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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Moral Education is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Students’ perceptions and evaluations of plagiarism: Effects of text and context	18
Moral self-determination: The nature, existence, and formation of moral motivation	17
The three gifts of teaching: Towards a non-egological future for moral education	17
Unique ethical challenges for the 21st century: Online technology and virtue education	16
Resurgence of Confucian education in contemporary China: Parental involvement, moral anxiety, and the pedagogy of memorisation	15
Improved model exploration for the relationship between moral foundations and moral judgment development using Bayesian Model Averaging	14
Sense of authentic inner compass as a moral resource across cultures: possible implications for resisting negative peer-pressure and for parenting	12
Mindfulness and morality: Educational insights from Confucius	11
What does character education mean to character education experts? A prototype analysis of expert opinions	10
Complexity in restorative justice education circles: Power and privilege in voicing perspectives about sexual health, identities, and relationships	10
Commencing character: A case study of character development in college	10
Exploring the issue of a lack of cohesion in moral education: An empirical study in Chinese primary and secondary schools	10
Cultivating character through physical education using memetic, progressive and transformative practices in schools	9
Profiles of adolescent character attributes: Associations with intentional self-regulation and character role model relationships	8
Self-determination theory, morality, and education: introduction to special issue	8
Moral education in mainland China today: A bio-ecological systems analysis	8
Moral sciences and the role of education	8
Adaptation and validation of a test of ethical sensitivity in teaching	8
Promising pathways from school restorative practices to educational equity	8
Social media as inadvertent educators	8
The educational salience of emulation as a moral virtue	7
Social science as an inherently moral endeavor	7
Can higher education increase students’ moral reasoning? The role of student engagement in the U.S.	7
Social class and prosocial behavior in early adolescence: The moderating roles of family and school factors	7
Relatable and attainable moral exemplars as sources for moral elevation and pleasantness	6

Moral education and the challenge of pre-service professional formation for teachers	6
Moral education in a time of human ecological devastation	6
Forgiveness as a character strength: Toward a developmental model and research agenda	6
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	6
Ethical sensitivity of Finnish and Estonian teachers	5
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	5
Chaos or coherence? Future directions for moral education	5
From Taylor Swift to MLK: Understanding adolescents’ famous character role models	5
The use of biographical narratives in exemplarist moral education	5
Why being morally virtuous enhances well-being: A self-determination theory approach	4
Critical harmony: A goal for deliberative civic education	4
Robots as persons? Implications for moral education	4
The true self as essentially morally good: An obstacle to virtue development?	4
The development of moral shame indicates the emergence of moral identity in middle-childhood	4
Awaiting the Owl of Minerva: Some thoughts on the present and future of moral education	4
In moral relationship with nature: Development and interaction	4
Sociological contributions for researching morality and cultivating states of moral character	3
Second-order theory of mind as a predictor of children’s guilt proneness	3
Associations of parenting styles with moral reasoning in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis	3
Science, scholarship, and intellectual virtues: A guide to what higher education should be like	3
Introduction to the special issue: Research in morality as an integrated, interdisciplinary domain of inquiry	3
What gratitude looks like from Colombian children’s perspectives	3
Life purposes: Comparing higher education students in four institutions in the Netherlands and Finland	3
The sociological determinants of scientific bias	3
The legacies of 1945: The evolutions of European civic morality	3
Teaching the comicYummyto engage adolescent empathy, critical reflection, and community awareness	2
Peer support and prosocial behavior among adolescents from low-income families: A moderated mediation model	2
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	2
Moral evaluations of modest statements in light of maternal disciplinary method and cultures	2
Considering morally relevant theory of mind through a Social Domain Theory perspective	2
Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg	2
The JME’s 50-year contribution to moral education: A content analysis 1971-2021	2
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer	2
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood	2
Mental images and imagination in moral education	2
Institutionalized empathy	2
The links between religiousness and prosocial behaviors in early adulthood: The mediating roles of media exposure preferences and empathic tendencies	2
‘Daddy made a mistake and needed a time out’: Incarcerated parents as moral educators	2
Why should intimate partner violence prevention be integrated in sex education?	2
Adolescents’ moral self-cultivation through emulation: Implications for modelling in moral education	1
A challenge to self-education: The purpose and potential of a database annotating works of art for adults who are existential exemplars for children	1
Critical perspectivism: Educating for a moral response to media	1
What is a science of virtue?	1
Moral motivations of bystanders in potential sexual assault situations	1
Towards a post-democratic era? Moral education against new forms of authoritarianism	1
Inspiring or annoying? A new measure of broadening and defensive self-regulatory responses to moral exemplars applied to two real-life scenarios of moral goodness	1
Teaching virtue virtually: Can the virtue of tolerance of diversity of conscience be taught online?	1
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	1
Modelling teachers’ caring behaviour through the lens of high school students	1
Flaws of character: Habituating Aristotelian emotions, reasons and actions	1

Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	1
The case of common humanity: Towards a deeper understanding of children’s social ideas	1
Cultivating moral eyes: Bridging the knowledge-action gap of privilege and injustice among students in African universities	1
Moral judgment, self-serving cognitive distortions, and peer bullying among secondary school adolescents	1
Too much of a good thing: Differentiating intellectual humility from servility in higher education	1
Partisan civility and civic education*	1
Practical wisdom: How do personal virtue beliefs and contextual factors interact in adolescents’ moral decision-making?	1
Probing moral education and pursuing social justice: Review of Nucci, L., & Ilten-Gee, R., Moral education for social justice	1
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	1
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	1
Introducing the complexity of character education: A review of Understanding character education: Approaches, applications and issues	1
The harms of unattainable pedagogical exemplars on social media	1
Citizenship, character, sustainability: Differences and commonalities in three fields of education	1
Virtual reality and character education: Learning opportunities and risks	1
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	1
A comparative investigation of emerging adults’ moral thinking and communication competencies in Taiwan, the USA, and the UK	1
R. S. Peters’ philosophy of moral education in relation to his Freudian psychology	1