OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal for Academic Development 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
The challenge of academic freedom at post-Soviet universities: pursuing critical inquiry through transformative academic development	44
Thanks to IJAD peer reviewers	35
Scaffolding trust to advance inclusive teaching through UDL: a model for academic development	19
Reflections on building trust with groups engaged in curriculum review	13
Clinical education vs academic development	12
Public relations as part of the work of academic developers: a vignette on our role at a Japanese university	12
This tale of ours: Pakistani academics’ challenges, struggles, and becoming	11
Mentoring in Saudi higher education: considering the role of culture in academic development	11
Thanks to IJAD Peer Reviewers 2023	10
Students as partners within a centre for teaching and learning: a qualitative analysis of challenges and benefits	10
On holistic academic development in a pandemic (in verse)	10
Mentorship for early career academics in a long-term problem- and project-based university academic development program in Denmark: views of subject and pedagogy mentors	9
An identity-agency perspective on overseas academic development of Thai university English teachers	9
Significant conversations at the intersection of co-teaching and student-faculty partnership	8
Interior Design as an Analogy for Academic Development	8
Creating reflective space for teachers in higher education: the use of story completion	8
Academic thriving and online course design: a conceptual model	8
Why formulate a research team?	8
Reconceptualising the effectiveness of academic development work: moving beyond the impact–value dichotomy	7
Fostering research culture through virtual community learning towards academic development	7
Advancing academic development: a strategic, integrated model for recognition, professional development, and community-building	6
Academic developers’ professional identity: a thematic review of the literature	6
Uncovering the emotional dimension of developing teaching practice through uncertainty: a multimodal methodology	6
Beyond academic development as institutional practice: advancing community-led approaches	6
From content-centered logic to student-centered logic: can peer observation shift how faculty think about their teaching?	6

Belonging as an academic/educational developer: breathing for justice, together	6
Bridging the transition to a new expertise in the scholarship of teaching and learning through a faculty learning community	5
A community-based practice for the co-development of women academic leaders	5
Sustainable, affordable, and transferable approaches to experienced doctoral supervisor development	5
How to write a lot: a practical guide to productive academic writing	5
Review of relationship-rich education. How human connections drive success in college	5
University teachers’ professional learning for academic development: Q methodology research	5
Malaysia: targeted academic development needed	5
Over a nice, hot cup of tea! Reflecting on the conditions for meaningful, informal conversations between academic developers and novice academics	4
Exploring mentors’ perceptions of the benefits and challenges of mentoring in a constellation model	4
Distributed leadership and peer review: a MOOC exemplar	4
What university teachers need to know - perceptions of course content in higher education pedagogical courses	4
‘They stare back at me, or down at the floor’: towards intercultural academic development	4
Significant conversations, significant others: intimate dialogues about teaching statistics	4
Room32: an academic oasis for our informal conversations to enhance teaching and learning	4
Facilitating conversations about race: staff views on the importance of accountability and trust in a student-led project	4
Open networked learning – a course, a community, an approach	4
Academic developers’ perceptions of support for sessional staff in Australia	4
Learning and developing during lesson study through professional conversations	4
Parallels between philosophy and academic development: under-labourers, critics, or leaders?	4
Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond	4
From scientist to academic developer: a story	4
Our academic development stories: exploring identities, complexities, and experiences	3
Embracing liminality: academic development for early career academics within a community of practice	3
Collaboration and co-authorship in academic development: what should we be considering?	3
A narrative review of interdisciplinary teaching and learning scholarship: closing the gap between theory and practice	3
Coping strategies during faculty transitions: lessons learned from teaching an introductory happiness, positivity, and wellbeing course	3
A model for nurturing a networked academic community: #ASCILITEMLSIG mobile learning special interest group	3
Looking at faculty writing groups from within: some insights for their sustainability and future implementations	3
How facilitated multi-source feedback constructs new conversations about teaching: a positioning theory study	3
A longitudinal perspective of the experiences and career trajectories of discipline-based education specialists in teaching and learning in higher education	2
A systematic review to explore how characteristics of pedagogical development programmes in higher education are related to teacher development outcomes	2
Podcasting as professional development	2
The creative self in the uncanny of complex practice	2
Towards a conceptual framework of professional development: a phenomenographic study of academics’ mindsets in a business school	2
Consensus moderation and the sessional academic: valued or powerless and compliant?	2
Grasping at straws with academic development as a novice lecturer	2
In partnership with heads of department for sustainable educational development	2
Top Trumps: The Nottingham Trent University Educational Development Edition	2
