| Globalization and international student mobility: A network analysis R Shields Comparative Education Review 57 (4), 609-636, 2013 | 238 | 2013 |
| The sustainability of international higher education: Student mobility and global climate change R Shields Journal of Cleaner Production 217, 594-602, 2019 | 208 | 2019 |
| MOOCs, disruptive innovation and the future of higher education: A conceptual analysis AA Al-Imarah, R Shields Innovations in Education and Teaching International 56 (3), 258-269, 2019 | 126 | 2019 |
| Globalization and international education R Shields A&C Black, 2013 | 123 | 2013 |
| Uneven terrain: Educational policy and equity in Nepal R Shields, J Rappleye Asia Pacific Journal of Education 28 (3), 265-276, 2008 | 83 | 2008 |
| Competing institutional logics in universities in the United Kingdom: schism in the church of reason R Shields, R Watermeyer Studies in Higher Education 45 (1), 3-17, 2020 | 80 | 2020 |
| Reconsidering regionalisation in global higher education: student mobility spaces of the European Higher Education Area R Shields Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 46 (1), 5-23, 2016 | 78 | 2016 |
| ICT or I see tea? Modernity, technology and education in Nepal R Shields Globalisation, Societies and Education 9 (1), 85-97, 2011 | 69 | 2011 |
| Student mobility and emerging hubs in global higher education R Shields, RM Edwards Higher education, policy, and the global competition phenomenon, 235-248, 2010 | 66 | 2010 |
| Following the leader? Network models of “world-class” universities on Twitter R Shields Higher Education 71, 253-268, 2016 | 54 | 2016 |
| ‘Development in reverse’? A longitudinal analysis of armed conflict, fragility and school enrolment R Shields, J Paulson Comparative education 51 (2), 212-230, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Changing patterns in vocational entry qualifications, student support and outcomes in undergraduate degree programmes A Masardo, R Shields Higher Education Academy, 2015 | 45 | 2015 |
| Differentiation, development,(dis) integration: Education in Nepal's ‘People's War’ R Shields, J Rappleye Research in Comparative and International Education 3 (1), 91-102, 2008 | 41 | 2008 |
| Three faces of global citizenship education: IB Schools’ self-representations in four local contexts Y Dvir, R Shields, M Yemini British Journal of Educational Studies 66 (4), 455-475, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| A false promise? Decentralization in education systems across the globe KK Kameshwara, A Sandoval-Hernandez, R Shields, KR Dhanda International Journal of Educational Research 104, 101669, 2020 | 28 | 2020 |
| Just another level? Comparing quantitative patterns of global expansion of school and higher education attainment B Barakat, R Shields Demography 56 (3), 917-934, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| Unequal partners? Networks, centrality, and aid to international education F Menashy, R Shields Comparative Education 53 (4), 495-517, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| The investment model of volunteering in the EU-27 countries: volunteering, skills development and employability. A multi-level analysis M Souto-Otero, R Shields European Societies 18 (5), 487-513, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| The network of bilateral aid to education 2005–2015 R Shields, F Menashy International Journal of Educational Development 64, 74-80, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| The landlocked island: Information access and communications policy in Nepal R Shields Telecommunications policy 33 (3-4), 207-214, 2009 | 22 | 2009 |
