Denisa Gándara

729 total citations
28 papers, 389 citations indexed

About

Denisa Gándara is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Denisa Gándara has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 389 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Education, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Denisa Gándara's work include Higher Education Research Studies (14 papers), Public Policy and Administration Research (8 papers) and Evaluation and Performance Assessment (6 papers). Denisa Gándara is often cited by papers focused on Higher Education Research Studies (14 papers), Public Policy and Administration Research (8 papers) and Evaluation and Performance Assessment (6 papers). Denisa Gándara collaborates with scholars based in United States and Belgium. Denisa Gándara's co-authors include Amanda Rutherford, Erik C. Ness, Amy Y. Li, Jennifer A. Rippner, Sosanya Jones, Elizabeth Bell, James C. Hearn, Robert K. Toutkoushian, Stijn Daenekindt and Frank Fernandez and has published in prestigious journals such as American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher and The Journal of Higher Education.

In The Last Decade

Denisa Gándara

26 papers receiving 366 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Denisa Gándara United States	12	262	122	99	61	55	28	389
Christine G. Mokher United States	11	354 1.4×	159 1.3×	73 0.7×	46 0.8×	84 1.5×	45	510
Sosanya Jones United States	12	228 0.9×	130 1.1×	47 0.5×	61 1.0×	45 0.8×	29	338
Vikash Reddy United States	10	230 0.9×	141 1.2×	25 0.3×	50 0.8×	61 1.1×	31	348
Joni E. Finney United States	12	250 1.0×	150 1.2×	46 0.5×	40 0.7×	28 0.5×	37	354
Patrick M. Callan Pakistan	12	266 1.0×	163 1.3×	52 0.5×	42 0.7×	34 0.6×	44	403
Frank Fernandez United States	10	199 0.8×	59 0.5×	68 0.7×	18 0.3×	55 1.0×	52	324
Andrew Saultz United States	11	177 0.7×	80 0.7×	73 0.7×	65 1.1×	25 0.5×	28	306
Jacob Fowles United States	11	134 0.5×	80 0.7×	48 0.5×	45 0.7×	51 0.9×	19	289
Johan J. Vossensteyn Netherlands	10	178 0.7×	154 1.3×	37 0.4×	13 0.2×	37 0.7×	53	322
Justin M. Ronca United States	8	141 0.5×	91 0.7×	96 1.0×	24 0.4×	53 1.0×	10	298

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Gándara, Denisa, et al.. (2025). “There’s something ennobling…about struggling”: State policymakers’ framing of deservingness in the New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 33. 1 indexed citations

Gándara, Denisa, et al.. (2024). Higher Education Policy Narratives during COVID-19: How are Budget Requests Justified to State Legislatures?. Research in Higher Education. 65(4). 625–654.

Gándara, Denisa, et al.. (2024). Assessing Disparities in Predictive Modeling Outcomes for College Student Success: The Impact of Imputation Techniques on Model Performance and Fairness. Education Sciences. 14(2). 136–136. 6 indexed citations

Gándara, Denisa, et al.. (2024). “All Students Matter”: The Place of Race in Discourse on Student Debt in a Federal Higher Education Policymaking Process. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 126(2). 147–182.

Gándara, Denisa, et al.. (2023). “One of the Weakest Budget Players in the State”: State Funding of Higher Education at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 46(3). 458–482. 1 indexed citations

Li, Amy Y., et al.. (2023). Financing promise programs: Where the money comes from and where the money goes. New Directions for Community Colleges. 2023(203). 9–23. 2 indexed citations

Gándara, Denisa, et al.. (2023). Supporting Public Policy Engagement for Tenure-Stream Faculty of Color. Change The Magazine of Higher Learning. 55(4). 42–50. 1 indexed citations

Gándara, Denisa, et al.. (2023). Advancing a Framework of Racialized Administrative Burdens in Higher Education Policy. The Journal of Higher Education. 95(6). 718–746. 11 indexed citations

Gándara, Denisa, et al.. (2022). Intermediary Public Policy Organizations and the Discursive Evasion of Systemic Racism and Racialized Violence. Educational Policy. 37(6). 1672–1699. 4 indexed citations

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Bell, Elizabeth & Denisa Gándara. (2021). Can Free Community College Close Racial Disparities in Postsecondary Attainment? How Tulsa Achieves Affects Racially Minoritized Student Outcomes. American Educational Research Journal. 58(6). 1142–1177. 17 indexed citations

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Gándara, Denisa, et al.. (2021). Tuition‐free promise programs: Implications and lessons learned. New Directions for Community Colleges. 2021(196). 81–95. 7 indexed citations

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Gándara, Denisa & Amanda Rutherford. (2020). Completion at the Expense of Access? The Relationship Between Performance-Funding Policies and Access to Public 4-Year Universities. Educational Researcher. 49(5). 321–334. 23 indexed citations

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Fernandez, Frank, et al.. (2020). Are Donations Bigger in Texas? Analyzing the Impact of a Policy to Match Donations to Texas’ Emerging Research Universities. American Educational Research Journal. 58(4). 850–882. 7 indexed citations

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Gándara, Denisa. (2019). How the Sausage is Made: An Examination of a State Funding Model Design Process. The Journal of Higher Education. 91(2). 192–221. 30 indexed citations

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Gándara, Denisa & Erik C. Ness. (2019). Ideological Think Tanks and the Politics of College Affordability in the States. The Journal of Higher Education. 90(5). 717–743. 7 indexed citations

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Gándara, Denisa & James C. Hearn. (2019). College Completion, the Texas Way: An Examination of the Development of College Completion Policy in a Distinctive Political Culture. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 121(1). 1–40. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Amy Y., et al.. (2018). Equity or Disparity: Do Performance Funding Policies Disadvantage 2-Year Minority-Serving Institutions?. Community College Review. 46(3). 288–315. 19 indexed citations

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Jones, Sosanya, et al.. (2017). Outcomes Based Funding and Race in Higher Education. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 35 indexed citations

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Gándara, Denisa & Robert K. Toutkoushian. (2017). Updated Estimates of the Average Financial Return on Master’s Degree Programs in the United States. Journal of education finance. 43(1). 21–44. 7 indexed citations

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Gándara, Denisa, Jennifer A. Rippner, & Erik C. Ness. (2017). Exploring the ‘How’ in Policy Diffusion: National Intermediary Organizations’ Roles in Facilitating the Spread of Performance-Based Funding Policies in the States. The Journal of Higher Education. 88(5). 701–725. 51 indexed citations

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