OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Educational Change is 6. 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
External facilitators’ practical work for school improvement: de-professionalising or developing improvement capacity?	54
Co-creation and decision-making with students about teaching and learning: a systematic literature review	31
Layering and institutional change: framework plan revision in Norwegian early childhood education and care	22
How are we measuring domains that influence teacher readiness for change? A scoping review of existing instruments in non-tertiary settings	22
Re-setting special education for justice: An essay on the logics and infrastructure enabling deep change in the COVID-19-era	22
Educators, epistemic reflexivity and post-truth conditions	21
Promoting student voice by involving vocational education students and staff in citizenship education development: a participatory action research study	19
Early career teachers’ beliefs and management of work intensification in Norway and Spain	18
The ebbs and flows of equity work amongst organizational shocks and crises	17
Teachers’ perceived opportunity to contribute to school culture transformation	16
Adapting routines in schools when facing challenging situations: Extending previous theories on routines by considering theories on self-regulated and collectively regulated learning	14
An interrogation of the “learning gaps” discourse: Insights from Korean teachers in Confucian-influenced education	13
Resituating place within learning in schools as COVID-19 response	13
“Are we making a quilt, with lots of ill-fitting cloths in here?”: Teachers’ internal conversations on curriculum making	12
A mixed methods study of education researchers’ knowledge mobilization approaches	10
Weaving and stacking: How school districts craft coherence towards continuous improvement	10
Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems	9
“I knew it was a problem before, but did I really?”: Engaging teachers in data use for equity	9
Education systems change: cultural beliefs and practices that support and inhibit deep learning in Vietnam	9
Team emotion matters: exploring teacher collaboration dynamics over time	8
From accountability to shared responsibility: A case study of a multi-layered educational change initiative	8
Getting in, getting rooted, and spread: An actor network analysis of the spread of an educational innovation in Finland and the United States	8
Coach and teacher alignment in the context of educational change	7
Cascading webs of interdependence: Examining how and when coordinated change happens in a district central office partnership	7
School improvement at the next level of work: the struggle for collective agency in a school facing adversity	6

How teachers’ student voice practices affect student engagement and achievement: exploring choice, receptivity, and responsiveness to student voice as moderators	6
"It has to do with timing and context”: Theoretical models as tools in formative interventions in research-practice partnerships	6
Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the grammar of schools in project-based learning contexts	6
Coaching for equity-oriented continuous improvement: Facilitating change	6
From language of enemy to language of opportunity: Understanding teacher resistance to curriculum change in English language teaching and learning in Kyrgyzstan	6
Examining boundaries in a large-scale educational research-practice partnership	6