OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Educational Research Journal 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system: A case of a parents’ association (1975–2013)	34
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	20
Making economic citizens beyond neoliberalism: Historical trajectories of a banker association’s efforts in economic education	20
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	20
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	20
Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies	15
Reception education for children and young people from Ukraine: Lessons learned from the Danish context	14
Contesting doxa: The Swedish National Association of the Deaf’s Resistance to School Integration, 1963–1993	14
Problematisation as possibility: using Foucauldian discourse analysis to study digital educational technologies	13
The role of affective experiences of language and religion in religious heritage language education	11
First-Generation Students in the post-pandemic university: Centring students’ experiences in moving towards a more inclusive higher education	10
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education: An analysis of Swedish and Italian policy investigations	10
The pedagogical relationship lost in translation? Insights from a segregated Ukrainian refugee school in Norway	9
Transforming language brokering policies at school: Learning from students with transnational biographies	8
Between past and future: Rethinking European citizenship education (CE) as a tectonic enterprise	8
A careful embrace: Tracing the Europeanisation of Aalborg University, 1980–1994	8
A place for Basil Bernstein in the field: How applicable is Basil Bernstein’s theory of codes and social groups as a way of understanding educational inequity in upper secondary education in Iceland d	8
Between ideals and realities: Understanding teachers’ concerns about democratic student participation in classroom settings	8
A glaring shortage of climate mobility education: A comparative analysis of curricula and textbooks in Finnish and Greek schools	8
Becoming a student: Management of transition to higher education among first-generation students’	8
Access to higher education during COVID-19: First-generation students in Austria	7
Introduction to Special Issue: “Mapping the Europeanisation of the Universities in the 1980s and 1990s”	7
So close and yet so far: Comparing the experiences of university non-traditional students before and after the pandemic	7
Between socialist past and European future: The Europeanisation of the Humboldt University of Berlin	7
Educating for anti-complicity: A pedagogical response to political and structural violence	7

Re-articulating the form of the political: Contemporary education governance in the European Union. Introduction to the Special Issue	7
The value of doctoral education in the intersection of the multiple purposes of higher education	5
Justification regimes and crisis practices: International educational collaboration amidst pandemic and war	5
Identifying the skills and tasks for English oral communication essential for academic and professional success	5
Predicting educational exclusion: A literature review of risk factors associated with early leaving from education	5
Where multilingualism and transnational education meet	5
Uncertainty as an opportunity: Teacher partnerships in international schools in Poland	5
Resisting Europeanisation: Poland’s education policy and its impact on the European Education Area	4
Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education	4
A matrix of educational policies to support migrant students across Europe	4
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950	4
Knowledge for sale: The construction of desired knowledge and identities in edu-marketing	4
Revaluing and devaluing higher education beyond neoliberalism: Elitist, productivist, and populist policy and rhetoric in a field of conflict	4
Ukrainian distance education in double schooling of displaced children: Transnational educational spaces and family agency	4
Contested identities in Europe: Historical insights into the construction of citizenship education from the bottom up	4
More than words: Language scaffolding strategies in Dutch reception classes	4
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	4
Teachers and white privilege attitudes: Correlates and consequences for in-service secondary education teachers	4
Educational empowerment and strategic guidance: A critical perspective on regional educational digital transformation	4
A theory of children’s human rights education	3
Partnerships to tackle the effects of socio-economic inequality on children’s experiences of school	3
Research discourse in the programme for international student assessment: A critical perspective	3
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	3
Can we cross? Exploring the epistemic-linguistic line in an in-service teacher education context	3
Education policy governance and the power of ideas in constructing the new European Education Area	3
Policy responses to diversity in early childhood education and care: Setting the agenda and meeting the challenges	3
Colonial figures in metropolitan pedagogy. A layer in the “education for all” model, Denmark 1880s–1930s	3
ChatGPT and the entangled evolution of society, education, and technology: A systems theory perspective	3
Entanglement of support and governance in digital curriculum instruments: The case of educational reform in Norway	3
The Promise of edu-business: Storytelling and affective subjectivation of edu-preneurs in Finland	3
Beyond narrow definitions: Quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time	3
Inclusive education in the aftermath of the pandemic: Lessons from mainstream and special teachers who ‘escaped the room’	3
Polygenic scores as bio-social policy instruments: Educational genomics as a source of intervention and governance	3
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	3
European awakening: Discursive Europeanisation and academic embrace of Europe at Lund University, 1985–1995	3
Schooling for integration? Reception of refugees in discourse and practice in Swedish rural municipalities 2015–2022	3
Partnerships in the metaverse	3
Cultures of economic education: Grammar school curricula in a multilingual comparison	3
