OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Oxford Review of Education is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Leadership for ethical conduct of Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Nigeria and the challenge of ‘Miracle Examination Centres’	88
Using GIS to analyse early years provision in Northern Ireland – adding another year of segregated education?	62
Challenges facing interventions to promote equity in the early years: exploring the ‘impact’, legacy and lessons learned from a national evaluation of Children’s Centres in England	57
Framing teachers’ curriculum work in the Australian print media: the ‘lesson lottery’, workload, and the evolving role of public policy think tanks	55
Senior-secondary vocational tracking and socio-economic inequality in student educational performance: evidence from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey	45
Rethinking education and training for the climate: individuals, systems, narrative skills and economic transformation	43
Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education	33
Voices from the classroom: perceptions and obstacles in Indonesian curriculum reform	31
Building communities of hope is the central task of climate educators in the 21st century	29
What is academic development? Contributing a frontier-extending conceptual analysis to the field’s epistemic development	27
What do we know about teacher education for difficult topics? A systematic review	25
Theory-informed beliefs in early childhood education: contradictions in child development theories and models of play	24
Climate change litigation as a tool for climate change education	23
Territorial learning and childcare practices: exploring relations between territory and care in the intercultural training of Indigenous educators in Brazil	21
Predictors and mediators of pressure/tension in university students’ distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: A self-determination theory perspective	18
Pupil voice as a method in education research: thinking the ‘in-between’	17
Promoting politically contested change by invisible education policies: the case of ultra-Orthodox public schools in Israel	16
Reconceptualising early childhood education in Nigeria: a praxis for policy and research	16
Participant reflexivity and the complexity inherent to navigating ethical quandaries	16
Writing and the walls: new materialist assemblages as pedagogy in English	14
Staffing rural and remote school communities: right fit – right school, right teacher, right community	13
Emerging horizons for social justice in assessment: can assessment move beyond competence, competition, content and control?	12
Competing interests of stakeholders in a policy-driven test: a sociological analysis	11
Do teachers read against the text? Studying the prevalence of critical literature pedagogy through a vignette	11
Exploring Galápagos children’s place attachment, local ecological knowledge, and pro-environmental behaviour	11

Steering the ‘client’-oriented schooling ship: a moral-ecological assessment framework to preserve professional integrity	10
Education, truth and subjectivity: Revisiting Kierkegaard	10
Failing at the basics: disabled university students’ views on enhancing classroom inclusion	9
Children’s early care experiences and their educational attainment: a population data-linkage study in Wales	9
Game-based learning as a pedagogical tool towards climate change learning and participation	8
The moral grounding of changing educational assessment and accountability: a theoretically informed analysis of moral assemblages in Denmark	8
Colour-evasive racial ideologies underpinning the hidden curriculum of a majority-minority occupational therapy school in London, England: an analysis of minoritised undergraduate students’ experience	8
The emerging intersection: the role of architecture in promoting inclusive education	8
The impact of part-time community education on the academic achievement of minoritised pupils: evidence from Flanders	8
The political economy of school exclusion in Northern Ireland: the intersection of perspectives from mainstream education, alternative provision and an official education body	8
Partial, hierarchical and stratified space? Understanding ‘the international’ in studies of international student mobility	7
Formal school exclusions over the educational lifecourse in Wales	7
Social sustainability in Early Childhood Education and Care through play, responsiveness and inclusion: teachers’ responses to children’s non-verbal initiatives in play	7
The education and labour market outcomes of England’s gifted and talented children	6
Testing for sequential bias in school inspections	6
Pedagogy of the possessed: teaching, certainty and wonder in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons	6
Student diversity, university rankings and the positioning of Russell Group universities	6
Agenda-setting for education reform: the case of the Vision Statement for the Future of Scottish Education	6
Tensions between decolonisation and social justice in education: seeking pathways beyond incommensurability	5
Complicated shadows: a discussion of positionality within educational research	5
The power of stories: oral storytelling, schooling and onto-epistemologies in rural Malawi	5
Privacy, power, and relationship: ethics and the home-school partnership	5
Scaling up early language intervention in educational settings: First steps matter	5
Can a code-based approach to marking and feedback reduce teachers’ workload? An evaluation of the FLASH marking intervention	5
The core content framework and the ‘new science’ of educational research	5
School exclusion policies across the UK: convergence and divergence	4
Expanding educational opportunities or widening learning inequalities? Evidence from national reform of pre-primary education in Ethiopia	4
Experiential learning of decolonial participatory design based on the Indigenous context of the Colombian Amazon	4
Student intersectional sociodemographic and school variation in GCSE final grades in England following Covid-19 examination cancellations	4
Embracing diglossia in early literacy education in Arabic: A pilot intervention study with kindergarten children	4
Anxiety and performance during tests: the roles of coping and updating	4
Teachers for social justice: exploring the lives and work of teachers committed to social justice in education	4
Shifting power relations in innovative learning environments: implications for initial teacher education and practicum	4
The DECAY of Merton’s scientific norms and the new academic ethos	4
Effects of a positive education programme on secondary school students’ mental health and wellbeing; challenges of the school context	4
‘Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things’ : the ‘low value’ arts degree and the neoliberal university	4
Perceptions of key education actors towards PISA: the case of Scotland	4
Whose children are they? Using Kymlicka on multiculturalism to evaluate rights and freedom in Christian home education	4
Serving their communities? The under-admission of children with disabilities and ‘special educational needs’ to ‘faith’ primary schools in England	4
Enduring it all to protect Black students: Black educators’ experiences with racial battle fatigue and burn out	4
Knowledge-making in a crisis: English education during and after Covid-19	4
Indigenous heritage as an educational resource in primary education	4