OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Educational Researcher is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Transitional Kindergarten: The New Kid on the Early Learning Block	255
Case for Closing Superintendent Gender Gap: Pre-K Commitment	150
College Canceled: What Happened to California’s High School Graduating Class of 2020?	108
Exploring Deficit Beliefs Among High School Math Teachers	83
School Inclusion of Refugee Students: Recent Trends From International Data	53
The Effect of Right to Work Laws on Union Membership and School Resources: Evidence from 1942–2017	48
The Inequity of Opt-in Educational Resources and an Intervention to Increase Equitable Access	47
Decoding Sentiment Signals: Lessons From the Political Reception of the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards	41
Teacher Working Conditions and Dissatisfaction Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	38
Shared Responsibility for Multilingual Learners Across Levels of the Education System	37
The Widening Achievement Gap Between Rich and Poor in a Nordic Country	33
Has “Who Comes Back” Changed? Teacher Reentry 2000–2019	30
The Feasibility and Comparability of Using Artificial Intelligence for Qualitative Data Analysis in Equity-Focused Research	28
Strategies to Better Identify Student Homelessness Using Data in an Urban School District	28
Teachers’ Strategies for Supporting Transgender and/or Gender-Expansive Elementary School Students	26
Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Localized Teacher Pipeline Programs	25
Teacher Pension Reform Must Be About Cost and Design	25
Language Views for Scientific Sensemaking Matter: A Synthesis of Research on Multilingual Students’ Experiences with Science Practices Through a Translanguaging Lens	25
Distributional Trends and the Induction Supports and Preparedness of Early Career Teachers: Evidence From Longitudinal Nationally Representative Data	25
From Credulity Bias to Selective Trust: Children’s Testimonial Learning and Its Educational Implications	24
Choosing Alone? Peer Continuity Disparities in Choice-Based Enrollment Systems	23
College Students’ Instructor Mindset Perceptions and First-Semester Development	23
Reviewing Concentrated Poverty Literature Through an Antiblackness Lens to Reveal a Concentrated Debt	22
Replicating and Extending Effects of “Achievement Gap” Discourse	22
The Contribution of School Victimization to Sadness, Hopelessness, and Suicidal Ideation Among Bias-Based and Non-Bias-Based Victims and the Moderating Role of School Climate	22

Educators Are Not Alright: Mental Health During COVID-19	22
Disrupting White Supremacy and Anti-Black Racism in Educational Organizations	21
A Different Brown Story: Black Teacher Recruitment to Navajo Reservation BIA Schools During the Desegregation Era	21
Misrepresented Funding Gaps in Data for Some States	20
Why Black Teachers Matter	19
The Science of Voting: Coursetaking, Literacy, and Behavior	19
Portraying Teacher Education for Inclusion: An Analysis of the Institutional Discourse of Dual Certification Programs	18
Race at the Top	17
Making Catholic Schools Research Relevant: Assessing Contemporary Trends in the Field of Catholic Education	16
The Relationships Between State Higher Education Funding Strategies and College Access and Success	16
Leveraging a University to Create Local Equity-Oriented K–12 Learning Opportunities: A Conversation Starter	16
Educational Outcomes of Natural Disaster Versus Conventional Pathways to Homelessness: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey	16
Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research	15
Addressing the Disadvantage Gap Through Generative Learning: A Case for the Science Writing Heuristic Approach	14
There’s No Way for This to End Well: Lesson Planning, Neoliberalism, and Whiteness	13
A Quantitative Study of Mathematical Vocabulary Use in Upper Elementary Classrooms	13
Still Climbing the Hill: Intersectional Reflections on Brown and Beyond	13
School Discipline, Police Contact, and GPA: A Mediation Analysis	13
