OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Compare-A Journal of Comparative and International 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
China in the global field of international student mobility: an analysis of economic, human and symbolic capitals	45
Higher education under threat: China, Malaysia, and the UK respond to the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Comparative and international higher education in a new key? Thoughts on the post-pandemic prospects of scholarship	23
Rural disadvantage in the context of centralised university admissions: a multiple case study of Georgia and Kazakhstan	21
Developing a model of instructional leadership in China	21
A cross-cultural investigation on perseverance, self-regulated learning, motivation, and achievement	19
Counselling to stay or to leave? - Comparing career counselling of young people in rural and urban areas	16
‘I changed my strategy and looked for jobs on Gumtree’: the ecological circumstances and international graduates’ agency and strategies to navigate the Australian labour market	15
Destined for Asia: hospitality and emotions in international student mobilities	14
Global teaching competencies in primary education	14
International mindedness as a platform for class solidarity	12
How equitable are South-North partnerships in education research? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	12
Policy reformer’s dream or nightmare?	11
Inspirations from abroad: the impact of PISA on countries’ choice of reference societies in education	11
Education markets and school segregation: a mechanism-based explanation	10
Rurality and access to higher education	10
Rebranding Gandhi for the 21st century: science, ideology and politics at UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGIEP)	9
Vocational education and social inequalities in within- and between-school curriculum tracking	9
Globalisation or westernisation? The influence of global university rankings in the context of the Republic of China (Taiwan)	9
Changing patterns of international academic mobility: the experiences of Western-origin faculty members in Turkey	9
Leadership in Chinese higher education and the influence of sociocultural constructs	8
Contextual effect of school SES on reading performance: a comparison between countries in the European Union	8
Geographies of shadow education: patterns and forces in the spatial distributions of private supplementary tutoring	8
Challenges arising from the special education legacy in Russia and South Africa: a cross-case analysis	8
A multiplicative composite indicator to evaluate educational systems in OECD countries	8

How satisfied are international students? The role of town, gown and motivations	8
How are the ‘losers’ of the school accountability system constructed in Chile, the USA and England?	7
A global student anger? A comparative analysis of student movements in Chile (2011), Quebec (2012), and Hong-Kong (2014)	7
Construction of students’ religious national identities in Pakistani state schools and its implications for minorities	7
Social justice, education and peacebuilding: conflict transformation in Southern Thailand	7
Race to the classroom: the governance turn in Latin American education. The emerging era of accountability, control and prescribed curriculum	7
Effects of professional learning communities on teacher collaboration, feedback provision, job satisfaction and self-efficacy: Evidence from Korean PISA 2018 data	7
Local meanings of international student assessments: an analysis of media discourses of PISA in China, 2010-2016	7
Early childhood education and care policy change: comparing goals, governance and ideas in Nordic contexts	7
Piloting PISA for development to success: an analysis of its findings, framework and recommendations	7
Transitions from rural contexts to and through higher education in South Africa: negotiating misrecognition	7
Are children with disabilities in school and learning? Evidence from a household survey in rural Punjab, Pakistan	6
Embracing the global: the role of ranking, research mandate, and sector in the internationalisation of higher education	6
Elite making and increasing access to cosmopolitan capital: DC youth experiences in education abroad	6
Embracing interculturality and Indigenous knowledge in Latin American higher education	6
‘Why do we think we are doing everything right [just] because we do it’: what transforms Chinese and Scottish student-teachers’ taken-for-granted views in study abroad experiences	6
A comparative scoping review of the impact of international economic sanctions on education	6
Indigenous education in Russia: opportunities for healing and revival of the Mari and Karelian Indigenous groups?	6
The segmented mobility of globally mobile academics: a case study of foreign professors at a Korean university	6
Self in mobility: exploring the transnational in-between identity of Chinese student returnees from the UK	6
Travel and personal growth: the value of visits to the country of origin for transnational migrant youth	6
The public good and higher education in Poland	6
Recontextualization of learner-centred pedagogy in Rwanda: A comparative analysis of primary and secondary schools	6
Covid and the future of education: global agencies ‘building back better’	6
Emotion regulation among Bedouin teachers in Israel: inherent conflicts between two different cultural systems of emotion rules	6
Literacy instruction activities and their associations with first graders’ reading performance in two transparent orthographies	6
Imagining ‘Asian’ higher education: visual campus gaze and global university rankings (GURs) websites	6
From ‘the conscience of humanity’ to the conscious human brain: UNESCO’s embrace of social-emotional learning as a flag of convenience	6
