OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Educational Studies 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Role of Metaphor and Symbol in Motivating Primary School Children	25
EDITORIAL: Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education: Trajectories, Threats and Transformations	17
Feeling at Home in the Classroom? Pedagogy, Community and the Social Class Background of Teachers in Rural Schools	17
‘A Court in a Glass Box a Thousand Kilometres Away’: Judicial Pedagogies of Language in the European Court of Human Rights	16
Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research: Considering Challenges and Risks in Practice	15
The Double-Coded Self in Higher Education: Student Self-Formation and Social Sustainability	15
Babygirl, You’ve Got This! Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Educational System	15
THE ORIGINS OF INTELLIGENCE TESTING, 1860-1920	14
UNDERSTANDING THE UNSETTLED EVIDENCE OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SELECTIVE EDUCATION IN THE VALUE-ADDED APPROACH	13
Schools, Space and Culinary Capital	13
Policy Mortality and UK Government Education Policy for Schools in England	12
The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge	11
British Educators Preventing Terrorism Through ‘Safeguarding’ the ‘Vulnerable’	10
STUDENT EXCHANGE AND BRITISH GOVERNMENT POLICY: UK STUDENTS’ STUDY ABROAD 1955-1978	8
Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives . Edited by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Linda Fishe	8
PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS, VIRAL MODERNITY AND THE PROBLEM OF TRUTH	8
Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education	8
Using Pedagogies of Emergence to Cultivate Well-Being in Students	8
THE INTEGRITY OF EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES	7
Nurturing Wellbeing in Academia: How to Prioritise Your Mental Health	7
DIASPORA, ETHNIC INTERNATIONALISM AND HIGHER EDUCATION INTERNATIONALISATION: THE KOREAN AND JEWISH CASES AS STATELESS NATIONS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY	6
EXTENDED BOOK REVIEW: HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE MERITOCRACY-DEMOCRACY TENSION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES AND JAPAN	6
Factors Associated with Students’ Psychological Distress: The Roles of Creativity, Cognitive Flexibility, and Educational (Anti)mattering	6
A Learning Community of Reflective Teachers: From Whispers to Resonance	6
Supporting Young Children’s Exploration of Mathematical Concepts: Co-teachers’ Involvement in Joint Play	6

Critical research and theorizing: a collection of essays from the critical pedagogy networker. 1988-2002	5
EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING: SHORT-TERM PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF COVID-19 ON BRITISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS	5
Reconsidering Reparations	5
The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience: Stories from the Field	5
Meeting the challenges of existential threats through educational innovation: a proposal for an expanded curriculum	5
Adapting approaches and methods to teaching English online theory and practice	4
Striving to Be Super: The Contradictions of Academic Success in High-Achieving, Working-Class Girls’ Pathways to High-Tariff Universities	4
Keywords in Education Policy Research: A Conceptual Toolbox	4
Philosophies of Catholic Education: Linking Neo-Scholastic Legacies and Contemporary Concerns	4
The Affective Dimensions of Militarism in Schools: Methodological, Ethical and Political Implications	4
Outsourcing Trouble: A Home International Comparison of Alternative Provision Across the UK	4
International Schooling: Privilege and Power in Globalised Societies	4
Values, Relationships and Engagement in Quaker Education: Student Perspectives on Inclusive School Cultures	4
EDITORIAL	3
South Asian Postgraduate International Students’ Employability Barriers: A Qualitative Study from Australia and the United Kingdom	3
Schooling for Refugee Children: A Social Justice Perspective Informed by Children from Syria	3
COPING WITH COVID; UNDERSTANDING AND MITIGATING DISADVANTAGES EXPERIENCED BY FIRST GENERATION SCHOLARS STUDYING ONLINE	3
A Critical Encounter: Jean Floud’s Appraisal of Karl Mannheim	3
Plato’s dialogues to enhance learning and inquiry: exploring Socrates’ use of protreptic for student engagement	3
The Necessity of Trust: Young Men from Low Socio-Economic Backgrounds Reflecting on What Counts in Career Counselling at the Secondary Level	3
Long-Term Mental Health Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on University Students in the UK: A Longitudinal Analysis Over 12 Months	3
Wellbeing and Schooling: Cross Cultural and Cross Disciplinary Perspectives	3
Retuning Education: Bildung and Exemplarity Beyond the Logic of Progress	3
A ‘SHADOW EDUCATION’ TIMESCAPE: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE TEMPORAL ARRANGEMENTS OF PRIVATE TUTORING VIS-À-VIS FORMAL SCHOOLING IN INDIA	3
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Policy Discourses and the Illusion of Best Practice	3
Fearing the ‘Clipboard Police’: Exploring How Marginalised Schools Experience Ofsted Inspections in an Era of Precarity	2
OBITUARY PROFESSOR RICHARD PRING (1938–2024)	2
Without School: Education as Common(ing) Activities in Local Social Infrastructures – An Escape from Extinction Ethics	2
JUSTIFYING UNIVERSITIES: CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE IN POLITICAL FORMS OF WORTH IN THE UK	2
The Philosophical Limitations of Educational Assessment: Implications for Academic Selection	2
EDITORIAL	2
REINING IN THE INTERNATIONAL: HOW STATE AND SOCIETY LOCALISED INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLING IN CHINA	2
Coping with National Language Policy Shift: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Parents in an Irish County Town	2
CHINESE UNIVERSITY STUDENT VOLUNTEERING FOR SCHOOLS IN DISTANT LOCATIONS	2
THE POET AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: TONY HARRISON’S WAR POETRY	2
Virtue and the Art of Teaching Art	2
Refiguring universities in an age of neoliberalism: creating compassionate campuses	2