OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Literacy Research is 1. 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
Running Around in the Story: Un/Raveling Compositions of Narrative Play	23
“We Are the Future”: Critical Inquiry and Social Action in the Classroom	22
Global, International, and Transnational Perspectives on Literacy: A Special Issue	16
Éclosions in Literacy Research: Rereading Brandt and Clinton’s “Limits of the Local”	15
Interaction of Socioeconomic Status and Class Relations on Reading	13
Theorizing Literacies as Affective Flows: Attuning to the Otherwise Possibilities of Hip-Hop's “In-the-Red Frequencies”	12
Challenging Autonomous Boundaries in Literacy Education Across the World	10
Teacher and Emergent Bilingual Student Read-Aloud Mediations	10
Religious Metaphor in Media Reporting on the “Science of Reading”	9
Using Asian Americans’ Counternarratives for Social Justice and Equity	8
“I Am a Parrot”: Literacy Ideologies and Rote Learning	8
Squeezed in: Writing Instruction Over Time	7
The Jewish Question(s) and Literacy Practices in Time: An Essay	7
Infusing Taoist Principles into Early Literacy Professional Learning	7
The Longitudinal Pathways Linking SES to Reading Comprehension	7
Small Moves: New Teachers’ Perceptions of Authoritative Discourse	7
Love, Islam, and How Literacy Is Conceptualized	6
Children Translating When Reading Dual-Language Books	6
Early Childhood Teachers’ Emergent Literacy Data Practices	6
Looking Closely to Understand Literacy More Deeply: Exploring Established Literacy Refrains From Unique Vantage Points	6
“Our Voice and Dreams Matter”: Supporting Youths’ Racial Literacy	5
Sustaining Textual Passions: Teaching With Texts Youth Love	5
Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity	5
Race Talk Moves for Racial Literacy in the Elementary Classroom	5
Differences in Reading Motivation Between American and Japanese Students	5

Gateway Moments to Literate Identities	5
Temporal Seeing as Visual Literacy	5
Neoliberal Logics: An Analysis of Texas’s STAAR Exam Writing Prompts	5
How Feeling Supports Students’ Interpretive Discussions About Literature	4
Scaffolding Multimodal Composition With Emergent Bilingual Students	4
Reading Rhetorically: Discussing the Ethics of Narrative Form	4
Nurturing the Literacy Lives of Boys of Color During COVID-19	4
Reading Spanish Prosody: The Role of Word Reading and Syntactic Knowledge	4
Picturebooks as Critical Literacy: Experiences and Perspectives of Translingual Children From Refugee Backgrounds	4
Media, Legislation, and the Science of Reading: Understanding Policy Narratives for a Path to Collaboration	4
Lexical and Sublexical Skills in Children's Literacy	3
Argumentative Writing as an Epistemic Practice in Middle School Science	3
Critical Religious Literacies and Opportunities for Alterity across YA Literature	3
The Monstrous Hospitality of Canonical Text Selections: The Need for a Hospitable Literacy Framework	3
Private Readerly Experiences of Presence: Why They Matter	3
Queer Literacies: Queer Objects, Disorientation, and Sponsors of Literacy	3
Debunking Deficit Ideologies and Recruiting Diverse Students’ Repertoires for Reading and Other Literate Engagements	3
Student-Generated Questions in Literacy Education and Assessment	2
Literacy and Identity Development of Indigenous Rukai Children	2
What Is Islamophobia? Teaching Strategies for Critical Literacy	2
Teen Activism and Civic Participation: A Cross-Case Analysis	2
Black Youth Poetry of 2020 and Reimagined Literacies	2
“I Don’t Feel I’m Capable of More”: Affect, Literacy, Dis/Ability	2
Post-White Excursuses: Distracting from Westerly Desires and Destinations in Critical Religious Literacy	2
Always at the Bottom: Ideologies in Assessment of Emergent Bilinguals	2
African American Language in Children’s Literature	2
Literacy as Bearing Witness: Teachers Expanding Literacy Through Authentic and Hybrid Student Narratives	2
Assessing Diversity: A Case of Black English and Running Records	2
Global Literacies Research Diversity: A Manifesto for Change	1
Leading Literate Lives: Afghan Refugee Children in a First-Asylum Country	1
Himpathy, Herasure, and Down Girl Moves: A Critical Content Analysis of Sexual Assault in Young Adult Literature	1
Dark Persistence: Black College Women's COVID-19 Photo Essays	1
Centering Student Voice in Literacy Research	1
“Bet You Can’t Wait to Get Out”: Complicating Narratives of Leaving in Rural Young Adult Literature	1
These Tellings: Explosive Love as Literacy Research	1
From Haiti to Detroit Through Black Immigrant Languages and Literacies	1
Whose Reality Matters? Children’s Ontologies, Theories of Mind, and Reading	1