OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Education Review is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Resonance as an educational response to alienation and acceleration in contemporary society	84
Advertising a school’s merits in Hong Kong: weighing academic performance against students whole-person development	37
The adaptation of Kandel’s ideas in Chinese comparative education, 1920s–1930s	35
Adult educators as lifelong learners in Singapore: factors influencing lifelong learning participation and professional growth	31
Humility and its cultivation in Chinese schools: an exploratory study into teachers’ perspectives	29
A study on the influences of parental involvement on the adaptation of college freshmen	29
Analyzing changes in college students’ career decisions: using LCGA	27
Do peers affect private tutoring engagement in Korea? Evidence from a quasi-experimental approach	26
Ethical dilemmas facing female teachers in the Arab education system in Israel	21
Changes in English education during the pre- and post-Kim Jong Un Eras in North Korea: A comparative textbook analysis	21
“A very small cog in the wheel”: principals’ perceptions of change and continuity in the wake of ESSA reforms	19
Spontaneous Change: Applying Zhuangzi’s Concept of Hua (化) to Global Citizenship	19
Effectiveness of the prediction–observation–explanation strategy on students with mild intellectual disabilities	18
Unfolding the typology and quality of the learner agency practices in the teachers’ implementation of the 2013 curriculum in Indonesia: the normalisation process theory perspective	18
No one left behind in education: blockchain-based transformation and its potential for social inclusion	18
Satisfaction with acquired transferable competences among university students in Cambodia	17
Correction: Romanticizing decolonization and Asian epistemology: reflections on identity and space	17
Measures to motivate teachers in Afghanistan: a proposal	17
The impact of non-agricultural employment of parents on the cognitive abilities of left-behind children in rural areas	16
Examining non-Indigenous teacher perceptions of Indigenous students in Taiwan through a Strategic Relational Approach	15
Practice of leadership competencies by a principal: case study of a public experimental school in Taiwan	15
Distributed leadership and teacher work engagement: the mediating role of teacher efficacy and the moderating role of interpersonal trust	15
Untangling the influence of data literacy and knowledge sharing willingness on academic achievement of college students in China: a moderated mediation model	15
Experienced nursery teachers gaze longer at children during play than do novice teachers: an eye-tracking study	15
Transforming learning for sufficiency economy philosophy and sustainable development through the triangle of living learning lab	14

The impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of preservice teacher education: a scoping review	14
Correction: Transnational juku: Japanese shadow education institutions in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai	12
Family income, non-cognitive skills and academic performance	12
The impact of nonboarding on the development of disadvantaged boarding students in western rural China	12
Governance reform of local university under the “Double World-Class” policy: are there unintended but not unanticipated consequences?	11
Unveiling identities: exploring emotional self-expression and bilingualism through digital storytelling in teacher education	11
Development of instructional design principles for using ICT in resource-limited learning environments: a case of Bangladesh	11
The Parrot’s Training in the pandemic: fallacies in India’s educational response to COVID-19	10
Correction: An Exploration of Korean traditional parenting virtues among Korean-American parents and the impact of the Ottuki parenting program	10
Editorial: What is the next step for APER to become an international journal?	10
What does “Asia–Pacific” mean to APER? Toward high-quality scholarship and inclusive practices in international education	10
Exploring the impact of feedback timing on student performance in online testing	10
Social participation of social organizations in education governance in China	9
Integrating ease of use and affordable gamification-based instruction into a remote learning environment	9
Family structure and children’s academic performance in China: the roles of economic capital, social capital, and cultural capital	9
Association between psychological need satisfaction and online self-regulated learning	9
Relationships among learning organization, resistance to change, job crafting, and innovative work behavior in South Korea: public vs. for-profit sectors	8
Mathematics learning as embodied making: primary students’ investigation of 3D geometry with handheld 3D printing technology	8
Examining dyadic conceptual elaboration regarding different group compositions in online asynchronous discussion	8
Long-term benefits of early childhood education on off-farm employment: evidence from rural China	8
A spirit of service in liberal arts education: the legacy from China’s former Christian universities and the influence of contrasting social contexts	8
Longitudinal trajectories of the career barriers of school dropouts using latent class growth analysis	8
Transformative learning in times of crisis: exploring teachers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Where to study abroad? American college students’ choice of a study abroad destination: pre-college, college and program capital	8
Leading with tough love: relationships between paternalistic leadership, teachers’ emotional labor, and absorption through leader-member exchange	8
The effect of interactive games on English language learners’ reading comprehension and attitudes	8
Fostering collaboration and professionalism: insights from a korean kindergarten teacher learning community	7
The way to sustainability: education for sustainable development in China	7
Inclusive education in Japan and its role in international cooperation: analysis of a project for children with disabilities in Mongolia	7
School and teacher level predictors of organizational loyalty in an era of school reform	7
But yet included: effects of classmates with special needs on elementary school students’ civic-mindedness	7
Inductive and combinatorial reasoning in international educational context: assessment, measurement invariance, and latent mean differences	7
Challenging aspects of Kazakhstan’s trilingual education policy: evidence from a literature review	7
The tensions of general education reform in China	7
Is government funding critical to the operating performance of technology universities? A case study of Taiwan	7
“Why do I risk my professional reputation to do it?” Vietnamese teachers’ motivations and identities in relation to private tutoring	6
Correction to: How intercultural experience affects university students’ gender views: potential for transforming higher education in Japan	6
The relationship of parents’ filial piety beliefs to their children’s filial piety beliefs and mathematics performance	6
Education investment “rat race” in China: how income inequality shapes family investment in shadow education	6
Defining, identifying, and estimating causal effects with the potential outcomes framework: a review for education research	6
Understanding the counterfactual approach to instrumental variables: a practical guide	6
Student- and school-level perceived ICT competence and academic performance in Chinese rural schools: a multilevel analysis	6
Revisiting ‘Asia as method’ in education research: problems and prospects	5
`Walking between the lines’: research evaluation in China beyond COVID-19	5
The influence of education and family systems on the sustainability values of Hong Kong University students	5
An introduction to the difference-in-differences design in education policy research	5
The effects of self-controlled peers on students’ academic performance	5
Exploring the factors that influence academic stress among elementary school students using a LASSO penalty regression model	5
The trajectory of teachers’ multicultural transformation: an analysis of teachers’ beliefs about mathematics as a school subject	5
Agentic citizenship learning in China: official curriculum and student agency	5

Predicting disadvantaged smallholder farmers’ intention to take distance learning: evidence from China	4
Negotiating educational equities: Chinese middle-class parents’ distributive justice claims to school choice reform	4
Quasi-experimental designs for causal inference: an overview	4
Teacher’s views on professional learning and development in primary schools in Fiji	4
“We know who we are”: segmentation and characterization of the academic community toward classified faculty evaluation reform in a Chinese non-research university	4
Asian international graduate students’ experiences with their advisors in Korean higher education	4
A pedagogy of emptiness: a daoist perspective	4
Investigating teachers’ work in Singapore from interviews: An analysis based on Discursive Psychology	4
Environmental Education in the Brazilian Amazon, in Pará State: the meanings of environmental governance	4
Effects of mind mapping-based instruction on student cognitive learning outcomes: a meta-analysis	4
College quality and initial employment: insights from the Japanese labor market	4
University students’ perceptions of remote laboratory courses necessitated by COVID-19: differences in emergent teaching strategies at a Korean university	4
Educational materials in East Asian English-medium higher education settings	4
What deters some immigrants from learning the language of their new home: Factor analysis of immigrants’ deterrents to educational participation in South Korea	4
Creative thinking patterns in primary school students’ hands-on science activities involving robotic as learning tools	4