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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	35
Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies	25
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system: A case of a parents’ association (1975–2013)	24
Making economic citizens beyond neoliberalism: Historical trajectories of a banker association’s efforts in economic education	21
The role of affective experiences of language and religion in religious heritage language education	20
Reception education for children and young people from Ukraine: Lessons learned from the Danish context	18
Contesting doxa: The Swedish National Association of the Deaf’s Resistance to School Integration, 1963–1993	16
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	14
Problematisation as possibility: using Foucauldian discourse analysis to study digital educational technologies	14
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	11
The pedagogical relationship lost in translation? Insights from a segregated Ukrainian refugee school in Norway	11
First-Generation Students in the post-pandemic university: Centring students’ experiences in moving towards a more inclusive higher education	11
A careful embrace: Tracing the Europeanisation of Aalborg University, 1980–1994	11
Between past and future: Rethinking European citizenship education (CE) as a tectonic enterprise	10
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education: An analysis of Swedish and Italian policy investigations	10
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	10
Between ideals and realities: Understanding teachers’ concerns about democratic student participation in classroom settings	10
Between socialist past and European future: The Europeanisation of the Humboldt University of Berlin	9
Introduction to Special Issue: “Mapping the Europeanisation of the Universities in the 1980s and 1990s”	9
Becoming a student: Management of transition to higher education among first-generation students’	9
Re-articulating the form of the political: Contemporary education governance in the European Union. Introduction to the Special Issue	8
Transforming language brokering policies at school: Learning from students with transnational biographies	8
A glaring shortage of climate mobility education: A comparative analysis of curricula and textbooks in Finnish and Greek schools	7
Identifying the skills and tasks for English oral communication essential for academic and professional success	7
Framing philanthropy as a driver of improvement: The mediatisation of non-state actors in education governance in Portugal	7

Justification regimes and crisis practices: International educational collaboration amidst pandemic and war	7
So close and yet so far: Comparing the experiences of university non-traditional students before and after the pandemic	7
Educating for anti-complicity: A pedagogical response to political and structural violence	7
Access to higher education during COVID-19: First-generation students in Austria	7
Resisting Europeanisation: Poland’s education policy and its impact on the European Education Area	6
Where multilingualism and transnational education meet	6
Knowledge for sale: The construction of desired knowledge and identities in edu-marketing	6
The value of doctoral education in the intersection of the multiple purposes of higher education	6
Uncertainty as an opportunity: Teacher partnerships in international schools in Poland	6
Entanglement of support and governance in digital curriculum instruments: The case of educational reform in Norway	5
Revaluing and devaluing higher education beyond neoliberalism: Elitist, productivist, and populist policy and rhetoric in a field of conflict	5
Ukrainian distance education in double schooling of displaced children: Transnational educational spaces and family agency	5
More than words: Language scaffolding strategies in Dutch reception classes	5
Predicting educational exclusion: A literature review of risk factors associated with early leaving from education	5
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	5
Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education	5
Teachers and white privilege attitudes: Correlates and consequences for in-service secondary education teachers	4
Contested identities in Europe: Historical insights into the construction of citizenship education from the bottom up	4
Schooling for integration? Reception of refugees in discourse and practice in Swedish rural municipalities 2015–2022	4
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950	4
A matrix of educational policies to support migrant students across Europe	4
The Promise of edu-business: Storytelling and affective subjectivation of edu-preneurs in Finland	4
Educational empowerment and strategic guidance: A critical perspective on regional educational digital transformation	4
Educational stratification and political interest: Longitudinal evidence on track effects and social selectivity in Germany	3
Improving student engagement and achievement in education: What can be learned from successful learning environments in Europe?	3
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	3
Becoming morally equipped: A study of children’s public expressions	3
Introduction: Reconsidering digitalisation in schooling	3
Academic housework in pandemic times: COVID-19 effects on the gendered distribution of academic work in Portugal	3
Inclusive education in the aftermath of the pandemic: Lessons from mainstream and special teachers who ‘escaped the room’	3
European awakening: Discursive Europeanisation and academic embrace of Europe at Lund University, 1985–1995	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
Polygenic scores as bio-social policy instruments: Educational genomics as a source of intervention and governance	3
Policy responses to diversity in early childhood education and care: Setting the agenda and meeting the challenges	3
European colonization and the transmission of the Ewondo language in Cameroon and Abroad: Historical and transnational perspectives	3
Partnerships in the metaverse	3
ChatGPT and the entangled evolution of society, education, and technology: A systems theory perspective	3
Beyond narrow definitions: Quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time	3
Education policy governance and the power of ideas in constructing the new European Education Area	3
A theory of children’s human rights education	3
Colonial figures in metropolitan pedagogy. A layer in the “education for all” model, Denmark 1880s–1930s	3
Can we cross? Exploring the epistemic-linguistic line in an in-service teacher education context	3
Choosing (not) to be a chemistry teacher: Students’ negotiations of science identities at a research-intensive university	2
Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships	2
Designing vocational training policies in an outermost European region: Highlights from a participatory process	2
Subject traditions and the role of digital platforms in upper secondary education: A comparative study	2
Consensus and divergence concerning history teaching in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Interviews with history teachers	2
Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies	2
Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?	2

Processing uncertainty: Exclusionary institutional timescapes of German schools in the context of refugee migration from Ukraine	2
Going digital overnight: mothers′ agency in children′s remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Educate, work, or live? Re-making the spatiotemporality of education through the radical openness of the home	2
The European Union’s governance of teachers and the evolution of a bridging issue field since the mid-2000s	2
A politics of temporality? Anticipatory governance and regimes of historicity in future-oriented education policy	2
Examification: Curricular, temporal, affective, and discursive dimensions of examination’s effects on education	2
Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	2
Creating a culture of interrelations: Europeanisation processes at the University of Valladolid, c. 1982–1988	2
Blameless responsibility: Schooling, selection, and the governance of possibilities	2
Digital infrastructures for education: On sociotechnical entrenchment, pedagogy and the public interest	2
Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’	2
Intersectional approaches to educational research through a gendered lens	2
Inequality in participation in shadow education in mathematics in Europe: An intersectional perspective	2
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe	2
Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	2
Empowering teacher agency in the development of digital competence in primary education: Lessons from the Escol@s Digitais Project	2
Do students’ ICT skills pay off in math performance? Examining the moderating role of countries’ ICT promotive environment	2
Math anxiety, math teaching anxiety, and math attitudes in primary school teachers: A multi-country study	2
Rethinking the use of digital media for sustainability, inclusion and personal well-being	2
Illuminating inequalities in students’ sense of belonging at university from a Bourdieusian perspective	2
Support needs and forms of support for migrant students’ well-being in Polish schools: Teachers’ perspectives	2
Learning outcomes for museum personnel: Qualitative case studies on intersectional community engagement in Malta and Italy	2
After the ‘refugee crisis’ and the Yerevan Communiqué: Nationalism and empire as the not-so-hidden heart of European higher education	2
Absence of education in civil defence education: Nationalising education and its actors and knowledge	1
‘A little one among giants’: First-generation students transitioning to university in Italy, before and beyond the pandemic	1
Navigating uncertainty in times of war: The staff-student partnership in times of crisis	1
Shaping illiberal citizenries: Far-right justifications of educational structures	1
Conclusion: “Mapping the Europeanisation of the Universities in the 1980s and 1990s”	1
Can Erasmus+ mobilities for schools affect teachers? The case of teachers in the Netherlands	1
Citizenship education in postcolonial settings: An exploratory study in the Caribbean Netherlands	1
Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’: Expectations, decision-making and belonging in light of educational choices in Norway	1
Comparative didactics today: Introducing a special issue	1
Europe as opportunity: How Europeanisation changed Ghent University in the 1980s and 1990s	1
Towards models of language supportive pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing and analysing curricula and practice	1
‘Some change of feeling and purpose’: The League of Nations Union, emotions, and world citizenship in Britain, 1919–1939	1
Aiming high: Learning investments in German upper secondary education. Differences between immigrant and non-immigrant youth	1
From global integration to sovereign education: Russia’s policy evolution (1992–2025)	1
Expatriate academic’s embeddedness in host universities: Exploring links, fit, and sacrifices	1
Business as the new doxa in education? An analysis of edu-business events in Finland	1
Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school	1
The principal and inclusive education: Investigating the dynamics of negotiation and resistance in Finnish and Swedish education union journals	1
Which child to which school? How local politicians shape catchment areas, school choice and diversity	1
Europeanisation in Teacher Education: A Comparative Case Study of Teacher Education Policies and Practices, Review essay	1
When EdTech makes us wait: Temporal bordering and inequalities in European classrooms	1
What is teacher education in policy terms? Different imaginaries of the teacher and teacher education in England and France	1
Ethnic stratification in the Spanish education system	1
Junior research groups: A promising format for PhD qualification	1
The habitus of activism: How European students engage with social change	1
Transculturation in Arabic literacy education within and beyond mainstream education in Norway and Sweden	1
Interrogating educational innovation: A scoping review	1
The experience of imposed digitalization of education provision across sectors: Comparative autoethnographic experiences through a Foucauldian lens	1
Change in mathematics education during a time of crisis: Reflections through the lens of complexity constructs	1
Interrogating “the nation” in European online education: Topological forms and movements	1
Civic purposes in teaching: A study among Finnish and German student teachers	1
Relationship between school and parents: A comparative analysis of the legislative framework in five different countries	1
“I Can Do It If I Work Hard”: Perceived Educational Opportunity in the Netherlands’ Tracked System	1
Administrative legacies in policy enactment: The bureaucratization of gender equality in higher education	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 spatially uneven effects of a desegregation education policy	1
Unpacking ableist discourses in Cypriot education policy during the pandemic	1
Informality as a resource: A systems-theoretical take on the open method of coordination in education	1
EduTopics: ECER: A webapp for interactive visualisation and exploration of ECER contributions since 1998	1