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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Multi-actor Policy Dynamics in Research Evaluation: Experts, Databases, and Academics	50
What Has Been the Impact of COVID-19 on Driving Digitalization, Innovation and Crisis Management of Higher Education and Quality Assurance?—A Taiwan Case Study in Alignment with the INQAAHE Virtual Re	45
Power to the People: Measuring Social Media and Mass Media Impact for Promotion and Tenure in Social and Applied Sciences	38
Handling Multiple Institutional Logics in Professorial Recruitment	28
The Effects of Parenthood on Grant Application in China: The Case of an Early Career Grant	24
Narrating the Belt and Road Education Policy: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis	21
A Social Ladder or a Glass Floor? The Role of Higher Education in Intergenerational Social Mobility: Empirical Evidence from South Korea	20
Technology Development Zones as a Form of University–Industry Relations: A Multiple-Case Study	15
The Implementation of Research Policy: The Case of Two State Universities in Cameroon	14
Faculty Promotion Policy and the Academic Capitalist Regime: Professors’ Actions in Two Colombian Academic Departments	14
Resource Allocation in China’s Public Universities: Administrators’ Perceptions	12
University Umbrella Structures: The Slovak Route to Institutional Mergers or Organisational Semblance of Plausible Policy Imitation?	12
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	11
Separate But Equal? Diversity Policy Narratives in Israeli Higher Education	11
Does University Level the Playing Field? Impacts of Spatial Inequalities on the Gap in the Earnings of Similar Graduates: Evidence from the UK	11
The ‘Problem’ of University-Industry Linkages: Insights from Australia	9
A Process for Institutional Adoption and Diffusion of Blended Learning in Higher Education	9
From an Input to an Output: The Discursive Uses of External Research Funding in Academic Career Assessment	8
Scholarship Schemes in Cambodian Higher Education: Unpacking Why Lower-Income Students are Lagging Behind	8
Political Capital Imbalance Between University Leaders and University Academic Publications: Evidence from Elite Universities in China	7
Management of Research Projects in Universities: Perspectives of Research Managers	7
Gaining or Losing Momentum? The Perceived Educational Role of University Student Hostels in Hong Kong from 1980 to 2020	6
Indigenous Peoples and Higher Education Governance: Decolonizing the Ivory Tower	6
National Scholarship Program for Short-term Exchange Abroad as a Policy Instrument: A Comparative Study of New Colombo Plan and Turing Scheme	5
Between Ideals and Realities: Investigating Perspectives of Chinese Postgraduate Researchers with Experience and Expertise in Higher Education Internationalization	5

Building Institutional Research Workforce in Postsecondary Education: Exploring Institutional Research Professionals’ Conceptualizations of their Professional Identities	5
Discipline Rankings and University Admission Attractiveness: Quasi-Natural Experimental Evidence from China	5
Gendered Time-Use Patterns in Academic Activities Among Researchers in Germany and Norway	5
‘Homo Metricus’: The New Academic Worker. How Quantitative Research Evaluation Practices Reshape the Intellectual Capital Needed to Succeed in Contemporary Universities?	5
Decoding Academic Integrity Policies: A Corpus Linguistics Investigation of AI and Other Technological Threats	4
COVID-19 and Well-Being of Non-local Students: Implications for International Higher Education Governance	4
Reading the Internationalisation Imperative in Higher Education Institutions: External Contexts and Internal Positionings	4
Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education: Critical Reflections	4
Communicating COVID-19: Analyzing Higher Education Institutional Responses in Canada, China, and the USA	4
Reactive Management of University Reputation During the COVID Crisis: Governance and the Control of Public Narratives in Chinese Higher Education	4
Academic Publishing in Small Island Developing States: Does University Research Support Development?	3
Managing and Incentivising Research Impact: Evidence from Australia	3
Early Career Academic’s Associations: A Study of Resistance and Empowerment on Social Media	3
Children of a Lesser God? Demand-Driven Mechanism and the Potential Rise of Unequal Competition in IHES	3
The Price of Pathways: Student Borrowing Behavior across Postsecondary Pathways Revisited	3
Cross-country Relationships Between Student Funding Policies and Student Labour	3
Neighbor-Effects and Economies of Scale and Scope at Public Community Colleges	3
Politicizing Vaccination Requirements: American University Responses in the Era of COVID-19	3
Studying the Relation Between Stakeholder Input and Higher Education Policy	3
The Third Space in Higher Education: A Scoping Review	3
In Search of Organizational Actorhood: Institutional Positioning Statements of Turkish Public Universities	3
Changing Research Structures and Academic Staff Competence in the Swiss Non-traditional University Sector	3
