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Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Education is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Global science and national comparisons: beyond bibliometrics and scientometrics	31
Introduction contextualising global flows of competency-based education: polysemy, hybridity and silences	25
Accelerating Hong Kong’s reeducation: ‘mainlandisation’, securitisation and the 2020 National Security Law	25
Blurring the boundaries. University actorhood and institutional change in global higher education	24
Outcome-based accountability regimes in OECD countries: a global policy model?	21
Does school socioeconomic composition matter more in some countries than others, and if so, why?	18
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	18
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law	16
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	16
Transnational competence frameworks and national curriculum-making: the case of Sweden	16
Voluntary school fees in segregated public schools: how selective public schools turbo-charge inequity and funding gaps	15
Scholarship in times of crises: towards a trans-discipline of early childhood	14
Market models and segregation: examining mechanisms of student sorting	14
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	14
Comparative studies of early childhood education and care: beyond methodological nationalism	13
Imagining globally competent learners: experts and education policy-making beyond the nation-state	13
Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’: affect and mediatisation in India	12
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education	11
Moral priority or skill priority: a comparative analysis of key competencies frameworks in China and the United States	11
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	11
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	11
Global university rankings and Russia's quest for national sovereignty	11
The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden: global management trends meet national political culture and governance models	10
School segregation: theoretical insights and future directions	10
The impact of school choice on school (re)segregation: settler-colonialism, critical geography and Bourdieu	10

Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	9
Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education	9
Comparative education as a political project	9
21st century skills in the United States: a late, partial and silent reform	9
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	9
From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden	9
Addressing silences in research on girls’ experiences of teacher sexual violence: insights from Uganda	9
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	9
Raising cosmopolitan children: Chinese middle-class parents’ educational strategies	8
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence: the uneven development of colonial schooling in Cyprus and Singapore	8
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	8
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	7
Romancing the public school: attachment, publicness and privatisation	7
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®	7
Learning from comparative ethnographic studies of early childhood education and care	7
Empowerment from what? Teacher ‘citizenship talk’ practices for migrant children in China	7
The wheel of history and minorities’ ‘self-sacrifice’ for the Chinese nation	7
Comparative education: and now?	6
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	6
Structure-reinforced privilege: educational inequality in the Singaporean primary school choice system	6
Taiwanese multiculturalism and the political appropriation of new immigrants’ languages	6
School choice, policy feedback effects, and policy outcomes: understanding the relationship between government policy design and parent decisions to “stay” or “defect” from public education	6
What kind of citizens? Constructing ‘Young Europeans’ through loud borrowing in curriculum policy-making in Kosovo	6
Comparison and explanation: a long saga	6
Boundary control and education policy in federal systems: explaining sub-federal resilience in Canada and Germany	5
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: findings and policy implications from an international comparative study in early childhood education	5
School segregation in Rio de Janeiro: geographical, racial and historical dimensions of a centre-periphery dynamic	5
The politics of education on China’s periphery: ‘Telling China’s Story Well’ – or honestly?	5
Institutionalist perspectives on the dynamics of post-conflict education reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina	5
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	5
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	5
Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being	5
The elusiveness of the common school in Austria. PISA, politics and the survival of selection in a conservative regime	5
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	5
The introduction of competence-based education into the compulsory school curriculum in France (2002–2017): hybridity and polysemy as conditions for change	4
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	4
Global and local discourses in India’s policies for early childhood education: policy borrowing and local realities	4
Singapore’s educational export strategies: ‘branding’ and ‘selling’ education in a favourable global policy marketspace	4
'Policy traction' on social and emotional wellbeing: comparing the education systems of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland	4
Meddling with school choice: comparing education policy interventions and their impact on school segregation	4
The metrification of teaching: student evaluation of teaching in the United States, Germany and Colombia	4
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	4
Comparative education concepts, methods and practices in the emerging anthropocene educational space: from ‘measuring the other’ to ‘supporting the other’?	4
Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China	4
Comparative education and international relations	4
In response to Acker: black and African feminist theories on gender and education	4
Re-conceptualising education policy trajectories in a globalised world: lessons from a multi-level comparison of accountability in France and Quebec	4
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	4
‘Our system fits us’: comparing teacher accountability, motivation, and sociocultural context in Finland and Singapore	4
Recognizing prior learning in vocational education and training: global ambitions and actual implementation in four countries	4

How country size matters for institutional change: comparing skill formation policies in Germany and Switzerland	4
Comparative education and intercultural education: relations and revisions	4
The politics of ‘multiculturalism’ in language education: an analysis of curriculum guidelines in Taiwan	3
Knowledge for the elites, competencies for the masses: political theatre of educational reforms in the Russian Federation	3
Montessori for all? Indian experiments in ‘child education’, 1920s–1970s	3
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas	3
Understanding China’s policy responses to PISA: using a ti and yong framework	3
Maintaining the legitimacy of school choice in the segregated schooling environment of Amsterdam	3
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	3
Decolonisation as Dis-Enclosure : overcoming the dangers of positionality and identity in comparative education	3
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education	3
Maintaining meritocratic mythologies: Teach For America and Ako Mātātupu: Teach First New Zealand	3
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	3