OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Educational Research Journal is 2. 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
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	81
Innovation and risk in an innovative learning environment: A Private Public Partnership in Australia	42
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	33
Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies	31
Educators’ interpretations of children’s belonging across borders: Thinking and talking with an image	28
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system: A case of a parents’ association (1975–2013)	26
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	26
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education: An analysis of Swedish and Italian policy investigations	25
Worlds apart? On Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of education	25
Transforming language brokering policies at school: Learning from students with transnational biographies	23
Becoming a student: Management of transition to higher education among first-generation students’	20
Re-articulating the form of the political: Contemporary education governance in the European Union. Introduction to the Special Issue	18
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	17
Digital teaching as the new normal? Swedish upper secondary teachers’ experiences of emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 crisis	16
Knowledge or competencies? A controversial question in contemporary curriculum debates	15
Building trust, resilient regions, and educational narratives: Municipalities dealing with COVID-19 in border regions of Portugal	15
The value of doctoral education in the intersection of the multiple purposes of higher education	13
Justification regimes and crisis practices: International educational collaboration amidst pandemic and war	13
Educating for anti-complicity: A pedagogical response to political and structural violence	13
The historic importance of degree structure: A comparison of bachelor to master transitions in Norway and Denmark	12
So close and yet so far: Comparing the experiences of university non-traditional students before and after the pandemic	12
Access to higher education during COVID-19: First-generation students in Austria	12
Knowledge for sale: The construction of desired knowledge and identities in edu-marketing	11
Resisting Europeanisation: Poland’s education policy and its impact on the European Education Area	11
Uncertainty as an opportunity: Teacher partnerships in international schools in Poland	11

Home schooling through online teaching in the era of COVID-19: Exploring the role of home-related factors that deepen educational inequalities across European societies	11
Where multilingualism and transnational education meet	10
Teachers in Transition. A Biographical Perspective on Transnational Professionalisation of Internationally Educated Teachers in Germany	10
Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education	10
Governing through consensus? The European Semester, soft power and education governance in the EU	10
Revaluing and devaluing higher education beyond neoliberalism: Elitist, productivist, and populist policy and rhetoric in a field of conflict	9
What is the ‘public’ in public education? Mapping past, present and future educational imaginaries of Europe and beyond	9
Students’ choices and paths in the Bologna degree structure: An introduction to the special issue	9
Learning lessons from the collaborative design of guidance for new build schools	8
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	8
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	8
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950	8
Comparing national identity discourses in history, geography and civic education curricula: The case of France and Ireland	8
Entanglement of support and governance in digital curriculum instruments: The case of educational reform in Norway	8
The Promise of edu-business: Storytelling and affective subjectivation of edu-preneurs in Finland	8
Schooling for integration? Reception of refugees in discourse and practice in Swedish rural municipalities 2015–2022	8
Research discourse in the programme for international student assessment: A critical perspective	7
Can participation in learning abroad mobility support pro-European Union attitudes among youth?	7
Supportive assessment strategies as curriculum events in a performance-oriented classroom context	7
Partnerships in the metaverse	7
The big acceleration in digital education in Italy: The COVID-19 pandemic and the blended-school form	6
The worry conversation: A loosening technology	6
Education policy governance and the power of ideas in constructing the new European Education Area	6
Beyond narrow definitions: Quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time	6
The risks of standardised school building design: Beyond aligning the parts of a learning environment	6
ChatGPT and the entangled evolution of society, education, and technology: A systems theory perspective	6
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	5
Moving to opportunity: Student trajectories in the post-Bologna university system in Denmark	5
Partnerships to tackle the effects of socio-economic inequality on children’s experiences of school	5
Cultures of economic education: Grammar school curricula in a multilingual comparison	5
Relations and locations: New topological spatio-temporalities in education	5
Inclusive education in the aftermath of the pandemic: Lessons from mainstream and special teachers who ‘escaped the room’	5
The instrumentation of public subsidies for private schools: Different regulatory models with concurrent equity implications	5
Troubled schools in troubled times: How COVID-19 affects educational inequalities and what measures can be taken	5
Theorizing the affective regime of “best practice” in education policy	4
Do students’ ICT skills pay off in math performance? Examining the moderating role of countries’ ICT promotive environment	4
Academic housework in pandemic times: COVID-19 effects on the gendered distribution of academic work in Portugal	4
Becoming morally equipped: A study of children’s public expressions	4
The flash of a van: A cartography of a mobile educational initiative in the Claymore district of Sydney	4
European colonization and the transmission of the Ewondo language in Cameroon and Abroad: Historical and transnational perspectives	4
Policy responses to diversity in early childhood education and care: Setting the agenda and meeting the challenges	4
Navigating European education in times of crisis? An analysis of socio-technological architectures and user interfaces of online learning initiatives	4
Pedagogic rights, public education and democracy	3
Editorial special issue ‘Public Pedagogy and Sustainability Challenges’	3
The European Union’s governance of teachers and the evolution of a bridging issue field since the mid-2000s	3
Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	3
Educational achievement disparities between second-generation and non-immigrant students: Do school characteristics account for tracking effects?	3
Inequities in first education policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis in four Central and East European countries	3
Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?	3
Mobility for teacher students or teacher students for mobility? Unravelling policy discourses on international student mobility in the context of teacher education	3

Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships	3
Learning outcomes: The long goodbye: Vocational qualifications in the 21st century	3
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe	3
Renegotiating the public good: Responding to the first wave of COVID-19 in England, Germany and Italy	3
Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’	3
Designing vocational training policies in an outermost European region: Highlights from a participatory process	3
Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	3
Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education	3
International studies of school design – Lessons for Europe on innovation and risk	2
Towards models of language supportive pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing and analysing curricula and practice	2
Change in mathematics education during a time of crisis: Reflections through the lens of complexity constructs	2
After the ‘refugee crisis’ and the Yerevan Communiqué: Nationalism and empire as the not-so-hidden heart of European higher education	2
Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies	2
Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school	2
The experience of imposed digitalization of education provision across sectors: Comparative autoethnographic experiences through a Foucauldian lens	2
Choosing (not) to be a chemistry teacher: Students’ negotiations of science identities at a research-intensive university	2
Education: Forming the Life Course	2
Which child to which school? How local politicians shape catchment areas, school choice and diversity	2
The meanings of ‘child participation’ in international and European policies on children(’s rights): A content analysis	2
Business as the new doxa in education? An analysis of edu-business events in Finland	2
Shaping illiberal citizenries: Far-right justifications of educational structures	2
Inequality in participation in shadow education in mathematics in Europe: An intersectional perspective	2
Interrogating “the nation” in European online education: Topological forms and movements	2