OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Journal of Education 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
Education and economic development: A social and statistical analysis	143
Global education in rural region of China: a case study of basic education teachers’ perceptions and practices	103
English language teacher education in changing times: Perspectives, strategies and new ways of teaching and learning	99
Correction	93
Multilingual Approach to Diversity in Education (MADE): a methodology for linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms	47
Staying ahead with generative artificial intelligence for learning: navigating challenges and opportunities with 5Ts and 3Rs	46
Values and the new civics curriculum in Hong Kong: ethnic minority students negotiate identities	35
From resilience to recalcitrance: lessons from critical global citizenship classrooms in the Philippines	32
Exploring the nexus of self-efficacy in digital literacy and technology acceptance: insights from L2 Chinese teachers	31
The ‘hidden curriculum’ of vietnam’s English school textbooks: a longitudinal analysis	30
Dynamic assessment of students’ academic writing: Vygotskian and systemic functional linguistic perspectives	25
Future readiness for redesigning school education from the impacts of Covid-19 on school teachers in Japan: a case of teachers in Hiroshima	23
Integrating design thinking: research on developing interactive educational tools for STEM education in Kyrgyzstan and China	21
Job stressors and the innovative work behaviour of STEM teachers: serial multiple mediation role of creative self-efficacy and creative motivation	20
Influence of Bhutanese culture on the acceptance and use of technology in teaching at two education colleges	19
Leading to enhance university faculty members’ positive working attitudes: the mediating roles of research self-efficacy and job stress	19
Forcing quality without substance: a critical analysis of evaluating teacher education programmes in South Korea	19
Handbook of practical second language teaching and learning	18
Book review of technology and entrepreneurship education: adopting creative digital approaches to learning and teaching	16
“Bright, busy, but Doesn’t go extra mile”: how school racial context moderates personality penalties on Asians’ high school GPA	16
The integration of Internet of Toys in early childhood education. Research from Australia, England, and Norway	16
Unpacking in-service EFL teachers’ professional learning in a study abroad teacher education programme: an ecological perspective	15
Learners’ speaking self-efficacy, self-efficacy sources and their relations in the traditional and flipped instructional modes	15
Academic satisfaction and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of interpersonal relationships and subjective well-being	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	15

South-South student mobility as a lens for fostering global solidarity and sustainable development: analysis of Latin American students’ motivations and experiences of pursuing higher education in Chi	14
Enhancing students’ science learning using virtual simulation technologies: a systematic review	14
Chinese university EFL learners’ foreign language classroom anxiety and enjoyment in an online learning environment during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Assessing metacognitive writing strategies and the predictive effects on multimedia writing	13
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	12
Learning intelligence: innovative and digital transformative learning strategies - Cultural and Social Engineering Perspectives	12
Digital learning based education: transcending physical barriers	12
Developing excellence in teaching and learning in higher education through observation	12
Understanding Emotions in English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds Understanding Emotions in English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds	12
Countering stuckness: international doctoral students’ experiences of disrupted mobility amidst COVID-19	11
Using student ratings and external observations to detect the effects of quality of teaching on student learning outcomes: a longitudinal study in the Maldives	11
Fundamental motor skills correlate with mathematical performance rather than language performance in kindergarten children	11
New Generation Schools in Cambodia: a farewell to shadow education?	11
AI and education in China: imagining the future, excavating the past	10
Educational equity in China: The experience of school choice reform in Shanghai	10
Applying modified TATE framework in equipping learners with action competence on future skills: Towards learners’ future-readiness	10
The scaling of a teamwork innovation in a Singapore tertiary institution: value orchestration and co-creation	9
A sensory approach to STEAM teaching and learning: materials-based units for student K-6	9
English for Young Learners in Asia: Challenges and Directions for Teachers Education	9
Children and Interculturality in Education	9
Leaders of future-ready learners in the Singapore education system: perceptions, roles and implications	9
Parental involvement and barriers in East Asian countries: understanding home-school relations	8
Values and valuing in mathematics education - moving forward into practice	8
The role of involution on Chinese youth pursuit of postgraduate education abroad: examine through the lens of normative social behaviour	8
Sources of pre-service teacher self-efficacy: a longitudinal qualitative inquiry	8
Factors influencing academic resilience of master students in China	8
Overcome fear: the effect of faculty-student out-of-class interaction and faculty authority on student participation in class	8
Understanding spiritual health, depression, anxiety, and stress among tertiary students under the impact of COVID-19 in Hong Kong	8
Innovation in language learning and teaching: the case of Vietnam and Cambodia	7
Contemporary Issues in Science and Technology Education	7
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	7
