OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Educational Research Journal is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	225
Unseen roots and unfolding flowers? Prison learning, equality and the education of socially excluded groups	60
The mediating role of student engagement in the relationship between teacher and digital support and learner satisfaction in blended learning environments at higher education	59
“I get by with a little help from my friends”: The importance of peer‐led emotion work during the primary to secondary school transition	35
Teacher‐composed cases of practice as and for dissemination, reflection and data	34
Levelling down? Understanding the decline of the maintained nursery sector in England	30
Ethos within the British boarding school: A small‐scale analysis of the ‘Head's Welcome’ as an act of legitimation	29
An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education	28
Effectiveness of educational interventions: An ecological systems analysis of initiatives from the UK opportunity areas programme	26
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence usingPISAdata	22
The ups and downs in perceived societal appreciation of the teaching profession during COVID‐19: A longitudinal trajectory analysis	18
‘It's missing the heart of what writing is about’: teachers' interpretations of writing assessment criteria	17
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Combatting conspiracies in the classroom: Teacher strategies and perceived outcomes	15
Organizational and Psychological factors in teacher educators’ professional identity development: An empirical analysis	14
The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data	14
The role of the teacher's culture in classroom management: A case study of primary schools in French Polynesia	14
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	13
Unsettling subject English in the twenty‐first century	13
Poe or Gemini for fostering writing skills in Japanese upper‐intermediate learners: Uncovering the consequences on positive emotions, boredom to write, academic self‐efficacy and writing development	13
From classroom challenges to scholarly insights: A bibliometric analysis of novice teacher research	12
Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England	12
Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐19	12
Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co‐creation project on French, German and Spanish	12
Care trajectories and imagining potential: Positioning the need for skills, confidence and communication among key professionals supporting the higher education progression of care‐experienced young p	12

Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study	12
Can the role of a personal tutor contribute to reducing the undergraduate degree awarding gap for racially minoritised students?	12
A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities	11
Does study abroad affect student academic achievement?	11
Issue Information	11
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2015–2022	11
Pressures and influences on school leaders navigating policy development during the COVID‐19 pandemic	11
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme	11
‘Sir, I don't know what I'm doing’: An investigation into the role of happy accidents in a secondary school art classroom	10
Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet	10
Children's agency in England's primary schools: A case for structured freedom	10
The lasting influence of an open climate of classroom discussion on political trust: Results from a seven‐year panel study among English youth	10
Workplace support for newly qualified doctors and secondary school teachers: A comparative analysis	9
Experiences in times of COVID‐19: Home‐life, social connections, and schooling for Aotearoa New Zealand children	9
The link between school leadership, staff job satisfaction and retention. Longitudinal evidence from England	9
How do homeschoolers approach creative arts learning and how can they be supported? Developing a flexible framework for homeschool contexts	8
Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education	8
The potential of deep learning in improving K‐12 students' writing skills: A systematic review	8
How hermeneutics can guide grading in integrated STEAM education: An evidence‐informed perspective	8
Whose ‘voice’ is it anyway? The paradoxes of the participatory narrative	7
School experiences of Children in Need: Learning and support	7
Amplifying organisational discourses to the public: Media narratives of Teach For Australia, 2008–2020	7
Distributed leadership in action: Different manifestations and what they require from school leaders	7
Teachers taking perceptions of student attributes into consideration when formulating track recommendations?	7
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The culture of disciplines: Reconceptualising multi‐subject curricula	7
Motility, viscosity and field: A portrayal of migrant teachers' professional mobility and ethical conflicts in American and Australian faith‐based schools	7
Personality‐sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9‐ to 10‐year‐olds	7
Australian senior‐secondary teachers’ perceptions of leadership and policy for differentiated instruction	7
To be in AI‐integrated language classes or not to be: Academic emotion regulation, self‐esteem, L2 learning experiences and growth mindsets are in focus	7
Individual participant data meta‐analysis of the impact of educational interventions on pupils eligible for Free School Meals	7
The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal	7
Empowering children to speak up and act on social justice issues: The use of folktales and collaborative storytelling as tools of social imagination	7
The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weekⁱ	7
‘I make a lot of the choices myself—I think I've taught myself that through the imbalance of support’: The internal conversations, reflexivity and post‐school educational achievement of care‐experienc	6
Examining the impact of gamified mobile and AI‐assisted language learning on academic integrity, creative trait motivation and writing performance	6
Drivers of school choice: Primary school selection in a free choice context	6
Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Education progression of children of care leavers compared to a general population sample	6
Does pedagogical metamorphosis exist? Exploring the practices of primary school teachers at different stages of their careers	6
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1985 to 1994	6
The GCSE attainment gap: Assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion	6
Re‐imagining a decolonised, anti‐racist curriculum within initial teacher education in a Welsh university	6
