OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Review is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
List of reviewers for Educational Review 2022	71
The solidarity bind: narratives on fractures in solidarity and internalised racism in HE	69
School transition difficulty in Scotland and Ireland: a longitudinal perspective	64
Opening up learning environments: liking school among students in reformed learning spaces	63
Why was inquiry practice not there? Analysis of demand-resource empirics of classroom pedagogy	60
Are teachers absent more? Examining differences in absence between K-12 teachers and other college-educated workers	58
Former young mothers’ pathways through higher education: a chance to rethink the narrative	41
Should I stay or should I go? The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on regional, rural and remote undergraduate students at an Australian University	41
Teachers’ experiences of school-based mental health literacy programmes: a qualitative study of Tackling the Blues	37
Professional learning and identities in teaching: international narratives of successful teachers	34
Emotional and critical citizens: Portuguese students’ engagement with wicked issues in contemporary EU policy	32
Surviving carelessness and disposability in British higher education: the gendered and racialised emotional labours of academic migration	30
Mental health and gender discourses in school: “Emotional” girls and boys “at risk”	29
A liberal education: the social and political impact of the modern university	27
Family-preschool relationship and family engagement in distance preschool education in the time of COVID-19 in Chile: toward a change of Principals' mentality?	23
Classroom assistant roles and deployment models: an international scoping review	21
The emergence of multipolarity in global higher education: the Belt and Road Initiative and African students’ motivations to pursue postgraduate education in China	20
Moral injury in teaching: the systemic roots of ethical conflict and emotional burnout in education	19
Correction	18
Revisiting the debates on “epistemicide”: Insights from the South African school curriculum	18
Performer versus caring professional: identity conflicts of preschool teachers in the context of performative culture in mainland China	17
Transformative teaching around the world: stories of cultural impact, technology integration, and innovative pedagogy	17
Why sociology?– comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary and England	17
Leaving Chinese internationalised schools: expatriate teachers’ experiences of career transitions	17
Education for development: professional commitments and practices among Tibetan teachers in Northwest China	16

Making a mass institution: Indianapolis and the American high school	15
Gender in an era of post-truth populism: pedagogies, challenges and strategies	15
After the Ivory Tower Falls - How college broke the American dream and blew up our politics—and how to fix it After the Ivory Tower Falls - How college broke the American dream and blew	15
Towards the compassionate university: from golden thread to global impact	15
Supporting social inclusion of refugees: a funds of knowledge approach	15
Resilience, advocacy and scholar-activism: responding to COVID-19 in Kenyan, Mexican and British universities	15
The hybridisation of adolescents’ worlds as a source of developmental tensions: a study of discursive manifestations of contradictions	14
Culture, power, and ideology: the purpose and value of physical education (PE) in alternative provision schools in England	14
Unpacking the logics of gendered educational choices: 10th graders’ evaluation of appropriate educational tracks	14
Navigating the power of time in classroom practices: teachers’ and students’ perspectives	14
Who’s checkin’ for Black girls and women in the “pandemic within a pandemic”? COVID-19, Black Lives Matter and educational implications	14
Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance , by Henry A. Giroux, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 28	13
Educating refugee-background students: critical issues and dynamic contexts	13
Emergent trends in comparative education: the dialectic of the global and the local	13
Exploring early childhood practitioners’ perceptions of empathy with children and families: initial findings	13
Social leadership in early childhood education and care: an introduction	13
Together and apart: co-teaching in the time of COVID-19	13
Understanding the professional agency of female language teachers in a Chinese university: rhetoric and reality Understanding the professional agency of female language teachers in a Ch	13
Understanding the identity work and aspirations of Indigenous males navigating elite Australian higher education	12
Learning with Indigenous wisdom in a time of multiple crises: embodied and emplaced early childhood pedagogies	12
Negotiating for distance: the Chinese middle-class seeking alternative education in the idyll	12
Decolonising community education and development; understanding the past, learning for the future	12
Income inequality and student achievement: trends among US States (1992–2019)	11
Countering antisemitism through Holocaust education. A comparative perspective on Scotland and Austria	11
Not for proft: why democracy needs the humanities	11
Student councils as a safety valve for school values: the relativism of participation rights in Jewish national religious schools for girls	11
A scoping review of methods and measures used to capture children's play during school breaktimes	11
International L2 students’ engagement with teacher feedback: perspectives from a globalised higher education context	11
Decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education: bringing decolonial theory into contact with teaching practice	11
Educational technology for learners with disabilities in primary school settings in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review	11
Parents talking algorithms: Navigating datafication and family life in digital societies	10
Will the UK Government’s Initial Teacher Training Market Review Report provide the catalyst for a renewed values-based dialectic in teacher education?	10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Motivational factors and course difficulty as predictors of teaching evaluations: a study of U.S. undergraduates	10
Public policy and universities: the interplay of knowledge and power	10
Navigating technology in the classroom: a scoping review of technology use during peer collaboration in early educational settings	10
