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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Educational reform and internationalisation: the case of school reform in Kazakhstan	65
Learning to identify fake news and digital misinformation: lessons for educators	58
Write on! Cultivating social capital in a writing group for doctoral education and beyond	57
Adventure education: fun games and activities for children and young people	56
Self-regulated learning (SRL) perspectives and strategies of Australian primary school students: a qualitative exploration at different year levels	46
The struggle for a multilingual future: youth and education in Sri Lanka	46
Systemic vulnerability as a lens to explore young people’s experiences of transition from alternative provision settings to post-16 mainstream education	45
Developing a scale to measure the diversity of motivations and practices of home-schooling	38
Where are the families?: Examining family engagement inequities using nationally representative data and path analysis	38
Do free schools create “competitive threats”? The perceptions of neighbouring schools	32
Chile’s Inclusion Law: the arduous drive to regulate an unequal education system, 2006–19	31
Parental responsibilisation and camouflaging class-based inequalities: an ethnography of a highly selective educational transition	30
The legacies of community in building a future: rural young people envisioning “possible selves”	25
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?	25
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	25
Should I stay or should I go? The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on regional, rural and remote undergraduate students at an Australian University	24
A survey of children’s learning and non-cognitive attitudes in England and Pakistan	23
The solidarity bind: narratives on fractures in solidarity and internalised racism in HE	21
Transforming university education: a manifesto	20
Transgender students in elementary school: creating an affirming and inclusive school culture	18
Meaningful teaching interaction at the internationalised university: moving from research to impact	16
“That way there are no surprises in the end”: the cooling out function of reception education for newly arrived migrant students in Flanders	16
Learning from autistic teachers: lessons about change in an era of COVID-19	16
Lessons from lockdown: the educational legacy of COVID-19	15
Mobile assisted language learning concepts, contexts and challenges	15

The evaluation game: how publication metrics shape scholarly communication	14
Exposing the “shadow”: an empirical scrutiny of the “shadowing process” of private tutoring in India	14
Stakeholder perspectives on primary school pupils and sickness absence - exploring opportunities and challenges	14
School transition difficulty in Scotland and Ireland: a longitudinal perspective	14
From assessment to feedback: applications in the second/foreign language classroom From assessment to feedback: applications in the second/foreign language classroom , b	14
Thin places of resistance: a caring response to refugees in rural American schools	14
To give: ethically storying data	13
Holocaust education: contemporary challenges and controversies	13
Australian teacher educators responding to policy discourses of quality	13
Professional development among in-service teachers: motivational factors, pathways and coping strategies	13
Former young mothers’ pathways through higher education: a chance to rethink the narrative	13
Towards perspectives for research, policy and practice: rethinking educational inequality and segregation in Dutch primary education	12
Conceptualising student participation in school decision making: an integrative model	12
Opening up learning environments: liking school among students in reformed learning spaces	12
Taken-for-granted understandings in access to international higher education: a study of Chinese agent-user students’ university application experiences	12
List of reviewers for Educational Review 2022	12
Identities and education: comparative perspectives in times of crisis	12
“Education cannot cease”: the experiences of parents of primary age children (age 4-11) in Northern Ireland during school closures due to COVID-19	11
Contemplative practices and teacher professional becoming	11
Self-assessment as a student-agentic zone of proximate competence development	11
Why was inquiry practice not there? Analysis of demand-resource empirics of classroom pedagogy	11
Correction	11
Feminist perspectives on contemporary educational leadership	11
Pandemic pedagogies, practices and future possibilities: emerging professional adjustments to the working practices of university teacher educators	11
The Education Act and the norms in Swedish education: power struggles between students’ knowledge development and personal development	10
Gender fluidity and “other left-wing superstitions”: problem representations in the inquiry report on the NSW Parental Rights Bill	10
Framing teacher quality in the Australian media: the circulation of key political messages?	10
Teacher agency in culturally responsive teaching: learning to teach ethnic minority students in the Central Highlands of Vietnam	10
Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary programmes for collaborative graduate research training	10
The effect of dual vocational education and training on grades and graduation in Catalonia, Spain	9
Parents’ perceptions of power in the school exclusion process examined through Arnstein's ladder of participation	9
The effects of cost elimination on secondary school enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa	9
Research on education in Southeast Asia (1996–2019): a bibliometric review	9
Funds of knowledge and identity pedagogies for social justice: international perspectives and praxis from communities, classrooms, and curriculum	9
Making participation in out-of-school-time provision an asset for young people in high-poverty neighbourhoods	9
Navigating the tensions between international schooling and national goals of education: expatriate teachers and local students in international schools in Vietnam	9
Educational performance pressure and mental ill-being: the case of Danish primary and lower secondary schools, 1975–2024	9
Girls, mental health and academic achievement: a qualitative systematic review	8
