| University internationalisation: Its meanings, rationales and implications R Yang Intercultural education 13 (1), 81-95, 2002 | 448 | 2002 |
| Globalisation and higher education development: A critical analysis R Yang International Review of Education 49, 269-291, 2003 | 391 | 2003 |
| Soft power and higher education: An examination of China's Confucius Institutes R Yang The Internationalisation of Higher Education, 65-76, 2014 | 351 | 2014 |
| The third delight: Internationalization of higher education in China R Yang Routledge, 2018 | 284 | 2018 |
| A world-class university in China? The case of Tsinghua R Yang, A Welch Higher education 63, 645-666, 2012 | 261 | 2012 |
| China’s strategy for the internationalization of higher education: An overview Y Rui Frontiers of Education in China 9 (2), 151-162, 2014 | 218 | 2014 |
| Transnational higher education in China: Contexts, characteristics and concerns R Yang Australian Journal of Education 52 (3), 272-286, 2008 | 199 | 2008 |
| Tensions between the global and the local: A comparative illustration of the reorganisation of China's higher education in the 1950s and 1990s R Yang Higher education 39, 319-337, 2000 | 165 | 2000 |
| “Dancing in a cage”: Changing autonomy in Chinese higher education R Yang, L Vidovich, J Currie Higher education 54, 575-592, 2007 | 151 | 2007 |
| Globalisation, transnational academic mobility and the Chinese knowledge diaspora: An Australian case study R Yang, AR Welch Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education 31 (5), 593-607, 2010 | 146 | 2010 |
| China’s higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Some preliminary observations R Yang Higher Education Research & Development 39 (7), 1317-1321, 2020 | 140 | 2020 |
| Comparing policies R Yang Comparative education research: Approaches and methods, 285-308, 2014 | 110 | 2014 |
| China's soft power projection in higher education R Yang International Higher Education, 2007 | 108 | 2007 |
| Self and the other in the Confucian cultural context: Implications of China’s higher education development for comparative studies R Yang International Review of Education 57, 337-355, 2011 | 103 | 2011 |
| Corruption in China's higher education: a malignant tumor R Yang International Higher Education, 2005 | 95 | 2005 |
| Internationalisation, indigenisation and educational research in China R Yang Australian Journal of Education 49 (1), 66-88, 2005 | 89 | 2005 |
| Internationalization, regionalization, and soft power: China’s relations with ASEAN member countries in higher education Y Rui Frontiers of Education in China 7 (4), 486-507, 2012 | 83 | 2012 |
| Toward massification: Higher education development in the People’s Republic of China since 1949 R Yang Higher education: Handbook of theory and research, 311-374, 2004 | 78 | 2004 |
| Changing accountabilities in higher education as China ‘opens up’to globalisation L Vidovich, R Yang, J Currie Globalisation, Societies and Education 5 (1), 89-107, 2007 | 76 | 2007 |
| Openness and reform as dynamics for development: A case study of internationalisation at South China University of Technology R Yang Higher Education 47, 473-500, 2004 | 76 | 2004 |
