OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Higher Education Policy is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Affirmative Action and Gender Parity in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Ghana's Legal Framework	75
Scholarship Schemes in Cambodian Higher Education: Unpacking Why Lower-Income Students are Lagging Behind	67
Multidimensional Evaluation of Higher Education Compensation Systems: An Empirical Study Based on China's Universities	51
Decoding Academic Integrity Policies: A Corpus Linguistics Investigation of AI and Other Technological Threats	33
Does University Level the Playing Field? Impacts of Spatial Inequalities on the Gap in the Earnings of Similar Graduates: Evidence from the UK	25
Decoding Legitimacy: A Comparative Analysis of Strategic Positioning of Sino-Foreign Cooperative Universities	20
More Similarities than Differences: Mid-Level Administrators’ Perceptions of Resource Allocation in Chinese Universities	20
From an Input to an Output: The Discursive Uses of External Research Funding in Academic Career Assessment	16
Global Discourses, National Policies, and Academic Careers: Addressing Academic Precarity in Portugal Through the OECD Lens	16
Formative Ideas of the National University: A Thematic Analysis of Texts from the Long 19th Century	14
In Search of Organizational Actorhood: Institutional Positioning Statements of Turkish Public Universities	12
Strengthening the Research Enterprise Workforce in Higher Education: Identifying Adjacent Talent for Research Support Roles	10
The Politics of Higher Education: The Battle Over the Control of Knowledge in Africa	10
Evaluating the Higher Education Enrollment Crisis in Hunan Province, China: Sustainable Strategies and Pathways Amidst Declining Birth Rates	10
Moving Beyond Adjunctification in Portugal’s Universities: Research and Development Unit Directors’ Perspectives	10
Institutional Logics as a Theoretical Framework: A Comparison of Performance Based Funding Policies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France	9
A Dialectical Perspective on an Institutional Change Process in Higher Education	8
Decolonization and Higher Education: A Critical Review of a Contemporary Concern, Policy and Theory	8
How do Quality Assurance Agencies in Asia Measure Higher Education? Exploring Approaches, Emerging Standards, and Challenges	8
Higher Education Expansion and Diversification: Privatization, Distance Learning, and Market Concentration in Brazil, 2002–2016	7
Civil Society in Action: Examining CSOs' Influence on Higher Education Policy in Turkey	7
Publishing Local Articles and Book Chapters: A Gamer’s Shortcut to Promotion in a Metric-Based Academic System	7
Fertile Ground for Establishing American-Style Universities in Post-conflict Societies: Historical Comparisons and Current Rationales	7
University Boards and Institutional Governance After New Public Management Reforms: A Comparison Across Four European Countries	7
From Academic Autonomy to Close Collaboration: The Employability Strategies of Local Higher Education Institutions in Portugal	6

Women’s Leadership Dilemma: Why Ethiopian Women in Academia Prefer to Stay away from Decision-Making?	6
“A Seat at the Table”: A Conceptual Model to Frame Shared Governance from the Perspectives of Faculty Senate Presidents	6
Gendered Policies in Ethiopian Higher Education: Are Policy Promises Vanishing with Time?	6
A Comparative Analysis of University Investment Policies and Procedures Related to Responsible Investing	6
Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Gender Equality Perception Scale for Universities (G.E.P.S.U.)	6
Explaining Government Policy Inaction on International Student Housing in Australia: The Perspectives of Stakeholders	6
Systematic Oppression of Tertiary Education in Iran Under the Islamic Republic	6
“You have to Survive Before Ideals”: Affective Politics and the Reproduction of Hybrid Capital Under “Up-or-Out” Policy in Chinese Universities	5
University Umbrella Structures: The Slovak Route to Institutional Mergers or Organisational Semblance of Plausible Policy Imitation?	5
Beyond Common Sense: An inquiry into Neoliberalism and English as the Medium of Instruction in Taiwanese Higher Education	5
Of Performance and Impact: How AACSB Accreditation Contributes to Research in Business Schools	5
How Higher Education Institutions Walk Their Talk on the 2030 Agenda: A Systematic Literature Review	5
Power to the People: Measuring Social Media and Mass Media Impact for Promotion and Tenure in Social and Applied Sciences	5
Analyzing the Institutional Diversity and Increasing Complexity in a Market-Oriented University System: The Case of Chile (2008–2020)	5
Resource Dependency and Organizational Image Management: The Case of Research Universities in China	5
