Most cited papers in University Challenges and Reforms
What are the most cited papers in University Challenges and Reforms?
The most cited paper in University Challenges and Reforms is "Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics" (bell hooks, 1990), with 4,326 citations. Next come "The Chronicle of Higher Education" (1,580) and "Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education: The University as a Democratic Public Sphere" (1,070).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 44 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics bell hooks | 1990 | 4,326 |
| 2 | The Chronicle of Higher Education Gail A. Herndon · Serials Review | Apr 1977 | 1,580 |
| 3 | Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education: The University as a Democratic Public Sphere Henry Armand Giroux · Harvard Educational Review | Dec 2002 | 1,070 |
| 4 | The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex Murray Gell‐Mann, David Mermin · Physics Today | Sep 1994 | 932 |
| 5 | Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities Amitrajeet A. Batabyal · Review of Social Economy | 25 Jul 2011 | 895 |
| 6 | For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University Alison Mountz, Anne Bonds, Becky Mansfield et al. · Open Collections | 2 May 2015 | 827 |
| 7 | Having, being and higher education: the marketisation of the university and the transformation of the student into consumer Mike Molesworth, Elizabeth Nixon, Richard Scullion · Teaching in Higher Education | 29 May 2009 | 637 |
| 8 | The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy Maggie Berg, Barbara K. Seeber | 28 Mar 2016 | 490 |
| 9 | On doing “being ordinary” Harvey Sacks · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 4 Apr 1985 | 447 |
| 10 | Commons against and beyond capitalism George C. Caffentzis, Silvia Federici · Community Development Journal | 2014 | 385 |
| 11 | Poverty and Opportunity Structure in Rural America Ann R. Tickamyer, Cynthia Mildred Duncan · Annual Review of Sociology | Aug 1990 | 325 |
| 12 | The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads Benjamin W. Cramer · Journal of Information Policy | Feb 2017 | 320 |
| 13 | Free: The future of a radical price Scott D Nason · Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management | 20 Aug 2010 | 309 |
| 14 | Making markets through digital platforms: Pearson, edu-business, and the (e)valuation of higher education Ben Williamson · Critical Studies in Education | 11 Mar 2020 | 267 |
| 15 | From Mass Higher Education to Universal Access: The American Advantage Martin A. Trow · Minerva | Dec 2000 | 267 |
| 16 | Resilience, apps and reluctant individualism: Technologies of self in the neoliberal academy Rosalind Gill, Ngaire Donaghue · Women s Studies International Forum | 23 Jul 2015 | 250 |
| 17 | collective learning: habermas's concessions and their theoretical implications Piet Strydom · Philosophy & Social Criticism | Jul 1987 | 236 |
| 18 | The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast Gabriella Coleman · Anthropological Quarterly | Jun 2004 | 214 |
| 19 | Managing Dilemmas While. Building Professional Communities Larry Cuban · Educational Researcher | 1992 | 198 |
| 20 | In pursuit of a new ‘enterprise’ and ‘entrepreneurship’ paradigm for learning: creative destruction, new values, new ways of doing things and new combinations of knowledge Allan A. Gibb · International Journal of Management Reviews | Sep 2002 | 163 |
| 21 | The University in the Knowledge Society Gerard Delanty · Organization | May 2001 | 161 |
| 22 | Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities Deborah E. Bordelon · Journal of higher education outreach & engagement/Journal of higher education outreach and engagement. | 21 Sep 2011 | 161 |
| 23 | Schooling, Popular Culture, and a Pedagogy of Possibility Henry Armand Giroux, Roger I. Simon · Journal of Education | 1988 | 155 |
| 24 | Uniting Critical Theory and Public Policy to Create the Reflexively Defiant Consumer Julie L. Ozanne, Jeff B. Murray · American Behavioral Scientist | Feb 1995 | 149 |
| 25 | Black is beautiful a philosophy of black aesthetics Paul Christopher Taylor | 2016 | 148 |
| 26 | The Entrepreneur as Innovator Robert F. Hébert, Albert N. Link · The Journal of Technology Transfer | 6 Jul 2006 | 146 |
| 27 | Competing inequalities: gender versus race in higher education institutions in the UK Kalwant Bhopal, Holly Henderson · Educational Review | Aug 2019 | 139 |
| 28 | What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets Bob Brecher · Ethics and Social Welfare | 2 Oct 2014 | 138 |
| 29 | Precarity in the ivory cage: Neoliberalism and casualisation of work in the Irish higher education sector Aline Courtois, Theresa O’Keefe · Pure (University of Bath) | 30 Jun 2015 | 136 |
| 30 | Nation-building universities in a global environment: The case of Australia Simon Marginson · Higher Education | Apr 2002 | 133 |
| 31 | Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality Eliza de Souza Silva Araújo · Revista Ártemis | 17 Dec 2019 | 129 |
| 32 | Introduction: Professional Geography and the Corporatization ofthe University: Experiences, Evaluations, and Engagements Noel Castree, Matthew Brookman Sparke · Antipode | Jul 2000 | 127 |
| 33 | Imagining the University Ronald Barnett · International Higher Education | 17 Jan 2013 | 122 |
| 34 | Living the Neo‐liberal University Stephen J. Ball · European Journal of Education | 2 Jun 2015 | 121 |
| 35 | The Purposes of Higher Education and the Changing Face of Academia Ronald Barnett · London Review of Education | 2004 | 120 |
| 36 | Selling Out Higher Education Henry Armand Giroux · Policy Futures in Education | Mar 2003 | 118 |
| 37 | Literary Dollars and Social Sense: A People's History of the Mass Market Book Susan S. Williams · Journal of American History | Jun 2006 | 114 |
| 38 | Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Can We Understand? Can We Resist and Survive? Can We Become Without Neoliberalism? Gaile S. Cannella, Mirka Koro‐Ljungberg · Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies | 27 Apr 2017 | 113 |
| 39 | Public universities and the neoliberal common sense: seven iconoclastic theses Carlos Alberto Torres · International Studies in Sociology of Education | Sep 2011 | 110 |
| 40 | What We Must Do John C. Platt · Science | 28 Nov 1969 | 109 |
| 41 | Neoliberalism in the Academic Borderlands: An On-going Struggle for Equality and Human Rights Antonia Darder · Educational Studies | Sep 2012 | 109 |
| 42 | Postmodernism and Higher Education Harland G. Bioland · The Journal of Higher Education | Sep 1995 | 106 |
| 43 | The Impact of Neoliberalism on College Students Daniel B. Saunders · Journal of College and Character | Jul 2007 | 104 |
| 44 | When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America Lynn D. Gordon, Marilyn Jacoby Boxer · History of Education Quarterly | 2000 | 103 |
| 45 | The Neoliberal University as a Space to Learn/Think/Work in Higher Education Igea Santina Troiani, Claudia Dutson · Architecture and Culture | 2 Jan 2021 | 102 |
| 46 | Between Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Scenes of Rapprochement and Alienation Deborah P. Britzman · Curriculum Inquiry | 2013 | 98 |
| 47 | Democracy’s Nemesis Henry Armand Giroux · Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies | 17 Aug 2009 | 96 |
| 48 | American Higher Education Martin A. Trow · Educational Researcher | Apr 1988 | 94 |
| 49 | Occupy Wall Street and the Economic Imagination Hannah Appel · Cultural Anthropology | 10 Nov 2014 | 92 |
| 50 | Privatizing the University--the New Tragedy of the Commons James Robert Brown · Science | Dec 2000 | 92 |
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