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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Thanks to IJAD peer reviewers	54
Malaysia: targeted academic development needed	35
Advancing academic development: a strategic, integrated model for recognition, professional development, and community-building	21
On holistic academic development in a pandemic (in verse)	20
Students as partners within a centre for teaching and learning: a qualitative analysis of challenges and benefits	15
This tale of ours: Pakistani academics’ challenges, struggles, and becoming	14
Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond	13
University teachers’ professional learning for academic development: Q methodology research	13
A longitudinal perspective of the experiences and career trajectories of discipline-based education specialists in teaching and learning in higher education	12
Consensus moderation and the sessional academic: valued or powerless and compliant?	12
Learning and developing during lesson study through professional conversations	11
Students with disabilities mentoring staff: supporting scalable academic development for inclusive education	11
A narrative review of interdisciplinary teaching and learning scholarship: closing the gap between theory and practice	11
Teaching philosophies revalued: beyond personal development to academic and institutional capacity building	11
Exploring the variation of educational developers’ teaching-related perceptions in higher education	10
Distributed leadership and peer review: a MOOC exemplar	10
Top Trumps: The Nottingham Trent University Educational Development Edition	9
Commemorating 30 years of ICED: embracing academic development’s rich past, challenging present, and emerging future(s)	9
Grasping at straws with academic development as a novice lecturer	9
The disrupting interview: a framework to approach decolonization	8
Introducing brief mindfulness practices to mitigate faculty burnout in the post-COVID era	8
Third places: cultivating mobile communities of practice in the global south	8
Negative emotions, social isolation, and impostor syndrome in the pursuit of professional mastery in research universities	8
The evolution of a cooperative mentoring community: developing research leadership in early career (healthcare) faculty	8
The gendered nature of educational development in the United States	7

Enhancing reflective practice: lessons learned and adjustments in scaffolding critical reflection in peer observation of teaching	7
Trust and ethos in academic development: credibility, identity, and value	7
“Students CAN be the center of their own learning”: lessons learnt from a transnational collaborative academic development project	7
Digital disruption in the time of COVID-19: learning technologists’ accounts of institutional barriers to online learning, teaching and assessment in UK universities	6
Community-led approaches to the academic development of pracademics in universities: evidence from Ghana	6
Revisiting the impact of academic development: scholarship and practice	6
Off the side of the desk: equity work in Canadian teaching and learning centres	6
Thanks to IJAD peer reviewers	6
Starting conversations and building connections: fostering a community of practice across disciplinary boundaries at a college of applied arts and technology	6
An identity-agency perspective on overseas academic development of Thai university English teachers	5
Relational pedagogy in higher education: what might it look like in practice and how do we develop it?	5
Scaffolding trust to advance inclusive teaching through UDL: a model for academic development	5
Group-based journal review: opportunities for researcher development and enjoyment	5
Mentoring in Saudi higher education: considering the role of culture in academic development	4
‘They stare back at me, or down at the floor’: towards intercultural academic development	4
Small but mighty: a hybrid TILT academic development partnership	4
A complexity-informed examination of educational development services of a university’s teaching and learning centre	4
Belonging as an academic/educational developer: breathing for justice, together	4
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	4
Collaboration and co-authorship in academic development: what should we be considering?	4
Professional development practices and preferences in Irish Higher Education: insights from a regional survey	4
Bringing educational development to Central and Eastern Europe: reflections on twenty years of supporting teachers	4
Beyond academic development as institutional practice: advancing community-led approaches	4
A model for nurturing a networked academic community: #ASCILITEMLSIG mobile learning special interest group	4
Open networked learning – a course, a community, an approach	4
The creative self in the uncanny of complex practice	4
Our academic development stories: exploring identities, complexities, and experiences	4
Evaluation in the time of crisis: evidencing value at a centre for teaching and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Towards quality teaching in higher education: pedagogy-focused academic development for enhancing practice	3
Entangled in context: addressing academic development and choice architecture	3
Fences, dancing, and the spaces between academic development	3
The complex transition to academic development: an ecological perspective	3
PhD students’ conversations that lead to learning about teaching: the interplay of formal and informal learning	3
Less structure, more purpose	3
The role of the academic developer as broker in building trust	3
‘Accountable to whom, for what, and through what means’: educational developers in the audit culture	3
Serendipitous conversations: the 10-year journey in becoming SoTL scholars and educators	2