Impact of Removing Exit Exams on Graduation Rates	13
Responsible Innovation in Designing AI for Education: Attending to the “How,” the “for What,” the “for Whom,” and the “With Whom” in a Rapidly Growing Field	13
Incentivizing Retirement: An Analysis of Cash Retirement Incentives for Chicago Teachers	12
Reviewer Acknowledgments	12
Unlocking Potential: Evaluation of a Digital Math Learning Solution	12
Moving Through the Pipeline: Ethnic and Linguistic Disparities in Special Education from Birth Through Age Five	12
Principals’ Priorities, Teacher Evaluation, and Instructional Leadership	11
Out-of-Class High School Experiences and Students’ College Aspirations	11
“You Need to Be More Responsible”: The Myth of Meritocracy and Teachers’ Accounts of Homework Inequalities	11
Posts About Students on Facebook: A Data Ethics Perspective	11
Antiblackness as Global Aspiration? Centering Black Studies in Global Higher Education Research	10
For What and for Whom? Expanding the Role of Research Syntheses for Diverse Stakeholders	10
Fostering, Tailoring, Negotiating: The Complexities of Collaborative Coaching in Schools Under Pressure to Improve	10
Situating Teacher Movement, Space, and Relationships to Pedagogy: A Visual Method and Framework	10
A Cultural Explanation of Motivation-Achievement Paradox in Math	9
College Students’ Sense of Belonging: A Graduation Update	9
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in School-Based Disability Identification	9
Oral Assessment in the AI Era—Equity, Validity, and Scale	9
2024 AERA Presidential AddressWhy Do Darker People Suffer the Most? Examining the Past to Imagine Racial Justice in Education	9
Hidden Bias: How a Language Screener Can Misrepresent Dual Language Learner Performance in Mathematics	9
Denying Pathology While Implying It? Avoiding Person-Centered Pathology Traps in Counter-Deficit Research	9
The Long-Term Impacts of Corequisite Mathematics Remediation with Statistics: Degree Completion and Wage Outcomes	8
Out-of-School Time Programs in the United States in an Era of Racial Reckoning: Insights on Equity From Practitioners, Scholars, Policy Influencers, and Young People	8
Academic Writing Skills in College Admissions Essays: Exploring Their Implications for Admissions Decisions and First-Semester Grade Point Average	8
2023 AERA Presidential Address A Framework for Designing Consequential Research	8
Conceptualizing Latinx vis-à-vis Race in Education Research	8
Diminished Administrative Power Post- Loper : Implications for Education Research and Policy	8
Differences in Trans Employees’ and Students’ School Experiences	8
Researching the Far Right in Education Policy	7
Running Late: Student Commutes and High School Tardiness in Baltimore City	7
The Complex Terrain of Equity for Multilingual Learners in K–12 Education	7
How Did Colleges Disburse Emergency Aid During COVID-19? An Implementation Analysis of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund	7

Toward a Class-Conscious Approach to Cultural Responsiveness	6
A Critical Knowledge Praxis Framework for Educational Policymakers and Practitioners	6
Black School Closings Aren’t New: Historically Contextualizing Contemporary School Closings and Black Community Resistance	6
#scholar #famous #monster	6
Waiving English Learner Services: Prevalence and Student Characteristics	6
School Disruptions Exacerbated Inequality in High School Completion	6
Racial Justice Cannot Be Opt-In	5
Do as I Say: What Teachers’ Language Reveals About Classroom Management Practices	5
Learning Science and Engineering From Videos and Games: A Randomized Trial of PBS KIDS The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!	5
Ready but Waiting: The Role of Gender, Race, and Experience in Principal Applications	5
The Expansion of Corporate-Sponsored Tuition Benefits to America’s Low-Wage Workers	5
At the Cost of $1.8 Billion: Reparative Models for Harm Caused by Racially Discriminatory Teacher Licensure Exams	5
Teacher Self-Care Mandates as Institutional Gaslighting in a Neoliberal System	5
