OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Moral 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	42
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	21
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	21
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	19
The moral purpose of higher education: Articulacy, strong evaluation and the moral self	15
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	15
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	15
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	15
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet	13
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	13
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	12
Integrating ethical knowledge into teacher education: A framework for moral formation	12
From concept to capacity: Evidence of school leaders activating the four functions of Phronesis	12
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	11
Beyond the self: Self-transcendent emotions for moral character development in the classroom	10
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen	10
Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study	10
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	10
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	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 10-item moral outrage scale: Development, psychometric properties, and associations with parenting behavior and peer relationships	7
Mental images and imagination in moral education	7
How to navigate life: The new science of finding your way in school, career, and beyond	7
From puppets to principles: Children’s theatre and the foundations of ethical stakeholder awareness	7

Developing virtue-based leadership education: The Leaders of Character Program at Francisco de Vitoria University (Spain)	7
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character	6
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students	6
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making	6
Education and the culture of giving: Rural evidence from Bangladesh	6
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools	6
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework	6
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education	6
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	5
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor	5
Beyond nannying: Virtue crafting in Chinese higher education	5
Epiphanic versus incremental routes to moral growth	5
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	5
Infusing critical moral education into English language teaching through globalizing literature pedagogy in the Chinese EFL classroom	5
How do Chinese volunteer and non-volunteer student teachers differ in their life purpose?	5
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis	5
The honest truth about lying parents: A qualitative study and taxonomy of parental lying	5
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	5
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	4
Globalization and conflicts in moral education in Japan: Historical perspectives	4
Japanese moral education at the intersection of philosophy, science, and politics	4
Existential considerations: Review of Gary, K. H. Why boredom matters: Education, leisure, and the quest for a meaningful life	4
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	4
Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda	4
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	4