Sustainable, affordable, and transferable approaches to experienced doctoral supervisor development	2
A taught approach to personal tutoring	2
Advocating for accessibility: the gap in the academic development community	2
Supporting academic development during curriculum change: a co-operative inquiry of identity and engagement	2
A guide to career development and work-life dynamics	2
Parallels between philosophy and academic development: under-labourers, critics, or leaders?	2
Connecting through contexts: positional awareness and interrelatedness	2
Motivating conversations in teaching excellence awards	2
Supporting writing a teaching portfolio by focusing on practice	2
Why formulate a research team?	2
The ‘naked’ syllabus as a model of faculty development: is this the missing link in Higher Education?	2
Relationality, belonging, and inclusion in academic development	2
A consortial community for VITAL faculty: fostering community, sense of belonging, & teaching excellence	2

Fostering research culture through virtual community learning towards academic development	2
The precarious academic: professional development and academic identity in the neoliberal university	2
Pedagogical training for developing students’ metacognition: implications for educators	2
Exploring international collaborative writing groups’ potential for community-based academic development around public SoTL	2
Conceptions of peer review of teaching: a phenomenographic study	2
Significant conversations at the intersection of co-teaching and student-faculty partnership	2
Holistic academic development and academic identity in the liminal postdoctoral zone	2
‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’: reflecting on, and refracting through, academic development in a pandemic year	2
Interior Design as an Analogy for Academic Development	2
Academic developers as flexible generalists: responding to COVID-19	2
Improving teaching and learning: mathematics and science faculty reflections across time	2
Improvisation, advocacy and outreach to preserve an endangered tradition	2
Towards a conceptual framework of professional development: a phenomenographic study of academics’ mindsets in a business school	1
Trust-building as inherent to academic development practice	1
Handbuch Hochschuldidaktik	1
Another set of eyes: an educational co-design story	1
The Change Laboratory as an approach to harnessing conversation for academic development	1
A neglected area: supervision development opportunities for doctoral researchers involved in undergraduate and masters project mentoring	1
Assessing the teaching culture on campus: the development and validation of the Institutional Teaching Culture Perception Survey-Faculty	1
Unfolding educational innovation processes and teacher motivation in universities: a multiple-case study	1
Diffracting peer observation: talking about differences, not looking for perfection	1
Valuing teaching: exploring how a university’s strategic documents reflect institutional teaching culture	1
How facilitated multi-source feedback constructs new conversations about teaching: a positioning theory study	1
Drivers for educational change? Educational leaders’ perceptions of academic developers as change agents	1
How do I know who I am? Academic professional development, peer support, and identity for practitioners who teach	1
Examining the overlapping identities of teaching focused academics and academic developers: expanding ideas	1
Academic developers’ perceptions of support for sessional staff in Australia	1
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	1
Finding community through an academic development collective: overcoming constraints through strategic collaboration	1
What hope for academic academic development?	1
Investigating the authentic learning practices of teaching focused academics: leveraging Activity-Centred Analysis and Design (ACAD)	1
Conversations that make meaningful change in teaching, teachers, and academic development	1
Exploring how an experiential professional development program prepared instructors to teach with an unfamiliar pedagogical approach	1
Review of relationship-rich education. How human connections drive success in college	1
Mentoring models in research in Polish academia	1
PhD orals from the convenors’ perspective: implications for academics and candidates	1
We need each other: academic development work as necessary reciprocity	1
From an individual to an institution: observations about the evolutionary nature of conversations	1
Industry experience and supporting part-time academic professionals: professional sport and academic development parallels	1
Adding a scholarly analysis of teaching and learning to SoTL: the development of the hands-on Utrecht Roadmap for SoTL	1
That place that is a teaching and learning center	1
Exploring mentors’ perceptions of the benefits and challenges of mentoring in a constellation model	1
Value of taught academic development programmes: building trust?	1
Anti-racist, anti-oppressive curriculum development: a different entry point into work on racism and bias in higher education	1
Understanding the impact of a pandemic on the work of educational developers	1
Thanks to IJAD Peer Reviewers 2023	1
Academic development as distributed cognition and practice	1
Care in collaborations: opening up conversations about teaching	1
What university teachers need to know - perceptions of course content in higher education pedagogical courses	1
Podcasting as professional development	1
Creating reflective space for teachers in higher education: the use of story completion	1
Academic developers developing: aspects of an expanding lifeworld	1
Reaping the dividends of liminality	1
Desired characteristics of continuing professional development for holistic academic development	1