Practitioners’ perspectives and needs: Developing skills to support unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASCs) in experiencing ‘belonging’ in English educational spaces	6
‘Populism’ and competing epistemic communities in English educational policy: A response to Craske and Watson	6
Editorial: BERJ 50th Anniversary Collection: Virtual issue 1975 to 1984	5
Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis	5
The path increasingly travelled: Vocational entry qualifications, socioeconomic status and university outcomes	5
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Do we have to rethink inclusive pedagogies for secondary schools? A critical systematic review of the international literature	5
Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation	5
The role of social capital in the job quality of Chilean university graduates	5
Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with	5
What are the success factors for schools in remote Indigenous communities?	5
Representations of schooling and childhood during the COVID‐19 pandemic in England	5
Presidential Address: BERA. Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?	5
Mental wellbeing among higher education students in England during the pandemic: A longitudinal study of COVID‐19 experiences, social connectedness and greenspace use	5
Autistic young people’s experiences of transitioning to adulthood following the Children and Families Act 2014	5
The role of autonomy in forming an integrated identity among early career academics	5
AI‐assisted learning environments in China: Exploring the intersections of emotion regulation strategies, grit tendencies, self‐compassion, L2 learning experiences and academic d	5
Classroom social networks, students' peer‐related social experiences and sense of belonging: The specific case of students with SEN	5
From challenge to innovation: A grassroots study of teachers’ classroom assessment innovations	5
Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education	5
The Ruskin Speech and Great Debate in English education, 1976–1979: A study of motivation	5
Do schools that employ an inspector get better inspection grades?	5
Where should phonics teaching start? ‘satpin’ and its origins, rivals and implications	5
Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Antecedents of environmental protection participation intentions among Chinese adolescents: The perspectives of rational choice, moral norms, and supporting environment	5
Tensions in teaching balanced controversial history: Competing voices within a student teacher in Northern Ireland	5
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors	5
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Intersections between cognitive‐emotion regulation, critical thinking and academic resilience with academic motivation and autonomy in EFL learners: Contributions of AI‐mediated	4
‘… They're talking to you as if they're kind of dumbing it down’: A thematic analysis of Black students' perceived reasons for the university awarding gap	4
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The moderation effect of morphological awareness on the relationship between word detection skills and reading comprehension in Chinese children with and without dyslexia	4
A model for principals' STEM leadership capability	4
Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal	4
The role of visual perception and executive functions on writing skills with learning disabilities: The case of Turkish‐speaking children	4
Exploring the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards the adoption of the metaverse in education: A qualitative inquiry using big data	4
Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education	4
Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non‐Indigenous boarders’ and non‐boarders’ wellbeing	4
Manifestations of the ethics of hospitality at children's hospitality centres in Saudi Arabia	4
Curriculum leadership in a rural indigenous high school in Taiwan implementing the 108 Curriculum Guidelines	4
Crafting agency in a host community: Accessing and participating in the English higher education sector by Ukrainian refugees	4
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality	4
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School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study	4
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness	4
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study	3
Preservice teacher perceptions of preparedness for teaching: Insights from survey research exploring the links between teacher professional standards and agency	3
Reading intervention at age 6: Long‐term effects of Reading Recovery in the UK on qualifications and support at age 16	3
String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care	3
AI voice journaling for future language teachers: A path to well‐being through reflective practices	3
Clarification for: Right‐wing populism and education: Introduction to the special section by Hussain and Yunus (2021)	3
Chinese PhD candidates in British universities: Understanding the practices of international doctorate students	3
Safe spaces and beyond: Examining the role of LGBT+ Pride Groups in fostering ontological security and allyship within UK schools	3
Academic leisure crafting: More than a respite to breath?	3
Some clarifications on educational research and practice	3
Exploring students' experiences of technical and vocational learning in University Technical Colleges during the pandemic	3
Does grammar school attendance increase the likelihood of attending a prestigious UK university?	3
From silence to academic engagement: How refugee children with disabilities access learning through inclusive ‘artful’ schools in Canada	3
Popular boys, the ideal schoolboy, and blended patterns of masculinity for 10‐ to 11‐year‐olds in two London schools	3
The impact of ‘bursary tourism’ or the desire for a ‘fulfilling, challenging, and emotionally rewarding career’? Career entry motivations and perceptions of preservice teachers from England	3
An ecological perspective of student engagement through digital technology: Practical application and implications	3
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The five‐year itch: Motivational factors that influence the career decisions of early career teachers in England	3
School playgroups: Which features of provision matter?	3
Are track recommendations dependent on schools and school boards? A study of trends in the level of track recommendations, number of double recommendations and reconsiderations in Dutch urban and rura	3
Unboxing the intersections between self‐esteem and academic mindfulness with test emotions, psychological wellness and academic achievement in artificial intelligence‐supported learning environments:	3
Practice‐based educational and theatre research: A scoping review	3
Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education	3