OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research Papers in Education is 2. 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
The role of homeroom teachers in mediating the impact of principals’ empowering leadership on adolescent engagement	19
Making decisions about attainment grouping in mathematics: teacher agency and autonomy in Norway	17
The impact of school culture, school climate, and teachers’ job satisfaction on the teacher-student relationship: a case study in four Estonian schools	16
Further education and mental health during the pandemic: the moral impasse of meritocracy	16
Teacher–student relationship and students’ social competence in relation to the quality of educational dialogue	15
Bringing conflicting sources into the classroom. Eliciting and scaffolding reflective thinking in Dutch L1 linguistic education	14
Unlocking the power of big ideas in education: a systematic review from 2010 to 2022	13
‘Inhabiting uncertain terrain’: inequalities of access, experience, and outcomes for university education researchers in the UK	12
Practicing voice: student voice experiences, democratic school culture and students’ attitudes towards voice	12
Understanding subject choices from report card grades: gender and educational level disparities	11
Knotworking — not working: Interprofessional collaboration and co-figuration of pre-service special education teachers	11
Developing metalinguistic understanding in the secondary English classroom: the role of teachers’ framing questions and responsive talk moves in dialogic metalinguistic talk about written text	11
Anti-bullying tensions in Chile: a figurational social-ecological analysis of policies, schools and families	11
Dialogic collaborative problem solving: a theoretical framework for analyzing students’ dialogic interaction in collaborative problem solving	11
Playful punctuation in primary children’s narrative writing	11
Adaptive responses to contextualised and differentiated school improvement. Identifying institutional profiles of secondary schools	10
An immersive, ‘Faster Read’: a pilot, mixed-method study, developing whole-text reading comprehension and engagement with adolescent struggling readers	10
Therapeutic discourse in teacher professional discourse: on multidimensionality and elasticity of psychology-based reasoning	9
Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden	8
Postgraduate research in a sick society	8
Pre-Service Teacher perceptions of Professional Experience in Australia: a scoping review	8
More is more: exploring the relationship between young people’s experiences of school-based career education, information, advice and guidance at age 14–16 and wider adult outcomes at age 21–22 in Eng	7
Teachers’ troubled interactions with prescribed school history and its national imaginaries: the case of post-Mugabe Zimbabwe	7
Digital personalised learning to improve literacy and numeracy outcomes: a randomised controlled trial in Kenyan pre-primary classrooms	7
Is academic selection in Northern Ireland a barrier to social cohesion?	6

Staying on track in higher secondary education in Flanders (Belgium). Mechanisms explaining social inequality in educational choice	6
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds	5
School absences, exclusions and criminal sentences amongst high-achieving children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds	5
Experienced burnout and teacher–working environment fit: a comparison of teacher cohorts with or without persistent turnover intentions	5
How do views of working conditions vary across school staff?	5
The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives	5
An eye-tracking study to investigate the impact of media multitasking behaviour on visual attention and learning performance in online learning	5
Fostering culturally responsive pedagogy related competencies among pre-service teachers: a systematic review of the recent research literature	5
Using habitus and ethnic identity theory to investigate the decision-making of Canadian Modern Orthodox young people	5
From thesis to teacher: research competencies of Flemish student teachers in research-based teacher education	5
Why do students leave? Persistence in selective universities	5
Critical attributes of future K-12 schooling to inform policy and practice: a scoping review	4
Adaptation, change and reaffirmation: investigating the limits of young working-class men adapting to elite higher education institutions	4
It’s a hard-knock life for us: a multilevel analysis on the association between grade retention and being bullied in 25 countries	4
Interpreting the mental health and wellbeing agenda in adult community learning	4
Primary preservice teachers’ exploration of possible selves through narrated metaphors during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
A structured discussion of the fairness of GCSE and A level grades in England in summer 2020 and 2021	4
School-level competition for US high school extracurricular resources	4
Leadership for school mindfulness: the role of school ambidexterity and leaders’ cognitive complexity	4
Zooming to work or working to Zoom: relations between Zoom fatigue, cognitive load, and boredom	4
Career motivations and interest in teaching of tertiary students taking mathematics and science subjects	3
Intertextuality and the advance of mathematisation in young children’s inscriptions	3
Shadow education in rural Kazakhstan: patterns and implications for access to higher education	3
The importance of the figure of the imagined reader in shaping children’s metalinguistic awareness while writing	3
Upper secondary school students’ perspectives on un/fairness in group work assessment	3
Tackling misinformation: where do educationalists need to target their efforts?	3
Early dropout, earnings and skills in later life: evidence from Spain	3
Supporting teachers’ participation in Lesson Study with Facilitators or Advisors: investigating the impact on their students’ mathematical reasoning	3
Effective practice in EAL education: enacting distributed school leadership	3
Rigidity of class ability grouping practices in Australia	3
Examining the relationship between ethnicity, school attainment and higher education participation in England	3
Teachers matter: linking teachers and students’ self-regulated learning	3
Parent priorities when navigating the decision to delay school entry	3
Including all: the contribution of a diverse research community	2
Metalinguistic understanding about the verb	2
Socioeconomic inequalities in teacher-student relationships at age 5	2
Decolonising intercultural training for education professionals through critical autoethnography	2
Sociological perspectives on the mental health and wellbeing agenda in education	2
The psychological network structure of school principal well-being: the age effect?	2
Bilingual school choice and socio-economic segregation: an analysis for Spain based on PISA 2015	2
Educational quality in strategic negotiation: a critical discourse analysis of the rebranding of the PISA 2025 Science test rationale	2
Measuring parental income using administrative data. What is the best proxy available?	2
A network approach to teachers’ interactional management in whole-class discussions	2
The effects of system type and characteristics on skills inequalities during upper secondary education: a quasi-cohort analysis of OECD data	2
Mad student organizing and the growth of Mad Studies in Canada	2
It takes more than an interest in STEM: students’ experience of transition to study in STEM disciplines at university	2