OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Review is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
List of reviewers for Educational Review 2022	205
Are teachers absent more? Examining differences in absence between K-12 teachers and other college-educated workers	200
The solidarity bind: narratives on fractures in solidarity and internalised racism in HE	58
School transition difficulty in Scotland and Ireland: a longitudinal perspective	44
Through their eyes: students' images and experiences beyond mainstream schooling	41
“Coming to uni was isolating, a massive culture shock”: the struggle of working-class rural youth for recognition and belonging at a metropolitan university	40
A liberal education: the social and political impact of the modern university	39
Mental health and gender discourses in school: “Emotional” girls and boys “at risk”	34
Towards a power-sharing pedagogy: the mobilisation of Indigenous culture in children’s play in Aotearoa New Zealand’s early childhood settings	29
Teachers’ emotional experiences: towards a new emotional discourse	24
Surviving carelessness and disposability in British higher education: the gendered and racialised emotional labours of academic migration	23
Moral injury in teaching: the systemic roots of ethical conflict and emotional burnout in education	23
Emotional and critical citizens: Portuguese students’ engagement with wicked issues in contemporary EU policy	23
Family-preschool relationship and family engagement in distance preschool education in the time of COVID-19 in Chile: toward a change of Principals' mentality?	22
Mapping Jordanian students’ understanding of disability	20
Classroom assistant roles and deployment models: an international scoping review	19
The emergence of multipolarity in global higher education: the Belt and Road Initiative and African students’ motivations to pursue postgraduate education in China	19
Making a mass institution: Indianapolis and the American high school	18
Teachers’ experiences of school-based mental health literacy programmes: a qualitative study of Tackling the Blues	18
Gender in an era of post-truth populism: pedagogies, challenges and strategies	18
Transformative teaching around the world: stories of cultural impact, technology integration, and innovative pedagogy	18
Decolonizing epistemologies and worldviews in education: new ways of knowing in education and policy	17
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	17
Perceptions and experiences on the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs in post-primary Physical Education: a scoping review	16
The pedagogy of radical change: social movements, resistance and alternative futures in higher education and society	15

Why sociology?– comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary and England	15
Conservatism as affective ideology: rethinking the recent attacks on higher education	15
Education for development: professional commitments and practices among Tibetan teachers in Northwest China	15
Supporting social inclusion of refugees: a funds of knowledge approach	14
Leaving Chinese internationalised schools: expatriate teachers’ experiences of career transitions	14
Contrasting visions of equity: a critical race theory analysis of curriculum reform in English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh education	14
Revisiting the debates on “epistemicide”: Insights from the South African school curriculum	14
Together and apart: co-teaching in the time of COVID-19	13
Social leadership in early childhood education and care: an introduction	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
Performer versus caring professional: identity conflicts of preschool teachers in the context of performative culture in mainland China	13
Emergent trends in comparative education: the dialectic of the global and the local	13
Educating refugee-background students: critical issues and dynamic contexts	12
Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance , by Henry A. Giroux, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 28	12
Unpacking the logics of gendered educational choices: 10th graders’ evaluation of appropriate educational tracks	11
Negotiating for distance: the Chinese middle-class seeking alternative education in the idyll	11
Decolonising community education and development; understanding the past, learning for the future	11
Character education and academic progression in English schools	11
Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: an international perspective	10
Understanding the identity work and aspirations of Indigenous males navigating elite Australian higher education	9
Public policy and universities: the interplay of knowledge and power	9
Culture, power, and ideology: the purpose and value of physical education (PE) in alternative provision schools in England	9
Not for proft: why democracy needs the humanities	9
School choice in uncertainty: temporariness and liminality of Ukrainian refugee mothers	9
Navigating the power of time in classroom practices: teachers’ and students’ perspectives	9
A scoping review of methods and measures used to capture children's play during school breaktimes	8
International L2 students’ engagement with teacher feedback: perspectives from a globalised higher education context	8
Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England	8
Structural and cultural properties in teachers’ practices: enactment of the 2022 national science curriculum standards in China	8
Student councils as a safety valve for school values: the relativism of participation rights in Jewish national religious schools for girls	8
The dance of managerialism and professionalism: a fresh perspective on educational systems and reform	8
Parents talking algorithms: Navigating datafication and family life in digital societies	7
Navigating technology in the classroom: a scoping review of technology use during peer collaboration in early educational settings	7
Mind the aspiration gap: how primary school pupils perceive their future adult selves and the perspectives and expectations of parents and teachers	7
Will the UK Government’s Initial Teacher Training Market Review Report provide the catalyst for a renewed values-based dialectic in teacher education?	7
Neoliberalisation and educational reforms: impacts on teachers in a single school context	7
Decentring the West in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme: towards a framework for critical reflection on curriculum and teaching	7
Implementing digital technologies in the school setting – how does it relate to work environment?	7
The struggle for a multilingual future: youth and education in Sri Lanka	7
Countering antisemitism through Holocaust education. A comparative perspective on Scotland and Austria	7
Beyond standards: the fragmentation of education governance and the promise of curriculum reform	7
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Motivational factors and course difficulty as predictors of teaching evaluations: a study of U.S. undergraduates	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
Learning from autistic teachers: lessons about change in an era of COVID-19	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
Collective voices making change: a literature review of black youth activism in the United States	6
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?	6
Supporting students to engage with case studies: a model of engagement principles	6
A Comprehensive Developmental Profiling Tool for Measuring School Readiness on School Entry	6

Reading autoethnography: reflections on justice and love Reading autoethnography: reflections on justice and love , by James M. Salvo, New York, Routledge, 2020, 154 pp.	6
International teachers’ lived experiences: examining internationalised schooling in Shanghai	6
Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education	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
Write on! Cultivating social capital in a writing group for doctoral education and beyond	6
Generative AI in higher education: the ChatGPT effect	6
Que(e)rying leadership on an LGBTQ+ leadership development programme for UK higher education staff	6
Educational performance pressure and mental ill-being: the case of Danish primary and lower secondary schools, 1975–2024	6
Making your doctoral research project ambitious: Developing large-scale studies with real-world impact	6
Language teacher identity tensions: nexus of agency, emotion and investment	6
China’s approach to inward student mobility since 1949: an analysis of the state’s role from historical and political economy perspectives	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
Teaching practicum research in Finland: a scoping review	6
Divided we fall? Exploring the association between school segregation and post-16 pathways in England	6
Schoolishness: alienated education and the quest for authentic, joyful learning	6
Minoritised migrant women in academia as translocational outsiders within: an analysis of four structures of exhaustion	6
Nine guiding principles for women in higher education	5
Equity and inclusion in work-integrated learning: participation and outcomes for diverse student groups	5
Emoji in higher education: a healthcare-based perspective	5
Racism, Islamophobia and trust in schools: perceptions of diversity in schools in Barcelona	5
Culturally sensitive research methods for educational administration and leadership	5
Threat or necessity: an analysis of the development of International Baccalaureate education in Shanghai	5
Transformative teaching and learning in further education: pedagogies of hope and social justice	5
Embracing complexity: rethinking education inspection in England	5
“Taking off the shackles”: the joy, freedom and gravitational pull of low-stakes curriculum innovation within a high-stakes assessment framework	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
School exclusion to family inclusion: case study of a systemic multi-family school approach to school exclusion	5
School leaders navigating student wellbeing: the interplay between academic achievement and economic logics in Danish schools	5
Addressing underachievement and early school leaving in Europe: the role of institutional factors	5