OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Teaching in Higher Education 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
From affirmative to transformative approaches to academic development	80
‘It’s a lot of shame’: understanding the impact of gender-based violence on higher education access and participation	58
Transmitting awareness from the body into writing: bringing the Feldenkrais method into the university classroom	47
Multiple aspects of simulation facilitators’ role in higher education: protecting and challenging the learners	46
Exploring sources of engineering students’ academic well-being through Q-methodology research	31
Tutors’ beliefs about language and roles: practice as language policy in EMI contexts	31
Stress and predictive psychosocial variables in Ecuadorian university teachers	31
Anonymous assessment: is it still worth it?	28
Beyond epistemology: the challenge of reconceptualising knowledge in higher education	27
Formative feedback in a multicultural classroom: a review	27
Academics’ perspectives on a student engagement and retention program: dilemmas and deficit discourses	26
Post-anthropocentric pedagogies: purposes, practices, and insights for higher education	23
Scholarship and academic capitals: the boundaried nature of education-focused career tracks	22
Re-contextualising real-life learning to a university setting	21
Exploring online readiness in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic	21
Deconstructing the constraints of justice-based environmental sustainability in higher education	20
The transformation of doctoral education: responding to the needs and expectations of society and candidates	20
The development of critical thinking: what university students have to say	20
ACalledecolonial hack: Afro-Latin theorizing of Philadelphia's spaces of learning and resistance	20
Teacher power and authority: an analysis of exemplar faculty by career stage	19
Why a dispositional view of ecological literacy is needed	18
Metamodern sensibilities: toward a pedagogical framework for a wicked world	18
Assessment as pedagogy: inviting authenticity through relationality, vulnerability and wonder	17
Overt and symbolic linguistic violence: plantation ideology and language reclamation in Northern Ireland	17
Embedded approaches to academic literacy development: a systematic review of empirical research about impact	16

Measuring and mapping authentic assessment with a novel quantitative typology	16
University students’ conceptions and experiences of teacher care amidst online learning	15
What faculty already do: Universal Design for Learning strategies to support autistic students at university	15
Contemplative pedagogy for positive engagement in online teaching and learning in higher education	15
Informal collaborative learning (ICL) – student perspectives on the role of informal collaborative learning ICL in higher education	15
Faculty beliefs and the need for teaching improvement: a conceptual replication study	14
Breathing in, breathing out: the structure of conversational sense-making around equity in higher education teaching	14
Changing cultures of critique: towards context, creativity and care in academic practice	14
Diversities in higher education: academics’ inclusive views and reported practices in a regional Australian university	14
Chinese international doctoral students’ perceptions of publishing: a time–space perspective	14
A Partnership Outcome Spaces framework for purposeful student–staff partnerships	13
Supporting female and gender diverse students in undergraduate STEM courses through enhancing self-efficacy	13
Four questions for teaching conflict for peace, justice, and sustainability: higher education roles and responsibilities	13
Opening up spaces for researching multilingually in higher education	12
Feedback in higher education: aligning academic intent and student sensemaking	12
A moment in and out of time : precarity, liminality, and autonomy in crisis teaching	12
Studying critique locally and pluralistically: a comparative study of critique from a Kuwaiti cultural perspective	12
Socio-cultural and artistic disruption in the Spanish university: the ArtEduca experience	12
AI amplifies the tough question: What is higher education really for?	12
Embedding assessment flexibilities for future authentic learning	12
Precarity and illusions of certainty in higher education teaching	11
Identity positions of the resisting student in the academic student resistance discourse	11
Collaboration and ‘potential space’: creative play in the writing alliance	11
Educational expertise as prestige: research-intensive curriculum change	11
Visualising tensions in undergraduate education: Clark’s triangle revisited	11
A scoping review of action research in higher education: implications for research-based teaching	10
Students’ feedback literacy in higher education: an initial scale validation study	10
Problematizing the critique of culture: an alternative Chinese hermeneutics for teaching the humanities	10
Building belonging in online classrooms: relationships at the core	10
What predicts undergraduates’ student feedback literacy? Impacts of epistemic beliefs and mediation of critical thinking	10
Addressing imperial evasion : toward an anti-imperialist pedagogy in teacher education	10
Possibilities and complexities of decolonising higher education: critical perspectives on praxis	10
Do students experience transformation through co-creating curriculum in higher education?	10
Lecture rapture: the place and case for lectures in the new normal	10
Decolonising or anti-racism? Exploring the limits of possibility in higher education	10
Formal learning spaces in Higher Education – a systematic review	10
The critical educator’s two bodies, or, why the personal is still not political	9
Life-on-campus or my-time-and-screen : identity and agency in online postgraduate courses	9
‘You don‘t get taught that’ – how ‘safe’ classrooms can hinder learning	9
Disciplinary knowledge practices and powerful knowledge: a study on knowledge and curriculum structures in regions	9
Practising in an evaluative culture: an autoethnographic study of pedagogical practice in higher education	9
Using velo-onto-epistemology to reimagine the candidate-supervisor-relationship	9
Diverse experiences and belonging in an online, first-year, team-based engineering design course	9
Applying Sadler’s principles in holistic assessment design: a retrospective account	8
Academic literacies and the tilts within: the push and pull of student writing	8
Researching student competence development through the lens of cultural historical activity theory	8
Does the format of an assessment (closed book or open book) affect learning? A systematic review of the literature	8
‘Pillars of the colonial institution are like a knowledge prison': the significance of decolonizing knowledge and pedagogical practice for Pacific early career academics in higher education	8
Re-contextualizing locus of enunciation and linguistic citizenship: a diary analysis of Chinese EFL teachers’ critical intercultural awareness development	8
Epistemic outcomes of English medium instruction in a South Korean higher education institution	8

Teacher effectiveness in Asian higher education contexts: a systematic review	8
Teacher experiences with online experiential legal education	8
Initial teacher education seminars and minority ethnic students: exploring dialogic teaching and engagement	8
Reframing the ‘illegitimate’ academic: the critical role of professional development for sessional staff	8
Revisiting the notion of critical thinking in higher education: theorizing the thinking-feeling entanglement using affect theory	8
Dancing with explicit criteria or marginalising them: the complexity of grading student work and the reconstruction of the meaning of criterion-referenced assessment	7
‘The shadows of “boundary” remain’: curriculum coherence and the spectre of practice	7
‘Every partnership [… is] an emotional experience’: towards a model of partnership support for addressing the emotional challenges of student–staff partnerships	7
The case for scaling authentic learning across undergraduate and postgraduate research skills courses	7
English as an important but unfair resource: university students’ perception of English and English language education in South Korea	7
Representation within the sport management curricula: exploring educators’ decision making-process	7
Beyond-Humans reinventions for criticality: posthumanism to disrupt the Anthropocene and solve (super) wicked environmental problems	7
Participation, assertion and aspiration-indigenous teacher agency in higher education	7
From active learners to knowledge contributors: authentic assessment as a catalyst for students' epistemic agency	7
Reflexivity and agency in university-based teacher educators: a critical realist analysis	7
Epistemic decolonisation in reconstituting higher education pedagogy in South Africa: the student perspective	7
The scramble for EMI: lessons from postcolonial ‘old EMI’ universities	7
Sustainable embedded academic literacy development: the gradual handover of literacy teaching	7