OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Educational Researcher 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Principals’ Priorities, Teacher Evaluation, and Instructional Leadership	114
Examining Power Through Practice in Continuous Improvement in Education	107
The Stability of Families’ Revealed Preferences for Schools	93
Incentivizing Retirement: An Analysis of Cash Retirement Incentives for Chicago Teachers	90
Effectiveness Research for Teacher Education	85
Effects of an Infant/Toddler Intervention at 1-Year Follow-Up: Sustained Impacts to Preschool Entry	76
The Need for Educational Research Engagement With Courts, Public Policy, and Practice in a Post-Dobbs Era	75
Deurbanization and the Struggle to Sustain a Black Teaching Corps: Evidence From Michigan	66
“You Need to Be More Responsible”: The Myth of Meritocracy and Teachers’ Accounts of Homework Inequalities	64
Students With Growth Mindset Learn More in School: Evidence From California’s CORE School Districts	64
An Overlooked Explanation for Increasing Suicidality: LGBQ Stressors Felt by More Students	53
Redrawing Attendance Boundaries to Promote Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Elementary Schools	50
How Do U.S. Colleges and Universities Help Students Address Basic Needs? A National Inventory of Resources for Food and Housing Insecurity	46
Reviewer Acknowledgments	42
Bridging Educational Change and Social Justice: A Call to the Field	41
A National Study Exploring Factors Promoting Adolescent College Readiness in Math and Science (STEM-CR)	40
Still Climbing the Hill: Intersectional Reflections on Brown and Beyond	34
Specifying Hybrid Models of Teachers’ Work During COVID-19	32
School Inclusion of Refugee Students: Recent Trends From International Data	32
Exploring Deficit Beliefs Among High School Math Teachers	28
There’s No Way for This to End Well: Lesson Planning, Neoliberalism, and Whiteness	28
16th Annual AERA Brown Lecture in Education Research “A Shade Less Offensive”: School Integration as Radical Inclusion in the Pursuit of Educational Equity	27
Anti-Blackness and Attendance Policy Implementation: Evidence From a Midwestern School District	26
Foregrounding the “Home” in Student Homelessness: Residential Context and Educational Outcomes in an Urban District	26
Meal Vouchers Matter for Academic Attainment: A Community College Field Experiment	23

A Vision for the Future of Learning	22
The (In)Consistency of Teacher Survey Responses About Teacher Evaluation Implementation: Implications for Principal Professional Development	22
Attributes of Rigorous Grounded Theory Research and Reporting: Illustrations From a Grounded Theory of Adolescent Creativity	21
Publicwashing in Education: Definition, Motives, and Manifestations	21
Teaching and Learning for Mutual Respect: A Framework for Disrupting Pervasive Power Asymmetries	21
The Three R’s of Teacher Pension Funding: Redistribution, Return, and Risk	21
A Call for a Humanistic Stance Toward K–12 Data Science Education	20
Moving Through the Pipeline: Ethnic and Linguistic Disparities in Special Education from Birth Through Age Five	20
STEM Pathways of Rural and Small-Town Students: Opportunities to Learn, Aspirations, Preparation, and College Enrollment	20
Transitional Kindergarten: The New Kid on the Early Learning Block	20
Promoting Knowledge Accumulation About Intervention Effects: Exploring Strategies for Standardizing Statistical Approaches and Effect Size Reporting	19
Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Inclusion as Intersubjective Experiences	19
Critiquing Racial Literacy: Presenting a Continuum of Racial Literacies	18
Sorting Machines: Digital Technology and Categorical Inequality in Education	15
The Widening Achievement Gap Between Rich and Poor in a Nordic Country	15
Antiblackness as Global Aspiration? Centering Black Studies in Global Higher Education Research	14
A Call for Data on the Principal Pipeline	14
Fostering, Tailoring, Negotiating: The Complexities of Collaborative Coaching in Schools Under Pressure to Improve	14
Understanding Heterogeneous Patterns of Family Engagement With Educational Technology to Inform School-Family Communication in Linguistically Diverse Communities	14
Service Delivery Models: Impacts for Students With and Without Disabilities	14
