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

Article	Citations
List of reviewers for Educational Review 2022	114
Why was inquiry practice not there? Analysis of demand-resource empirics of classroom pedagogy	100
Opening up learning environments: liking school among students in reformed learning spaces	46
School transition difficulty in Scotland and Ireland: a longitudinal perspective	43
The solidarity bind: narratives on fractures in solidarity and internalised racism in HE	35
Former young mothers’ pathways through higher education: a chance to rethink the narrative	35
Are teachers absent more? Examining differences in absence between K-12 teachers and other college-educated workers	33
“Coming to uni was isolating, a massive culture shock”: the struggle of working-class rural youth for recognition and belonging at a metropolitan university	33
Family-preschool relationship and family engagement in distance preschool education in the time of COVID-19 in Chile: toward a change of Principals' mentality?	30
Classroom assistant roles and deployment models: an international scoping review	29
Emotional and critical citizens: Portuguese students’ engagement with wicked issues in contemporary EU policy	25
A liberal education: the social and political impact of the modern university	25
Mental health and gender discourses in school: “Emotional” girls and boys “at risk”	24
Moral injury in teaching: the systemic roots of ethical conflict and emotional burnout in education	23
Surviving carelessness and disposability in British higher education: the gendered and racialised emotional labours of academic migration	22
Teachers’ experiences of school-based mental health literacy programmes: a qualitative study of Tackling the Blues	22
Teachers’ emotional experiences: towards a new emotional discourse	19
Revisiting the debates on “epistemicide”: Insights from the South African school curriculum	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
Why sociology?– comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary and England	19
Correction	18
Education for development: professional commitments and practices among Tibetan teachers in Northwest China	18
Transformative teaching around the world: stories of cultural impact, technology integration, and innovative pedagogy	18
Gender in an era of post-truth populism: pedagogies, challenges and strategies	17
Making a mass institution: Indianapolis and the American high school	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	16
Supporting social inclusion of refugees: a funds of knowledge approach	16
Leaving Chinese internationalised schools: expatriate teachers’ experiences of career transitions	15
Exploring early childhood practitioners’ perceptions of empathy with children and families: initial findings	15
Performer versus caring professional: identity conflicts of preschool teachers in the context of performative culture in mainland China	15
Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: an international perspective	15
Together and apart: co-teaching in the time of COVID-19	14
Emergent trends in comparative education: the dialectic of the global and the local	14
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	14
Educating refugee-background students: critical issues and dynamic contexts	12
Understanding the identity work and aspirations of Indigenous males navigating elite Australian higher education	12
Who’s checkin’ for Black girls and women in the “pandemic within a pandemic”? COVID-19, Black Lives Matter and educational implications	12
Social leadership in early childhood education and care: an introduction	12
Culture, power, and ideology: the purpose and value of physical education (PE) in alternative provision schools in England	12
Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance , by Henry A. Giroux, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 28	12
Decolonising community education and development; understanding the past, learning for the future	12
Negotiating for distance: the Chinese middle-class seeking alternative education in the idyll	11
Navigating the power of time in classroom practices: teachers’ and students’ perspectives	11
Unpacking the logics of gendered educational choices: 10th graders’ evaluation of appropriate educational tracks	11
The hybridisation of adolescents’ worlds as a source of developmental tensions: a study of discursive manifestations of contradictions	11
Resilience, advocacy and scholar-activism: responding to COVID-19 in Kenyan, Mexican and British universities	10
International L2 students’ engagement with teacher feedback: perspectives from a globalised higher education context	9
Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England	9
Countering antisemitism through Holocaust education. A comparative perspective on Scotland and Austria	9
The dance of managerialism and professionalism: a fresh perspective on educational systems and reform	9
A scoping review of methods and measures used to capture children's play during school breaktimes	9
Decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education: bringing decolonial theory into contact with teaching practice	9
Educational technology for learners with disabilities in primary school settings in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review	9
Not for proft: why democracy needs the humanities	9
Public policy and universities: the interplay of knowledge and power	9
Student councils as a safety valve for school values: the relativism of participation rights in Jewish national religious schools for girls	9