Becoming morally equipped: A study of children’s public expressions	3
Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	2
Designing vocational training policies in an outermost European region: Highlights from a participatory process	2
Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	2
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe	2
Inequality in participation in shadow education in mathematics in Europe: An intersectional perspective	2
Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships	2
Blameless responsibility: Schooling, selection, and the governance of possibilities	2
European colonization and the transmission of the Ewondo language in Cameroon and Abroad: Historical and transnational perspectives	2
Creating a culture of interrelations: Europeanisation processes at the University of Valladolid, c. 1982–1988	2
Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’	2
Empowering teacher agency in the development of digital competence in primary education: Lessons from the Escol@s Digitais Project	2

Rethinking the use of digital media for sustainability, inclusion and personal well-being	2
Choosing (not) to be a chemistry teacher: Students’ negotiations of science identities at a research-intensive university	2
Examification: Curricular, temporal, affective, and discursive dimensions of examination’s effects on education	2
Math anxiety, math teaching anxiety, and math attitudes in primary school teachers: A multi-country study	2
Academic housework in pandemic times: COVID-19 effects on the gendered distribution of academic work in Portugal	2
Consensus and divergence concerning history teaching in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Interviews with history teachers	2
The European Union’s governance of teachers and the evolution of a bridging issue field since the mid-2000s	2
Digital infrastructures for education: On sociotechnical entrenchment, pedagogy and the public interest	2
After the ‘refugee crisis’ and the Yerevan Communiqué: Nationalism and empire as the not-so-hidden heart of European higher education	2
A politics of temporality? Anticipatory governance and regimes of historicity in future-oriented education policy	2
Mobility for teacher students or teacher students for mobility? Unravelling policy discourses on international student mobility in the context of teacher education	2
Do students’ ICT skills pay off in math performance? Examining the moderating role of countries’ ICT promotive environment	2
Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?	1
Learning outcomes for museum personnel: Qualitative case studies on intersectional community engagement in Malta and Italy	1
Illuminating inequalities in students’ sense of belonging at university from a Bourdieusian perspective	1
Transculturation in Arabic literacy education within and beyond mainstream education in Norway and Sweden	1
Aiming high: Learning investments in German upper secondary education. Differences between immigrant and non-immigrant youth	1
Stability or change? Social inequality at the transition from bachelor’s to master’s degree programmes in Germany. Empirical evidence from four graduate cohorts	1
The habitus of activism: How European students engage with social change	1
Ethnic stratification in the Spanish education system	1
Navigating uncertainty in times of war: The staff-student partnership in times of crisis	1
Absence of education in civil defence education: Nationalising education and its actors and knowledge	1
Relationship between school and parents: A comparative analysis of the legislative framework in five different countries	1
Towards models of language supportive pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing and analysing curricula and practice	1
Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school	1
Shaping illiberal citizenries: Far-right justifications of educational structures	1
Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies	1
The spatially uneven effects of a desegregation education policy	1
Business as the new doxa in education? An analysis of edu-business events in Finland	1
Citizenship education in postcolonial settings: An exploratory study in the Caribbean Netherlands	1
Unpacking ableist discourses in Cypriot education policy during the pandemic	1
EduTopics: ECER: A webapp for interactive visualisation and exploration of ECER contributions since 1998	1
What is teacher education in policy terms? Different imaginaries of the teacher and teacher education in England and France	1
Can Erasmus+ mobilities for schools affect teachers? The case of teachers in the Netherlands	1
The experience of imposed digitalization of education provision across sectors: Comparative autoethnographic experiences through a Foucauldian lens	1
From global integration to sovereign education: Russia’s policy evolution (1992–2025)	1
Which child to which school? How local politicians shape catchment areas, school choice and diversity	1
Interrogating “the nation” in European online education: Topological forms and movements	1
Processing uncertainty: Exclusionary institutional timescapes of German schools in the context of refugee migration from Ukraine	1
Editorial special issue ‘Public Pedagogy and Sustainability Challenges’	1
Change in mathematics education during a time of crisis: Reflections through the lens of complexity constructs	1
Junior research groups: A promising format for PhD qualification	1
Comparative didactics today: Introducing a special issue	1
‘Some change of feeling and purpose’: The League of Nations Union, emotions, and world citizenship in Britain, 1919–1939	1
When EdTech makes us wait: Temporal bordering and inequalities in European classrooms	1
‘A little one among giants’: First-generation students transitioning to university in Italy, before and beyond the pandemic	1
Europe as opportunity: How Europeanisation changed Ghent University in the 1980s and 1990s	1
Informality as a resource: A systems-theoretical take on the open method of coordination in education	1
The principal and inclusive education: Investigating the dynamics of negotiation and resistance in Finnish and Swedish education union journals	1
Civic purposes in teaching: A study among Finnish and German student teachers	1
Conclusion: “Mapping the Europeanisation of the Universities in the 1980s and 1990s”	1