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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
List of reviewers for Educational Review 2022	160
Are teachers absent more? Examining differences in absence between K-12 teachers and other college-educated workers	153
School transition difficulty in Scotland and Ireland: a longitudinal perspective	48
Why was inquiry practice not there? Analysis of demand-resource empirics of classroom pedagogy	38
“Coming to uni was isolating, a massive culture shock”: the struggle of working-class rural youth for recognition and belonging at a metropolitan university	37
Opening up learning environments: liking school among students in reformed learning spaces	35
The solidarity bind: narratives on fractures in solidarity and internalised racism in HE	34
Family-preschool relationship and family engagement in distance preschool education in the time of COVID-19 in Chile: toward a change of Principals' mentality?	32
A liberal education: the social and political impact of the modern university	30
Mapping Jordanian students’ understanding of disability	26
Mental health and gender discourses in school: “Emotional” girls and boys “at risk”	24
Towards a power-sharing pedagogy: the mobilisation of Indigenous culture in children’s play in Aotearoa New Zealand’s early childhood settings	22
Teachers’ emotional experiences: towards a new emotional discourse	21
Classroom assistant roles and deployment models: an international scoping review	20
Emotional and critical citizens: Portuguese students’ engagement with wicked issues in contemporary EU policy	19
Surviving carelessness and disposability in British higher education: the gendered and racialised emotional labours of academic migration	18
Teachers’ experiences of school-based mental health literacy programmes: a qualitative study of Tackling the Blues	18
The emergence of multipolarity in global higher education: the Belt and Road Initiative and African students’ motivations to pursue postgraduate education in China	17
Transformative teaching around the world: stories of cultural impact, technology integration, and innovative pedagogy	16
Moral injury in teaching: the systemic roots of ethical conflict and emotional burnout in education	16
Gender in an era of post-truth populism: pedagogies, challenges and strategies	16
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
Making a mass institution: Indianapolis and the American high school	15
Revisiting the debates on “epistemicide”: Insights from the South African school curriculum	14
The pedagogy of radical change: social movements, resistance and alternative futures in higher education and society	14

Leaving Chinese internationalised schools: expatriate teachers’ experiences of career transitions	14
Why sociology?– comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary and England	13
Conservatism as affective ideology: rethinking the recent attacks on higher education	13
Contrasting visions of equity: a critical race theory analysis of curriculum reform in English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh education	13
Decolonizing epistemologies and worldviews in education: new ways of knowing in education and policy	13
Supporting social inclusion of refugees: a funds of knowledge approach	12
Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: an international perspective	12
Education for development: professional commitments and practices among Tibetan teachers in Northwest China	12
Performer versus caring professional: identity conflicts of preschool teachers in the context of performative culture in mainland China	12
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	11
Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance , by Henry A. Giroux, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 28	11
Social leadership in early childhood education and care: an introduction	11
Emergent trends in comparative education: the dialectic of the global and the local	11
Together and apart: co-teaching in the time of COVID-19	11
Educating refugee-background students: critical issues and dynamic contexts	11
Decolonising community education and development; understanding the past, learning for the future	10
Understanding the identity work and aspirations of Indigenous males navigating elite Australian higher education	10
Navigating the power of time in classroom practices: teachers’ and students’ perspectives	10
Unpacking the logics of gendered educational choices: 10th graders’ evaluation of appropriate educational tracks	10
Culture, power, and ideology: the purpose and value of physical education (PE) in alternative provision schools in England	10
Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England	9
Public policy and universities: the interplay of knowledge and power	9
Negotiating for distance: the Chinese middle-class seeking alternative education in the idyll	9
Decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education: bringing decolonial theory into contact with teaching practice	9
Not for proft: why democracy needs the humanities	9
Student councils as a safety valve for school values: the relativism of participation rights in Jewish national religious schools for girls	8
International L2 students’ engagement with teacher feedback: perspectives from a globalised higher education context	8
The dance of managerialism and professionalism: a fresh perspective on educational systems and reform	8
Countering antisemitism through Holocaust education. A comparative perspective on Scotland and Austria	8
Will the UK Government’s Initial Teacher Training Market Review Report provide the catalyst for a renewed values-based dialectic in teacher education?	7
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Motivational factors and course difficulty as predictors of teaching evaluations: a study of U.S. undergraduates	7
