OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology of Education 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university	109
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-19	56
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	51
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia	49
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education	45
How do problematisations “materialise”? A neopragmatic perspective on the (in-)visibilisation of justice concerns in AIED	29
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city	24
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages	22
Disillusions and paradoxes of the massification of education in France	20
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools	18
Against School: Thinking Education Differently	18
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education	17
The Creative Art of Troublemaking in education,	17
The Etons of the East End: the ambiguities of educational urgency and the neoliberal fantasy	17
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals	16
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives	16
‘I won’t remain here’: socially advantaged students and vocational education in China’s institutional tracking context	16
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom	15
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business	15
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education	15
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach	15
Black student university access network project: lessons learned from Black first-year undergraduate students in Canada	15
‘There actually aren’t enough hours in the week’: a constructivist grounded theory of defending inaction on the implementation of intercultural education in Irish schools	15
Doctoral theses	14
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?	14

Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study	13
Governing the desire: power, paradox and professionalism in further education	13
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care	13
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England	13
Multi-faith in policy only? Religion and belief inequalities at UK universities since the Equality Act	12
From robots who teach to synthetic politics	12
Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities	12
Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy	12
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China	11
The ‘grammar’ of justice: how do governing boards advance social justice for racially minoritised learners?	11
Relational care at work: educators’ practices and discourses of care across social inequalities	11
Admissibility for sale: judgment devices, merit, and the economy of self in global education	11
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus	11
Navigating structure and agency: disadvantaged Chinese students’ motivations for international education mobility	11
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves	11
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status	10
Middling mobility and emerging cultural capital: a positional competition perspective on Chinese students studying in South Korea	10
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	10
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach	10
Reconstructing GenAI in education: a social systems theory approach	10
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making	10
Symbolic haunting: first-generation university students’ limited sense of entitlement	9
When the halo of my overseas credentials disappeared: Chinese student returnees and their domestic employability	9
Success, belonging and identity work among care-experienced academics in the United Kingdom	9
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university	9
From cultural display to political subject: citizenship and museum education in contemporary China	9
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy	9
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany	9
AI in education influencers: Problematising, reproducing, or mediating the technological solutionism discourse in UK schools?	8
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism	8
A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models	8
School differences on whether and where students apply to university	8
Un/muting Muslim difference: anti-Muslim racism and secular whiteness in Dutch and Belgian academia	8
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy	8
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study	8
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North	8
Resisting or complying with neoliberal subjectification? Finnish and Portuguese non-traditional graduates and their educational ethoses	8
Conservative peripheral societies and the acquisition of higher education: multidimensional marginality	8
Whiteness in HE and the limitations of representational politics: racially minoritised student’s views and experiences	7
Religious parents, ‘whiteness’, secularism and modern english values: dis/assembling ‘progressive’ relationships and sex education	7
Navigating agency and compliance: Chinese parents’ strategic messaging on WeChat for cultivating home–school relations	7
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation	7
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class	7
Doctoral theses	7
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism	7
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college	6
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation	6
Announcement of doctoral theses	6
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition	6
Doctoral theses	6

The role of institutional reputation in mediating post-PhD careers. The case of Chinese elite universities	6
Switching between oversight and support mode: the duality of care culture in Russian non-selective universities	5
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative	5
Post-schooling the elite: spaceX, cognitive platforming and educational abstraction	5
Exposure to exclusion: cultural capital and the reshaping of privileged-caste logics in Indian private schools	5
‘I was worried I’d sound stupid’: institutional interactions and the impact on marginalised students’ university experiences	5
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes	5
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’	5
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education	5
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement	5
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices	5
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID	5
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics	5
“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education	5
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust	5
Mapping overseas education through local lens: valuation, merit, and hierarchy in Chinese students’ college applications	5
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education	5
The future imaginaries and counter-politics of solidarity work: non-formal education for displaced Ukrainians in Hungary	5
Navigating Uncertainty: A Typology of Reflexive Self-Construction Among Generation Z Sophomores in China	5
‘I just get on with it’: narratives of women who become mothers during undergraduate study	5
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education	5
Stratified support: shadow education and maths achievement in East Asia’s six top-performing jurisdictions	5