postgraduates’ participation in work-integrated learning	42
A model of academic developers’ formation and growth of professional identity: a focus on the affective factors	39
Assessment for student transitions and success: a scoping review of assessment principles in Australian enabling education	37
Exploring partnerships between public libraries and universities in regional low-socioeconomic communities: the student experience	36
Beyond language: fostering an intercultural mindset in foreign language classrooms in Japan	35
Diffusing innovation to support faculty engagement in the integration of language and content across the disciplines in an internationalized Canadian university	33
Re-storying career practitioners’ professional identities as career and employability specialists through an online WIL capstone	31
Wandering into the weeds or planting seeds? Balancing depth and breadth in early and late career research	27
Student perceptions of peer cheating behaviour during COVID-19 induced online teaching and assessment	26
Re-weaving learning ecologies: a pluriversal framework for higher education learning spaces	26
The impact of large language models on university students’ literacy development: a dialogue with Lea and Street’s academic literacies framework	26
Accountability, ethics and knowledge production: racialised academic staff navigating competing expectations in the social production of research with marginalised communities	25
African challenges to western-centric metrics in evaluating international research collaboration	22
Supporting the academic success of underrecognised higher education students through an immersive block model	21
Exploring the meaning of campus through lived experiences of students, staff, and visitors	20
Measuring institutions’ country brand authenticity in transnational higher education	20
Nation-bounded internationalization of higher education: a comparative analysis of two periphery countries	20
The impact of mandatory academic service-learning on university graduates’ continual civic engagement: evidence from a curriculum reform	20
Drawing as thinking through: students’ use of collaborative drawing to examine ‘problemical’ situations	19
‘Can teaching help me get promoted?’ A qualitative study of the career development of pre-tenure faculty in China	19
Caught ‘in-between’: insights into international students’ doctoral thesis writing practices in China	18

Dancing in a red dress: Empowering metaphors of academics’ experiences of the manuscript peer review process	18
Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education	17
Embodied learning for wicked problems and societal transitions: perspectives from transdisciplinary higher education practitioners	17
Forty years of social justice research in Australasia: examining equity in inequitable settings	17
European credit transfer and accumulation system as a time-based predictor of student workload	17
Narratives of success: high-achieving women with disabilities navigating higher education in Australia	17
Professional adaptation of international academics: a critical discussion through the lens of complexity theory	16
Early career researchers as active followers: perceived demands of supervisory interventions in academic workplaces	16
How can we conceptualise the current position of the retrospective PhD through published work in British Universities?	16
College students’ sense of belonging in times of disruption: prospective changes from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Cultivating research skills through scholarly digital storytelling	16
Sustaining teaching and learning innovations: a scoping review	16
‘Challenging from the start’: novice doctoral co-supervisors’ experiences of supervision culture and practice	16
Beyond the physical/virtual: connected learning spaces in postgraduate business education	15
Settler nation-building through immigration as a rationale for higher education: a critical discourse analysis	15
Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing	15
What makes PhD researchers think seriously about discontinuing? an exploration of risk factors and risk profiles	14
Love, loss and a doctorate: an autoethnography of grieving while writing a PhD	14
‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity	14
Direct instruction or active learning? The spectrum of first-year university teaching practices	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
Near-peer teaching in a university outdoor environmental education programme: following footprints in the sand	14
Internationalization of higher education in tumultuous times: transformative powers and problems in embattled Ukraine	13
Student learning ecologies in online higher education: a model to support connected learning across contexts	13
Challenges of delivering Australian research honours programmes for healthcare professions	13
Cyberbullying in first-year university students and its influence on their intentions to drop out	13
The feedback process as a scaffold of evaluative judgement	13
Digital reading and gender inequality in higher education	13
Preparing for work placements: sensemaking among international health science students	13
Work-integrated learning: opportunities and challenges in Australia	13
Shaping a sustainable doctoral pathway: a critical analysis of reflexive mediation between structure and agency in the PhD experience	13
In the cleft of a rock: Experiences in the in-between space of learning among undergraduate arts and design students	13
Intersectionality and equality policies in Higher Education and Research organizations: a critical scoping review and future research agenda	12
Working at the level above: university promotion policies as a tool for wage theft and underpayment	12
Heading the road less travelled: exploring Chinese students’ motivations to study in Tanzania	12
Co-design practice in higher education: practice theory insights into collaborative curriculum development	12
Academic casualisation and precarity: a scoping review	12
Who are learning designers in post-pandemic Australasian universities?	12
Plagiarism in EMI higher education: conceptual understanding of staff and students in four South Asian countries	12
