OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Compare-A Journal of Comparative and International Education is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Conflicted epistemologies in secondary school environmental education: implications for sustainable climate action in Uganda	74
Gender inequality in successful completion of higher education: evidence from a longitudinal study in India	32
‘Soon you will go far’: discourse analysis on vocational education policy of Israel	27
Gender and the navigation of STEM careers in higher education institutions: Narratives of female faculty in post-Soviet Tajikistan	25
Transcending western-centrism and nationalism in education: China and beyond	25
Admission Olympics: the emerging tutoring market for kindergarten applicants	24
The structural conditions and lived experiences of racism in education	23
The importance of trust in education decentralisation in West Africa	22
Deconstructing deficit in development discourses: young rural women in Northern Nigeria navigating work and education	21
Middle-class boys’ schools in England and Japan	21
Generating and managing legitimacy: how the OECD established its role in monitoring sustainable development goal 4	18
Critical comparative geographies of elite schooling: comparing the UK, Canada, and Sweden	17
Women’s constructions of successful academic careers in STEM field: empirical evidence from South Africa and Sweden	17
What matters more? An investigation of factors influencing student satisfaction in transnational higher education	15
Students’ experiences of extracurricular activities in elite secondary schools in Lahore	13
Towards a typology of internationalisation at home activities in academic disciplines: a study conducted at a Dutch university of applied sciences	13
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	12
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) for global learning in partnership: art-based collaboration for Internationalisation at a Distance	12
Social ties as facilitators of adaptation: the case of Turkish Erasmus sojourners	12
Generating views from Elsewhere : UIS and the global project of SDG4 indicators	12
Analyzing language of instruction and students’ learning achievements in Zambia: a fixed effects approach using PISA-D data	11
Teachers’ perspectives on Chinese philosophy and philosophy for children: navigating practical tensions in Chinese school settings	11
The double whammy of schooling–tutoring inequalities: hierarchical access and provisioning of private tutoring in India	11
The caving in and the crawling out: creating intergenerational vernacular food literacies	10
Germany’s international branch campuses: neoliberalising the Humboldtian university through the backdoor?	10

Investigating U.S. and German pre-service teachers’ beliefs regarding digital technology	10
Decolonizing education for sustainable futures	10
Teachers in ‘international schools’ as an emerging field of inquiry: a literature review of themes and theoretical developments	9
A different ‘foundational’ learning: the basic education experiment in post-colonial India	9
Demystifying underrepresentation of women leaders in higher education: comparative perspectives on gender-based leadership barriers and gender equality	9
Thailand: sufficiency education and the performance of peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	9
Teaching controversial issues in politically challenging times	9
Characterising citizenship education in terms of its emancipatory potential: reflections from Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan	8
Examining educational policies in Latin America: Comprehensive insights into contemporary reform	8
Cross-cultural insights into youth perceptions of climate change: a comparative study between the US and Vietnam	8
Towards a reconceptualisation of family literacy: exploring religious literacy learning and practices in two communities in Nepal	8
Core in ‘peripheral’ Asia? Evolution of transnational degree programmes in Japanese universities from 2007 to 2021	8
Transcending Western-centrism and nationalism in Education: China and beyond	8
Rural transitions to higher education in South Africa: decolonial perspectives Rural transitions to higher education in South Africa: decolonial perspectives , by S. Tim	8
‘I only belonged after I left’: affective delays and the unfinished pedagogies of short-term mobility in Southeast Asia	8
The Bloomsbury handbook of theory in comparative and international education The Bloomsbury handbook of theory in comparative and international education , by Tavis D. J	7
A critical anthropology of childhood in Haiti: emotion, power, and white saviors	7
Propagation of inequality: an analysis of capability development opportunities of Dalits in higher education on the Indian subcontinent	7
Network failure in Ethiopian education	7
Improving girls’ education through student hostels	7
Higher education leadership development in selected ASEAN countries: an exploratory study of challenges and prospects in public higher education institutions	7
Negotiations, costs, and continuities: analysing the upward educational and social mobility of young men and women of Moroccan descent in Spain	7
Still ‘the conscience of humanity’? UNESCO’s vision of education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	6
Hidden, scattered and reconstructed: indigenous lifeways, knowledges and intergenerational learning	6
Global perspectives on student affairs: competing institutional logics in massified higher education systems	6
Externalisation and legitimacy in policy transfer: a case of standards for school leaders	6
Leading teacher professional learning for system-wide change: the leadership practices of teaching research officers ( jiaoyanyuan ) in China	6
Prefiguring a democratic state: student activism and the National Education Law in Myanmar	6
Understanding educational policy transfer: an analysis of the Japanese influence on China’s vocational education	6
Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees: insights from five refugee groups across three cities of India	6
Does between-school tracking increase school segregation among migrant students? A difference-in-differences and multiverse analysis of international large-scale assessment data	6
Competing or complementary goals for primary education: social-emotional learning across the Nigerien education system	6
Learning to live together harmoniously: spiritual perspectives from Indian classrooms	5
Teaching for peace and social justice in Myanmar: identity, agency, and critical pedagogy	5
‘You want to be like Neymar?’: connections between football, schooling and the future in eastern Uganda	5
Peacebuilding Inc.: neoliberal influences on Rwanda’s vulnerable youth	5
Are family variables or personal characteristics more important? Based on the evidence among learners in developed and developing countries	5
Towards an historical sociology of global citizenship education policy in Australia	5
Malawian teachers’ agency in using teaching and learning resources: a product of quality teaching, learning resources and teacher education	5
From university to the world of work: education and labour market experiences of women in STEM subjects in Ethiopia	5
COVID-19 and online teaching: mainland Chinese students encounter Taiwanese teachers	5
The uses of affect in literature education: trajectories of nationalism and solidarity in postcolonial Cyprus	5
The time inheritors: how time inequalities shape higher education mobility in China	5
Reimagining political concepts in decolonisation debates: Franz Fanon’s zone of nonbeing and comparative education	5
Multilingualism in the Andes, policies, politics, power	5
Understanding secondary school students’ agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon	5
Inside the bubble: English as an additional language policy in British international schools	5
Haunted by the centre, animated by the pluriverse: rethinking comparative education from within	4
Well-being ASSETS: developing a robust measure of teacher well-being with educators in public and settlement schools in Uganda	4
Podcasting comparative and international education: reflecting, reframing, or reorienting the field?	4

In memory of Dr Muhammad Arif Naveed (1981–2024): a path of empathy and creative rigour	4
The culture trap: ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for Black youth	4
Correction	4
Realising the human development promise in dual VET	4
Indebted mobilities: Indian youth, migration, and the internationalizing University	4
The halted neoliberalising of public schools: policy trajectories of two ‘failed’ privatisation reforms in South Korea and China	4
Education, curriculum and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4
Negotiating difference, (un)contesting temporalities: education as a site of struggle in Adivasi identities in India	4
Precarity and the social mobility nexus for young Roma in vocational education and training	4
Educational anthropology and the comparative challenge	4