Decentring the West in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme: towards a framework for critical reflection on curriculum and teaching	7
Structural and cultural properties in teachers’ practices: enactment of the 2022 national science curriculum standards in China	7
Parents talking algorithms: Navigating datafication and family life in digital societies	7
Neoliberalisation and educational reforms: impacts on teachers in a single school context	7
A scoping review of methods and measures used to capture children's play during school breaktimes	7
Intersectionality in US educational research: visibilizing the historically excluded and under-recognized experiences of disabled girls of color	7
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	7
Mind the aspiration gap: how primary school pupils perceive their future adult selves and the perspectives and expectations of parents and teachers	6
Implementing digital technologies in the school setting – how does it relate to work environment?	6
Generative AI in higher education: the ChatGPT effect	6
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	6
Institutional practices sustaining race-evasion in Norwegian schools: counter-narratives from racially minoritised teachers	6
Beyond standards: the fragmentation of education governance and the promise of curriculum reform	6
The struggle for a multilingual future: youth and education in Sri Lanka	6
China’s approach to inward student mobility since 1949: an analysis of the state’s role from historical and political economy perspectives	6
Collective voices making change: a literature review of black youth activism in the United States	6
Navigating technology in the classroom: a scoping review of technology use during peer collaboration in early educational settings	6
Systemic vulnerability as a lens to explore young people’s experiences of transition from alternative provision settings to post-16 mainstream education	6
From assessment to feedback: applications in the second/foreign language classroom From assessment to feedback: applications in the second/foreign language classroom , b	6

Que(e)rying leadership on an LGBTQ+ leadership development programme for UK higher education staff	6
School leaders navigating student wellbeing: the interplay between academic achievement and economic logics in Danish schools	5
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?	5
Educational performance pressure and mental ill-being: the case of Danish primary and lower secondary schools, 1975–2024	5
Language teacher identity tensions: nexus of agency, emotion and investment	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
A Comprehensive Developmental Profiling Tool for Measuring School Readiness on School Entry	5
Racism, Islamophobia and trust in schools: perceptions of diversity in schools in Barcelona	5
Write on! Cultivating social capital in a writing group for doctoral education and beyond	5
Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education	5
Schoolishness: alienated education and the quest for authentic, joyful learning	5
Embracing complexity: rethinking education inspection in England	5
Making your doctoral research project ambitious: Developing large-scale studies with real-world impact	5
International teachers’ lived experiences: examining internationalised schooling in Shanghai	5
Supporting students to engage with case studies: a model of engagement principles	5
Learning from autistic teachers: lessons about change in an era of COVID-19	5
Teaching practicum research in Finland: a scoping review	5
Minoritised migrant women in academia as translocational outsiders within: an analysis of four structures of exhaustion	5
Desiring-futures in education policy: assemblage theory, artificial intelligence, and UNESCO’s futures of education	4
Emoji in higher education: a healthcare-based perspective	4
Addressing underachievement and early school leaving in Europe: the role of institutional factors	4
Transformative teaching and learning in further education: pedagogies of hope and social justice	4
The “problem” of teacher quality: exploring challenges and opportunities in developing teacher quality during the Covid-19 global pandemic in England	4
A double bind: youth activism, climate change, and education	4
Parents’ (dis)satisfaction with schools: evidence from longitudinal administrative data from Spain	4
Threat or necessity: an analysis of the development of International Baccalaureate education in Shanghai	4
Culturally sensitive research methods for educational administration and leadership	4
“ 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	4
Dire Straits - Education Reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire Straits - Education Reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gomen	4
Is being clever enough? Young people’s construction of the ideal student in computer science education	4
Subjectivities and the future of comparative and international education: teacher researchers and graduate student researchers as co-constructive narrative inquirers	4
List of Reviewers for Educational Review 2025	4
“Taking off the shackles”: the joy, freedom and gravitational pull of low-stakes curriculum innovation within a high-stakes assessment framework	4
Nine guiding principles for women in higher education	4
School exclusion to family inclusion: case study of a systemic multi-family school approach to school exclusion	4
Equity and inclusion in work-integrated learning: participation and outcomes for diverse student groups	4
Fascism on trial. Education and the possibility of democracy	4
Access is capture: how edtech reproduces racial inequality	4
Psychoeducational groups: process and practice	4