OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Education Review is 5. 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
Advertising a school’s merits in Hong Kong: weighing academic performance against students whole-person development	36
The shared desire for third places on campus in Japan: a study of Japanese and American university undergraduate students with experience studying in both countries	35
Analyzing changes in college students’ career decisions: using LCGA	33
Adult educators as lifelong learners in Singapore: factors influencing lifelong learning participation and professional growth	29
The adaptation of Kandel’s ideas in Chinese comparative education, 1920s–1930s	29
A study on the influences of parental involvement on the adaptation of college freshmen	26
Humility and its cultivation in Chinese schools: an exploratory study into teachers’ perspectives	25
Resonance as an educational response to alienation and acceleration in contemporary society	25
Satisfaction with acquired transferable competences among university students in Cambodia	25
Untangling the influence of data literacy and knowledge sharing willingness on academic achievement of college students in China: a moderated mediation model	24
Peace education research in East Asia, 2020–2025: key works published in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean	24
The impact of non-agricultural employment of parents on the cognitive abilities of left-behind children in rural areas	24
Measures to motivate teachers in Afghanistan: a proposal	24
Effectiveness of the prediction–observation–explanation strategy on students with mild intellectual disabilities	23
Examining non-Indigenous teacher perceptions of Indigenous students in Taiwan through a Strategic Relational Approach	22
Correction: Romanticizing decolonization and Asian epistemology: reflections on identity and space	21
Social justice and multiculturalism in Asia–Pacific education: seeking contextualized theories and practices	20
Spontaneous Change: Applying Zhuangzi’s Concept of Hua (化) to Global Citizenship	19
Disability counseling competencies: the influence of training and ınter-group contact	19
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	19
Distributed leadership and teacher work engagement: the mediating role of teacher efficacy and the moderating role of interpersonal trust	18
“A very small cog in the wheel”: principals’ perceptions of change and continuity in the wake of ESSA reforms	18
Using ChatGPT as a virtual client in counseling training: counselors‑in‑training’s perceptions across counseling self‑efficacy levels	17
Changes in English education during the pre- and post-Kim Jong Un Eras in North Korea: A comparative textbook analysis	17
Unveiling identities: exploring emotional self-expression and bilingualism through digital storytelling in teacher education	17

Ethical dilemmas facing female teachers in the Arab education system in Israel	17
Anchoring and resilience: reconceptualizing the adaptation mechanisms of first-generation college students in Chinese elite universities	16
Practice of leadership competencies by a principal: case study of a public experimental school in Taiwan	16
Development of instructional design principles for using ICT in resource-limited learning environments: a case of Bangladesh	16
Correction: Transnational juku: Japanese shadow education institutions in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai	16
Experienced nursery teachers gaze longer at children during play than do novice teachers: an eye-tracking study	15
Navigating formative assessment literacy in a performative system: a qualitative study of Chinese K–12 teachers	15
“Two Sides of the Coin”: International faculty members’ career development challenges and dilemmas in research focused universities in South Korea	15
Family income, non-cognitive skills and academic performance	14
Correction: An Exploration of Korean traditional parenting virtues among Korean-American parents and the impact of the Ottuki parenting program	14
The impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of preservice teacher education: a scoping review	14
Transforming learning for sufficiency economy philosophy and sustainable development through the triangle of living learning lab	14
A spirit of service in liberal arts education: the legacy from China’s former Christian universities and the influence of contrasting social contexts	13
Governance reform of local university under the “Double World-Class” policy: are there unintended but not unanticipated consequences?	13
Editorial: What is the next step for APER to become an international journal?	13
Exploring the impact of feedback timing on student performance in online testing	12
What does “Asia–Pacific” mean to APER? Toward high-quality scholarship and inclusive practices in international education	12
Leading with tough love: relationships between paternalistic leadership, teachers’ emotional labor, and absorption through leader-member exchange	11
#YouAreWelcomeHere? The two faces of American higher education toward Chinese international students	11
Association between psychological need satisfaction and online self-regulated learning	11
Family structure and children’s academic performance in China: the roles of economic capital, social capital, and cultural capital	10
Social participation of social organizations in education governance in China	10
Integrating ease of use and affordable gamification-based instruction into a remote learning environment	10
Longitudinal trajectories of the career barriers of school dropouts using latent class growth analysis	10
The effect of interactive games on English language learners’ reading comprehension and attitudes	9
Transformative learning in times of crisis: exploring teachers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Where to study abroad? American college students’ choice of a study abroad destination: pre-college, college and program capital	9