Navigating technology in the classroom: a scoping review of technology use during peer collaboration in early educational settings	8
Will the UK Government’s Initial Teacher Training Market Review Report provide the catalyst for a renewed values-based dialectic in teacher education?	8
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Motivational factors and course difficulty as predictors of teaching evaluations: a study of U.S. undergraduates	8
Parents talking algorithms: Navigating datafication and family life in digital societies	8
Implementing digital technologies in the school setting – how does it relate to work environment?	8
Decentring the West in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme: towards a framework for critical reflection on curriculum and teaching	8
Intersectionality in US educational research: visibilizing the historically excluded and under-recognized experiences of disabled girls of color	8
Beyond standards: the fragmentation of education governance and the promise of curriculum reform	8
The struggle for a multilingual future: youth and education in Sri Lanka	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
Write on! Cultivating social capital in a writing group for doctoral education and beyond	7
Mind the aspiration gap: how primary school pupils perceive their future adult selves and the perspectives and expectations of parents and teachers	7
Generative AI in higher education: the ChatGPT effect	7
Virtues, values and the fracturing of civic and moral virtue in citizenship education policy in England	7
Neoliberalisation and educational reforms: impacts on teachers in a single school context	7
Institutional practices sustaining race-evasion in Norwegian schools: counter-narratives from racially minoritised teachers	6
Educational performance pressure and mental ill-being: the case of Danish primary and lower secondary schools, 1975–2024	6
Systemic vulnerability as a lens to explore young people’s experiences of transition from alternative provision settings to post-16 mainstream education	6
China’s approach to inward student mobility since 1949: an analysis of the state’s role from historical and political economy perspectives	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
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
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
Language teacher identity tensions: nexus of agency, emotion and investment	5
Teaching practicum research in Finland: a scoping review	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
Minoritised migrant women in academia as translocational outsiders within: an analysis of four structures of exhaustion	5
Learning from autistic teachers: lessons about change in an era of COVID-19	5
Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education	5
An evaluation of the factors that influence academic success as defined by engaged students	5
International teachers’ lived experiences: examining internationalised schooling in Shanghai	5
Thin places of resistance: a caring response to refugees in rural American schools	5
Embracing complexity: rethinking education inspection in England	5
Schoolishness: alienated education and the quest for authentic, joyful learning	5
Supporting students to engage with case studies: a model of engagement principles	5
Collective voices making change: a literature review of black youth activism in the United States	5
Making your doctoral research project ambitious: Developing large-scale studies with real-world impact	5
Que(e)rying leadership on an LGBTQ+ leadership development programme for UK higher education staff	5
School leaders navigating student wellbeing: the interplay between academic achievement and economic logics in Danish schools	5
A Comprehensive Developmental Profiling Tool for Measuring School Readiness on School Entry	5
Is being clever enough? Young people’s construction of the ideal student in computer science education	4
Fascism on trial. Education and the possibility of democracy	4
Addressing underachievement and early school leaving in Europe: the role of institutional factors	4
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	4
Nine guiding principles for women in higher education	4
Parents’ (dis)satisfaction with schools: evidence from longitudinal administrative data from Spain	4
“Taking off the shackles”: the joy, freedom and gravitational pull of low-stakes curriculum innovation within a high-stakes assessment framework	4
Transformative teaching and learning in further education: pedagogies of hope and social justice	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
Emoji in higher education: a healthcare-based perspective	4
Desiring-futures in education policy: assemblage theory, artificial intelligence, and UNESCO’s futures of education	4
Dire Straits - Education Reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire Straits - Education Reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gomen	4
Equity and inclusion in work-integrated learning: participation and outcomes for diverse student groups	4
Racism, Islamophobia and trust in schools: perceptions of diversity in schools in Barcelona	4
School exclusion to family inclusion: case study of a systemic multi-family school approach to school exclusion	4
Culturally sensitive research methods for educational administration and leadership	4
Threat or necessity: an analysis of the development of International Baccalaureate education in Shanghai	4