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Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Moral Education is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	41
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	20
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	20
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	17
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	14
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet	13
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	13
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	13
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	12
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	12
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	11
From concept to capacity: Evidence of school leaders activating the four functions of Phronesis	11
Integrating ethical knowledge into teacher education: A framework for moral formation	10
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	10
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	10
Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study	9
‘There are many more gaps in moral education. We need to bridge them all’: Interview with Tobias Krettenauer, recipient of the Kuhmerker Career Award 2024	9
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman	8
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen	8
Developing virtue-based leadership education: The Leaders of Character Program at Francisco de Vitoria University (Spain)	7
Mental images and imagination in moral education	7
From puppets to principles: Children’s theatre and the foundations of ethical stakeholder awareness	7
How to navigate life: The new science of finding your way in school, career, and beyond	7
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education	7
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor	6

Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools	6
The honest truth about lying parents: A qualitative study and taxonomy of parental lying	5
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	5
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character	5
Epiphanic versus incremental routes to moral growth	5
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis	5
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework	5
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students	5
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	5
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making	5
Japanese moral education at the intersection of philosophy, science, and politics	4
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	4
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	4
Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda	4
Connecting moral development with critical pedagogy: A reply to Winston Thompson	4
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer	4
Beyond nannying: Virtue crafting in Chinese higher education	4
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	4
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	4
Mechanisms by which narrative media facilitates practical wisdom in audience members: Insights from media psychology	3
‘Little Hero’, a web-based intervention to promote moral values among children: A study of its development and effectiveness	3
Why being morally virtuous enhances well-being: A self-determination theory approach	3
Moral reframing accuracy is enhanced through an educational intervention: Evidence from the Perspectives program	3
Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues	3
Introduction to the special issue on self, virtue, and public life: Interdisciplinary perspectives on civic virtue	3
Manifestations of purpose in life among Finnish student teachers	3
The centrality of care ethics in narratives of primary school homeroom teachers	3
Globalization and conflicts in moral education in Japan: Historical perspectives	3
Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education	3
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope	3
Existential considerations: Review of Gary, K. H. Why boredom matters: Education, leisure, and the quest for a meaningful life	3
Self-regulation through storytelling: A demonstration study detailing the educational book Game On for resilience building in early school children	3
Reimagining higher education: A response to Edward Brooks	3