OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Review is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
List of reviewers for Educational Review 2022	170
“Coming to uni was isolating, a massive culture shock”: the struggle of working-class rural youth for recognition and belonging at a metropolitan university	164
School transition difficulty in Scotland and Ireland: a longitudinal perspective	50
Are teachers absent more? Examining differences in absence between K-12 teachers and other college-educated workers	38
Opening up learning environments: liking school among students in reformed learning spaces	37
The solidarity bind: narratives on fractures in solidarity and internalised racism in HE	37
Family-preschool relationship and family engagement in distance preschool education in the time of COVID-19 in Chile: toward a change of Principals' mentality?	36
A liberal education: the social and political impact of the modern university	33
Mapping Jordanian students’ understanding of disability	32
Mental health and gender discourses in school: “Emotional” girls and boys “at risk”	25
Towards a power-sharing pedagogy: the mobilisation of Indigenous culture in children’s play in Aotearoa New Zealand’s early childhood settings	23
Surviving carelessness and disposability in British higher education: the gendered and racialised emotional labours of academic migration	22
The emergence of multipolarity in global higher education: the Belt and Road Initiative and African students’ motivations to pursue postgraduate education in China	22
Teachers’ emotional experiences: towards a new emotional discourse	20
Emotional and critical citizens: Portuguese students’ engagement with wicked issues in contemporary EU policy	18
Moral injury in teaching: the systemic roots of ethical conflict and emotional burnout in education	18
Teachers’ experiences of school-based mental health literacy programmes: a qualitative study of Tackling the Blues	18
Classroom assistant roles and deployment models: an international scoping review	17
Transformative teaching around the world: stories of cultural impact, technology integration, and innovative pedagogy	17
Making a mass institution: Indianapolis and the American high school	16
Gender in an era of post-truth populism: pedagogies, challenges and strategies	16
Revisiting the debates on “epistemicide”: Insights from the South African school curriculum	15
After the Ivory Tower Falls - How college broke the American dream and blew up our politics—and how to fix it After the Ivory Tower Falls - How college broke the American dream and blew	15
The pedagogy of radical change: social movements, resistance and alternative futures in higher education and society	14
Leaving Chinese internationalised schools: expatriate teachers’ experiences of career transitions	14

Contrasting visions of equity: a critical race theory analysis of curriculum reform in English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh education	13
Performer versus caring professional: identity conflicts of preschool teachers in the context of performative culture in mainland China	13
Decolonizing epistemologies and worldviews in education: new ways of knowing in education and policy	13
Supporting social inclusion of refugees: a funds of knowledge approach	13
Conservatism as affective ideology: rethinking the recent attacks on higher education	13
Why sociology?– comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary and England	13
Education for development: professional commitments and practices among Tibetan teachers in Northwest China	12
Understanding the professional agency of female language teachers in a Chinese university: rhetoric and reality Understanding the professional agency of female language teachers in a Ch	12
Perceptions and experiences on the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs in post-primary Physical Education: a scoping review	12
Social leadership in early childhood education and care: an introduction	12
Together and apart: co-teaching in the time of COVID-19	12
Emergent trends in comparative education: the dialectic of the global and the local	12
Culture, power, and ideology: the purpose and value of physical education (PE) in alternative provision schools in England	11
Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance , by Henry A. Giroux, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 28	11
Educating refugee-background students: critical issues and dynamic contexts	11
Decolonising community education and development; understanding the past, learning for the future	10
Unpacking the logics of gendered educational choices: 10th graders’ evaluation of appropriate educational tracks	10
Negotiating for distance: the Chinese middle-class seeking alternative education in the idyll	10
Not for proft: why democracy needs the humanities	9
Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England	9
Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: an international perspective	9
Public policy and universities: the interplay of knowledge and power	9
Navigating the power of time in classroom practices: teachers’ and students’ perspectives	9
Decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education: bringing decolonial theory into contact with teaching practice	9
Understanding the identity work and aspirations of Indigenous males navigating elite Australian higher education	9
The dance of managerialism and professionalism: a fresh perspective on educational systems and reform	8
Structural and cultural properties in teachers’ practices: enactment of the 2022 national science curriculum standards in China	8
A scoping review of methods and measures used to capture children's play during school breaktimes	8
The career prospects of migrant, female academics from minority ethnic backgrounds in the UK’s higher education sector: an integrative review of peer-reviewed literature	7
Intersectionality in US educational research: visibilizing the historically excluded and under-recognized experiences of disabled girls of color	7
Countering antisemitism through Holocaust education. A comparative perspective on Scotland and Austria	7
Neoliberalisation and educational reforms: impacts on teachers in a single school context	7
Parents talking algorithms: Navigating datafication and family life in digital societies	7
Student councils as a safety valve for school values: the relativism of participation rights in Jewish national religious schools for girls	7
