OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Education Review is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparative Education Review: A 2020 Retrospective	70
Front Matter	42
Seventy Years of Reviews in Comparative Education Review: Reflections on the Tradition and New Directions	35
Abstracts in Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian	19
Contributors	18
Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration: Implications for Theory and Practice by Angela M. Banks. New York: Teachers College Press, 2021. 160 pp. US$105.00 (cloth); US$34.95 (paper); US$27	16
Marginalized Learners in International and Regional Test Data: The Extent of Floor Effects	12
Front Matter	10
Local Appropriations of “Readiness” in a Global Era of Schoolification: An Ethnographic Study of Kindergarten Teachers in Israel	9
Explaining the Growth of Private Higher Education Cross-Nationally: A Critical Review of the Literature and Conceptual Synthesis	9
The Political Economy of Education in the Arab World edited by Hicham Alaoui and Robert Springborg. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2021. US$85.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-62637-935-0.	8
Kun Koulu Vapautui Vankilasta (When School Broke Out of Prison)	7
Small Axe, episode 5, “Education” directed by Steve McQueen, produced by Anita Overland and Mike Elliott, and edited by Chris Dickens and Steve McQueen. Turbine Studios, EMU Films, BBC, and Ama	7
Fitting and Misfitting in Higher Education: The Experiences of Disabled Youth in the United Arab Emirates	7
Disability-Inclusive Education, Development, and Dialectics: Complex Cases in Bhutan	7
:Hey You! An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black	6
Introduction	6
Reconceptualizing Violence in International and Comparative Education: Revisiting Galtung’s Framework	6
Education and Repertoires of Care in Migrant Families in Rural China	6
Contributors	5
Front Matter	5
Abstracts in Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian	5
Front Matter	5
Trans-Indigenous Education: Indigeneity, Relationships, and Higher Education	4
The Global Resurgence of Authoritarianism and Its Existential Threats to Education: Implications for Scholarship in Comparative and International Education	4

Visualizing Identity: The Potential of Identity Portraits in Developing Inclusive Teaching Selves in Times of Postconflict Reconciliation	4
:Sandlines, the Story of History	4
How Global Institutions Matter: Education for All and the Rise of Education as a Humanitarian Response	4
Decolonizing Decoloniality: Decentering Art History and Comparative Literature Classrooms outside Europe and the United States	4
A Cross-National Analysis of School Boards’ Roles and Consequences for School Resources and Student Achievement	4
:Leadership from the Middle: The Beating Heart of Educational Transformation	4
Friendship Patterns in Diverse Nigerian Unity Schools	4
Challenging “Dem European Teachings in My African School”: Burna Boy’s Music as Resistance	4
:Shadow Education in Africa: Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Policy Implications	4
An Agenda for Hope: How Education Cultivates and Dashes Hope among Youth in Nairobi and Karachi	4
Education and EdTech during COVID-19: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey during School Closures in China	4
“I Don’t Think It Makes the Difference”: An Intersectional Analysis of How Women Negotiate Gender While Navigating STEM Higher Education in Ethiopia	3
The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures in Earnings and Income across the World	3
George Bereday Award for 2022	3
Assessment of a Practitioner-Derived Framework for Measuring Girl’s Agency in East Africa	3
Shareholder Schools: Racial Capitalism, Policy Borrowing, and Marketized Education Reform in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Contributors	3
Contributors	3
“We Think We’re Far from Conflict, but That’s Not True”: Peace Building and Remembrance through Memory Sites in Colombia	3
Expanding Available Futures: Ideological Contestation in Angola’s Emerging Higher Education Sector	3
“Too Dangerous to Help”: White Supremacy, Coloniality, and Maya Youth	3
Educational Gradient in Occupational Attainment: Does the Stratification of Education Systems Really Matter?	3
Comparative Education Review Guide to Searching for World Literature 2021	3
Cultural Considerations in Defining Classroom Quality: Ghanaian Preschool Teachers’ Agreements and Disagreements with Standards-Based Instruments	3
Recognizing Complexity in Our Changing Contexts: Centering What Matters in Comparative and International Education	2
Against Implications: Ethnographic Witnessing as Research Stance in the Lebanese Conflict Zone	2
