OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of British Journal of Educational Technology is 40. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Aligning human values and educational technologies with value‐sensitive design	329
Development and validation of an instrument to measure online assessment acceptance in higher education	254
Empowering active learning: A social annotation tool for improving student engagement	251
A learning analytics approach towards understanding collaborative inquiry in a problem‐based learning environment	244
Upgrading financial education by adding Python‐based personalized financial projection: A randomized control trial	146
The impact of an academic counselling learning analytics tool: Evidence from 3 years of use	120
The changing ecologies of international students: Comparing internationalisation at a distance and internationalisation abroad	114
Multimodal learning analytics—In‐between student privacy and encroachment: A systematic review	110
Investigating pedagogical agents' scaffolding of self‐regulated learning in relation to learners' subgoals	104
Viewing tailored nudges is correlated with improved mastery‐based assessment scores	104
Chatbots in tertiary education: Exploring the impact of warm and competent avatars on self‐directed learning	92
Identifying factors influencing study skills engagement and participation for online learners in higher education during COVID‐19	84
The impact of GenAI‐enabled coding hints on students' programming performance and cognitive load in an SRL‐based Python course	84
Issue Information	81
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BJET Editorial Spring 2025: Reporting on AIED research and ethical considerations	77
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For to all those who have, will more be given? Evidence from the adoption of the SELFIE tool for the digital capacity of schools in Spain	73
Large qualitative sample and thematic analysis to redefine student dropout and retention strategy in open online education	69
Fostering low‐achieving students' productive disciplinary engagement through knowledge‐building inquiry and reflective assessment	67
How do students' self‐regulation skills affect learning satisfaction and continuous intention within desktop‐based virtual reality? A structural equation modelling approach	66
A topological exploration of convergence/divergence of human‐mediated and algorithmically mediated pedagogy	64
Students as digital multimodal text designers: A study of resources, affordances, and experiences	60
BJET Editorial 2024: A call for research rigour	58
Beyond hard workout: A multimodal framework for personalised running training with immersive technologies	51

Lessons learned from the student dropout patterns on COVID‐19 pandemic: An analysis supported by machine learning	51
Metacognition meets AI: Empowering reflective writing with large language models	50
COVID‐19 as the tipping point for integrating e‐assessment in higher education practices	50
Comparing video and virtual reality as tools for fostering interest and self‐efficacy in classroom management: Results of a pre‐registered experiment	49
Interactivity and identity impact learners' sense of agency in virtual reality field trips	49
The role of generative AI in collaborative problem‐solving of authentic challenges	47
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The effectiveness of Tier 1 digital interventions for early reading: A meta‐analysis	45
Infusing educational technologies in the heart of the university—A systematic literature review from an organisational perspective	43
Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling	43
Using virtual classroom simulations in a mathematics methods course to develop pre‐service primary mathematics teachers' noticing skills	43
Capturing self‐regulated learning processes in virtual reality: Causal sequencing of multimodal data	42
What is the impact of a multi‐modal pedagogical conversational AI system on parents' concerns about technology use by young children?	41
Teacher support, academic engagement and learning anxiety in online foreign language learning	40