International L2 students’ engagement with teacher feedback: perspectives from a globalised higher education context	7
Decentring the West in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme: towards a framework for critical reflection on curriculum and teaching	7
Will the UK Government’s Initial Teacher Training Market Review Report provide the catalyst for a renewed values-based dialectic in teacher education?	7
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Motivational factors and course difficulty as predictors of teaching evaluations: a study of U.S. undergraduates	7
Teaching practicum research in Finland: a scoping review	6
Beyond standards: the fragmentation of education governance and the promise of curriculum reform	6
Generative AI in higher education: the ChatGPT effect	6
The struggle for a multilingual future: youth and education in Sri Lanka	6
Supporting students to engage with case studies: a model of engagement principles	6
What do New Zealand teachers and principals perceive is happening for English as an additional language students with the changing architecture of New Zealand schools?	6
Navigating technology in the classroom: a scoping review of technology use during peer collaboration in early educational settings	6
China’s approach to inward student mobility since 1949: an analysis of the state’s role from historical and political economy perspectives	6
Write on! Cultivating social capital in a writing group for doctoral education and beyond	6
Educational performance pressure and mental ill-being: the case of Danish primary and lower secondary schools, 1975–2024	6
Mind the aspiration gap: how primary school pupils perceive their future adult selves and the perspectives and expectations of parents and teachers	6
Implementing digital technologies in the school setting – how does it relate to work environment?	6

From assessment to feedback: applications in the second/foreign language classroom From assessment to feedback: applications in the second/foreign language classroom , b	6
Becoming a Scholar: cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doctorate Becoming a Scholar: cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doc	6
Institutional practices sustaining race-evasion in Norwegian schools: counter-narratives from racially minoritised teachers	5
Systemic vulnerability as a lens to explore young people’s experiences of transition from alternative provision settings to post-16 mainstream education	5
Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education	5
Schoolishness: alienated education and the quest for authentic, joyful learning	5
School leaders navigating student wellbeing: the interplay between academic achievement and economic logics in Danish schools	5
Language teacher identity tensions: nexus of agency, emotion and investment	5
Que(e)rying leadership on an LGBTQ+ leadership development programme for UK higher education staff	5
Collective voices making change: a literature review of black youth activism in the United States	5
A Comprehensive Developmental Profiling Tool for Measuring School Readiness on School Entry	5
Making your doctoral research project ambitious: Developing large-scale studies with real-world impact	5
International teachers’ lived experiences: examining internationalised schooling in Shanghai	5
Learning from autistic teachers: lessons about change in an era of COVID-19	5
Reading autoethnography: reflections on justice and love Reading autoethnography: reflections on justice and love , by James M. Salvo, New York, Routledge, 2020, 154 pp.	5
Embracing complexity: rethinking education inspection in England	5
Domains of quality in early childhood education and care: A scoping review of the extent and consistency of the literature	4
List of Reviewers for Educational Review 2025	4
Fascism on trial. Education and the possibility of democracy	4
Parents’ (dis)satisfaction with schools: evidence from longitudinal administrative data from Spain	4
Threat or necessity: an analysis of the development of International Baccalaureate education in Shanghai	4
Desiring-futures in education policy: assemblage theory, artificial intelligence, and UNESCO’s futures of education	4
Emoji in higher education: a healthcare-based perspective	4
Racism, Islamophobia and trust in schools: perceptions of diversity in schools in Barcelona	4
“I had to be a mother”: foundation phase male teachers negotiating masculinity in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa	4
Competency and affective skill outcomes for 11–19-year-olds through progressive and reconstructionist pedagogies: a systematic review	4
Is being clever enough? Young people’s construction of the ideal student in computer science education	4
Subjectivities and the future of comparative and international education: teacher researchers and graduate student researchers as co-constructive narrative inquirers	4
Dire Straits - Education Reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire Straits - Education Reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gomen	4
Addressing underachievement and early school leaving in Europe: the role of institutional factors	4
Minoritised migrant women in academia as translocational outsiders within: an analysis of four structures of exhaustion	4
School exclusion to family inclusion: case study of a systemic multi-family school approach to school exclusion	4
“Taking off the shackles”: the joy, freedom and gravitational pull of low-stakes curriculum innovation within a high-stakes assessment framework	4
Nine guiding principles for women in higher education	4
A double bind: youth activism, climate change, and education	4
The “problem” of teacher quality: exploring challenges and opportunities in developing teacher quality during the Covid-19 global pandemic in England	4
Psychoeducational groups: process and practice	4
Access is capture: how edtech reproduces racial inequality	4
Equity and inclusion in work-integrated learning: participation and outcomes for diverse student groups	4
Transformative teaching and learning in further education: pedagogies of hope and social justice	4
“ We Have to Charge Levies, Else We Will Close Down the Schools ”. Delivering Ghana’s education capitation grant programme within chronic resource constraints: impacts a	4
Culturally sensitive research methods for educational administration and leadership	4