Publications

Public Researcher Information

ORCID: 0000-0003-4761-9591            Google Scholar Page: Lizhou Wang            Japan Research Map: https://researchmap.jp/wanglizhou

Refereed Journal Articles

1. Wang, L., Choi, E., Shimmi, Y., & de Wit, H. (2026). Collaboration and competition in Northeast Asia: How flagship universities produce knowledge diplomacy under geopolitical pressure. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2026.2702163

2. Wang, L., & Oldac, Y. (2026). Stronger together: 25 years of knowledge production in Northeast Asia. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-026-01633-1

3. Wang, L., & de Wit, H. (2026). Geopolitics and international higher education: Concepts, knowledge diplomacy and security policies, and future agenda. Higher Education Forum, 23, 63–79. https://doi.org/10.15027/0002041836

4. Wang, L. (2026). Paradox of success: Intersectional inequalities and habitus clivé of Asian women in elite Western academia. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2026.2630216

5. de Wit, H., & Wang, L. (2025). Internationalisation of higher education: Its conceptual evolution as a process, intended aims, and unintended effects in the global and European context. European Journal of Education Policy and Practice. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/EJEP2025.3.001.DEWI

6. Wang, L., DeLaquil, T., de Wit, H., & Collier, K. M. (2024). The alternative education pathway to higher education in non-Anglophone contexts: Themes and implications from a systematic scoping review on IBDP. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2024.2429828

7. de Wit, H., & Wang, L. (2024). Lessons from over 50 years of regional alignment processes in Europe for international higher education. Journal of International Cooperation in Education. https://doi.org/10.1108/jice-09-2023-0023

8. Wang, L. (2023). Starting university during the pandemic: First-year international students' complex transitions under online and hybrid learning conditions. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1111332

9. Wen, W., Wang, L., & Cui, Y. (2022). International student education in China: An 'island' in internationalization? International Journal of Chinese Education, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2212585X221136900

10. Borowiec, K., Kim, D., Wang, L., Kim, J., & Wortham, S. (2021). Supporting holistic student development through online community building. Online Learning, 25(4), 145–155. https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v25i4.2882

11. Wen, W., Wang, S., & Wang, L. (2021). The crisis and development trend of American higher education under the COVID-19 epidemic. Tsinghua Journal of Education. https://doi.org/10.14138/j.1001-4519.2021.04.009909

12. Kim, D., Wortham, S., Borowiec, K., Yatsu, D., Ha, S., Carroll, S., Wang, L., & Kim, J. (2021). Formative education online: Teaching the whole person during the global COVID-19 pandemic. AERA Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584211015229

13. Wang, L., & DeLaquil, T. (2020). The isolation of doctoral education in the times of COVID-19: Recommendations for building relationships within person-environment theory. Higher Education Research & Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1823326

Edited Books

1. Wang, L., Altbach, P. A., & de Wit, H. (Eds.). (2024, November). International Dimensions and Trends in Higher Education in Troubled Times: Insights from Key Global Publications 2018–2023 in International Higher Education. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004713901

2. de Wit, H., Minaeva, E., & Wang, L. (Eds.). (2022, February). International Student Recruitment and Mobility in Non-Anglophone Countries: Theories, Themes, and Patterns. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003217923

Book Chapters

1. de Wit, H., Altbach, P. G., & Wang, L. (2025). International student mobility in a changing global environment: Key issues and trends. In A. Courtois, S. Marginson, C. Montgomery, & R. Sidhu (Eds.), The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities: Power, Knowledge and Agency (1st ed., pp. 157–172). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350502437.ch-11

2. Wang, L., Altbach, P. A., & de Wit, H. (2024, November). Contemporary crises in international higher education: Context and challenges. In L. Wang, P. A. Altbach, & H. de Wit (Eds.), International Dimensions and Trends in Higher Education in Troubled Times (pp. 1–6). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004713901_001

3. Wang, L., & Wen, W. (2024, November). China–global relations: A higher education cold war? In L. Wang, P. A. Altbach, & H. de Wit (Eds.), International Dimensions and Trends in Higher Education in Troubled Times (pp. 21–24). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004713901_006

4. DeLaquil, T., & Wang, L. (2024, November). Undervaluing doctoral education post-COVID. In L. Wang, P. A. Altbach, & H. de Wit (Eds.), International Dimensions and Trends in Higher Education in Troubled Times (pp. 190–193). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004713901_053

5. Wang, L. (2022, February). International student recruitment: Dominant themes from literature and examples from key non-Anglophone countries. In H. de Wit, E. Minaeva, & L. Wang (Eds.), International Student Recruitment and Mobility in Non-Anglophone Countries (pp. 1–17). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003217923-1

6. Minaeva, E., Wang, L., & de Wit, H. (2022, February). National agencies and private actors in international student recruitment. In H. de Wit, E. Minaeva, & L. Wang (Eds.), International Student Recruitment and Mobility in Non-Anglophone Countries (pp. 18–32). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003217923-2

7. Wen, W., & Wang, L. (2022, February). International student education and recruitment in China: Development and challenges. In H. de Wit, E. Minaeva, & L. Wang (Eds.), International Student Recruitment and Mobility in Non-Anglophone Countries (pp. 165–183). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003217923-12

8. de Wit, H., Minaeva, E., Wang, L., & Froumin, I. (2022, February). Recommendations on international student recruitment and mobility for non-Anglophone countries. In H. de Wit, E. Minaeva, & L. Wang (Eds.), International Student Recruitment and Mobility in Non-Anglophone Countries (pp. 283–300). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003217923-17

Reports

1. Buckner, E., Deneberg, J., Gelashvili, M., Kontelli, M., Marroquin Rodriguez, A., Wang, L., & Zhang, Y. (2022). The Internationalization of Higher Education in the Wake of COVID-19: A Rigorous Review of the Literature on Short-Term Impacts (CIHE Perspectives No. 20). Boston College Center for International Higher Education.

2. Wang, L. (2021). An Exploratory Study on International School Graduates' Transition into Higher Education During the Pandemic (pp. 1–41). Council of International Schools.

Other Publications

1. Chen, L., & Wang, L. (2025). DEI in Japanese higher education: Visible progress, but a long journey ahead. International Higher Education, 125. https://ihe.bc.edu/pub/s7red0cv

2. Li, Y., Wang, Q., & Wang, L. (2022). Delivering mental health education to university students in China. International Higher Education, 112.

3. de Wit, H., & Wang, L. (2022, April 9). Student recruitment: Futures unknown for Ukraine, Russia. University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20220406102743892

4. de Wit, H., & Wang, L. (2022). International students in non-Anglophone countries: Challenges and opportunities. International Higher Education, 111.

Media Appearances

1. Times Higher Education. (2023, January 9). Students more optimistic even as China battles Covid surge [Interview].

2. Nature. (2022, November 14). Obstacle race: The barriers facing graduates who study abroad [Interview].

3. University World News. (2022, April 9). Student recruitment: Futures unknown for Ukraine, Russia.

4. University World News. (2020, February 11). Coronavirus: Universities have duty of care to students.