| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Enhancing teaching through constructive alignment | Higher Education | 1996 | 1,955 |
| 2 | Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (2): Epistemological considerations and a conceptual framework for teaching and learning | Higher Education | 2005 | 899 |
| 3 | Relations between teachers' approaches to teaching and students' approaches to learning | Higher Education | 1999 | 827 |
| 4 | Dynamics of National and Global Competition in Higher Education | Higher Education | 2006 | 810 |
| 5 | The effectiveness of peer tutoring in further and higher education: A typology and review of the literature | Higher Education | 1996 | 684 |
| 6 | Welcome to America? International student perceptions of discrimination | Higher Education | 2007 | 623 |
| 7 | Higher education and its communities: Interconnections, interdependencies and a research agenda | Higher Education | 2008 | 578 |
| 8 | (null) | Higher Education | 2003 | 571 |
| 9 | Beyond national states, markets, and systems of higher education: A glonacal agency heuristic | Higher Education | 2002 | 549 |
| 10 | Individual differences in study processes and the Quality of Learning Outcomes | Higher Education | 1979 | 509 |
| 11 | Improving the quality of student learning: the influence of learning context and student approaches to learning on learning outcomes | Higher Education | 1991 | 499 |
| 12 | (null) | Higher Education | 1998 | 499 |
| 13 | Academic identity and autonomy in a changing policy environment | Higher Education | 2005 | 496 |
| 14 | Academic quality, league tables, and public policy: A cross-national analysis of university ranking systems | Higher Education | 2005 | 487 |
| 15 | COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration | Higher Education | 2021 | 458 |
| 16 | Metacognitive, cognitive and affective aspects of learning styles and strategies: A phenomenographic analysis | Higher Education | 1996 | 444 |
| 17 | Approaches to learning, evaluations of teaching, and preferences for contrasting academic environments | Higher Education | 1990 | 439 |
| 18 | Academic restructuring: Organizational change and institutional imperatives | Higher Education | 2000 | 436 |
| 19 | Project-Based Learning in Post-Secondary Education – Theory, Practice and Rubber Sling Shots | Higher Education | 2006 | 424 |
| 20 | The worldwide trend to high participation higher education: dynamics of social stratification in inclusive systems | Higher Education | 2016 | 423 |
| 21 | The Changing Debate on Internationalisation of Higher Education | Higher Education | 2004 | 422 |
| 22 | Understanding What We Mean by the Generic Attributes of Graduates | Higher Education | 2006 | 406 |
| 23 | Concept mapping, mind mapping and argument mapping: what are the differences and do they matter? | Higher Education | 2011 | 396 |
| 24 | The steering of higher education systems: a public management perspective | Higher Education | 2008 | 393 |
| 25 | Quantitative studies of student self-assessment in higher education: a critical analysis of findings | Higher Education | 1989 | 392 |
| 26 | Cross-border flows of students for higher education: Push–pull factors and motivations of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong and Macau | Higher Education | 2007 | 388 |
| 27 | International students: a vulnerable student population | Higher Education | 2010 | 376 |
| 28 | Higher education in East Asia and Singapore: rise of the Confucian Model | Higher Education | 2011 | 367 |
| 29 | Developing evaluative judgement: enabling students to make decisions about the quality of work | Higher Education | 2018 | 336 |
| 30 | Addressing potential challenges in co-creating learning and teaching: overcoming resistance, navigating institutional norms and ensuring inclusivity in student–staff partnerships | Higher Education | 2016 | 317 |
| 31 | Revisiting academics' beliefs about teaching and learning | Higher Education | 2001 | 316 |
| 32 | Qualitative differences in approaches to teaching first year university science | Higher Education | 1994 | 314 |
| 33 | Conceptions of teaching held by academic teachers | Higher Education | 1992 | 310 |
| 34 | Internationalization of universities: A university culture-based framework | Higher Education | 2003 | 308 |
| 35 | “Is that paper really due today?”: differences in first-generation and traditional college students’ understandings of faculty expectations | Higher Education | 2008 | 306 |
| 36 | Student learning and perceptions of the academic environment | Higher Education | 1979 | 303 |
| 37 | Identifying distinctive approaches to studying | Higher Education | 1979 | 297 |
| 38 | African higher education: Challenges for the 21st century | Higher Education | 2004 | 295 |
| 39 | The importance of institutional image to student satisfaction and loyalty within higher education | Higher Education | 2009 | 292 |
| 40 | Misconceptions about the learning approaches, motivation and study practices of Asian students | Higher Education | 2000 | 291 |
| 41 | “I Heard it through the Grapevine”: Doctoral Student Socialization in Chemistry and History | Higher Education | 2007 | 285 |
| 42 | Approaches to learning and perceptions of the learning environment | Higher Education | 1991 | 280 |
| 43 | International experience and graduate employability: stakeholder perceptions on the connection | Higher Education | 2010 | 279 |
| 44 | Understanding academic performance of international students: the role of ethnicity, academic and social integration | Higher Education | 2012 | 273 |
| 45 | The link between high-impact practices and student learning: some longitudinal evidence | Higher Education | 2015 | 272 |
| 46 | Identifying students at risk through ineffective study strategies | Higher Education | 1996 | 268 |
| 47 | Teachers’ beliefs and intentions concerning teaching in higher education | Higher Education | 2005 | 264 |
| 48 | Relations between student learning patterns and personal and contextual factors and academic performance | Higher Education | 2005 | 262 |
| 49 | Who matters to universities? A stakeholder perspective on humanities, arts and social sciences valorisation | Higher Education | 2010 | 262 |
| 50 | Higher education, internationalisation, and the nation-state: Recent developments and challenges to governance theory | Higher Education | 2004 | 260 |