Beyond standards: the fragmentation of education governance and the promise of curriculum reform	10
Decentring the West in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme: towards a framework for critical reflection on curriculum and teaching	9
The career prospects of migrant, female academics from minority ethnic backgrounds in the UK’s higher education sector: an integrative review of peer-reviewed literature	9
Mind the aspiration gap: how primary school pupils perceive their future adult selves and the perspectives and expectations of parents and teachers	9
Neoliberalisation and educational reforms: impacts on teachers in a single school context	9
Intersectionality in US educational research: visibilizing the historically excluded and under-recognized experiences of disabled girls of color	9
The struggle for a multilingual future: youth and education in Sri Lanka	8
Virtues, values and the fracturing of civic and moral virtue in citizenship education policy in England	8
Implementing digital technologies in the school setting – how does it relate to work environment?	8
What do New Zealand teachers and principals perceive is happening for English as an additional language students with the changing architecture of New Zealand schools?	7
From assessment to feedback: applications in the second/foreign language classroom From assessment to feedback: applications in the second/foreign language classroom , b	7
Teaching practicum research in Finland: a scoping review	7
Thin places of resistance: a caring response to refugees in rural American schools	7
Educational performance pressure and mental ill-being: the case of Danish primary and lower secondary schools, 1975–2024	7
Becoming a Scholar: cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doctorate Becoming a Scholar: cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doc	7

China’s approach to inward student mobility since 1949: an analysis of the state’s role from historical and political economy perspectives	7
Supporting students to engage with case studies: a model of engagement principles	7
Sustainability of the Spanish university system during the pandemic caused by COVID-19	6
Learning from autistic teachers: lessons about change in an era of COVID-19	6
International teachers’ lived experiences: examining internationalised schooling in Shanghai	6
Conceptualising student participation in school decision making: an integrative model	6
Write on! Cultivating social capital in a writing group for doctoral education and beyond	6
Generative AI in higher education: the ChatGPT effect	6
Pupils’ informal social strategies in a Swedish compulsory school – What pupils do and say, out of sight of the teachers, while managing written individual assignments	6
Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education	6
Institutional practices sustaining race-evasion in Norwegian schools: counter-narratives from racially minoritised teachers	6
Systemic vulnerability as a lens to explore young people’s experiences of transition from alternative provision settings to post-16 mainstream education	6
Collective voices making change: a literature review of black youth activism in the United States	6
Teacher agency in culturally responsive teaching: learning to teach ethnic minority students in the Central Highlands of Vietnam	6
Language teacher identity tensions: nexus of agency, emotion and investment	6
Making your doctoral research project ambitious: Developing large-scale studies with real-world impact	6
Pandemic pedagogies, practices and future possibilities: emerging professional adjustments to the working practices of university teacher educators	6
Embracing complexity: rethinking education inspection in England	5
Addressing underachievement and early school leaving in Europe: the role of institutional factors	5
Culturally sensitive research methods for educational administration and leadership	5
Nine guiding principles for women in higher education	5
Threat or necessity: an analysis of the development of International Baccalaureate education in Shanghai	5
“Taking off the shackles”: the joy, freedom and gravitational pull of low-stakes curriculum innovation within a high-stakes assessment framework	5
School leaders navigating student wellbeing: the interplay between academic achievement and economic logics in Danish schools	5
Reading autoethnography: reflections on justice and love Reading autoethnography: reflections on justice and love , by James M. Salvo, New York, Routledge, 2020, 154 pp.	5
On learning: a general theory of objects and object-relations	5
“ We Have to Charge Levies, Else We Will Close Down the Schools ”. Delivering Ghana’s education capitation grant programme within chronic resource constraints: impacts a	5
An evaluation of the factors that influence academic success as defined by engaged students	5
Racism, Islamophobia and trust in schools: perceptions of diversity in schools in Barcelona	5
Equity and inclusion in work-integrated learning: participation and outcomes for diverse student groups	5
Transformative teaching and learning in further education: pedagogies of hope and social justice	5
The development and impact of teachers’ collective agency during Covid-19: insights from online classrooms in Canada and China	5
Emoji in higher education: a healthcare-based perspective	4
A double bind: youth activism, climate change, and education	4
The “problem” of teacher quality: exploring challenges and opportunities in developing teacher quality during the Covid-19 global pandemic in England	4
Bullying and cyberbullying: a bibliometric analysis of three decades of research in education	4
Masculinity and emotionality in education: critical reflections on discourses of boys’ behaviour and mental health	4
Desiring-futures in education policy: assemblage theory, artificial intelligence, and UNESCO’s futures of education	4
Learning disruption or learning loss: using evidence from unplanned closures to inform returning to school after COVID-19	4
Subjectivities and the future of comparative and international education: teacher researchers and graduate student researchers as co-constructive narrative inquirers	4
School exclusion to family inclusion: case study of a systemic multi-family school approach to school exclusion	4
The Enlightenment salon: a gendered site for constructivist pedagogy	4
Fascism on trial. Education and the possibility of democracy	4
“I had to be a mother”: foundation phase male teachers negotiating masculinity in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa	4