Examining Power Through Practice in Continuous Improvement in Education	5
Beyond Making a Statement: An Intersectional Framing of the Power and Possibilities of Positioning	5
Fiscal Federalism and K–12 Education Funding: Policy Lessons from Two Educational Crises	5
Persistence of Poverty: How Measures of Socioeconomic Status Have Changed Over Time	5
English-Learner-Classified Students and Absenteeism: A Within-Group Analysis of Missing School	5
The Need for Educational Research Engagement With Courts, Public Policy, and Practice in a Post- Dobbs Era	5
Banking on Dual Credit: Broadening Opportunities to Earn College Credit in High School and the Transition to College	4
Centering Ethnic-Racial Identity in Education Framework: A Culturally Affirming Approach to Home-School Collaborations With Black and Latine Youth and Families	4
Who Becomes a Teacher When Entry Requirements Are Reduced? An Analysis of Emergency Licenses in Massachusetts	4
“Othering” Through War: Depiction of Asians/Asian Americans in U.S. History Textbooks	4
Test Score Patterns Across Three COVID-19-Impacted School Years	4
Postpandemic Teacher Supply and Demand	4
Service Delivery Models: Impacts for Students With and Without Disabilities	4
Is Meeting Enough? Differences in Frequency and Consequences of Academic Advising Appointments Between Marginalized and Mainstream College Students	4
Experimental Evidence on the Robustness of Coaching Supports in Teacher Education	4
Taking Note of Our Biases: How Language Patterns Reveal Bias Underlying the Use of Office Discipline Referrals in Exclusionary Discipline	4
Teacher Turnover in Early Childhood Education: Longitudinal Evidence From the Universe of Publicly Funded Programs in Louisiana	4
The Ties That Bind: An Examination of School-Family Relationships and Middle School Discipline in New York City	4
The Segregation Pandemic: Brown as Treatment or Placebo?	4
Be(com)ing an Educational Researcher in the Global South (and Beyond): A Focus on the Research-Practice Relationship	4
Ahead of the Game? Course-Taking Patterns Under a Math Pathways Reform	4
Do Students Improve Their Academic Achievement When Assigned to a Growth Mindset Teacher?	3
Students Under Surveillance: Big Data Policing and Privacy Rights	3
A Restorative Attempt to Bend the Binary: The Experiences of Genderqueer Students in a Restorative School District	3
In School, Engaged, on Track? The Effect of the Pandemic on Student Attendance, Course Grades, and Grade Retention in North Carolina	3
When Race Becomes Capital: Diversity, Faculty Hiring, and the Entrenchment of Racial Capitalism in Higher Education	3
Does Free College “Work” for Adults? Enrollment Impacts of Michigan Reconnect	3
Response to Letter to the Editor	3
AERA Presidential Address 2026 The Future Is Here: Historical Signals in Education Research	3
Corrigendum to “School Inclusion of Refugee Students: Recent Trends From International Data”	3
Mixed Signals? Economically (Dis)advantaged Students’ College Attendance Under Mandatory College and Career Readiness Assessments	3
Poverty and the Brain: The New/Old Language of Cultural Deficit	3
Teacher Exit and Educational Opportunity: Lessons From Career and Technical Education	3
Examining How White Teachers’ Interracial Contact Experiences Shape Their Self-Efficacy and School Choices	3
A Conceptual Framework for Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC): A Holistic Approach for Systematic Field Building	3
Factors Affecting Students’ Likelihood to Access Feedback	3
Documenting Their Decisions: How Undocumented Students Enroll and Persist in College	3
Effectiveness Research for Teacher Education	3
Teaching and Learning for Mutual Respect: A Framework for Disrupting Pervasive Power Asymmetries	3
The Stability of Families’ Revealed Preferences for Schools	3
Why Do You Want to Be a Teacher? A Natural Language Processing Approach	3
Troublemakers? The Role of Frequent Teacher Referrers in Expanding Racial Disciplinary Disproportionalities	3
Staff and Faculty Unionization Efforts in Private Higher Education, 2007–2023	3