Determinants of Chinese students’ increasing pursuit of UK’s taught master degree under the third wave of international education mobility	7
Has the smart classroom revolutionized general education in Chinese universities? A comparative analysis of its influence path with that of traditional multimedia classrooms	7
Interdisciplinary practices in academia: writing, teaching and assessment	7
Exploring EFL university teachers’ beliefs in integrating ChatGPT and other large language models in language education: a study in China	7
Defining, evaluating and predicting teacher’s lifelong learning competence in Chinese kindergarten	7
English teacher competency: a study with different school levels and teaching experience	7
Careers for students with special educational needs: perspectives on development and transitions from the Asia-Pacific Region	7
Sustainable learning in sight: a multi-analytical investigation into potential impact of extended reality (XR) on knowledge retention and skill development	6
Daily activities and social interactions predict students’ positive feelings	6
Teacher-student relationships and hope among rural adolescents: a moderated mediation model	6
The comparison of general tips for mathematical problem solving generated by generative AI with those generated by human teachers	6
Pre-service CEIT teachers’ preferred YouTube use motives, engagements, video categories, and differences by gender	6
Building confidence in the digital age: the effects of online professional development on Vietnamese teachers’ media and information literacy	6
The influencing factors and complex configuration analysis of digital empowerment in ideological and political education in Chinese higher education	6
Differences between Chinese and Western English-speaking teachers in providing disagreement in EFL teaching in China	6
Instructional leadership, power distance, teacher enthusiasm, and differentiated instruction in Turkey: testing a multilevel moderated mediation model	6
Factors influencing Chinese parents’ willingness to send children to study abroad: findings from the China family panel studies	6
Education for the Elderly in the Asia Pacific	6
Advancing e-assessment for learning in the primary EFL writing classroom: the role of collaborative teacher professional learning	6

Understanding students’ college choices in Taiwan: an investigation of social-class inequalities in choices of institutional types and college pathways	6
A comparison of structure and effectiveness of principal leadership between elementary and secondary schools in China	6
From admission to assertion: democracy rhetoric and citizenship education in post-socialist China	6
Twenty-first century learning skills and music engagement among young children: a systematic review	6
East Asian perspectives on silence in English language education	6
The impact of digital transformation on the quality of college English teaching: the mediating role of teachers’ support	5
Ecological factors influencing early-career teachers retention and attrition: insights from Bhutan	5
The roles of growth mindsets and psychological speaking needs in the relationships between grit and willingness to communicate among foreign language learners	5
Generative AI in higher education: the ChatGPT effect	5
“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	5
Using English to Realize “the Chinese dream”: the political-economic ideology of language planning in China	5
Correction	5
How teacher characteristics shape Chinese undergraduate EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety	5
The impact of the future time perspective on student learning motivation and autonomous learning behaviours in the context of a work-based program	5
Exploring trends and insights in professional learning communities: a bibliometric analysis review	5
Critical pedagogies for modern languages education: criticality, decolonization, and social justice Critical pedagogies for modern languages education: criticality, decolonization, and	5
Learning through EMI (English-medium instruction) in a Macau university: students’ perspectives and content and language outcomes	4
Effects of programming education mode on high school students’ computational thinking: from the perspective of CDIO	4
Correction	4
A critical discourse analysis of cultural representation in language learning tasks: The case of an English language textbook used in Indonesian secondary schools	4
Exploring perspectives on creativity theory and research in education	4
Internationalization and the academic profession: comparative perspective	4
Cultural capital transformation in differentiated competition: institutional strategies and student experiences in the internationalization of Chinese sports education	4
Work values, perceived employability and rural employment intention among Chinese college students: the mediating effect of protean career orientation	4
A framework informing the interplay of physical, digital and social spaces in supporting an environment for active learning	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	4
A mixed-method inquiry into Arabic-speaking students’ experiences with English academic writing at the undergraduate level	4
Being and Bildung : appropriating Heidegger and Aquinas	4
Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education	4
Language learning motivation and identity construction among Indonesian and Thai university students: A comparative case study	4
Digital storytelling for global citizenship education: a Chinese case study	4
Improving primary students’ computational thinking through cross-curricular teaching: a design-based implementation research in mathematics and programming education	4
Understanding primary teachers’ instructional modality preferences: a multi-theory perspective on face-to-face, ICT-enhanced and online teaching	4
A comparative analysis of career trajectories for U.S.-trained and Japanese-trained Chinese PhDs in engineering	4
Refining the opportunity to learn construct through the Productive Disciplinary Engagement framework	4
Ethics and context in second language testing: rethinking validity in theory and practice	4
Educational leadership and Asian culture: culturally sensitive leadership practice	4