OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Journal of Education is 3. 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
Education and economic development: A social and statistical analysis	122
Forcing quality without substance: a critical analysis of evaluating teacher education programmes in South Korea	77
Global education in rural region of China: a case study of basic education teachers’ perceptions and practices	72
Correction	70
Job stressors and the innovative work behaviour of STEM teachers: serial multiple mediation role of creative self-efficacy and creative motivation	36
English language teacher education in changing times: Perspectives, strategies and new ways of teaching and learning	36
The ‘hidden curriculum’ of vietnam’s English school textbooks: a longitudinal analysis	25
Future readiness for redesigning school education from the impacts of Covid-19 on school teachers in Japan: a case of teachers in Hiroshima	24
Dynamic assessment of students’ academic writing: Vygotskian and systemic functional linguistic perspectives	24
Multilingual Approach to Diversity in Education (MADE): a methodology for linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms Multilingual Approach to Diversity in Education (MADE): a meth	22
Integrating design thinking: research on developing interactive educational tools for STEM education in Kyrgyzstan and China	21
How Learning Study could empower teachers to embrace education initiatives through research–practice partnership in Hong Kong	21
Influence of Bhutanese culture on the acceptance and use of technology in teaching at two education colleges	20
Staying ahead with generative artificial intelligence for learning: navigating challenges and opportunities with 5Ts and 3Rs	17
Leading to enhance university faculty members’ positive working attitudes: the mediating roles of research self-efficacy and job stress	17
Exploring the nexus of self-efficacy in digital literacy and technology acceptance: insights from L2 Chinese teachers	17
Values and the new civics curriculum in Hong Kong: ethnic minority students negotiate identities	16
From resilience to recalcitrance: lessons from critical global citizenship classrooms in the Philippines	15
“Bright, busy, but Doesn’t go extra mile”: how school racial context moderates personality penalties on Asians’ high school GPA	15
Handbook of practical second language teaching and learning	15
“Why are we doing this in the first place?”: youth motivations, school environments, and volunteer experiences in a system of compulsory school-based volunteerism	14
The integration of Internet of Toys in early childhood education. Research from Australia, England, and Norway	14
Book review of technology and entrepreneurship education: adopting creative digital approaches to learning and teaching	14
Unpacking in-service EFL teachers’ professional learning in a study abroad teacher education programme: an ecological perspective	12
Academic satisfaction and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of interpersonal relationships and subjective well-being	12

Learners’ speaking self-efficacy, self-efficacy sources and their relations in the traditional and flipped instructional modes	12
Chinese university EFL learners’ foreign language classroom anxiety and enjoyment in an online learning environment during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Understanding Emotions in English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds Understanding Emotions in English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds	11
Enhancing students’ science learning using virtual simulation technologies: a systematic review	11
Examining teacher-academic collaboration in lesson study for its potential in shaping teacher research identity	11
Assessing metacognitive writing strategies and the predictive effects on multimedia writing	11
Digital learning based education: transcending physical barriers	11
The role of context in language teachers’ self development and motivation: Perspectives from multilingual settings	11
International higher education and the rise of soft power as cultural diplomacy: a comparative study of Morocco and South Korea International higher education and the rise of soft power	10
Developing excellence in teaching and learning in higher education through observation	10
Fundamental motor skills correlate with mathematical performance rather than language performance in kindergarten children	10
Learning intelligence: innovative and digital transformative learning strategies - Cultural and Social Engineering Perspectives	10
Applying modified TATE framework in equipping learners with action competence on future skills: Towards learners’ future-readiness	9
Countering stuckness: international doctoral students’ experiences of disrupted mobility amidst COVID-19	9
New Generation Schools in Cambodia: a farewell to shadow education?	9
Using student ratings and external observations to detect the effects of quality of teaching on student learning outcomes: a longitudinal study in the Maldives	9
Educational equity in China: The experience of school choice reform in Shanghai	9
AI and education in China: imagining the future, excavating the past	8
