OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Education is 7. 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
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	43
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	35
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	29
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	23
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	22
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	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
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	19
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists	17
Re-conceptualising education policy trajectories in a globalised world: lessons from a multi-level comparison of accountability in France and Quebec	15
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	14
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	14
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method	14
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	14
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018	13
Correction	13
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s	13
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	13
The Bloomsbury handbook of theory in comparative and international education	12
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators	12
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	12
Voluntary school fees in segregated public schools: how selective public schools turbo-charge inequity and funding gaps	12
Editorial	12
Learning to lead for transformation: an African perspective on educational leadership	12
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism	12

Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	12
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	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	11
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique	10
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative	10
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy	10
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas	10
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®	10
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	9
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	9
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency	8
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	8
Culture and education: looking back to culture through education	8
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence: the uneven development of colonial schooling in Cyprus and Singapore	8
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	8
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao	8
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	7
The Oxford handbook of the history of education; Handbook of historical studies in education. Debates, tensions, and directions	7
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	7
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	7
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy	7
Education and social justice in Japan	7