OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	38
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	30
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	28
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	27
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	27
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	22
Shadow education in the Middle East Shadow education in the Middle East , by Mark Bray and Anas Hajar, London, Routledge, 2022, 122 pp., $65 (hardback), ISBN 97810323298	22
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists	21
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	21
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	20
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	20
Raised to obey: the rise and spread of mass education	17
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	17
(Re)Imagining the future of education: a critical discourse analysis of digital transformation policies in China and Denmark	17
Outsourcing of teaching English to speakers of other languages: towards an equitable society	17
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	16
Correction	16
Education for societal transformation: alternatives for a just future	15
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s	15
Comparative education and its discontents	15
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method	15
Learning to lead for transformation: an African perspective on educational leadership	14
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018	14
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	14
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	14

World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism	14
Editorial	13
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators	13
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas	13
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy	13
Revisiting Chinese citizenship education: from political socialisation for Confucian collectivism to a new individualism	12
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative	11
Comparative education as a political project	11
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law	10
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®	10
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique	10
The association between family socioeconomic status and academic achievement: new estimates using three-level meta-analysis of PISA 2009–2018 data	10
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	9
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	9
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	9
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	9
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	9
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	8
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao	8
The Dao of complexity: making sense and making waves in turbulent times	8
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency	8
The rise of social and emotional development in the global education discourse, 1998–2023	8
Internationalisation struggles and student mobility: ethnic exclusion and racism in Philippine higher education	8
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	7
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy	7
The Oxford handbook of the history of education; Handbook of historical studies in education. Debates, tensions, and directions	7
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	7
‘Beyond’ critique: universities, human rights, decolonisation, and the Sustainable Development Goals	6
Missing in action? The World Bank’s surveys of teacher absenteeism in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Education and social justice in Japan	6
Comparative education: and now?	6
Reimagining national systems: Cosmopolitan Nationalism as a framework for educational regeneration	6
Apprehending the subject? The significance of the categorisation debate in decolonial studies for the social sciences	6
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens	6
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education	6
Comparative education and international relations	5
The politics of tinkering: developing the PISA assessment of global competence	5
Correction	5
Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability: insights from a cross-cultural teacher education programme	5
Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China	5
The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden: global management trends meet national political culture and governance models	5
Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis , edited by Eleftherios Kleri	4
Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being	4
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education	4
Internationalization, global higher education and postcolonial critiques	4
Struggling for equal access and success: disability in European higher education	4
Comparing stakeholders’ perceptions of the implementation of ‘learner-centred’ pedagogy: the case of Rwanda	4
Transnational academic mobility and knowledge production: learning and being differently in the global education policy field through multiple selves	4
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	4
Education, curriculum, and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4

Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence Based Education Assessment	4
Comparative studies of early childhood education and care: beyond methodological nationalism	4
The politics of education on China’s periphery: ‘Telling China’s Story Well’ – or honestly?	4
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	3
An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism	3
Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field	3
From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden	3
‘Our system fits us’: comparing teacher accountability, motivation, and sociocultural context in Finland and Singapore	3
The impact of Covid-19 on the institutional fabric of higher education: old patterns, new dynamics, and changing rules?	3
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	3
Beyond decolonisation: criticism, comparison and conjectures from the global south	3
Creeping anglicisation: school inspection in Scotland and Ireland	3
Decolonisation as Dis-Enclosure : overcoming the dangers of positionality and identity in comparative education	3
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States	3
Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	3
Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on A Growing Global Network	3
Understanding China’s policy responses to PISA: using a ti and yong framework	3
International students in Soviet and Russian universities: a critical analysis of changing rationales 1950s – 2025	3
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	3
Challenging the internationalisation of education: a critique of the global gaze	2
The waning legitimacy of international organisations and their promissory visions	2
The effects of private schooling on pupil achievement: a global systemic analysis	2
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	2
Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond	2
New practices of comparison, quantification and expertise in education: Conducting empirically based research	2
The long road to systemic improvement in education: a comparative multi-level case study in federal countries	2
Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-Colonial Contexts Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-C	2
The Politics of Higher Education: The Imperial University in Northern Song China	2
Education and choice in the United Kingdom: measuring school choice policies in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (1980–2020)	2
Normalising university graduate unemployment in China: governing through employability and moral exemplarism	2
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	2