OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of Educational Research 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
Conceptualizing White-Ability Saviorism: A Necessary Reckoning With Ableism in Urban Teacher Education	116
Does Teacher Talk Matter Too? A Meta-Analysis of Partial Correlations Between Teachers’ Language Practices and Children’s Language Development from Preschool to Third Grade	93
Caregiving Labor and Teachers’ Work: A Review of the Literature	92
Attending to Race in Teacher Well-Being Interventions: A Systematic Review and Recommendations	90
Disentangling the Effects of Social and Emotional Learning Programs on Student Academic Achievement Across Grades 1–12: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	62
Thematic and Temporal Patterns in Mathematics Teacher Educator Research: A Topic Modeling Analysis	60
Investigating Main Effects and Moderators of Linear Number Board Games: A Meta-Analytic Review	47
Navigating Precarious Citizenship in Schools: Newcomer Youth of Color at the Intersection of Race and Ability	46
A Call for New Frameworks to Capture Latinx Immigrant Young Adults’ Racialized Educational Experiences in the United States	45
Domestic Study Away in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review	44
A Framework for Learning From Erroneous Examples and Meta-Analysis of Empirical Research	43
Framing and Efficacy of University-Required Diversity Courses in the Research Literature	41
Secondary Students’ Educational Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis	39
Assessing Teachers’ Culturally Responsive Classroom Practice in PK–12 Schools: A Systematic Review of Teacher-, Student-, and Observer-Report Measures	39
Mapping the Contributions of the Review of Educational Research to Education, 1931–2020	38
Deeper than Wordplay: A Systematic Review of Critical Quantitative Approaches in Education Research (2007–2021)	37
Extending the Simple View of Reading in Second and Foreign Language Learning: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling Approach	33
Uncertainty in the Context of School and Teacher Education in Educational Science Literature—A Systematic Review	33
Can Education Save Us From Ourselves? Three Psychological Challenges to Democracy	32
A Meta-Analysis of Social Studies Interventions for Secondary Students’ Learning	31
Hunter-Gatherer Children at School: A View From the Global South	30
“Uses of History” in Research on Racialized Exclusionary School Discipline	30
Educational Responses Toward Community Violence: A Critical Analysis of Perspectives on Causes and Solutions	29
How Have Teacher Candidates Learned to Use Evidence? A Systematic Review of Research	29
Leveraging What Students Know to Make Sense of Texts: What the Research Says About Prior Knowledge Activation	27

The Relation Between Need for Cognition and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis	27
Content and Quality of Comparative Tactical Game-Centered Approaches in Physical Education: A Systematic Review	26
Burnout and Occupational Wellbeing of Special Education Teachers: Recent Research Synthesized	25
Leveraging Evidence on Relations Between Teacher Well-being and Student Well-being and Learning: A Scoping Review	25
Implementation and Evaluation of Sex Education Adopting Feminist Approaches: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis	22
Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Bullying: A Systematic Review	21
Towards a Critical Framework of Social Media Literacy: A Systematic Literature Review	21
A Systematic Review of Student Disability and Race Representation in Universal School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Interventions for Elementary School Students	20
Reviewer Acknowledgments	20
Pedagogical Progressivism and Black Education: A Historiographical Review, 1880–1957	20
Reviewer Acknowledgments	19
Are Observed Classroom Practices Related to Student Language/Literacy Achievement?	19
Effectiveness of Flipped Classrooms for K–12 Students: Evidence From a Three-Level Meta-Analysis	17
Robot-Assisted Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis	16
School Racial Climate and the Racialized Experiences of Racially Minoritized Youth in Schools: What We Know and Where to Go	16
Equity in Teacher Education Programs: A Systematic Review of Conceptions and Program-Level Efforts	15
Teaching Interpersonal Problem-Solving Skills to Young Children in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Settings: An Integration of Evidence	15
How Consistent Are Meanings of “Evidence-Based”? A Comparative Review of 12 Clearinghouses that Rate the Effectiveness of Educational Programs	15
Unpacking the Relation Between Oral Language and Written Composition: A Meta-Analysis	13
Multidimensional Framing of Environments Beyond Blocks and Texts in K–12 Programming	13
Epistemic Injustice and Legitimacy in U.S. Doctoral Education: A Systematic Review of Literature	13
“Walking the Talk”: A Critical Meta-Methodology of Participatory Research Across AERA Journals	13
Let’s CHAT About Artificial Intelligence for Students With Disabilities: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis	12