Out-of-Class High School Experiences and Students’ College Aspirations	14
The Effect of Right to Work Laws on Union Membership and School Resources: Evidence from 1942–2017	13
Editors’ Introduction: Toward Trans Studies in K–12 Education	12
Shared Responsibility for Multilingual Learners Across Levels of the Education System	12
A Latent Class Analysis of Racial Terminology in Education Research: Patterns of Racial Classifications in AERA Journals	12
Improving Science Achievement—Is It Possible? Evaluating the Efficacy of a High School Chemistry and Physics Project-Based Learning Intervention	12
The Imperative for Social Foundations Revisited: A Technical Comment on Warren and Venzant Chambers (2020)	11
Vertical Scales, Deceleration, and Empirical Benchmarks for Growth	11
Scrutinizing the Neoliberal Agenda in Teacher Education	11
The Feasibility and Comparability of Using Artificial Intelligence for Qualitative Data Analysis in Equity-Focused Research	11
Transportation Inequities and School Choice: How Car, Public Transit, and School Bus Access Affect Families’ Options	11
Classroom Concentration of English Learners and Their Reading Growth	11
Situating Teacher Movement, Space, and Relationships to Pedagogy: A Visual Method and Framework	10
For What and for Whom? Expanding the Role of Research Syntheses for Diverse Stakeholders	10
2022 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture Education Reform, Past and Present: Asking Equity Questions and Looking for Hope	10
Legal Challenges to Bias Response Teams on College Campuses	10
Teacher Turnover in Early Childhood Education: Longitudinal Evidence From the Universe of Publicly Funded Programs in Louisiana	10
Posts About Students on Facebook: A Data Ethics Perspective	10
Patterns in the Pandemic Decline of Public School Enrollment	10
Has “Who Comes Back” Changed? Teacher Reentry 2000–2019	9
Banking on Dual Credit: Broadening Opportunities to Earn College Credit in High School and the Transition to College	9
The Effect of Faculty Research on Student Learning in College	8
A Starting Point: Gender, Hot Cognition, and Trans-Informed Administrative Guidance	8
Beyond Verbal: A Methodological Approach to Highlighting Students’ Embodied Participation in Mathematics Classroom	8
Determinants of Ethnic Differences in School Modality Choices During the COVID-19 Crisis	8
How Much Do Teachers Value Compensation Deferred for Retirement? Evidence From Defined Contribution Rate Choices	8
Leading Schools and Districts in Times of Crisis	7
“So That I May Hope to Honor You”: Centering Wholeness, Agency, and Brilliance in Qualitative Research With Multiply Marginalized Young Children	7
The Ties That Bind: An Examination of School-Family Relationships and Middle School Discipline in New York City	7
Live Instruction Predicts Engagement in K–12 Remote Learning	7

Police as “Helpers”: Social Studies Content Standards and Dominant Narratives of Law Enforcement	7
Teacher Working Conditions and Dissatisfaction Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
What Do So-Called Critical Race Theory Bans Say?	7
Learning at the Boundaries of Research and Practice: A Framework for Understanding Research–Practice Partnerships	7
Two Years Later: How COVID-19 Has Shaped the Teacher Workforce	7
The Segregation of Students by Income in Public Schools	6
“A Place for Everybody”: Students’ Perspectives on Inclusive Behavior in School	6
Making Do: Why Do Administrators Retain Low-Performing Teachers?	6
Accumulation of Opportunities Predicts the Educational Attainment and Adulthood Earnings of Children Born Into Low- Versus Higher-Income Households	6
Flexible or Rigid? Exploring Preservice Teachers’ Classroom Preferences	6
Teachers’ Strategies for Supporting Transgender and/or Gender-Expansive Elementary School Students	6
From Producing to Reducing Trauma: A Call for “Trauma-Informed” Research(ers) to Interrogate How Schools Harm Students	6
Teacher Pension Reform Must Be About Cost and Design	6
Language Views for Scientific Sensemaking Matter: A Synthesis of Research on Multilingual Students’ Experiences with Science Practices Through a Translanguaging Lens	6
Do Peers Affect Undergraduates’ Decisions to Switch Majors?	6
Context Variation in U.S. High Schoolers’ Mathematics Orientations	6