The precarious academic: professional development and academic identity in the neoliberal university	2
Teachers’ experiences with a mandatory multi-purpose teaching portfolio: a mixed methods study	2
Using the VUCA framework to support faculty development during professional transitions	2
Students with disabilities mentoring staff: supporting scalable academic development for inclusive education	2
Improving teaching and learning: mathematics and science faculty reflections across time	2
Teaching philosophies revalued: beyond personal development to academic and institutional capacity building	2
The role of academic developers in initiating, developing, and supporting student-staff partnerships in learning and teaching in higher education: a systematic narrative literature review and a new fr	2
Academic development for doctoral students: exploring the relevance of teaching-research integration, discipline-sensitivity and collaboration	1
Academics’ expertise development in teacher tasks: a multiple case study	1
Early-career STEM faculty members’ perceptions on their teaching praxis	1
Introducing brief mindfulness practices to mitigate faculty burnout in the post-COVID era	1

Exploring international collaborative writing groups’ potential for community-based academic development around public SoTL	1
Fences, dancing, and the spaces between academic development	1
Teaching award winners – (in)visible best-practice examples? Findings from Austria and Switzerland	1
The Educational Development Interview: a guided conversation supporting professional learning about teaching practice in higher education	1
Motivating conversations in teaching excellence awards	1
Supporting writing a teaching portfolio by focusing on practice	1
Towards an Australian regional university professional development typology: a qualitative exploration of the academic voice	1
Care in collaborations: opening up conversations about teaching	1
Strengthening educational leadership through a professional development programme in conjunction with a teaching-focused full professor career track: reflections of participants	1
Pedagogical training for developing students’ metacognition: implications for educators	1
Academic development to overcome STEM teachers’ challenges in teaching communication	1
A complexity-informed examination of educational development services of a university’s teaching and learning centre	1
Exploring the role of peer observation of teaching in facilitating cross-institutional professional conversations about teaching and learning	1
Connecting through contexts: positional awareness and interrelatedness	1
New academics’ experiences of induction to teaching: using Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) to understand and improve induction experiences	1
Faculty experiences teaching in linguistically and culturally diverse contexts at the university level	1
Academic development as distributed cognition and practice	1
Commemorating 30 years of ICED: embracing academic development’s rich past, challenging present, and emerging future(s)	1
Anti-racist, anti-oppressive curriculum development: a different entry point into work on racism and bias in higher education	1
The Culturally Sensitive Curricula Educator Self-Reflection Tool as a step toward curricular transformation	1
Another set of eyes: an educational co-design story	1
PhD students, significant others, and pedagogical conversations. The importance of trusting relationships for academic development	1
Mentoring models in research in Polish academia	1
PhD orals from the convenors’ perspective: implications for academics and candidates	1
Trust and trustworthiness in pedagogical competence development programs: tensions between systemic contexts and interpersonal relationships	1
Impact of a regional community of practice for academic developers engaged in institution-level support for SoTL	1
Exploring the variation of educational developers’ teaching-related perceptions in higher education	1
Deliberative academic development with university teachers in times of crisis	1
Exploring how an experiential professional development program prepared instructors to teach with an unfamiliar pedagogical approach	1
Third places: cultivating mobile communities of practice in the global south	1
Investigating the authentic learning practices of teaching focused academics: leveraging Activity-Centred Analysis and Design (ACAD)	1
Diffracting peer observation: talking about differences, not looking for perfection	1
Academic developers as ‘romantic incubators’? The role of growth and professional support in our work	1
Professional development practices and preferences in Irish Higher Education: insights from a regional survey	1
Less structure, more purpose	1
Small but mighty: a hybrid TILT academic development partnership	1
Desired characteristics of continuing professional development for holistic academic development	1
Bringing educational development to Central and Eastern Europe: reflections on twenty years of supporting teachers	1
Making meaning: An investigation into staff’s relational experience of academic development in an applied arts assessment context	1
Prestige, power, practice, and professional development: exploring transnational teachers’ experiences of a UK-based lecturer development course	1
Negative emotions, social isolation, and impostor syndrome in the pursuit of professional mastery in research universities	1
Serendipitous conversations: the 10-year journey in becoming SoTL scholars and educators	1
Why have eight researcher women in STEMM left academic research, and where did they go?	1
Improvisation, advocacy and outreach to preserve an endangered tradition	1
Clouds in the silver lining of learning analytics: ethical tensions for Educational Developers	1
Academic developers as flexible generalists: responding to COVID-19	1
Valuing teaching: exploring how a university’s strategic documents reflect institutional teaching culture	1