Where to Publish: Chinese HSS Academics’ Responses to ‘Breaking SSCI Supremacy’ Policies	3
Notions of Quality and Excellence Within a Centre for Excellence Initiative in Higher Education	3
Wage Subsidies, Slack Resources and Behavioural Additionality: Evidence from Universities	3
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Interplay Between Scientific and Entrepreneurial Passion in Shaping the Frustration–Intention Relationship in the Academia	3
Beyond Common Sense: An inquiry into Neoliberalism and English as the Medium of Instruction in Taiwanese Higher Education	3
Democratic Backsliding and the Balance Wheel Hypothesis: Partisanship and State Funding for Higher Education in the United States	3
Publisher Correction: Promoting an Inclusive Self-Study: Lessons Learned and Strategies for Accreditation	3
China’s Higher Education Policy Change from 211 Project and 985 Project to the Double-first-class Plan: Applying Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework	2
Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Excellence in Academic Research? a Study of Science and Engineering Faculty Members in China	2
Institutional Logics as a Theoretical Framework: A Comparison of Performance Based Funding Policies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France	2
Characteristics of Policy Instrument Choices and Optimisation Strategies for the Quality of Postgraduate Education in China: An Application of Schneider and Ingram's Framework for Analysing Policy Ins	2
Socioeconomic Segregation in Higher Education: Evidence for Chile (2009–2017)	2
The College Admission Policy Evolution from 2003 to 2020 in China—A Social Network Analysis	2
Formative Ideas of the National University: A Thematic Analysis of Texts from the Long 19th Century	2
Examining Project-Based Governance of Higher Vocational Education in China: A Case Study	2
Masked Resistance in Neoliberal Academia: Academics’ Responses to the Research Assessment Exercise 2020 in Hong Kong	2
Ghost Students, Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Problem of Engagement-as-Accountability in UK HE Policy	1
The Right to be Fairly Assessed	1
Overcoming the Barriers to Establishing Interdisciplinary Degree Programmes: The Perspective of Managing Organisational Innovation	1
Our Selfish Side: Exploring Support for Student Debt Forgiveness Through the Lens of Self-interest	1
Beyond the Bench: The Professional Identity of Research Management and Administration	1
Decolonization and Higher Education: A Critical Review of a Contemporary Concern, Policy and Theory	1
The Economic and Cultural Withdrawal of Academic Teaching in Italy: Adjunct Professors as a Case Study	1
Academic Freedom as a Fundamental Feature of Academia: A European Union Perspective	1
Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Appointment, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Criteria: Does It Matter?	1
Higher Education Expansion and Diversification: Privatization, Distance Learning, and Market Concentration in Brazil, 2002–2016	1
Emerging Resources of China’s Soft Power: A Case Study of Cambodian Participants from Chinese Higher Education Programs	1
The Politics of Higher Education: The Battle Over the Control of Knowledge in Africa	1

Teacher-Researcher Autonomy of Chinese EFL Academics: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Design	1
Enhancing Students’ Employability through University–Industry Partnerships in Kazakhstan	1
Higher Education Governance in Poland: Reform Pathway from the Communist Regime to Law 2.0	1
Managing Crisis Overload in Israeli Higher Education: Exploring the Servant Leadership Roles of Program and Department Heads During Uncertain Times	1
Can the Locked-In Be Unlocked? University Stratification in China Under State-Led Quest for World-Class Universities	1
Reforming Doctoral Education in Uzbekistan: Models, Rules and Norms of Behaviour	1
University Students’ Knowledge and Views on their Institutions’ Anti-Bullying Policy	1
Elusive Politics: De-internationalizing Higher Education in the Context of International Recognition Conventions	1
Toxic Leadership: A Slow Poison Killing Women Leaders in Higher Education in South Africa?	1
Conceptualising Graduate Outcomes with Critical Realism	1
International Higher Education and Cross-Border Connections: Evidence from Asia	1
How do Quality Assurance Agencies in Asia Measure Higher Education? Exploring Approaches, Emerging Standards, and Challenges	1
A Dialectical Perspective on an Institutional Change Process in Higher Education	1
North–South Partnerships as a Strategy for Internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions: Experiences in Sweden and Mozambique	1
The Relevance of the German Excellence Initiative for Inequality in University Funding	1
Between Autonomy and Central Control: A Tale of Two University Reforms in Turkey During the Single-Party Era	1
Just Passing Through? Exploring Regional Disparities in Vertical Transfer Intent in Ontario, Canada	1
International Student Recruitment During the Pandemic: The Unique Perspective of Recruiters from Small to Medium-Sized Higher Education Institutions	1