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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Admission Olympics: the emerging tutoring market for kindergarten applicants	61
Conflicted epistemologies in secondary school environmental education: implications for sustainable climate action in Uganda	24
Gender inequality in successful completion of higher education: evidence from a longitudinal study in India	23
Gender and the navigation of STEM careers in higher education institutions: Narratives of female faculty in post-Soviet Tajikistan	22
‘Soon you will go far’: discourse analysis on vocational education policy of Israel	21
Deconstructing deficit in development discourses: young rural women in Northern Nigeria navigating work and education	20
The importance of trust in education decentralisation in West Africa	20
Generating and managing legitimacy: how the OECD established its role in monitoring sustainable development goal 4	19
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	19
Critical comparative geographies of elite schooling: comparing the UK, Canada, and Sweden	19
What matters more? An investigation of factors influencing student satisfaction in transnational higher education	17
Students’ experiences of extracurricular activities in elite secondary schools in Lahore	17
Teachers’ perspectives on Chinese philosophy and philosophy for children: navigating practical tensions in Chinese school settings	17
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) for global learning in partnership: art-based collaboration for Internationalisation at a Distance	16
Women’s constructions of successful academic careers in STEM field: empirical evidence from South Africa and Sweden	13
Towards a typology of internationalisation at home activities in academic disciplines: a study conducted at a Dutch university of applied sciences	12
Generating views from Elsewhere : UIS and the global project of SDG4 indicators	12
Decolonizing education for sustainable futures	11
Social ties as facilitators of adaptation: the case of Turkish Erasmus sojourners	11
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
Analyzing language of instruction and students’ learning achievements in Zambia: a fixed effects approach using PISA-D data	10
Thailand: sufficiency education and the performance of peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	10
Effects of professional learning communities on teacher collaboration, feedback provision, job satisfaction and self-efficacy: Evidence from Korean PISA 2018 data	9
The caving in and the crawling out: creating intergenerational vernacular food literacies	9

Demystifying underrepresentation of women leaders in higher education: comparative perspectives on gender-based leadership barriers and gender equality	9
Germany’s international branch campuses: neoliberalising the Humboldtian university through the backdoor?	9
Towards a reconceptualisation of family literacy: exploring religious literacy learning and practices in two communities in Nepal	9
Teachers in ‘international schools’ as an emerging field of inquiry: a literature review of themes and theoretical developments	9
Examining educational policies in Latin America: Comprehensive insights into contemporary reform	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
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
Characterising citizenship education in terms of its emancipatory potential: reflections from Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan	7
Negotiations, costs, and continuities: analysing the upward educational and social mobility of young men and women of Moroccan descent in Spain	7
How and why minoritised communities self-organise education: a review study	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
Understanding educational policy transfer: an analysis of the Japanese influence on China’s vocational education	6
Hidden, scattered and reconstructed: indigenous lifeways, knowledges and intergenerational learning	6
Prefiguring a democratic state: student activism and the National Education Law in Myanmar	6
Higher education leadership development in selected ASEAN countries: an exploratory study of challenges and prospects in public higher education institutions	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	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
Externalisation and legitimacy in policy transfer: a case of standards for school leaders	6
Competing or complementary goals for primary education: social-emotional learning across the Nigerien education system	6
‘You want to be like Neymar?’: connections between football, schooling and the future in eastern Uganda	6
Improving girls’ education through student hostels	6
Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees: insights from five refugee groups across three cities of India	6
Practising what you preach, preaching what you practice:World Bank support for technical and vocational education and training in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Still ‘the conscience of humanity’? UNESCO’s vision of education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	5
Peacebuilding Inc.: neoliberal influences on Rwanda’s vulnerable youth	5
The uses of affect in literature education: trajectories of nationalism and solidarity in postcolonial Cyprus	5
Towards an historical sociology of global citizenship education policy in Australia	5
Teaching for peace and social justice in Myanmar: identity, agency, and critical pedagogy	5
Propagation of inequality: an analysis of capability development opportunities of Dalits in higher education on the Indian subcontinent	5
COVID-19 and online teaching: mainland Chinese students encounter Taiwanese teachers	5
Understanding secondary school students’ agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon	5
Reimagining political concepts in decolonisation debates: Franz Fanon’s zone of nonbeing and comparative education	5
Leading teacher professional learning for system-wide change: the leadership practices of teaching research officers ( jiaoyanyuan ) in China	5
Multilingualism in the Andes, policies, politics, power	5
Inside the bubble: English as an additional language policy in British international schools	5
Are family variables or personal characteristics more important? Based on the evidence among learners in developed and developing countries	5
Negotiating difference, (un)contesting temporalities: education as a site of struggle in Adivasi identities in India	5
Education, curriculum and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4
Tanzanian pre-primary teachers’ commitment to teaching in the context of unemployment	4
Well-being ASSETS: developing a robust measure of teacher well-being with educators in public and settlement schools in Uganda	4
Precarity and the social mobility nexus for young Roma in vocational education and training	4
Indebted mobilities: Indian youth, migration, and the internationalizing University	4
Learning to live together harmoniously: spiritual perspectives from Indian classrooms	4
The culture trap: ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for Black youth	4
The halted neoliberalising of public schools: policy trajectories of two ‘failed’ privatisation reforms in South Korea and China	4
Podcasting comparative and international education: reflecting, reframing, or reorienting the field?	4
Educational anthropology and the comparative challenge	4
Malawian teachers’ agency in using teaching and learning resources: a product of quality teaching, learning resources and teacher education	4

Correction	4
Realising the human development promise in dual VET	4
In memory of Dr Muhammad Arif Naveed (1981–2024): a path of empathy and creative rigour	4