A Systematic Literature Review of International Student Resilience: Moving Toward an Interdisciplinary Multilayered Model	12
The Impact of Test Preparation on Performance of Large-Scale Educational Tests: A Meta-analysis of Experimental Studies	11
The “Lost Literature” of Student-Athlete Services: A Content Analysis of Academic Athletic Journal Articles from 1985 to 2006	11
Computing Education Interventions to Increase Gender Equity from 2000 to 2020: A Systematic Literature Review	11
The Relations of Morphological Awareness with Language and Literacy Skills Vary Depending on Orthographic Depth and Nature of Morphological Awareness	11
Robots’ Social Behaviors for Language Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	10
Toward New Beginnings: A Review of Native, White, and Black American Education Through the 19th Century	10
The Impact of Summer Programs on Student Mathematics Achievement: A Meta-Analysis	10
Navigating an Academic Career in Marketized Universities: Mapping the International Literature	10
Developing Teachers’ Disciplinary Knowledge for High School STEM Integration: A Review of a Decade of Educational Research	10
Whose Voices Are Heard in the Scholarship on Activism Related to School-Aged Youth With Migrant Backgrounds? A Systematic Review	9
Transfer Facilitation of Metalinguistic Awareness in Word Reading Among Dual Language Learners of English: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling Study	9
Leveraging Physical Activities to Support Learning for Young People via Technologies: An Examination of Educational Practices Across the Field	9
The Roles of Historical Imagination in History Learning: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature	9
A Synthesis of Research on Principal Internships	9
Redressing a Gap in Higher Education and Whiteness Literature: Conceptualizing the Pervasiveness of Whiteness in Higher Education Organizations	8
Design Principles for Developing Information Problem Solving Competence in Higher Education: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	8
The Effect of School Tracking on Student Achievement and Inequality: A Meta-Analysis	8
The Empirical Base of Student Project Collaboration in Higher Education: A Mapping Review	8
Unveiling Narratives: A Systematic Literature Review on the K–12 Schooling Experiences of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Students	8
Toward a Shared Conception of Children’s Content Area Identities in Literacy, Math, and Science: A Systematic Integrative Review	8
A Best-Evidence Synthesis and Meta-analysis on Effective Reading Programs in Spanish	7
Disproportionate Representation of Multilingual Learners With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Systematic Literature Review	7
Impact Evaluations of Teacher Preparation Practices: Challenges and Opportunities for More Rigorous Research	7
A Meta-Analysis on the Differences in Mathematical and Cognitive Skills Between Individuals With and Without Mathematical Learning Disabilities	6
Being Well in Academia: A Systematic Review on the Conceptualization and Measurement of Well-being and Well-being indicators	6
Navigating Challenges and Tensions in Social Justice–Oriented Teacher Education: A Review of the Literature	6

Approaches to Researching Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: A Review of the Literature (2018–2022) as a Platform for Improving the Design of Future Studies on Technology-Supported Interven	6
Creativity-Fostering Teacher Behaviors in Higher Education: A Transdisciplinary Systematic Literature Review	6
Survive and Thrive in the Time of Changes: A Bibliometric Review of Teacher Resilience, 1998–2023	6
The Counter-Deficit Lens in Educational Research: Interrogating Conceptions of Structural Oppression	6
Exploring the Methodological Quality of Education Intervention Meta-Analyses: A Meta-Review	5
Educational Experiences and Outcomes of Students With Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics in Educational Settings: A Scoping Review and Metasynthesis of Empirical Literature	5
The Evolution of “Loaded Moments” Toward Escalation or De-Escalation in Student–Teacher Interactions	5
Optimizing Formative Assessment with Learning Analytics	5
Engaging Multilingual Families Through Equitable Partnerships: A Literature Review	5
Western Promises? A Critical Review of the (Anti-)Democratic Effects of Western Education in Non-Western Countries	5
The Effects of Educational Technology Interventions on Literacy in Elementary School: A Meta-Analysis	5
Reviewing the Intellectual Structure of the Knowledge Base on Principal Instructional Leadership: An Integrated Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis, 1941–2024	5
Virtual Characters Help K–12 Students Learn and Improve Motivation: A Meta-Analysis	4
Moving Beyond Cross-Language Transfer in a Single Modality: The Transfer Integration Hypothesis	4
Balancing Contextualization and Generalization in Trace-based Measurement of Self-Regulated Learning: A Systematic Review of Theoretically Grounded Studies	4
Examining Black Girls’ Experiences in STEM From a Critical Race Feminist Lens: A Systematic Literature Review	4