OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Educational Research Journal 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of school closures on standardised student test outcomes	147
Pressures and influences on school leaders navigating policy development during the COVID‐19 pandemic	36
The role of research ethics committees: Friend or foe in educational research? An exploratory study	36
Putting climate change at the heart of education: Is England's strategy a placebo for policy?	24
Becoming digitally literate: Reinstating an educational lens to digital skills policies for adults	24
Why close to practice is not enough: Neglecting practice in educational research	23
Education research and educational practice: The qualities of a close relationship	22
Language, discipline and ‘teaching like a champion’	21
‘It’s never okay to say no to teachers’: Children’s research consent and dissent in conforming schools contexts	21
A tale of two algorithms: The appeal and repeal of calculated grades systems in England and Ireland in 2020	20
Experiment’s persistent failure in education inquiry, and why it keeps failing	20
Reflecting on three creative approaches to informed consent with children under six	19
Powerful knowledge, transformations andDidaktik/curriculum thinking	17
Teacher and youth priorities for education for environmental sustainability: A co‐created manifesto	17
Education, merit and mobility: Opportunities and aspirations of refugee youth in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp	15
A critical consideration of ‘mental health and wellbeing’ in education: Thinking about school aims in terms of wellbeing	15
Post‐abyssal ethics in education research in settings of conflict and crisis: Stories from the field	14
To Freire or not to Freire: Educational freedom and the populist right‐wing ‘Escola sem Partido’ movement in Brazil	14
Practitioners' perspectives and experiences of supporting bilingual pupils on the autism spectrum in two linguistically different educational settings	13
Routes through higher education: BME students and the development of a ‘specialisation of consciousness’	13
Variation in education doctoral students’ conceptions of university teaching	13
Student mobility and school segregation in an (un)controlled choice system: A counterfactual approach	13
‘Just don’t tell them what’s in it’: Ethics, edible insects and sustainable food choice in schools	13
A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities	12
Conditions for mental health in education: Towards relational practice	12

The importance of collaboration for knowledge co‐construction in ‘close‐to‐practice’ research	12
Mapping continuity and change in the intellectual structure of the knowledge base on problem‐based learning, 1974–2019: A systematic review	12
Disrupting the 'boys don't read' discourse: Primary school boys who love reading fiction	11
Cognition in art education	11
‘Off‐rolling’ and Foucault’s art of visibility/invisibility: An exploratory study of senior leaders’ views of ‘strategic’ school exclusion in southwest England	11
Critical Chinese as an Additional Language education in Australia: A journey to voices, courage and hope	11
The policy and practice of music education in England, 2010–2020	11
New Right 2.0: Teacher populism on social media in England	11
Silence at school: Uses and experiences of silence in pedagogy at a secondary school	10
Changes in Brazilian education policy and the rise of right‐wing populism	10
Right‐wing populism and education: Introduction to the special section	10
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality	10
Should value‐added school effects models include student‐ and school‐level covariates? Evidence from Australian population assessment data	10
Grade retention and academic self‐concept: A multilevel analysis of the effects of schools’ retention composition	10
Culturally relevant/sustaining pedagogy in a diverse urban classroom: Challenges of pedagogy for Syrian refugee youths and teachers in Turkey	10
Keeping educational research close to practice	10
Geographies of elite higher education participation: An urban ‘escalator’ effect	9
The problem with international students' ‘experiences’ and the promise of their practices: Reanimating research about international students in higher education	9
Chile’s enduring educational segregation: A trend unchanged by different cycles of reform	9
Racism and the future of antiracism in education: A critical analysis of the Sewell Report	9
Understanding higher education access: Inequalities and early learning in low and lower‐middle‐income countries	9
Global and local possible selves: Differentiated strategies for positional competition among Chinese university students	9
Sexting and institutional discourses of child protection: The views of young people and providers of relationship and sex education	9
Knowledge hustlers: Gendered micro‐politics and networking in UK universities	8
How can video‐based assignments integrate practical and conceptual knowledge in summative assessment? Student experiences from a longitudinal experiment	8
Editorial: A case for diversity in educational research and educational practice	8
Bundled or unbundled? A multi‐text corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of the relationship between teaching and research in UK universities	8
Recognising and responding to radicalisation at the ‘frontline’: Assessing the capability of school teachers to recognise and respond to radicalisation	8
The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data	7
Educating ‘others’: Drawing on the collective wisdom of intercultural experts	7
