OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory and Research in Social Education is 6. 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
From the editorial team	33
Truth or beauty? Social studies teachers’ beliefs about the instructional purposes of data visualizations	30
Pulling together: Participatory modes and Indigenous roads to enact anticolonial responsibility in social studies research	28
Child-focused civics: Seeing civic action in young children’s everyday interactions	27
Black history mandates ain't new: (Re)covering and (Re)membering the work of Madeline Morgan	25
The Nakba in Israeli history education: Ethical judgments in an ongoing conflict	20
Eugenic ideology and the world history curriculum: How eugenic beliefs structure narratives of development and modernity	18
Financial citizenship education and the elusive power of critical inquiry	16
Deliberative dialogues with preservice teachers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa using a gradient of controversy approach	15
“Glossed over and missing”: Preservice teachers learn about slavery in Canada	12
Between maintaining teacher impartiality and protecting student dignity: Teachers’ responses to unacceptable student speech about politically sensitive issues in France and Quebec	11
We’ve always dreamed of our freedom: Anti-Blackness, young people’s power, and visions for a more just world	10
Embracing the interdisciplinary nature of psychology: Challenging the increasing dismissiveness of high school psychology as a social studies course	10
The social studies discourse instrument: Validating an observation tool for classroom discussions	9
Refining criteria for civic inquiry: An analysis of inquiry design model lessons	9
Radical futures through organized (re)membering	8
Diving into elementary social studies instruction: What teachers report is happening	8
Imparting truths and yielding critical reflections in social studies classrooms	8
Teachers stepping up their game in the face of extreme statements: A qualitative analysis of educational friction when teaching sensitive topics	8
Reproducing religious hegemony: An analysis of religion in secondary history standards	8
List of Reviewers for October 1, 2024–October 1, 2025	8
How do the Chinese Gaokao tests narrate the history of other countries? A textual analysis of “the other” in official representations of history	8
Reviewer Acknowledgements	7
From criticality to shame: Childhood memories of social class and how they matter to elementary school teachers and teaching	7
Precarious statuses and the legal regulation of citizenship: implications for civic education	7

Deepening practices and possibilities for classroom discussion	7
Social studies education research for sustainable democratic societies: Addressing persistent civic challenges	7
Civic and citizenship education in context: The influence of IEA studies on national curricula	6
“Conversation is everything”: How teachers and students create environments where open discussion can thrive	6
“Going from not being aware of what’s happening to me being aware”: The civic learning of one undocumented Latina girl in Los Angeles	6
(Un)critical geographies of race: A critical race discourse analysis of an online local history resource	6
Toward a framework for assessing the quality of students’ social scientific reasoning	6