Children and Interculturality in Education	8
Teachers’ understanding of inclusive education: comparing perspectives in China and Italy	8
Leaders of future-ready learners in the Singapore education system: perceptions, roles and implications	8
Contesting globalization and internationalization of higher education: discourse and responses in the Asia Pacific Region	8
A sensory approach to STEAM teaching and learning: materials-based units for student K-6	8
English for Young Learners in Asia: Challenges and Directions for Teachers Education	8
Understanding spiritual health, depression, anxiety, and stress among tertiary students under the impact of COVID-19 in Hong Kong	8
Overcome fear: the effect of faculty-student out-of-class interaction and faculty authority on student participation in class	7
How Chinese students manage their transition to higher education effectively: student initiative at Sino-Foreign cooperative universities	7
The scaling of a teamwork innovation in a Singapore tertiary institution: value orchestration and co-creation	7
Effects of socioeconomic status and its components on academic achievement: evidence from Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang (China)	7
The role of involution on Chinese youth pursuit of postgraduate education abroad: examine through the lens of normative social behaviour	7
Interdisciplinary practices in academia: writing, teaching and assessment	6
Determinants of Chinese students’ increasing pursuit of UK’s taught master degree under the third wave of international education mobility	6
History of subjectivity in dispositif: changing arrangements of Vietnamese teachers’ meeting through lesson study for learning community	6
Instilling the need for academic honesty into Hong Kong university students: how well are we doing?	6
Has the smart classroom revolutionized general education in Chinese universities? A comparative analysis of its influence path with that of traditional multimedia classrooms	6
Exploring EFL university teachers’ beliefs in integrating ChatGPT and other large language models in language education: a study in China	6
Careers for students with special educational needs: perspectives on development and transitions from the Asia-Pacific Region	6
Parental involvement and barriers in East Asian countries: understanding home-school relations	6
Factors influencing academic resilience of master students in China	6
English teacher competency: a study with different school levels and teaching experience	6
Contemporary Issues in Science and Technology Education	6
Advancing e-assessment for learning in the primary EFL writing classroom: the role of collaborative teacher professional learning	6
Differences between Chinese and Western English-speaking teachers in providing disagreement in EFL teaching in China	6
Sources of pre-service teacher self-efficacy: a longitudinal qualitative inquiry	6
Voices on “voice”: A juxtaposition of teachers’ and students’ perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of student voice in teaching and learning	6
Innovation in language learning and teaching: the case of Vietnam and Cambodia	6
Defining, evaluating and predicting teacher’s lifelong learning competence in Chinese kindergarten	6
Factors influencing Chinese parents’ willingness to send children to study abroad: findings from the China family panel studies	5
A comparison of structure and effectiveness of principal leadership between elementary and secondary schools in China	5
Teacher-student relationships and hope among rural adolescents: a moderated mediation model	5

Sustainable learning in sight: a multi-analytical investigation into potential impact of extended reality (XR) on knowledge retention and skill development	5
Building confidence in the digital age: the effects of online professional development on Vietnamese teachers’ media and information literacy	5
English in East and South Asia: Policy, Features and Language in use English in East and South Asia: Policy, Features and Language in use , by Ee Ling Low and Anne Pakir	5
Instructional leadership, power distance, teacher enthusiasm, and differentiated instruction in Turkey: testing a multilevel moderated mediation model	5
Utopia as method: a response to education in crisis?	5
Understanding students’ college choices in Taiwan: an investigation of social-class inequalities in choices of institutional types and college pathways	5
Daily activities and social interactions predict students’ positive feelings	5
The comparison of general tips for mathematical problem solving generated by generative AI with those generated by human teachers	5
Pre-service CEIT teachers’ preferred YouTube use motives, engagements, video categories, and differences by gender	4
Education for the Elderly in the Asia Pacific	4
Correction	4
Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) through lesson and learning studies in Asia: moving beyond steps to support transformation of practices	4
Correction	4
Rethinking international student mobility through the lens of “crisis” at a juncture of pandemic and global uncertainties	4
From admission to assertion: democracy rhetoric and citizenship education in post-socialist China	4