Correction	8
The decision to homeschool: potential factors influencing reactive homeschooling practice	8
Do innovative approaches to time allocation and timetable organisation provide a compelling alternative to traditional models?	8
Sustainability of the Spanish university system during the pandemic caused by COVID-19	8
Supporting students to engage with case studies: a model of engagement principles	8
Are teachers absent more? Examining differences in absence between K-12 teachers and other college-educated workers	8
Perspectives on teacher standards in the mentoring process: insights from mentors and early career teachers in an Australian context	8
Place-based education – a systematic review of literature	8
Deeper learning, dialogic learning, and critical thinking: research-based strategies for the classroom	8
Student support as social network: exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic	8
Are we still “raising aspirations”? The complex relationship between aspiration and widening participation practices in English higher education institutions	8
Social inclusion of refugees into higher education: policies and practices of universities in Norway	7

Finnish student teachers as a focus of teacher education research: a 10-Year scoping review of empirical research	7
International teachers’ lived experiences: examining internationalised schooling in Shanghai	7
Parental involvement in school pedagogy: a threat or a promise?	7
Stepping into the mainstream: exploring Steiner streams in publicly funded schools in Australia, 1990–2011	7
Exploring the relationship between the characteristics of English schools and the progression rates of their pupils to degree-level study	7
Internationalisation in action: exploring the voices of IB DP graduates studying in local universities in South Korea	7
Classroom assistant roles and deployment models: an international scoping review	7
The domination and exploitation of working class values, identities and labour-power in Sweden’s comprehensive school extension and neo-liberal market reforms	7
Learning, unlearning and redefining teachers’ agency in international private education: a Swedish education company operating in India	6
Deliberative policy making: redesigning how we make education policy	6
Professional learning and identities in teaching: international narratives of successful teachers	6
Querying queer quantitative educational research: a systematic literature review	6
Reading autoethnography: reflections on justice and love Reading autoethnography: reflections on justice and love , by James M. Salvo, New York, Routledge, 2020, 154 pp.	6
Can we just talk? Exploring discourses on race and racism among U.S. undergraduates during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The site of the social: a philosophical account of the constitution of social life and change	6
Building the self-efficacy beliefs of English language learners and teachers: new perspectives for research, teaching and learning	6
Transformative approaches to social justice education: equity and access in the college classroom	6
Making your doctoral research project ambitious: Developing large-scale studies with real-world impact	6
The structure and predictors of instructional quality in private tutoring: a study among German private tutors	5
Transforming and thriving: Australian students in Vietnam through the New Colombo Plan	5
Insights into longevity and the professional lifespan of early and mid-to-late career teachers: perspectives of teacher wellbeing	5
Epistemological process towards decolonial praxis and epistemic inequality of an international student	5
Surviving carelessness and disposability in British higher education: the gendered and racialised emotional labours of academic migration	5
Learning from autistic teachers: how to be a neurodiversity-inclusive school Learning from autistic teachers: how to be a neurodiversity-inclusive school , edited by Reb	5
Teachers talking about their classrooms: learning from the professional lexicons of mathematics teachers around the world	5
Factories for learning: making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy	5
A liberal education: the social and political impact of the modern university	5
A subversive pedagogy to empower marginalised students: an Australian study	5
Mental health and gender discourses in school: “Emotional” girls and boys “at risk”	5
Understanding educational leadership: critical perspectives and approaches	5
The convergence of late neoliberalism and post-pandemic scientific optimism in the configuration of scientistic learnification	5
Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK	5
Knowledge-making from a postgraduate writers’ circle: a southern reflectory	5
Conceptually driven inquiry: addressing the tension between dialogicity and teleology in dialogic approaches to classroom talk	5
Trajectories of merit: re-viewing leadership in elite universities	5
School leaders navigating student wellbeing: the interplay between academic achievement and economic logics in Danish schools	5
Evidence, schmevidence: the abuse of the word “evidence” in policy discourse about education	4
Language teacher identity tensions: nexus of agency, emotion and investment	4
Embracing complexity: rethinking education inspection in England	4
Expertise Expertise , by Jessica Gerrard and Jessica Holloway, London, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023, 128 pp., £13.49, Paperback, ISBN: 9781350238220	4
Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education	4
Embracing socioscientific issues-based teaching and decision-making in teacher professional development	4
“Education as the practice of freedom?” – prison education and the pandemic	4
Covid-19 and higher education: The Times They Are A’Changin	4
“It’s a financial decision”: students’ ethical understandings of non-government faith-based schooling in a neoliberal society	4
Contemporary, racialised conflicts over LGBT-inclusive education: more strategic secularisms than secular/religious oppositions?	4
Challenges, adaptation, and learning in an immersive mindfulness-based practices course: college student perspectives	4
Pupils’ informal social strategies in a Swedish compulsory school – What pupils do and say, out of sight of the teachers, while managing written individual assignments	4