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BOOKS

Denisova-Schmidt, E. (2026). Breaking the bonds of corruption: from academic dishonesty to informal business practices in post-Soviet Ukraine. Harvard University Press.

Denisova-Schmidt, E., Altbach, P., & de Wit, H. (Eds.) (2025). Handbook on corruption in higher education. Edward Elgar Publishing

BOOK SECTIONS 

Denisova-Schmidt, E. & Sitchinava, T. (2027). Politicization, precarity, and research misconduct in Georgian higher education. In Eaton S. E., A. Kuzhabekova, G. Tang, & R. Jivani (eds.), Fraud in Higher Education, Science, and Scholarly Publishing: From Corruption to Quackery. Springer, forthcoming.

Denisova-Schmidt, E. (2026). Doing business and dealing with informality: Challenges and opportunities. In W. Amann, C. Hauser, M. Kleinhempel, R. Saccani, A. Stachowicz-Stanusch, & S. Tripathi (Eds.), The changing role of the chief compliance officer (pp. 188–192). Routledge.

Denisova-Schmidt, E. (2026). Korruption und akademisches Fehlverhalten in Wissenschaft und Hochschulbildung. In S. Wolf & O. Meyer (Eds.), Handbuch Korruptionsforschung (pp. 639–653). Springer VS.

ARTICLES 

Kuzhabekova, A., Eaton, S. E., & Denisova-Schmidt, E. (2026). Research integrity in comparative perspective: Lessons from diverse higher education systems. Higher Education Quarterly, 80(3), e70164.

Barsukova, S., & Denisova-Schmidt, E. (2026). New Russian migrants in Armenia and Georgia: Challenges and opportunities. Mir Rossii, 35(1), 106–139.

Denisova-Schmidt, E., & Sitchinava, T. (2026). Recruitment agents in international higher education: an ambivalent actor. The Central Asia Higher Education Review (CAHER), 1(1), 3–9.

Barsukova, S., & Denisova-Schmidt, E. (2026). No success without approval: The role of administrative resources in the Russian electoral process. Journal of Eurasian Studies, 17(1), 19–32.

Denisova-Schmidt, E. (2026). XXII. Workshop on “Intercultural Communication and Intercultural Learning.” Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 71(1), 222–223.

Denisova-Schmidt, E., Kim, T., & Kuzhabekova, A. (2026). Who gets in, who gets cited, who gets promoted: Informal networks in Kazakhstani academia. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 22, Article 13.

Denisova-Schmidt, E., & Marmilova, O. (2026). Displacement and higher education: A review of the research on Ukraine. Social Sciences, 15(1), Article 29.

Denisova-Schmidt, E., & Xu, Z. (2026). Bright minds on the move: Russia’s brain drain to China. International Higher Education, (126), 12–13.

Xu, Z., & Denisova-Schmidt, E. (2026). Sex, lies, and academia: Addressing integrity in Chinese higher education. Journal of Academic Ethics, 24, Article 54.

Xu, Z., & Denisova-Schmidt, E. (2026). The Chinese dilemma of research misconduct. Higher Education Quarterly, 80(2), e70131.