Reactive Management of University Reputation During the COVID Crisis: Governance and the Control of Public Narratives in Chinese Higher Education	5
Handling Multiple Institutional Logics in Professorial Recruitment	5
Policy Design and Institutional Resistance to Reform: The Case of Institutional Governance Reform in Italian Universities	4
Creating an Identity of Impact in a Newly Developing Irish Technological University Sector: A Qualitative Case Study of Impact Influences at the Technological University of the Shannon	4
Towards a Decolonised University in South Africa: Filling the Blanks	4
Notions of Quality and Excellence Within a Centre for Excellence Initiative in Higher Education	4
Policy Tensions Between Discourses on Internationalisation and Gender in Swedish Higher Education	4
Managing Crisis Overload in Israeli Higher Education: Exploring the Servant Leadership Roles of Program and Department Heads During Uncertain Times	4
Building Bridges: International Institutions and Syrian Youth in Turkish Higher Education	4
Publisher Correction: Promoting an Inclusive Self-Study: Lessons Learned and Strategies for Accreditation	4
Multi-actor Policy Dynamics in Research Evaluation: Experts, Databases, and Academics	3
Changing the Culture of Sexual Violence at UK Universities: A Website Analysis of Definitions, Report/Support and Prevent Mechanisms	3
Faculty Promotion Policy and the Academic Capitalist Regime: Professors’ Actions in Two Colombian Academic Departments	3
International Organizations’ Influence on Higher Education Policy in Authoritarian States: The Case of Tajikistan, 1991–2025	3
Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education: Critical Reflections	3
Transnational Higher Education in China: Policies, Practices, and Development in a (Post-)Pandemic Era	3
Can University Leaders Effectively Promote Research on Complex Societal Challenges? A Change-Agency Perspective	3
Digital Inequality and Transformation in South African Higher Education During COVID-19: A Comparative Analysis of Historically Disadvantaged and Historically Advantaged Universities	3
Early Career Academic’s Associations: A Study of Resistance and Empowerment on Social Media	3
The Price of Pathways: Student Borrowing Behavior across Postsecondary Pathways Revisited	3
Barriers to Teaching and Research Provision in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Internationalization of Higher Education and Emerging National Rationales: Comparative Analysis of the Global North and South	3
Narrating the Belt and Road Education Policy: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis	3
Building Institutional Research Workforce in Postsecondary Education: Exploring Institutional Research Professionals’ Conceptualizations of their Professional Identities	3
Democratic Backsliding and the Balance Wheel Hypothesis: Partisanship and State Funding for Higher Education in the United States	2
Correction: Difference-in-Difference Estimation of the Global Diasporas Attraction Program Effects on International Research Publications in Top Chinese Research Institutions	2
Correction: Organizational Resilience of Higher Education Institutions: An Empirical Study during Covid-19 Pandemic	2
Pedagogical Guerrillas: Contained Resistance and the Dual Critique in China’s Neoliberalized Higher Education	2
University Networks for Higher Education Quality Development: Between Mutual Trust and Control	2
Reforming Doctoral Education in Uzbekistan: Models, Rules and Norms of Behaviour	2
Navigating the Borderline: Identity Construction of IR Professionals in Non-administrative Positions in Chinese Regional Universities	2
Can the Locked-In Be Unlocked? University Stratification in China Under State-Led Quest for World-Class Universities	2
Examining the Disconnect Between College Access and Choice: Low-income Chinese Students Amid Massification	2
Time Matters in Higher Education: How the ECTS Changes Ideas of Desired Student Conduct	2
Regional Organisations and Policy Entrepreneurs: Shaping the Southeast Asian Higher Education Common Space	2

Regulating International Admissions: Unintended Consequences on Domestic First-Generation Students’ Access to Higher Education	2
International Higher Education and Cross-Border Connections: Evidence from Asia	2
The Complexities and Lengthiness of Undergraduate Admission System in Bangladesh. Does the General, Science and Technology (GST) Universities Integrated Admission System Need Reformation?	2
Skills Mismatch or Skills Mishmash? Problem Representation in England’s Lifelong Loan Entitlement Policy	2
Breaking Down Biases: Exploring Implementation of Affirmative Action Programs in Ethiopian Universities from the Eyes of Female Students and Faculty at Madda Walabu University	2
