American Educational Research Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of American Educational Research Journal is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Degrees of Return: Estimating Internal Rates of Return for College Majors Using Quantile Regression39
Do Peers’ Skills Matter for Learning in Preschool Classrooms? Within- and Across-Classroom Differences in the Relationship Between Peers’ Academic Skills and Individual Skill Gains38
Are Homegrown Teachers Who Graduate From Urban Districts More Racially Diverse, More Effective, and Less Likely to Exit Teaching?38
Leading Systemwide Improvement in Elementary Science Education: Managing Dilemmas of Education System Building30
Race, Whiteness, and Student Life in On-Campus Housing: A Case Study of Three Universities30
Editors’ Introduction28
Supporting Syrian Refugee Children’s Academic and Social-Emotional Learning in National Education Systems: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Nonformal Remedial Support and Mindfulness Programs 27
Inequality Beyond Standardized Tests: Trends in Extracurricular Activity Reporting in College Applications Across Race and Class27
Variability in the Grades Teachers Give: Teacher Grade Value-Add, Mismatch, and Long-Term Effects24
Are We Moving the Needle on Racial Disproportionality? Measurement Challenges in Evaluating School Discipline Reform22
The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession: Prestige, Interest, Preparation, and Satisfaction Over the Last Half Century21
Accelerated Postsecondary Pathways: The Longer-Term Impact of the Early College High School Model on Postsecondary Degree Attainment17
Improving Ninth Graders’ Academic Outcomes Through Personalization for Academic and Social-Emotional Learning (PASL)17
“They Don't Feel Like This Is Their Place Anymore:” School Leaders’ Understanding of the Impacts of Gentrification on Schools16
Clinical Teaching Learning Trajectory: Exploring Field Supervisor Written Feedback on Clinical Teacher Pedagogy15
The Mismatch Between World Bank Actions and the Decentralization of Educational Systems in LMICs15
Assessing the Impact of Informational Interventions on Perceptions of School Quality15
Changing Lanes: Relational Dispositions That Fuel Community Science Learning14
The Imposition of Instrumental Research Use: How School and District Practitioners Enact Their State’s Evidence Requirements14
Teacher-Student Race Match and Identification for Discretionary Educational Services13
Creating Thirdspace: Indigenous Learning Lab to Transform a School Discipline System12
Human Rights Violations Through Structural Violence: A Case Study of Human Rights Education in New York City12
Police Stops and School Engagement: Examining Cultural Socialization From Parents and Schools as Protective Factors Among African American Adolescents11
Teaching to Fish: Impacts of a Social Capital Intervention for College Students11
Offer It and They Will Come? An Investigation of the Factors Associated With the Uptake of School-Sponsored Resources11
Disempowering Marketplaces: How School Choice Enrollment Routines Legitimize Educational Inequality10
Do Black and White Students Benefit From Racial Socialization? School Racial Socialization, School Climate, and Youth Academic Performance During Early Adolescence10
(Dis)connection at Work: Racial Isolation, Teachers’ Job Experiences, and Teacher Turnover10
Dually Noted: Examining the Implications of Dual Enrollment Course Structure for Students’ Course and College Enrollment Outcomes10
Black Educators’ Racial Identity Attitudes and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: A Psychological Framework and Survey of Within-Race Diversity9
Performance-Based Compensation Systems and Principal Job Performance9
Do STEM Students Vote?129
“The Business of Teaching and Learning”: Institutionalizing Equity in Educational Organizations Through Continuous Improvement8
Guns, Schools, and Democracy: Adolescents Imagining Social Futures Through Speculative Civic Literacies8
The Role and Influence of Exclusively Online Degree Programs in Higher Education8
The Winds of Changes: How Research Alliances Respond to and Manage Shifting Field-Level Logics7
Defining the “Community” in Community College: A National Overview and Implications for Racial Imbalance in Texas7
Invisible Policy Brokers: The Political Roles of Interpreters in Educational Policy Negotiations With Language Minoritized Mothers7
Gender Segregation in Secondary School Course Choices: Socioeconomic Gradients and the Protective Role of School Gender Culture6
Corrigendum to Do the Effects Persist? An Examination of Long-term Effects After Students Leave Turnaround Schools6
The Promise of Tutoring for PreK–12 Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence6
The Returns to Experience for School Principals6
Restorative for All? Racial Disproportionality and School Discipline Under Restorative Justice6
Teachers Centering Families and Building Rapport During Home Visits6
Paying for School Finance Reforms: How States Raise Revenues to Fund Increases in Elementary-Secondary Education Expenditures6
Polarization, Partisan Sorting, and the Politics of Education6
Linguistic Registers and Citizenship Education: Divergent Approaches to Content, Instruction, Kichwa Use, and State Relationships in Ecuador’s Intercultural Bilingual Education6
Principal Leadership for School-Wide Transformation of Elementary Mathematics Teaching: Why the Principal’s Conception of Teacher Learning Matters5
Assessing Licensure Test Performance and Predictive Validity for Different Teacher Subgroups5
“Our Community Is So Small”: Considering Intraracial Peer Networks in Black Student Adjustment and Belonging at PWIs5
Public School Teacher Contracts and State-Level Reforms: Assessing Changes to Collective Bargaining Restrictiveness Across Three States5
Leveling Up: An Academic Acceleration Policy to Increase Equity in Advanced High School Course Taking5
“Rise Up, Hand in Hand”: Early Childhood Teachers Writing a Liberatory Literacy Pedagogy5
Grandmother Cedar as Educator: Teacher Learning Through Native Knowledges and Sovereignty Curriculum5
Institutional Striving and Gender Equity in Faculty Salaries and Employment4
Do Perceptions of School Climate Improve in High School for Students With Disabilities?4
The Aftermath of Disproportionality Citations: Situating Disability-Race Intersections in Historical, Spatial, and Sociocultural Contexts4
Separate Remains Unequal: Contemporary Segregation and Racial Disparities in School District Revenue4
Assessing the Effect of Project-Based Learning on Science Learning in Elementary Schools4
Improving Low-Performing Schools: A Meta-Analysis of Impact Evaluation Studies4
Reviewer Acknowledgments4
The Impact of a Severe Drought on Girls’ Attendance and Learning4
Reviewer Acknowledgments3
A National Analysis of P–12 Equity Director Role Establishment3
Constructed Pathways: How Multiply-Marginalized Students Navigate Food Insecurity at Selective Universities3
Accountability and (In)Congruence in a No-Excuses School College-Going Culture3
There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch: School Meals, Stigma, and Student Discipline3
Room for Improvement? Mentor Teachers and the Evolution of Teacher Preservice Clinical Evaluations3
Developing “Equity Sense”: Meaning-Making at a Community College3
Investing in the Teacher Workforce: Experimental Evidence on Teachers’ Preferences3
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Volunteer One-on-One Tutoring Model for Early Elementary Reading Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial Replication Study3
The Efficacy of Digital Media Resources in Improving Children’s Ability to Use Informational Text: An Evaluation ofMolly of DenaliFrom PBS KIDS3
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