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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Does higher education expansion close the rural-urban gap in college enrolment in China? New evidence from a cross-provincial assessment	48
Revolutions in learning and education from India: pathways towards the pluriverse (Routledge critical development studies series)	26
Conflicted epistemologies in secondary school environmental education: implications for sustainable climate action in Uganda	17
Generating and managing legitimacy: how the OECD established its role in monitoring sustainable development goal 4	16
Gender and the navigation of STEM careers in higher education institutions: Narratives of female faculty in post-Soviet Tajikistan	15
‘Soon you will go far’: discourse analysis on vocational education policy of Israel	15
The importance of trust in education decentralisation in West Africa	14
What matters more? An investigation of factors influencing student satisfaction in transnational higher education	13
Admission Olympics: the emerging tutoring market for kindergarten applicants	13
Towards a typology of internationalisation at home activities in academic disciplines: a study conducted at a Dutch university of applied sciences	13
Context without future: webs of beliefs structuring the professional agency of teachers in Russian schools in Estonia	13
Students’ experiences of extracurricular activities in elite secondary schools in Lahore	12
Critical comparative geographies of elite schooling: comparing the UK, Canada, and Sweden	11
Generating views from Elsewhere : UIS and the global project of SDG4 indicators	11
Mental health and early career adaptation challenges of Chinese returnees and Korean ambitionists among the STEAM doctoral cohorts in the post-pandemic academic job market	10
Effects of professional learning communities on teacher collaboration, feedback provision, job satisfaction and self-efficacy: Evidence from Korean PISA 2018 data	10
Investigating U.S. and German pre-service teachers’ beliefs regarding digital technology	10
Thailand: sufficiency education and the performance of peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	9
Germany’s international branch campuses: neoliberalising the Humboldtian university through the backdoor?	8
Analyzing language of instruction and students’ learning achievements in Zambia: a fixed effects approach using PISA-D data	8
Beyond Heyneman & Loxley: the relative importance of families and schools for learning outcomes in francophone Africa	7
The caving in and the crawling out: creating intergenerational vernacular food literacies	7
Teachers in ‘international schools’ as an emerging field of inquiry: a literature review of themes and theoretical developments	7
Critical studies of education in Asia: knowledge, power and the politics of curriculum reforms	7
Towards a reconceptualisation of family literacy: exploring religious literacy learning and practices in two communities in Nepal	6

Rural transitions to higher education in South Africa: decolonial perspectives Rural transitions to higher education in South Africa: decolonial perspectives , by S. Tim	6
Examining educational policies in Latin America: Comprehensive insights into contemporary reform	6
Characterising citizenship education in terms of its emancipatory potential: reflections from Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan	6
Negotiations, costs, and continuities: analysing the upward educational and social mobility of young men and women of Moroccan descent in Spain	6
Cross-cultural insights into youth perceptions of climate change: a comparative study between the US and Vietnam	6
Core in ‘peripheral’ Asia? Evolution of transnational degree programmes in Japanese universities from 2007 to 2021	6
Network failure in Ethiopian education	6
How and why minoritised communities self-organise education: a review study	5
The Bloomsbury handbook of theory in comparative and international education The Bloomsbury handbook of theory in comparative and international education , by Tavis D. J	5
Hidden, scattered and reconstructed: indigenous lifeways, knowledges and intergenerational learning	5
Prefiguring a democratic state: student activism and the National Education Law in Myanmar	5
Education and climate change, the role of universities	5
Higher education leadership development in selected ASEAN countries: an exploratory study of challenges and prospects in public higher education institutions	5
From university to the world of work: education and labour market experiences of women in STEM subjects in Ethiopia	5
What influences the direction and magnitude of Asian student mobility? Macro data analysis focusing on restricting factors and lifelong planning	5
Competing or complementary goals for primary education: social-emotional learning across the Nigerien education system	5
‘You want to be like Neymar?’: connections between football, schooling and the future in eastern Uganda	5
Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees: insights from five refugee groups across three cities of India	5
Externalisation and legitimacy in policy transfer: a case of standards for school leaders	4
Still ‘the conscience of humanity’? UNESCO’s vision of education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	4
Multilingualism in the Andes, policies, politics, power	4
Towards an historical sociology of global citizenship education policy in Australia	4
Understanding secondary school students’ agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon	4
Peacebuilding Inc.: neoliberal influences on Rwanda’s vulnerable youth	4
Propagation of inequality: an analysis of capability development opportunities of Dalits in higher education on the Indian subcontinent	4
Understanding educational policy transfer: an analysis of the Japanese influence on China’s vocational education	4
COVID-19 and online teaching: mainland Chinese students encounter Taiwanese teachers	4
The uses of affect in literature education: trajectories of nationalism and solidarity in postcolonial Cyprus	4
A cross-cultural investigation on perseverance, self-regulated learning, motivation, and achievement	4
Pupils’ experiences with learner-centred pedagogy in Tanzania	4
Leading teacher professional learning for system-wide change: the leadership practices of teaching research officers ( jiaoyanyuan ) in China	4
Improving girls’ education through student hostels	4
Does between-school tracking increase school segregation among migrant students? A difference-in-differences and multiverse analysis of international large-scale assessment data	4
Inside the bubble: English as an additional language policy in British international schools	4
Are family variables or personal characteristics more important? Based on the evidence among learners in developed and developing countries	4
How to involve a diverse group of young people in local government decision making: A case study of Danish youth councils	4
Utilising university community engagement as a critical tool for global citizenship	4
Practising what you preach, preaching what you practice:World Bank support for technical and vocational education and training in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Learning to live together harmoniously: spiritual perspectives from Indian classrooms	3
The halted neoliberalising of public schools: policy trajectories of two ‘failed’ privatisation reforms in South Korea and China	3
A decade review and bibliometric analysis of the journal Compare	3
Realising the human development promise in dual VET	3
‘We have a great monster in front of us’: Chuj resistances to the systemic monsters and illogics of modernity/coloniality	3
Educating for citizenship in a fragile democracy: interrogating civic agenda in Thai higher education	3
Educational mobility among women from stigmatized caste groups: A study of high-achieving middle-class Dalit women	3
Curricula for exclusion: interpreting the ideologies and forces underpinning policy developments in relation to the education of children with disabilities	3
Correction	3
Tanzanian pre-primary teachers’ commitment to teaching in the context of unemployment	3
Malawian teachers’ agency in using teaching and learning resources: a product of quality teaching, learning resources and teacher education	3
Educational anthropology and the comparative challenge	3

Precarity and the social mobility nexus for young Roma in vocational education and training	3
Towers of ivory and steel: how Israeli universities deny Palestinian freedom	3
Constructed world culture instruments for European Higher Education Area global diffusion	3
Localizing transnational norms in Cambodia: cases of ESD and ASEAN citizenship education	3
The culture trap: ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for Black youth	3
‘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	3
Untangling the roles of low skill and education in predicting youth NEET statuses: negative signalling effects in comparative perspective	3
Education, curriculum and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	3
Higher Education internationalisation policy and home student populations	3
School counsellor education in three countries: Australia, Malta and Turkey	3
In memory of Dr Muhammad Arif Naveed (1981–2024): a path of empathy and creative rigour	3
Indebted mobilities: Indian youth, migration, and the internationalizing University	3