The transnational in‐between identity of Chinese student returnees from the UK: Mobility, variations and pathways	7
Guests in someone else’s house? Sense of belonging among ethnic minority students in a Hong Kong university	7
A health(y) subject? Examining discourses of health in physical education curricula across the UK	7
Autistic young people’s experiences of transitioning to adulthood following the Children and Families Act 2014	7
Twenty‐two testable hypotheses about phronesis: Outlining an educational research programme	7
Internationalisation of higher education: A critical analysis of the intercultural dimension of a visiting scholar programme	7
Year 3 student career choices: Exploring societal changes in constructions of masculinity and femininity in career choice justifications	7
Social inequalities in early childhood competences, and the relative role of social and emotional versus cognitive skills in predicting adult outcomes	7
Does research‐informed teaching transform academic practice? Revealing a RIT mindset through impact analysis	7
The contested relationships between educational research, theory and practice: Introduction to a special section	7
Logics, rhetoric and ‘the blob’: Populist logic in the Conservative reforms to English schooling	7
Youth representations of environmental protest	6
Absurdity of ‘the UK experience’ as a reflective resource in Kyoto	6
The fantasy of the populist disease and the educational cure	6
Theorising policy and practice in refugee education: Conceptualising ‘safety’, ‘belonging’, ‘success’ and ‘participatory parity’ in England and Sweden	6
Can failure be prevented? Using longitudinal data to identify at‐risk students upon entering secondary school	6
The culture of disciplines: Reconceptualising multi‐subject curricula	6
Factors influencing the career interest of SENCOs in English schools	6
Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education	6
To be seen and heard: Enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds	6

Whose ‘voice’ is it anyway? The paradoxes of the participatory narrative	6
Parental expectations of children’s higher education participation in Australia	5
Understanding school mobility and mobile pupils in England	5
Precarious privilege in the time of pandemic: A hybrid (auto)ethnographic perspective on COVID‐19 and international schooling in China	5
Discursive constructions of equity in Australian higher education: Imagined worlds and the case of people seeking asylum	5
(Re)framing a philosophical and epistemological framework for teaching and learning in STEM: Emerging pedagogies for complexity	5
Academic leisure crafting: More than a respite to breath?	5
The British State’s production of the Muslim School: A simultaneity of categories of difference analysis	5
Giving the invisible hand a helping hand: How ‘Grants Offices’ work to nourish neoliberal researchers	5
The role of school‐based research champions in a school–university partnership	5
How epistemic reflexivity enables teacher educators’ teaching for diversity: Exploring a pedagogical framework for critical thinking	5
Unequal childhoods: A case study application of Lareau’s ‘accomplishment of natural growth’ in British working‐class and poor families	5
Research‐informed teaching: The case of Musical Futures	5
It’s all about the story: Personal narratives in children’s literature about refugees	5
Integrating data in a complex mixed‐methods classroom interaction study	5
Sorting or mixing? Multi‐track and single‐track schools and social inequalities in a differentiated educational system	4
Family engagement in alternative provision	4
Achieving holistic care for refugees: The experiences of educators and other stakeholders in Surrey and Greater Vancouver, Canada	4
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study	4
Motility, viscosity and field: A portrayal of migrant teachers' professional mobility and ethical conflicts in American and Australian faith‐based schools	4
Legitimising populist education in Israel: The role of religion	4
What PISA and ASPIRES studies tell us about the nuanced influence of cultural capital on student learning: Construct complexity, student outcomes and contexts	4
Getting in, getting on, going further: Exploring the role of employers in the degree apprentice to graduate transition	4
The great stagnation of upper secondary education in England: A historical and system perspective	4
Newcomer refugee and immigrant youth negotiate transnational civic learning and participation in school	4
Theatre and drama education and populism: The ensemble ‘family’ as a space for dialogic empathy and civic care	4
Employability skills in mainstream education: Innovations in schooling and institutional isomorphism	4
Picking winners: An empirical analysis of the determinants of educational outcomes in India	4
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors	4
Refugee education: Introduction to the special section	4
People and practice: defining education as an academic discipline	4
The achievement gap: The impact of between‐class attainment grouping on pupil attainment and educational equity over time	4
‘In most supermarkets food does not cost £3 per day …’ The impact of the school food voucher scheme during COVID‐19	4
The role of achievement, gender, SES, location and policy in explaining the Indigenous gap in high‐school completion	4
Ability as legitimation of tracking: Teachers' representations of students in vocational and academic tracks	4
Preventing violent extremism: Resourcing, stakeholder strategies and fostering belonging and connection in Australian schools	4