How Free Market Logic Fails in Schooling—And What It Means for the Role of Government	5
Beyond the Headlines: Trends and Future Directions in the School Closure Literature	5
Strategies to Better Identify Student Homelessness Using Data in an Urban School District	5
Toward Nonbinary Theories of Practice in Teacher Education Research	5
Addressing Our Nation’s Toxic School Infrastructure in the Wake of COVID-19	5
Caring in the Context of Discipline Reform: A Framework for Researchers and Policymakers	5
Understanding the Superintendent Pipeline: A Call for a National Longitudinal Dataset	5
Reviewer Acknowledgments	4
Lost to the System? A Descriptive Exploration of Teacher Candidates’ Career Paths	4
Experimental Evidence on the Robustness of Coaching Supports in Teacher Education	4
Reply to “The Imperative for Social Foundations Revisited: A Technical Comment on Warren and Venzant Chambers (2020)"	4
Commentary on Teacher Pension Papers	4
Reckoning With the “Other” Pandemic: How Teachers’ Unions Responded to Calls for Racial Justice Amidst COVID-19	4
The Segregation Pandemic: Brown as Treatment or Placebo?	4
Denying Pathology While Implying It? Avoiding Person-Centered Pathology Traps in Counter-Deficit Research	4
Teachers’ Working Hours During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
The Application of Behavioral Economics to Teacher Professional Development	4
Relevance of Educational Research: An Ontological Conceptualization	4
Economic Imperialism in Education Research: A Conceptual Review	4
Reviewer Acknowledgments	4
K–12 Civil Rights Complaints: A Nationwide Analysis	4
Differences in Trans Employees’ and Students’ School Experiences	3
White Christian Nationalism: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter for Educational Research?	3
All States Close but Red Districts Reopen: The Politics of In-Person Schooling During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Transforming the Role of RPPs in Remaking Educational Systems	3
Neuroscience Research in the Classroom: Portable Brain Technologies in Education Research	3
Students Attending School Remotely Suffer Socially, Emotionally, and Academically	3
Language and Special Education Status: 2009–2019 Tennessee Trends	3
Test Score Patterns Across Three COVID-19-Impacted School Years	3
“Safety” and “Protection” as Shared Grievances and Oblique Identification in Educational Organizations	3
Promoting Multilingual Students’ Disciplinary and Language Learning Through the WIDA Framework for Equitable Instruction	3
Culturally Relevant Education as a Professional Responsibility	3
Disrupting Three Prominent Racialized Trauma Tropes	2
Be(com)ing an Educational Researcher in the Global South (and Beyond): A Focus on the Research-Practice Relationship	2
What Counts as a Minority-Serving Institution? Toward the Utilization of a Standardized and Uniform Definition and Typology	2
Racial Disparities in Pre-K Quality: Evidence From New York City’s Universal Pre-K Program	2
Challenging Scripted Curricula With Adaptive Teaching	2
Choosing Alone? Peer Continuity Disparities in Choice-Based Enrollment Systems	2
Misrepresented Funding Gaps in Data for Some States	2
2023 AERA Presidential Address A Framework for Designing Consequential Research	2
Timing and Duration of Student Homelessness and Educational Outcomes in Los Angeles	2
Reviewer Acknowledgments	2
Replicating and Extending Effects of “Achievement Gap” Discourse	2
A Web of Punishment: Examining Black Student Interactions With School Police in Los Angeles	2
Educators Are Not Alright: Mental Health During COVID-19	2
The Fourth Wall of Professional Learning and Cultures of Collaboration	2
Ahead of the Game? Course-Taking Patterns Under a Math Pathways Reform	2
Defending the Color Line: White Supremacy and the Legacy of Brown	2
Reviewing Concentrated Poverty Literature Through an Antiblackness Lens to Reveal a Concentrated Debt	2
Kindergarten in a Large Urban District	2
The Long-Term Impacts of Corequisite Mathematics Remediation with Statistics: Degree Completion and Wage Outcomes	2
Text-to-Speech Technology and Math Performance: A Comparative Study of Students With Disabilities, English Language Learners, and Their General Education Peers	2
“Othering” Through War: Depiction of Asians/Asian Americans in U.S. History Textbooks	2