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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A cross-cultural investigation on perseverance, self-regulated learning, motivation, and achievement	31
Comparative and international higher education in a new key? Thoughts on the post-pandemic prospects of scholarship	24
Higher education under threat: China, Malaysia, and the UK respond to the COVID-19 pandemic	24
‘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	16
Geographies of shadow education: patterns and forces in the spatial distributions of private supplementary tutoring	15
Global teaching competencies in primary education	15
Rebranding Gandhi for the 21st century: science, ideology and politics at UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGIEP)	14
Inspirations from abroad: the impact of PISA on countries’ choice of reference societies in education	12
From ‘the conscience of humanity’ to the conscious human brain: UNESCO’s embrace of social-emotional learning as a flag of convenience	12
A multiplicative composite indicator to evaluate educational systems in OECD countries	12
Changing patterns of international academic mobility: the experiences of Western-origin faculty members in Turkey	11
Covid and the future of education: global agencies ‘building back better’	11
Education markets and school segregation: a mechanism-based explanation	11
Challenges arising from the special education legacy in Russia and South Africa: a cross-case analysis	10
How are the ‘losers’ of the school accountability system constructed in Chile, the USA and England?	10
Recontextualization of learner-centred pedagogy in Rwanda: A comparative analysis of primary and secondary schools	10
Social justice, education and peacebuilding: conflict transformation in Southern Thailand	9
Effects of professional learning communities on teacher collaboration, feedback provision, job satisfaction and self-efficacy: Evidence from Korean PISA 2018 data	9
The integration of indigenous knowledge in school: a systematic review	9
Travel and personal growth: the value of visits to the country of origin for transnational migrant youth	9
Contextual effect of school SES on reading performance: a comparison between countries in the European Union	9
Early childhood education and care policy change: comparing goals, governance and ideas in Nordic contexts	9
The transition from a deregulated market to a centralised school admission system in Chile: mapping middle-class responses to new school choice rules	9
Self in mobility: exploring the transnational in-between identity of Chinese student returnees from the UK	8
Pursuing and playing the academic game: a duoethnographic perspective on two early career academics’ publishing experiences in China	8

Piloting PISA for development to success: an analysis of its findings, framework and recommendations	8
Preparing leaders for the global south: the work of elite schools through global citizenship education	8
‘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	8
The public good and higher education in Poland	8
The segmented mobility of globally mobile academics: a case study of foreign professors at a Korean university	8
Forms of agency enacted by international Ph.D. holders in Australia and Ph.D. returnees in China to negotiate employability	8
How satisfied are international students? The role of town, gown and motivations	8
A comparative scoping review of the impact of international economic sanctions on education	8
Gendering childhood(s) and engagement with schooling in rural Sierra Leone	7
Construction of students’ religious national identities in Pakistani state schools and its implications for minorities	7
Teachers in ‘international schools’ as an emerging field of inquiry: a literature review of themes and theoretical developments	7
Protecting higher education from attack in the Gaza Strip	7
Designing indicators and assessment tools for SDG Target 4.7: a critique of the current approach and a proposal for an ’Inside-Out’ strategy	7
‘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	7
A scoping review of the changing landscape of doctoral education	6
Shadow education in the context of early tracking: between-track differences in the Czech Republic	6
Education behind bars and beyond prison: incarcerated women’s education aspirations and barriers in Ukraine	6
Left behind? Internally migrating children and the ontological crisis of formal education systems in South Asia	6
The role of national culture in student acquisition of mathematics and reading skills	6
Higher education students as consumers: a cross-country comparative analysis of students’ views	5
How and why minoritised communities self-organise education: a review study	5
Internationalisation of the curriculum in Vietnamese higher education: mediating between ‘Western’ and local imaginaries	5
School-based teacher collaboration in Chile and Portugal	5
Learner-centred education and English medium instruction: policies in practice in a lower-secondary mathematics class in rural Rwanda	5
The promise of mobility in a context of constraint: the International Baccalaureate in a low-income public school in Ecuador	5
Conflict and international education: experiences of Yemeni international students	5
Marginalisation and mixed feelings: supporting students of Gypsy, Roma and traveller heritage imagining higher education in the UK	5
The impact of the implementation of ‘double reduction’ policy on tutors in shadow education: legislation goals and early experiences	5
Mapping the historical development and landscape of research about transnational higher education: a scientometric analysis from comparative and international perspectives	5
Generating and managing legitimacy: how the OECD established its role in monitoring sustainable development goal 4	5
Pupils’ experiences with learner-centred pedagogy in Tanzania	5
Practising what you preach, preaching what you practice:World Bank support for technical and vocational education and training in sub-Saharan Africa	5
The professionalisation of teaching and teacher education in China: a policy analysis of a nation-wide reform	5
Glocal production of knowledge: exploring Vietnamese scholars’ perception of ‘good’ research	5
Critical realism and education policy analysis in conflicts and crises: towards conceptual methodologies	5
The proliferation of international schools: implications for educational stratification	4
How to involve a diverse group of young people in local government decision making: A case study of Danish youth councils	4
Changes in transnational degree programs in Chinese universities from 2003 to 2023	4
Breaking the mould: a comparative study of ‘radical’ university curriculum reforms in a context of global-local policy flows	4
Critical education for sustainable development: exploring the conception of criticality in the context of global and Vietnamese policy discourse	4
Patriarchy, gender norms and female student dropout from high schools in Nepal	4
Halos, love boats, and the PISA family: understanding contractors’ rationales for carrying out International Large-Scale Assessment contracts	4
Challenging sentimental narratives of ‘victims’ and ‘perpetrators’ in postcolonial settings: thinking with and through affective justice in comparative education	4
Context without future: webs of beliefs structuring the professional agency of teachers in Russian schools in Estonia	4
Integrating marginalised students in Ghanaian schools: insights from teachers and principals	4
National curricula and citizenship education in populist times. The cases of Brazil and Spain	4
Tensions between diverse schools and inclusive educational practices: pedagogues’ perspectives in Iceland, Finland and the Netherlands	4
Trust, civic self-efficacy, and acceptance of corruption among Colombian adolescents: shifting attitudes between 2009-2016	4
Private-led policy transfer: the adoption of sector skills councils in Chile	3
Either/or literacies: teachers’ views on the implementation of the Thematic Curriculum in Uganda	3

Towards a typology of internationalisation at home activities in academic disciplines: a study conducted at a Dutch university of applied sciences	3
The OECD and epistemic (de)colonisation: Globalising visions for knowledge in the Learning Compass 2030	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 schoo	3
Untangling the roles of low skill and education in predicting youth NEET statuses: negative signalling effects in comparative perspective	3
Does higher education expansion close the rural-urban gap in college enrolment in China? New evidence from a cross-provincial assessment	3
A regenerative decolonization perspective on ESD from Latin America	3
Precarity and the social mobility nexus for young Roma in vocational education and training	3
Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees: insights from five refugee groups across three cities of India	3
Global education governance ‘with Chinese characteristics’: multilateralism in the ‘New Era’	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
Admission Olympics: the emerging tutoring market for kindergarten applicants	3
A distinct integration path? Latino economic elites in Los Angeles growing the Latino middle class	3
Thailand: sufficiency education and the performance of peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	3
A framework for ethical research in international and comparative education	3
Addressing student challenges in transnational education in Oman: the importance of student interaction with teaching staff and Peers	3
Strategy and sustainability discourses in higher education partnership building between China and UK	3
Characterising citizenship education in terms of its emancipatory potential: reflections from Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan	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