Conflict and international education: experiences of Yemeni international students	5
Gendering childhood(s) and engagement with schooling in rural Sierra Leone	5
The transition from a deregulated market to a centralised school admission system in Chile: mapping middle-class responses to new school choice rules	5
The social practice of silence in intercultural classrooms at a UK university	5
Preparing leaders for the global south: the work of elite schools through global citizenship education	5
Internationalisation of the curriculum in Vietnamese higher education: mediating between ‘Western’ and local imaginaries	5
Barriers to inclusive education in Tanzania’s policy environment: national policy actors’ perspectives	5
Perceived community influence on rural Australian students’ higher education decisions: exploring community, school and family	5
Left behind? Internally migrating children and the ontological crisis of formal education systems in South Asia	5
‘Even studying higher, we just end up with earning a living by picking coffee cherries’: challenges to educational equity for ethnic minority students in Vietnam	4
Trust, civic self-efficacy, and acceptance of corruption among Colombian adolescents: shifting attitudes between 2009-2016	4
Does international student mobility foster scientific collaboration? Evidence from a network analysis	4
Inclusive education: thinking beyond systems	4
Integrating marginalised students in Ghanaian schools: insights from teachers and principals	4
Shadow education in the context of early tracking: between-track differences in the Czech Republic	4
Feeling bad and doing bad: student confidence in reading in rural China	4
Glocal production of knowledge: exploring Vietnamese scholars’ perception of ‘good’ research	4
Revisiting comparative pedagogy: methodologies, themes and research communities since 2000	4
Pupils’ experiences with learner-centred pedagogy in Tanzania	4
Exploring rurality and ethnicity in globalised higher education: ideologies, intersections and narratives in doctoral research theses	4
The professionalisation of teaching and teacher education in China: a policy analysis of a nation-wide reform	4
Scaling and ‘systems thinking’ in education: reflections from UK aid professionals	4

High school students’ perceptions of science and attitudes towards intergroup cooperation	4
Critical realism and education policy analysis in conflicts and crises: towards conceptual methodologies	4
Instruction time and students’ academic achievement: a cross-country comparison	4
The role of national culture in student acquisition of mathematics and reading skills	4
Pursuing and playing the academic game: a duoethnographic perspective on two early career academics’ publishing experiences in China	4
Regulating private sector schooling in the global south: the case of India	3
Higher education students as consumers: a cross-country comparative analysis of students’ views	3
Forms of agency enacted by international Ph.D. holders in Australia and Ph.D. returnees in China to negotiate employability	3
Either/or literacies: teachers’ views on the implementation of the Thematic Curriculum in Uganda	3
Breaking the mould: a comparative study of ‘radical’ university curriculum reforms in a context of global-local policy flows	3
Learner-centred education and English medium instruction: policies in practice in a lower-secondary mathematics class in rural Rwanda	3
The integration of indigenous knowledge in school: a systematic review	3
‘Who are you to know who I am?’ Comparing the experiences of youth at risk of dropping out in England, Denmark and Hungary	3
Designing indicators and assessment tools for SDG Target 4.7: a critique of the current approach and a proposal for an ’Inside-Out’ strategy	3
Youth activism and education across contexts: towards a framework of critical engagements	3
‘Intelligence is not just good grades’: re-examining the mindset revolution in Indian classrooms	3
Addressing inclusive education for learners with disabilities in the integrated education system: the dilemma of public primary schools in Kenya	3
Context without future: webs of beliefs structuring the professional agency of teachers in Russian schools in Estonia	3
The impact of the implementation of ‘double reduction’ policy on tutors in shadow education: legislation goals and early experiences	3
The skills balancing act: a review of the 2019 World Bank report on skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa	3
Gender and the navigation of STEM careers in higher education institutions: Narratives of female faculty in post-Soviet Tajikistan	3
The promise of mobility in a context of constraint: the International Baccalaureate in a low-income public school in Ecuador	3
Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees: insights from five refugee groups across three cities of India	3
‘We believe we will succeed… because we will “soma kwa bidii”’: acknowledging the key role played by aspirations for ‘being’ in students’ navigations of secondary schooling in Tanzania	3
Uncertain futures in forgotten places: a study on education policies and students’ subjectivities in rural contexts in Chile	3
Towards a typology of internationalisation at home activities in academic disciplines: a study conducted at a Dutch university of applied sciences	3
Tensions between diverse schools and inclusive educational practices: pedagogues’ perspectives in Iceland, Finland and the Netherlands	3
School-based teacher collaboration in Chile and Portugal	3
Protecting higher education from attack in the Gaza Strip	3
Generating and managing legitimacy: how the OECD established its role in monitoring sustainable development goal 4	3
‘You have to change, the curriculum stays the same’: decoloniality and curricular justice in South African higher education	3