| Massification and Diversity of Higher Education Systems: Interplay of Complex Dimensions | Higher Education Policy | 2007 | 118 |
| Comparative higher education: potentials and limits | Higher Education | 1996 | 113 |
| Diversification? Trends and explanations of the shape and size of higher education | Higher Education | 2008 | 101 |
| Internationalisation as a challenge for higher education in Europe | Tertiary Education and Management | 1999 | 86 |
| Academic Mobility and Migration: What We Know and What We Do Not Know | European Review | 2015 | 75 |
| The Changing Role of Student Mobility | Higher Education Policy | 2007 | 73 |
| A victim of their own success? Employment and working conditions of academic staff in comparative perspective | Higher Education | 1997 | 66 |
| University Patenting in Germany before and after 2002: What Role Did the Professors' Privilege Play? | Industry and Innovation | 2012 | 62 |
| Sameness and Difference | International Studies of Management and Organization | 2015 | 56 |
| The future of higher education and the future of higher education research | Tertiary Education and Management | 2003 | 56 |
| A chair system in transition: Appointments, promotions, and gate-keeping in German higher education | Higher Education | 2001 | 54 |
| Changing Structures of the Higher Education Systems: The Increasing Complexity of Underlying Forces | Higher Education Policy | 2006 | 52 |
| Research on the relationships between higher education and the world of work: Past achievements, problems and new challenges | Higher Education | 1999 | 51 |
| Growth or steady state? A bibliometric focus on international comparative higher education research | Higher Education | 2014 | 50 |
| Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Regional Labour Mobility of German University Graduates | Regional Studies | 2014 | 47 |
| Between Mission and Market Position: Empirical findings on mission statements of German Higher Education Institutions | Tertiary Education and Management | 2012 | 40 |
| Transformation of university governance: on the role of university board members | Higher Education | 2013 | 39 |
| Massification: A challenge for institutions of higher education | Tertiary Education and Management | 1998 | 37 |
| Mapping the quality assurance of teaching and learning in higher education: the emergence of a specialty? | Higher Education | 2017 | 36 |
| Opportunities and problems of comparative higher education research: the daily life of research | Higher Education | 2014 | 35 |
| Crisis? What crisis? The academic professions in the 'knowledge' society | Higher Education | 1999 | 34 |
| The relationship in biology between the nature of science and scientific inquiry | Journal of Biological Education | 2014 | 32 |
| Reading is for girls!? The negative impact of preschool teachers' traditional gender role attitudes on boys' reading related motivation and skills | Frontiers in Psychology | 2015 | 31 |
| Towards the Two-cycle Degree Structure: Bologna, Reform and Path Dependency in German and Norwegian Universities | Higher Education Policy | 2010 | 31 |
| Graduate employment and work in Europe: Diverse situations and common perceptions | Tertiary Education and Management | 2002 | 26 |