Student empowerment for internationalisation at a distance: enacting the students as partners approach in virtual mobility	12
Disrupting the self: self-identity, discomfort and (un)becoming through the research process	12
Using peer feedback, teacher feedback and self-assessment to enhance students’ feedback literacy behaviour	12
(De)construction of stigma attached to global South-South student mobility: voices from Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia	12
The contribution of different types of work-integrated learning to graduate employability	11
The reshaping of higher education: technological impacts, pedagogical change, and future projections	11
Unveiling the hidden key: can help-seeking behaviors bridge the gap between doctoral supervision relationship and research self-efficacy of PhD candidates?	11
‘Undisciplining’ higher education without losing disciplines: furthering transformative potential for students	11
Capturing connections during COVID-19: Using photography to assess US college students’ sense of belonging	11
Remote learning and its implications toward study-life conflicts and the mental health of university students: does studying at home or campus matter?	11
Mobilising resilience to symbolic violence with Chinese international research students in Australia: a Bourdieusian perspective	10

Student agency: two students’ agentic actions in challenging oppressive practices on a diverse university campus	10
Optimism bias as a barrier to accessing mental health support amongst tertiary students	10
Perceived organisational support and university students’ career exploration: the mediation role of career adaptability	10
AI and its implications for research in higher education: a critical dialogue	10
‘No university without community’: engaging the community in social work simulations	10
Collegiality as collective affect: who carries the burden of the labour of attunement?	10
Global diffusion of quality assurance research in higher education: a study on collaboration and concepts	9
Common misunderstandings of phenomenographic research in higher education	9
A preliminary study on the reality of autonomy in Georgian universities	9
Mobilization and stigmatization: PhD admissions in wartime	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
Does university attendance affect students’ critical and creative thinking skills? A longitudinal research with pre-service teaching and psychology undergraduates	9
Navigating tensions between institutional and cultural quandaries: reflexive journey of Chinese female doctoral students	9
Adjustment to higher education among students with mental health disorders	9
Mapping future work skills in the bachelor of arts: findings from an Australian study	9
Compassion in higher education: fashion or future for relational pedagogies?	9
Spatial fluencies: acts of navigation and negotiation in the postdigital learning environment	9
Towards an effective change framework for scholarly teaching in higher education professional degrees	9
Academic performance of first-year university students: modelling the role of reading competence	9
Priority setting in higher education research using a mixed methods approach	9
Fostering a culture of qualitative research and scholarly publication in a leading university in the West Bank: a Palestinian-UK capacity-building collaboration	8
Why shouldn't teacher education produce ‘ready-to-teach’ graduates? Mapping a pathway to alternative teacher education and teacher becomings	8
Student–faculty interaction and academic self-concept: the intersection of race and gender	8
Major-based undergraduate curriculum as an obstacle to graduate employability development	8
What factors contribute to higher grades in a first-year undergraduate management unit: an exploratory study at an Australian university	8
Caring for educational concerns	8
Fostering technology-inclusive transitions in Irish higher education for students with disabilities	8
The role of extra-/co-curricular activities and work on law graduates’ initial employment outcomes	8
Academics’ perceived space in negotiating university-industry collaboration: a case study in two universities in Mainland China	8
Global citizenship education in Korean higher education: moving beyond transformative calls to praxes	8
Implications of ChatGPT for higher education institutions: exploring Nepali university students’ perspectives	8
Toward a consensual definition of educational research and development: a Delphi study	8
Undergraduate perceptions of graduate teaching assistants: competence, relatedness, and autonomy in practice	8
Keep it brief: Can a 4-item stress screener predict university adjustment over 18 months?	8
Time to act: Mental health and desired university supports among graduate students	7
The role of agency in social justice education: insights from a practising inclusion in higher education micro-credential	7
Peer-mentoring and doctoral student retention: a longitudinal investigation	7
Are international students relatively resilient? Comparing international and domestic students’ levels of self-compassion, mental health and wellbeing	7
Beyond the ivory tower: a survey of European university board members’ perspectives on institutional policy priorities	7
Troubling knowledge in Australian Indigenous Studies: how prior knowledge affects undergraduate student learning	7
An Indigenous Australian Cultural Wealth Mentoring Model	7
Uncovering design considerations for embedding transdisciplinarity in higher education – an empirical exploration of a transdisciplinary global health program	7
Capturing the shifting work of teaching in higher education through postcards of practice	7
Doctoral intelligence: a framework for developing mindsets for doctorateness in changing doctoral contexts	7
Enhancing perceptions of employability amongst first-year arts students and implications for student belonging	7
Universities Australia 2017–2020 Indigenous Strategy: a meta-synthesis of the issues and challenges	7
Academics’ practices and perceptions of career development learning in the curriculum	7
Enriching work-integrated learning: conceptions of integrating Indigenous reflective practices	7