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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	53
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	36
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	29
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	25
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	24
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	23
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
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	20
Re-conceptualising education policy trajectories in a globalised world: lessons from a multi-level comparison of accountability in France and Quebec	18
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	18
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	17
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	17
Correction	16
(Re)Imagining the future of education: a critical discourse analysis of digital transformation policies in China and Denmark	16
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	16
Comparative education and its discontents	14
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
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method	14
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s	14
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators	13
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism	13
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	13
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	13

Editorial	12
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	12
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative	12
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique	12
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®	12
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas	11
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy	11
Revisiting Chinese citizenship education: from political socialisation for Confucian collectivism to a new individualism	11
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law	11
Comparative education as a political project	11
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	10
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	9
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency	9
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	9
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy	8
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	8
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao	8
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	8
The Oxford handbook of the history of education; Handbook of historical studies in education. Debates, tensions, and directions	8
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence: the uneven development of colonial schooling in Cyprus and Singapore	8
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	8
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	8
Education and social justice in Japan	7
Apprehending the subject? The significance of the categorisation debate in decolonial studies for the social sciences	7
Comparative education: and now?	7
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education	7
Reimagining national systems: Cosmopolitan Nationalism as a framework for educational regeneration	7
Missing in action? The World Bank’s surveys of teacher absenteeism in sub-Saharan Africa	7
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens	7
Correction	6
The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden: global management trends meet national political culture and governance models	6
‘Beyond’ critique: universities, human rights, decolonisation, and the Sustainable Development Goals	6
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
Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence Based Education Assessment	5
Comparative education and international relations	5
Comparing stakeholders’ perceptions of the implementation of ‘learner-centred’ pedagogy: the case of Rwanda	5
Education, curriculum, and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	5
The politics of tinkering: developing the PISA assessment of global competence	5
Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis , edited by Eleftherios Kleri	5
Struggling for equal access and success: disability in European higher education	5
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	4
Comparative studies of early childhood education and care: beyond methodological nationalism	4
From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden	4
The politics of education on China’s periphery: ‘Telling China’s Story Well’ – or honestly?	4
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States	4
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	4
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education	4
Decolonisation as Dis-Enclosure : overcoming the dangers of positionality and identity in comparative education	4
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	4

Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	4
International students in Soviet and Russian universities: a critical analysis of changing rationales 1950s – 2025	4
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	4
Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being	4
Transnational academic mobility and knowledge production: learning and being differently in the global education policy field through multiple selves	4
The impact of Covid-19 on the institutional fabric of higher education: old patterns, new dynamics, and changing rules?	4
Beyond decolonisation: criticism, comparison and conjectures from the global south	3
Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond	3
Challenging the internationalisation of education: a critique of the global gaze	3
Understanding China’s policy responses to PISA: using a ti and yong framework	3
Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field	3
The Politics of Higher Education: The Imperial University in Northern Song China	3
An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism	3
‘Our system fits us’: comparing teacher accountability, motivation, and sociocultural context in Finland and Singapore	3
Creeping anglicisation: school inspection in Scotland and Ireland	3
The effects of private schooling on pupil achievement: a global systemic analysis	3
New practices of comparison, quantification and expertise in education: Conducting empirically based research	3
Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on A Growing Global Network	3
Global science and national comparisons: beyond bibliometrics and scientometrics	3
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	2
Education and choice in the United Kingdom: measuring school choice policies in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (1980–2020)	2
Scientification or political legitimation? Tracing the concepts of evidence and context in Nordic school reforms	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
What happened to the Soviet university?	2
Unsettling the university: confronting the colonial foundations of US higher education	2
The waning legitimacy of international organisations and their promissory visions	2
Normalising university graduate unemployment in China: governing through employability and moral exemplarism	2
Maintaining the legitimacy of school choice in the segregated schooling environment of Amsterdam	2
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	2