What’s the Problem Represented to Be? A Qualitative Analysis of Policy Guidance for Australian University Responses to Sexual Violence	2
Just Passing Through? Exploring Regional Disparities in Vertical Transfer Intent in Ontario, Canada	2
Friends or Foes: Decoding OPM Partnerships in Higher Education through Text Mining	2
Cross-country Relationships Between Student Funding Policies and Student Labour	1
Policy-Mediated Epistemic Control: How Authoritarian Regimes Repurpose Graduate Political Science Research Agenda–The Case of Islamic Republic of Iran	1
Indigenous Doctoral Education Policies in the Global South: Postcolonial Policy Borrowing in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and South Africa	1
Measuring Geographic Opportunity for Higher Education in US Metropolitan Areas	1
Discipline Rankings and University Admission Attractiveness: Quasi-Natural Experimental Evidence from China	1
Prominence, Promotion and Positioning of the ‘Thesis by Publication’ in Six Countries	1
Technology Development Zones as a Form of University–Industry Relations: A Multiple-Case Study	1
Gaining or Losing Momentum? The Perceived Educational Role of University Student Hostels in Hong Kong from 1980 to 2020	1
Operationalising University Excellence in Doctoral Education: The Case of Top-Ranked Russian Universities	1
Two Decades of the Bologna Process in Cameroonian Higher Education: Changes, Challenges, and Prospects	1
Is Admission Enough? University Persistence of Students Admitted Through Affirmative Action Policies in Chile	1
Bending the Curve: Institutional Factors Associated with Graduation Rates	1
“We had No Choice”: Lecturers’ Experiences with a Top-Down Approach to the Institutional Adoption of Blended Learning	1
The Right to be Fairly Assessed	1
Academic Publishing in Small Island Developing States: Does University Research Support Development?	1
Political Capital Imbalance Between University Leaders and University Academic Publications: Evidence from Elite Universities in China	1
Challenges in Career Development for Women Academics: A Case Study of a First-Tier University in Mainland China	1
The Hybrid Model of Academic Capitalism in Iranian Higher Education: A Complex Interplay of Neoliberal and State-Controlled Practices	1
From Bologna to Belt and Road: Comparing Models of Higher Education Regionalisation	1
The ‘Problem’ of University-Industry Linkages: Insights from Australia	1
Barriers to Articulation: Resource Dependencies, Networks and Status Dynamics	1
Quantification as Institutional Narrative and Affective Device: Reframing University Community Engagement in Chilean Higher Education Policy	1
Between Ideals and Realities: Investigating Perspectives of Chinese Postgraduate Researchers with Experience and Expertise in Higher Education Internationalization	1
Stagnation and De-segregation: The Expansion of Palestinian Arabs Education in Israel	1
Reimagining Higher Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Chinese Students’ Desires for Overseas Learning and Implications for University Governance	1
North–South Partnerships as a Strategy for Internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions: Experiences in Sweden and Mozambique	1
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Interplay Between Scientific and Entrepreneurial Passion in Shaping the Frustration–Intention Relationship in the Academia	1
A Process for Institutional Adoption and Diffusion of Blended Learning in Higher Education	1
Gendered Time-Use Patterns in Academic Activities Among Researchers in Germany and Norway	1
Game of Brains: Examining Researcher Brain Gain and Brain Drain and Research University Policy	1
A Systematic Review of the Impact of Performance-Based Funding in the US	1
‘Homo Metricus’: The New Academic Worker. How Quantitative Research Evaluation Practices Reshape the Intellectual Capital Needed to Succeed in Contemporary Universities?	1
The Impact of Policy Adoption of University-Affiliated Think Tanks on Economic Growth: A Fixed Effects Model Test Based on China’s Provincial Panel Data	1
Management of Research Projects in Universities: Perspectives of Research Managers	1
Bologna Process and Its Impact on Spanish Graduates Employability: Good News Yet to Come	1
The Participation Dilemma: Service-Learning Policy and Institutional Practice in Central China’s Universities	1
An Analysis of the COVID-19-Induced Flexible Grading Policy at a Public University	1
The Geography of Opportunity for College Preparation in College Deserts and Oases	1
A Policy Analysis of Nigeria’s University Admission Quota System: Rurality and the Reproduction of Structural Inequalities	1
Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Excellence in Academic Research? a Study of Science and Engineering Faculty Members in China	1