OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research Papers in 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Further education and mental health during the pandemic: the moral impasse of meritocracy	30
Making decisions about attainment grouping in mathematics: teacher agency and autonomy in Norway	19
Using pupils’ grade obtained in national examinations as an outcome measure in evaluations: some considerations for the design of randomised controlled trials	19
Does personality matter? The relationship between child personality and interaction quality in preschools	18
The impact of school culture, school climate, and teachers’ job satisfaction on the teacher-student relationship: a case study in four Estonian schools	14
How novel can examination questions really be? Exploring the boundaries of creativity in examination question writing	13
Unlocking the power of big ideas in education: a systematic review from 2010 to 2022	11
Advantages and Disadvantages of Being ‘Gifted’: Perceptions of the Label by Gifted Pupils	11
Practicing voice: student voice experiences, democratic school culture and students’ attitudes towards voice	10
Examination of the core curriculum from the perspective of reference framework of competences for democratic culture: Northern Cyprus case	9
Students’ contrasting their experiences of teacher expectations in streamed and mixed ability classes: A study of Grade 10 students in Western Australia	9
Knotworking — not working: Interprofessional collaboration and co-figuration of pre-service special education teachers	9
Teacher–student relationship and students’ social competence in relation to the quality of educational dialogue	9
Playful punctuation in primary children’s narrative writing	8
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	8
Fair enough?! Investigating the specific challenges of diverse university first-year students	8
Anti-bullying tensions in Chile: a figurational social-ecological analysis of policies, schools and families	8
Understanding subject choices from report card grades: gender and educational level disparities	7
Shared spaces, separate places: desegregation and boundary change in Northern Ireland’s schools	7
Adaptive responses to contextualised and differentiated school improvement. Identifying institutional profiles of secondary schools	7
Postgraduate research in a sick society	6
Whose goal emphases play a more important role in ESL/EFL learners’ motivation, self-regulated learning and achievement?: Teachers’ or parents’	6
Therapeutic discourse in teacher professional discourse: on multidimensionality and elasticity of psychology-based reasoning	6
On reducing errors in assessment instruments	6
Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden	6

An immersive, ‘Faster Read’: a pilot, mixed-method study, developing whole-text reading comprehension and engagement with adolescent struggling readers	6
Staying on track in higher secondary education in Flanders (Belgium). Mechanisms explaining social inequality in educational choice	5
Is academic selection in Northern Ireland a barrier to social cohesion?	5
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	5
Ability grouping and student performance: A longitudinal investigation of teacher support as a mediator and moderator	5
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds	5
Scope, nature and progress of impact in practice-oriented educational research: a conceptual and empirical substantiation	5
The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives	5
Teacher learning in the context of teacher collaboration: connecting teacher dialogue to teacher learning	5