OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Education is 6. 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