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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Conflicted epistemologies in secondary school environmental education: implications for sustainable climate action in Uganda	50
Generating and managing legitimacy: how the OECD established its role in monitoring sustainable development goal 4	21
Gender and the navigation of STEM careers in higher education institutions: Narratives of female faculty in post-Soviet Tajikistan	21
Gender inequality in successful completion of higher education: evidence from a longitudinal study in India	21
Revolutions in learning and education from India: pathways towards the pluriverse (Routledge critical development studies series)	19
The importance of trust in education decentralisation in West Africa	19
‘Soon you will go far’: discourse analysis on vocational education policy of Israel	19
Deconstructing deficit in development discourses: young rural women in Northern Nigeria navigating work and education	19
Admission Olympics: the emerging tutoring market for kindergarten applicants	17
Social ties as facilitators of adaptation: the case of Turkish Erasmus sojourners	15
Students’ experiences of extracurricular activities in elite secondary schools in Lahore	15
Teachers’ perspectives on Chinese philosophy and philosophy for children: navigating practical tensions in Chinese school settings	15
Critical comparative geographies of elite schooling: comparing the UK, Canada, and Sweden	15
Towards a typology of internationalisation at home activities in academic disciplines: a study conducted at a Dutch university of applied sciences	13
Generating views from Elsewhere : UIS and the global project of SDG4 indicators	12
What matters more? An investigation of factors influencing student satisfaction in transnational higher education	11
Women’s constructions of successful academic careers in STEM field: empirical evidence from South Africa and Sweden	10
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
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) for global learning in partnership: art-based collaboration for Internationalisation at a Distance	10
Analyzing language of instruction and students’ learning achievements in Zambia: a fixed effects approach using PISA-D data	9
Investigating U.S. and German pre-service teachers’ beliefs regarding digital technology	9
Thailand: sufficiency education and the performance of peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	9
Decolonizing education for sustainable futures	9
The caving in and the crawling out: creating intergenerational vernacular food literacies	9
A different ‘foundational’ learning: the basic education experiment in post-colonial India	9

Teachers in ‘international schools’ as an emerging field of inquiry: a literature review of themes and theoretical developments	9
Germany’s international branch campuses: neoliberalising the Humboldtian university through the backdoor?	8
Demystifying underrepresentation of women leaders in higher education: comparative perspectives on gender-based leadership barriers and gender equality	8
Towards a reconceptualisation of family literacy: exploring religious literacy learning and practices in two communities in Nepal	7
Negotiations, costs, and continuities: analysing the upward educational and social mobility of young men and women of Moroccan descent in Spain	7
Examining educational policies in Latin America: Comprehensive insights into contemporary reform	7
Cross-cultural insights into youth perceptions of climate change: a comparative study between the US and Vietnam	7
Core in ‘peripheral’ Asia? Evolution of transnational degree programmes in Japanese universities from 2007 to 2021	7
Effects of professional learning communities on teacher collaboration, feedback provision, job satisfaction and self-efficacy: Evidence from Korean PISA 2018 data	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
Network failure in Ethiopian education	7
From university to the world of work: education and labour market experiences of women in STEM subjects in Ethiopia	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
Propagation of inequality: an analysis of capability development opportunities of Dalits in higher education on the Indian subcontinent	6
How and why minoritised communities self-organise education: a review study	6
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
Practising what you preach, preaching what you practice:World Bank support for technical and vocational education and training in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees: insights from five refugee groups across three cities of India	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
COVID-19 and online teaching: mainland Chinese students encounter Taiwanese teachers	5
Higher education leadership development in selected ASEAN countries: an exploratory study of challenges and prospects in public higher education institutions	5
Improving girls’ education through student hostels	5
Leading teacher professional learning for system-wide change: the leadership practices of teaching research officers ( jiaoyanyuan ) in China	5
‘You want to be like Neymar?’: connections between football, schooling and the future in eastern Uganda	5
Multilingualism in the Andes, policies, politics, power	5
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
Hidden, scattered and reconstructed: indigenous lifeways, knowledges and intergenerational learning	5
Still ‘the conscience of humanity’? UNESCO’s vision of education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	5
Externalisation and legitimacy in policy transfer: a case of standards for school leaders	5
Peacebuilding Inc.: neoliberal influences on Rwanda’s vulnerable youth	5
Inside the bubble: English as an additional language policy in British international schools	4
The halted neoliberalising of public schools: policy trajectories of two ‘failed’ privatisation reforms in South Korea and China	4
The culture trap: ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for Black youth	4
Educational anthropology and the comparative challenge	4
Are family variables or personal characteristics more important? Based on the evidence among learners in developed and developing countries	4
The uses of affect in literature education: trajectories of nationalism and solidarity in postcolonial Cyprus	4
Negotiating difference, (un)contesting temporalities: education as a site of struggle in Adivasi identities in India	4
Malawian teachers’ agency in using teaching and learning resources: a product of quality teaching, learning resources and teacher education	4
Correction	4
Understanding secondary school students’ agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon	4
Teaching for peace and social justice in Myanmar: identity, agency, and critical pedagogy	4
Learning to live together harmoniously: spiritual perspectives from Indian classrooms	4
Tanzanian pre-primary teachers’ commitment to teaching in the context of unemployment	4
Education, curriculum and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4
Reimagining political concepts in decolonisation debates: Franz Fanon’s zone of nonbeing and comparative education	4
Towards an historical sociology of global citizenship education policy in Australia	4
Localizing transnational norms in Cambodia: cases of ESD and ASEAN citizenship education	3
Indebted mobilities: Indian youth, migration, and the internationalizing University	3

Realising the human development promise in dual VET	3
Higher Education internationalisation policy and home student populations	3
Bridging universities and the world: a cross-national analysis of countries’ participation in the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme, 1992–2020	3
Toppling statues? Complicity, whiteness and reckoning in comparative and international education	3
Curricula for exclusion: interpreting the ideologies and forces underpinning policy developments in relation to the education of children with disabilities	3
Towers of ivory and steel: how Israeli universities deny Palestinian freedom	3
Examining the challenges Chinese university students encounter in upholding academic integrity in research work	3
In memory of Dr Muhammad Arif Naveed (1981–2024): a path of empathy and creative rigour	3
Citizenship education within the context of increasing diversity and under the threat of deteriorating democracies: the case of Türkiye	3
Of citizens and strangers: the privilege of being Burman	3
‘We have a great monster in front of us’: Chuj resistances to the systemic monsters and illogics of modernity/coloniality	3
School counsellor education in three countries: Australia, Malta and Turkey	3
Well-being ASSETS: developing a robust measure of teacher well-being with educators in public and settlement schools in Uganda	3
Precarity and the social mobility nexus for young Roma in vocational education and training	3
Educational mobility among women from stigmatized caste groups: A study of high-achieving middle-class Dalit women	3
Constructed world culture instruments for European Higher Education Area global diffusion	3
Losing the race before its start: inequities in early childhood development interventions in China	3