Timeless bonds amidst change: exploring teacher identity formation across various eras in South Korea	9
The way to sustainability: education for sustainable development in China	9
But yet included: effects of classmates with special needs on elementary school students’ civic-mindedness	9
Fostering collaboration and professionalism: insights from a korean kindergarten teacher learning community	9
Long-term benefits of early childhood education on off-farm employment: evidence from rural China	9
Challenging aspects of Kazakhstan’s trilingual education policy: evidence from a literature review	8
Agentic citizenship learning in China: official curriculum and student agency	8
A bibliometric analysis of international student mobility research in Asia: developments, research gaps and future directions	8
Relationships among learning organization, resistance to change, job crafting, and innovative work behavior in South Korea: public vs. for-profit sectors	8
Correction to: How intercultural experience affects university students’ gender views: potential for transforming higher education in Japan	8
Inclusive education in Japan and its role in international cooperation: analysis of a project for children with disabilities in Mongolia	8
School and teacher level predictors of organizational loyalty in an era of school reform	8
Understanding the counterfactual approach to instrumental variables: a practical guide	8
Student- and school-level perceived ICT competence and academic performance in Chinese rural schools: a multilevel analysis	7
The relationship of parents’ filial piety beliefs to their children’s filial piety beliefs and mathematics performance	7
AI chatbot design principles to enhance the collective efficacy in collaborative learning	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	7
Revisiting ‘Asia as method’ in education research: problems and prospects	7
Working conditions in rural schools: an exploration of teachers’ experiences in Northern Sindh, Pakistan	7
An introduction to the difference-in-differences design in education policy research	7
The influence of education and family systems on the sustainability values of Hong Kong University students	7
Comparing cultures of school leadership effectiveness: rural leadership behaviors between China and the U.S.	6

The trajectory of teachers’ multicultural transformation: an analysis of teachers’ beliefs about mathematics as a school subject	6
The role of student–teacher college practicum experience on teaching self-efficacy, belief in the profession, and intention to teach in Kazakhstan	6
Environmental Education in the Brazilian Amazon, in Pará State: the meanings of environmental governance	6
Defining, identifying, and estimating causal effects with the potential outcomes framework: a review for education research	6
Education investment “rat race” in China: how income inequality shapes family investment in shadow education	6
What organizational supports matter in scholar development? An investigation of early career academics’ experiences in China	6
`Walking between the lines’: research evaluation in China beyond COVID-19	6
Exploring the factors that influence academic stress among elementary school students using a LASSO penalty regression model	6
Educational materials in East Asian English-medium higher education settings	6
What deters some immigrants from learning the language of their new home: Factor analysis of immigrants’ deterrents to educational participation in South Korea	6
Teacher’s views on professional learning and development in primary schools in Fiji	6
Scoping review of kindergarten research involving the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) in Mainland China	5
A pedagogy of emptiness: a daoist perspective	5
Predicting disadvantaged smallholder farmers’ intention to take distance learning: evidence from China	5
Asian international graduate students’ experiences with their advisors in Korean higher education	5
Negotiating educational equities: Chinese middle-class parents’ distributive justice claims to school choice reform	5
Teacher and student led curriculum development: ainu indigenous education in Japan	5
Creative thinking patterns in primary school students’ hands-on science activities involving robotic as learning tools	5
Exploring the relationship between school-based management and school climate using PISA data	5
A narrative exploration of agency in the education-migration nexus	5
Exploring means–ends decoupling in the tenure track system of China’s “Double First-Class” universities: an institutional logics perspective	5
Introduction to causal graphs for education researchers	5
Quasi-experimental designs for causal inference: an overview	5
Exploring the relationship between sustainability and human rights: ecological transition education and its relevance to students’ human rights in South Korean education	5
Effects of interventions using graphic organizer in Korea: a meta-analysis	5
Tension and adaptation under the indicator-based governance: how the Chinese double first-class initiative reshapes the governance logic of local universities	5
Understanding professional vulnerability in the context of quality-oriented education system: experiences of homeroom teachers in mainland China	5
The instrumentalism of South-South academic mobility: deconstructing Chinese faculty members’ decision-making of pursuing doctoral degrees in ASEAN	5
The effects of self-controlled peers on students’ academic performance	5
College quality and initial employment: insights from the Japanese labor market	5
Mobilising parental capital for integration: new immigrant parents’ strategies to facilitate 1.5- and second-generation immigrant children’s academic and socio-cultural integration in Singapore	5
University students’ perceptions of remote laboratory courses necessitated by COVID-19: differences in emergent teaching strategies at a Korean university	5
Integrative approaches to compassion education: bridging scientific and philosophical perspectives	5