“I wonder who I am when my assessment ideas are not respected”: a case-study inquiry into the role of institutional policies in English language teachers’ assessment identity	4
Using English to Realize “the Chinese dream”: the political-economic ideology of language planning in China	4
Critical pedagogies for modern languages education: criticality, decolonization, and social justice Critical pedagogies for modern languages education: criticality, decolonization, and	4
The appraisal antecedents of Shanghai students’ mathematics anxiety and the moderating effects of teacher behaviours: from the perspective of the control-value theory	4
Ecological factors influencing early-career teachers retention and attrition: insights from Bhutan	4
How teacher characteristics shape Chinese undergraduate EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety	4
Twenty-first century learning skills and music engagement among young children: a systematic review	4
East Asian perspectives on silence in English language education	4
The impact of the future time perspective on student learning motivation and autonomous learning behaviours in the context of a work-based program	4
Generative AI in higher education: the ChatGPT effect	4
The roles of growth mindsets and psychological speaking needs in the relationships between grit and willingness to communicate among foreign language learners	4
The impact of digital transformation on the quality of college English teaching: the mediating role of teachers’ support	4
Language teacher motivation, autonomy and development in East Asia Language teacher motivation, autonomy and development in East Asia , edited by Yuzo Kimura, Luxin Yang	3
A framework informing the interplay of physical, digital and social spaces in supporting an environment for active learning	3
Improving primary students’ computational thinking through cross-curricular teaching: a design-based implementation research in mathematics and programming education	3
Educational leadership and Asian culture: culturally sensitive leadership practice	3
“Voices unheard”: a critical policy analysis of teacher participation in South Korea’s 2022 curriculum reform	3
Young Children’s Foreign Language Anxiety: The Case of South Korea	3
“For me, it is important to maintain self while adapting.” Understanding Chinese foreign language teachers’ identity in an intercultural context	3
Fundamental considerations in technology mediated language assessment Fundamental considerations in technology mediated language assessment , edited by Karim Sadeghi and	3
Development and application of an anti-racist approach in English language teaching: from theory to practice	3
Ethics and context in second language testing: rethinking validity in theory and practice	3
Exploring perspectives on creativity theory and research in education	3
A comparative analysis of career trajectories for U.S.-trained and Japanese-trained Chinese PhDs in engineering	3
Effects of programming education mode on high school students’ computational thinking: from the perspective of CDIO	3
Learning through EMI (English-medium instruction) in a Macau university: students’ perspectives and content and language outcomes	3
A mixed-method inquiry into Arabic-speaking students’ experiences with English academic writing at the undergraduate level	3
Study abroad at home: first-year undergraduates’ socialization into the community of practice in a Sino-America cooperative education institute in China	3
Defining and operationalizing professional learning communities: what does the literature say?	3
Exploring Chinese university English teachers’ language assessment literacy: a mixed-method study	3
Experience of psychological problems in crisis events: how does social support affect teenagers’ psychological security through emotion during the COVID-19 pandemic?	3
Language learning motivation and identity construction among Indonesian and Thai university students: A comparative case study	3
Effective writing pedagogy in Aotearoa New Zealand’s bicultural context: a review of literature	3
Refining the opportunity to learn construct through the Productive Disciplinary Engagement framework	3
Digital storytelling for global citizenship education: a Chinese case study	3
A critical discourse analysis of cultural representation in language learning tasks: The case of an English language textbook used in Indonesian secondary schools	3
Being and Bildung : appropriating Heidegger and Aquinas	3
Work values, perceived employability and rural employment intention among Chinese college students: the mediating effect of protean career orientation	3
Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education	3
The impact of teachers’ organizational silence on job performance: a serial mediation effect of psychological empowerment and organizational affective commitment	3
Toward equity innovations: lower tracked students and classroom digital media use in Singapore	3
Japan’s pursuit of meritocracy, cosmopolitanism, and global rankings in higher education: a Bourdieusian interpretation	3
Internationalization and the academic profession: comparative perspective	3
Identity and teacher professional development: a reflective, collaborative and agentive learning journey	3