:The Evolution of Transnational Education: Pathways, Globalization and Emerging Trends	2
From Capacity Building to Mutual Learning: Reconfiguring Knowledge Hierarchies in Humanitarian Partnerships	2
:Contestations of Citizenship, Education and Democracy in an Era of Global Change, 2023	2
Teachers and the Teaching Profession in Global Education Policy Theory: A Commentary	2
Contributors	2
Crosslinguistic Influence and Second Language Learning by Kevin McManus. New York: Routledge, 2022. 176 pp. £31.49 (e-book). ISBN 978-0-429-34166-3.	2
Abstracts in Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian	2
:Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse	2
:Shadow Education in Myanmar: Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Policy Implications	2
:Dreams of Birds Flying in the Sky	2
Front Matter	2
Atlantics (Atlantique) directed by Mati Diop, produced by Judith Lou Levy and Eve Robin, and edited by Ael Dallier Vega. Les Films du Bal Cinekap, Frakas Productions, Arte France Cinéma, and Ca	2
:Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice	2
The Structures of World Society: Geography, Discourse, and Interorganizational Networks in Global Education, 1900–2018	2
Abstracts in Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian	2
Relationships between Family Socioeconomic Status and Mathematics Achievement in OECD and Non-OECD Countries	1
Are Retained Students Frustrated? A Multilevel Analysis on Grade Retention and Intergroup Tolerance in 17 Countries	1
Toward an Alternative Pedagogical Framework to Learner-Centered Pedagogy: Historically Nurtured and Currently Valued Pedagogies in Tanzania	1
Mixed Methods Research in Comparative and International Education: Philosophical and Methodological Considerations to Enhance Epistemological Pluralism	1
Negotiated Marketization: Public Universities and Higher Education Markets in Peru (1990–2014)	1
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Comparative and International Education in Light of the COVID-19 Emergency: Imagining the Field Anew	1
Collective Belonging or Individual Calling: Language and Ethnic Identity of Minorities in China	1
Abstracts in Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian	1
:Marcher sur l’eau	1

:Valentina	1
:Education Reform Policy at a Japanese Super Global University: Policy Translation, Migration, and Mutation	1
Teacher Training and Textbook Distribution Improve Early Grade Reading: Evidence from Papua and West Papua	1
Secondary School Fee Abolition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Taking Stock of the Evidence	1
Activism and Resistance from the Trenches: Crisscrossing Comparison and Undocumented Migrant Experiences in China and the United States	1
:Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America	1
:Wellbeing and Schooling: Cross Cultural and Cross Disciplinary Perspectives	1
Developmental Losses in Young Children from Preprimary Program Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
:Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State	1
The Rationalization of “Education for All”: The Worldwide Rise of National Assessments, 1960–2011	1
:Emergent Trends in Comparative Education: The Dialectical of the Global and the Local	1
:The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilization?	1
Abstracts in Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian	1
Abstracts in Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian	1
Psalms of Brick and Mortar	1
Renewing Protest and Earth Day at School: Thinking with Recent Texts on Anticolonial Methods and Climate Change Education	1
The “Missing Middle” of Education Service Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	1
:University Autonomy Decline: Causes, Responses, and Implications for Academic Freedom	1
The Return of “One Guideline, One Textbook” Policy: Moral Education Textbook and Teacher Interaction in China	1
Education and Migration edited by Julian Culp and Danielle Zwarthoed. London: Routledge, 2020. 148 pp. US$128.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780367503864.	1
How Indigenous Scholarship Changes the Field: Pluriversal Appreciation, Decolonial Aspirations, and Comparative Indigenous Education	1
Low-Fee Private Schooling and Poverty in Developing Countries by Joanna Härmä. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021. 264 pp. $91.48 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-3500-8825-2.	1
Learning from the Movement for Black Lives: Horizons of Racial Justice for Comparative and International Education	1
(Re)imagining Education through Film	1
Making Sense of Teacher Education in a Globalizing World: The Distinctive Contribution of a Sociocultural Approach	1
The Sower (El Sembrador)	1
:Studying While Black: Race, Education and Emancipation in South African Universities	1