OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	25
The development of moral shame indicates the emergence of moral identity in middle-childhood	19
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	12
What gratitude looks like from Colombian children’s perspectives	12
Virtue developmental considerations of mindfulness	11
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	11
A challenge to self-education: The purpose and potential of a database annotating works of art for adults who are existential exemplars for children	9
Flaws of character: Habituating Aristotelian emotions, reasons and actions	8
Can exposure to specific acts of compassion and courage elicit moral elevation and related motives?	8
Transmission, transactional and reflection model: An approach to implementation of citizenship education in Kenya	8
Introducing the complexity of character education: A review of Understanding character education: Approaches, applications and issues	7
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	7
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	7
Character education for students with disabilities	6
Aretaic considerations of humor	6
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	6
The use of biographical narratives in exemplarist moral education	6
Associations of parenting styles with moral reasoning in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis	6
Cultivating character through physical education using memetic, progressive and transformative practices in schools	5
The social and moral ecology of education for flourishing	5
Adolescents’ moral self-cultivation through emulation: Implications for modelling in moral education	5
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood	5
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	5
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	4
‘Good’ citizens or ‘faithful’ Muslims? Contested narratives for citizenship education in Pakistan	4

Virtue ethics embedded: Aristotelianism in the post-war Japanese moral education	4
David Carr at eighty: Fifty years of dedication to academic research and teaching about philosophy of (moral) education	3
Iris Murdoch and moral education: An initial conceptual framework and a practical example	3
‘Daddy made a mistake and needed a time out’: Incarcerated parents as moral educators	3
In moral relationship with nature: Development and interaction	3
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer	3
Issues of validity: Exploring the link between values and behaviour	3
Applying variable- and person-centered approaches in the study of higher education learning outcomes	3
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	3
Harnessing religious teachings to reduce sexual prejudice	3
Virtue and authenticity in civic life	3
Sociological contributions to moral education	2
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	2
The moral role models scale: Assessing connections to and functions of moral exemplars	2
Beyond voice: Listening and silence in climate change education	2
A comparative investigation of emerging adults’ moral thinking and communication competencies in Taiwan, the USA, and the UK	2
Moral stories reading with internal negative reinforcement enhance children’s sharing behavior	2
‘Those moments are ineffable’. How creativity experienced through the Arts promotes empathy and compassion	2
Brazilian children’s theories of empathy: Exploring character through art	2
Should we stop talking about empathy?: Virtual reality, refugee children and the ethics of technology-mediated moral education	2
Humility and competition in Confucianism and Daoism: Lessons for today’s education	2
Laying the foundations of phronesis (practical wisdom) through moral dilemma discussions in Chinese primary schools	2
Expansive other-regarding virtues and civic excellence	2
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	2
Connecting moral development with critical pedagogy: A reply to Winston Thompson	2
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	2
Enhancing moral sensitivity in the aftermath of academic misconduct: Results from a quasi-experimental field study	2
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	1
Sensegathering and iteration: The evolution of a character education framework in higher education	1
Modelling teachers’ caring behaviour through the lens of high school students	1
Life purposes: Comparing higher education students in four institutions in the Netherlands and Finland	1
Probing moral education and pursuing social justice: Review of Nucci, L., & Ilten-Gee, R., Moral education for social justice	1
Moral injury and moral traps in teaching: Learning from the pandemic	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
The true self as essentially morally good: An obstacle to virtue development?	1
Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg	1
Why being morally virtuous enhances well-being: A self-determination theory approach	1
Rediscovering Taiiku: Exploring the moral philosophy of lifelong physical well-being through physical education and sports in Japan	1
Resurgence of Confucian education in contemporary China: Parental involvement, moral anxiety, and the pedagogy of memorisation	1
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	1
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	1
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet	1
Practical wisdom: How do personal virtue beliefs and contextual factors interact in adolescents’ moral decision-making?	1
Sociology and moral character: Diagnostic, agnostic, or gnostic?	1
Partisan civility and civic education*	1
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	1
Virtual reality and character education: Learning opportunities and risks	1
Towards a critical character education using virtue ethics philosophy and Bourdieu’s sociology	1
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	1
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty	1

Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	1
Social inclusion through synergy of kindness, forgiveness, and peaceableness: A conceptual proposition	1
Peer support and prosocial behavior among adolescents from low-income families: A moderated mediation model	1
The JME’s 50-year contribution to moral education: A content analysis 1971-2021	1
Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues	1
Examining the ethics of school-based mindfulness programs	1