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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	44
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	36
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	29
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	23
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	23
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	21
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	20
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists	19
Re-conceptualising education policy trajectories in a globalised world: lessons from a multi-level comparison of accountability in France and Quebec	18
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	17
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	17
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	16
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	14
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s	14
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	14
(Re)Imagining the future of education: a critical discourse analysis of digital transformation policies in China and Denmark	14
Correction	14
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018	14
Voluntary school fees in segregated public schools: how selective public schools turbo-charge inequity and funding gaps	13
Learning to lead for transformation: an African perspective on educational leadership	13
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method	13
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism	12
Editorial	12
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	12
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	12

The Bloomsbury handbook of theory in comparative and international education	12
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators	12
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative	11
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique	11
Comparative education as a political project	11
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy	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
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas	10
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	10
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	9
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	9
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	9
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy	8
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	8
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence: the uneven development of colonial schooling in Cyprus and Singapore	8
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency	8
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
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	7
Education and social justice in Japan	7
Missing in action? The World Bank’s surveys of teacher absenteeism in sub-Saharan Africa	7
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education	7
Apprehending the subject? The significance of the categorisation debate in decolonial studies for the social sciences	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
The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden: global management trends meet national political culture and governance models	7
Struggling for equal access and success: disability in European higher education	6
‘Beyond’ critique: universities, human rights, decolonisation, and the Sustainable Development Goals	6
Correction	6
Comparative education: and now?	6
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens	6
Comparative education and international relations	5
Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis , edited by Eleftherios Kleri	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
Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability: insights from a cross-cultural teacher education programme	5
Comparing stakeholders’ perceptions of the implementation of ‘learner-centred’ pedagogy: the case of Rwanda	5
The politics of tinkering: developing the PISA assessment of global competence	5
Comparative studies of early childhood education and care: beyond methodological nationalism	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
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States	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
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
Transnational academic mobility and knowledge production: learning and being differently in the global education policy field through multiple selves	4
Education, curriculum, and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	4

The impact of Covid-19 on the institutional fabric of higher education: old patterns, new dynamics, and changing rules?	4
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	3
Global science and national comparisons: beyond bibliometrics and scientometrics	3
Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field	3
Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on A Growing Global Network	3
An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism	3
Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	3
The metrification of teaching: student evaluation of teaching in the United States, Germany and Colombia	3
Understanding China’s policy responses to PISA: using a ti and yong framework	3
‘Our system fits us’: comparing teacher accountability, motivation, and sociocultural context in Finland and Singapore	3
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	3
Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’: affect and mediatisation in India	3
Beyond decolonisation: criticism, comparison and conjectures from the global south	3
Creeping anglicisation: school inspection in Scotland and Ireland	3
Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond	3
Challenging the internationalisation of education: a critique of the global gaze	2
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	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 effects of private schooling on pupil achievement: a global systemic analysis	2
Education and choice in the United Kingdom: measuring school choice policies in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (1980–2020)	2
The long road to systemic improvement in education: a comparative multi-level case study in federal countries	2
What happened to the Soviet university?	2
The Politics of Higher Education: The Imperial University in Northern Song China	2
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	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
New practices of comparison, quantification and expertise in education: Conducting empirically based research	2
The waning legitimacy of international organisations and their promissory visions	2