| Organizing higher education for collaboration: A guide for campus leaders J Lester John Wiley & Sons, 2009 | 366 | 2009 |
| Performing gender in the workplace: Gender socialization, power, and identity among women faculty members J Lester Community college review 35 (4), 277-305, 2008 | 267 | 2008 |
| Enhancing campus capacity for leadership: An examination of grassroots leaders in higher education A Kezar, J Lester Stanford University Press, 2020 | 242 | 2020 |
| Everyday people making a difference on college campuses: The tempered grassroots leadership tactics of faculty and staff A Kezar, T Bertram Gallant, J Lester Studies in Higher Education 36 (2), 129-151, 2011 | 228 | 2011 |
| Transfer student engagement: Blurring of social and academic engagement J Lester, J Brown Leonard, D Mathias Community College Review 41 (3), 202-222, 2013 | 210 | 2013 |
| Looking in the review mirror: Factors affecting transfer for urban community college students LS Hagedorn, S Cypers, J Lester Community College Journal of Research and Practice 32 (9), 643-664, 2008 | 191 | 2008 |
| Next-term student performance prediction: A recommender systems approach M Sweeney, H Rangwala, J Lester, A Johri arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.01840, 2016 | 185 | 2016 |
| Transfer between community colleges and 4-year colleges: The all-American game LS Hagedorn, HS Moon, S Cypers, WE Maxwell, J Lester Community College Journal of Research and Practice 30 (3), 223-242, 2006 | 176 | 2006 |
| Supporting faculty grassroots leadership A Kezar, J Lester Research in Higher Education 50, 715-740, 2009 | 162 | 2009 |
| Breaking the barriers of essentialism in leadership research: Positionality as a promising approach A Kezar, J Lester Feminist formations, 163-185, 2010 | 154 | 2010 |
| Next-term student grade prediction M Sweeney, J Lester, H Rangwala 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 970-975, 2015 | 112 | 2015 |
| Cultures of work–life balance in higher education: A case of fragmentation. J Lester Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 8 (3), 139, 2015 | 100 | 2015 |
| Workplace bullying in higher education J Lester Routledge, 2013 | 100 | 2013 |
| Potential of social networking sites for distance education student engagement J Lester, M Perini New directions for community colleges 2010 (150), 67-77, 2010 | 98 | 2010 |
| Where Are the Faculty Leaders?: Strategies and Advice for Reversing Current Trends. A Kezar, J Lester, R Carducci, TB Gallant, MC McGavin Liberal Education 93 (4), 14-21, 2007 | 98 | 2007 |
| Hispanic community college students and the transfer game: Strikes, misses, and grand slam experiences LS Hagedorn, J Lester Community College Journal of Research and Practice 30 (10), 827-853, 2006 | 95 | 2006 |
| Not your child's playground: Workplace bullying among community college faculty J Lester Community College Journal of Research and Practice 33 (5), 444-462, 2009 | 94 | 2009 |
| Examining organizational contextual features that affect implementation of equity initiatives A Kezar, WJ Glenn, J Lester, J Nakamoto The Journal of Higher Education 79 (2), 125-159, 2008 | 93 | 2008 |
| Work-life balance and cultural change: A narrative of eligibility J Lester The Review of Higher Education 36 (4), 463-488, 2013 | 92 | 2013 |
| Learning analytics tools in higher education: Adoption at the intersection of institutional commitment and individual action C Klein, J Lester, H Rangwala, A Johri The Review of Higher Education 42 (2), 565-593, 2019 | 89 | 2019 |
