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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Conflicted epistemologies in secondary school environmental education: implications for sustainable climate action in Uganda	40
Gender and the navigation of STEM careers in higher education institutions: Narratives of female faculty in post-Soviet Tajikistan	19
Does higher education expansion close the rural-urban gap in college enrolment in China? New evidence from a cross-provincial assessment	18
The importance of trust in education decentralisation in West Africa	18
‘Soon you will go far’: discourse analysis on vocational education policy of Israel	18
Admission Olympics: the emerging tutoring market for kindergarten applicants	17
Revolutions in learning and education from India: pathways towards the pluriverse (Routledge critical development studies series)	17
Generating and managing legitimacy: how the OECD established its role in monitoring sustainable development goal 4	16
What matters more? An investigation of factors influencing student satisfaction in transnational higher education	15
Towards a typology of internationalisation at home activities in academic disciplines: a study conducted at a Dutch university of applied sciences	15
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	14
Critical comparative geographies of elite schooling: comparing the UK, Canada, and Sweden	14
Students’ experiences of extracurricular activities in elite secondary schools in Lahore	14
Teachers’ perspectives on Chinese philosophy and philosophy for children: navigating practical tensions in Chinese school settings	13
Context without future: webs of beliefs structuring the professional agency of teachers in Russian schools in Estonia	12
Analyzing language of instruction and students’ learning achievements in Zambia: a fixed effects approach using PISA-D data	10
A different ‘foundational’ learning: the basic education experiment in post-colonial India	10
Investigating U.S. and German pre-service teachers’ beliefs regarding digital technology	10
Generating views from Elsewhere : UIS and the global project of SDG4 indicators	10
Effects of professional learning communities on teacher collaboration, feedback provision, job satisfaction and self-efficacy: Evidence from Korean PISA 2018 data	9
Decolonizing education for sustainable futures	9
The caving in and the crawling out: creating intergenerational vernacular food literacies	9
Negotiations, costs, and continuities: analysing the upward educational and social mobility of young men and women of Moroccan descent in Spain	8
Demystifying underrepresentation of women leaders in higher education: comparative perspectives on gender-based leadership barriers and gender equality	8
Thailand: sufficiency education and the performance of peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	8

Teachers in ‘international schools’ as an emerging field of inquiry: a literature review of themes and theoretical developments	8
Germany’s international branch campuses: neoliberalising the Humboldtian university through the backdoor?	8
Network failure in Ethiopian education	7
Rural transitions to higher education in South Africa: decolonial perspectives Rural transitions to higher education in South Africa: decolonial perspectives , by S. Tim	7
Towards a reconceptualisation of family literacy: exploring religious literacy learning and practices in two communities in Nepal	7
Core in ‘peripheral’ Asia? Evolution of transnational degree programmes in Japanese universities from 2007 to 2021	7
Cross-cultural insights into youth perceptions of climate change: a comparative study between the US and Vietnam	7
What influences the direction and magnitude of Asian student mobility? Macro data analysis focusing on restricting factors and lifelong planning	7
‘You want to be like Neymar?’: connections between football, schooling and the future in eastern Uganda	6
Characterising citizenship education in terms of its emancipatory potential: reflections from Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan	6
Competing or complementary goals for primary education: social-emotional learning across the Nigerien education system	6
Examining educational policies in Latin America: Comprehensive insights into contemporary reform	6
From university to the world of work: education and labour market experiences of women in STEM subjects in Ethiopia	6
Education and climate change, the role of universities	6
How and why minoritised communities self-organise education: a review study	6
Prefiguring a democratic state: student activism and the National Education Law in Myanmar	5
Understanding educational policy transfer: an analysis of the Japanese influence on China’s vocational education	5
Propagation of inequality: an analysis of capability development opportunities of Dalits in higher education on the Indian subcontinent	5
Practising what you preach, preaching what you practice:World Bank support for technical and vocational education and training in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Leading teacher professional learning for system-wide change: the leadership practices of teaching research officers ( jiaoyanyuan ) in China	5
Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees: insights from five refugee groups across three cities of India	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
Improving girls’ education through student hostels	5
Higher education leadership development in selected ASEAN countries: an exploratory study of challenges and prospects in public higher education institutions	5
Still ‘the conscience of humanity’? UNESCO’s vision of education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	5
Does between-school tracking increase school segregation among migrant students? A difference-in-differences and multiverse analysis of international large-scale assessment data	5
Externalisation and legitimacy in policy transfer: a case of standards for school leaders	5
Hidden, scattered and reconstructed: indigenous lifeways, knowledges and intergenerational learning	5
Are family variables or personal characteristics more important? Based on the evidence among learners in developed and developing countries	4
Understanding secondary school students’ agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon	4
Towards an historical sociology of global citizenship education policy in Australia	4
Malawian teachers’ agency in using teaching and learning resources: a product of quality teaching, learning resources and teacher education	4
The culture trap: ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for Black youth	4
Education, curriculum and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4
The uses of affect in literature education: trajectories of nationalism and solidarity in postcolonial Cyprus	4
Inside the bubble: English as an additional language policy in British international schools	4
Peacebuilding Inc.: neoliberal influences on Rwanda’s vulnerable youth	4
How to involve a diverse group of young people in local government decision making: A case study of Danish youth councils	4
Learning to live together harmoniously: spiritual perspectives from Indian classrooms	4
Correction	4
Educational anthropology and the comparative challenge	4
Teaching for peace and social justice in Myanmar: identity, agency, and critical pedagogy	4
Multilingualism in the Andes, policies, politics, power	4
COVID-19 and online teaching: mainland Chinese students encounter Taiwanese teachers	4
Realising the human development promise in dual VET	4
Tanzanian pre-primary teachers’ commitment to teaching in the context of unemployment	4
‘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
The halted neoliberalising of public schools: policy trajectories of two ‘failed’ privatisation reforms in South Korea and China	4
‘We have a great monster in front of us’: Chuj resistances to the systemic monsters and illogics of modernity/coloniality	3
The status and agency of children in school textbooks, 1970–2012: a cross-national analysis	3

The European Universities Initiative: further stratification in the pursuit of European cooperation?	3
Of citizens and strangers: the privilege of being Burman	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
Losing the race before its start: inequities in early childhood development interventions in China	3
School counsellor education in three countries: Australia, Malta and Turkey	3
Toppling statues? Complicity, whiteness and reckoning in comparative and international education	3
Bridging universities and the world: a cross-national analysis of countries’ participation in the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme, 1992–2020	3
Investigating the determinants of private school choice: A fuzzy-AHP analysis	3
Teaching for all? Measuring the quality of inclusive practices across eight countries	3
Educational mobility among women from stigmatized caste groups: A study of high-achieving middle-class Dalit women	3
In memory of Dr Muhammad Arif Naveed (1981–2024): a path of empathy and creative rigour	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
Higher Education internationalisation policy and home student populations	3
Citizenship education within the context of increasing diversity and under the threat of deteriorating democracies: the case of Türkiye	3
‘Intelligence is not just good grades’: re-examining the mindset revolution in Indian classrooms	3
The introduction of the Times Higher Education Japan university rankings and changes in institutional admissions outcomes	3
Curricula for exclusion: interpreting the ideologies and forces underpinning policy developments in relation to the education of children with disabilities	3
Indebted mobilities: Indian youth, migration, and the internationalizing University	3