OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Educational Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Role of Metaphor and Symbol in Motivating Primary School Children	30
EDITORIAL: Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education: Trajectories, Threats and Transformations	27
Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research: Considering Challenges and Risks in Practice	17
Feeling at Home in the Classroom? Pedagogy, Community and the Social Class Background of Teachers in Rural Schools	16
Recognition, Relationality and Wellbeing Amongst Youthreach Education Staff	16
Unraveling the Interplay Between Self-Efficacy and Academic Resilience in the Chinese EFL Context: The Mediating Role of Learning Engagement	16
‘A Court in a Glass Box a Thousand Kilometres Away’: Judicial Pedagogies of Language in the European Court of Human Rights	15
We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope and Neurodiversity	15
The Pedagogy of Radical Change: Social Movements, Resistance and Alternative Futures in Higher Education and Society	13
Multifaceted Forms of Intercultural Dialogue and Learning in University Students’ Volunteering at the 2022 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games	10
The Double-Coded Self in Higher Education: Student Self-Formation and Social Sustainability	10
Babygirl, You’ve Got This! Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Educational System	9
Understanding Spirituality: Children’s Spiritual Voice(s) as a Bridge for Effective Dialogue in Religious, Spiritual and Moral Education	9
Schools, Space and Culinary Capital	8
Race and Assessment in Higher Education: From Conceptualising Barriers to Making Measurable Change	8
The Influence of Parental Cultural Capital on Developing Professional Leadership Practices in Elite Schools	8
The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge	8
Flourishing, Education, and the Good Human Life: The Search for a Theoretical and Practical Synthesis	8
Equality of Condition? Exploring Minority Ethnic Group Experiences of Education in Northern Ireland	8
Oak National Academy’s Aila, Education AI Companies and the Anthropomorphising of AI	8
British Educators Preventing Terrorism Through ‘Safeguarding’ the ‘Vulnerable’	8
Policy Mortality and UK Government Education Policy for Schools in England	8
PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS, VIRAL MODERNITY AND THE PROBLEM OF TRUTH	7
Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives . Edited by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Linda Fishe	7
Nurturing Wellbeing in Academia: How to Prioritise Your Mental Health	7

Using Pedagogies of Emergence to Cultivate Well-Being in Students	7
Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education	7
A Learning Community of Reflective Teachers: From Whispers to Resonance	6
THE INTEGRITY OF EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES	6
Supporting Young Children’s Exploration of Mathematical Concepts: Co-teachers’ Involvement in Joint Play	5
Factors Associated with Students’ Psychological Distress: The Roles of Creativity, Cognitive Flexibility, and Educational (Anti)mattering	5
Education for Social Sustainability: Reappraising Conceptualizations and Practices in a Global Context	5
The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience: Stories from the Field	5
Becoming a Classroom Community: A Reflexive Qualitative Analysis of Year-4 children’s Lifeworlds of Teamwork in a Melbourne Primary School	5
Reconsidering Reparations	5
The Affective Dimensions of Militarism in Schools: Methodological, Ethical and Political Implications	4
Outsourcing Trouble: A Home International Comparison of Alternative Provision Across the UK	4
Values, Relationships and Engagement in Quaker Education: Student Perspectives on Inclusive School Cultures	4
Philosophies of Catholic Education: Linking Neo-Scholastic Legacies and Contemporary Concerns	4
Striving to Be Super: The Contradictions of Academic Success in High-Achieving, Working-Class Girls’ Pathways to High-Tariff Universities	4
Keywords in Education Policy Research: A Conceptual Toolbox	4
Long-Term Mental Health Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on University Students in the UK: A Longitudinal Analysis Over 12 Months	3
A Critical Encounter: Jean Floud’s Appraisal of Karl Mannheim	3
Schooling for Refugee Children: A Social Justice Perspective Informed by Children from Syria	3
Retuning Education: Bildung and Exemplarity Beyond the Logic of Progress	3
Re-Centring the School Context in Policy Enactments: An Empirical Investigation into Mentorship Programmes for Early Career Teachers	3
South Asian Postgraduate International Students’ Employability Barriers: A Qualitative Study from Australia and the United Kingdom	3
The Necessity of Trust: Young Men from Low Socio-Economic Backgrounds Reflecting on What Counts in Career Counselling at the Secondary Level	3
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Policy Discourses and the Illusion of Best Practice	3
Wellbeing and Schooling: Cross Cultural and Cross Disciplinary Perspectives	3
Educating Attention: Flourishing in the Age of Generative AI	3
The Philosophical Limitations of Educational Assessment: Implications for Academic Selection	3
Virtue and the Art of Teaching Art	2
Fearing the ‘Clipboard Police’: Exploring How Marginalised Schools Experience Ofsted Inspections in an Era of Precarity	2
The White Working Class. How Engaged are Their Children During Secondary School?	2
EDITORIAL	2
Segregation Between English Schools: What Has Changed (Or Not) from 2007 to 2024?	2
The Role of Maths, Science, and English/Welsh GCSE Attainment in Post-16 Subject Progression	2
OBITUARY PROFESSOR RICHARD PRING (1938–2024)	2
Coping with National Language Policy Shift: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Parents in an Irish County Town	2
THE POET AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: TONY HARRISON’S WAR POETRY	2
Virtue for Academic Flourishing: An Argument for the Importance of Character in Higher Education	2
Without School: Education as Common(ing) Activities in Local Social Infrastructures – An Escape from Extinction Ethics	2
Mary Warnock. Ethics, Education and Public Policy in Post-War Britain	2