OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Journal of Education 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
Correction	79
Global education in rural region of China: a case study of basic education teachers’ perceptions and practices	45
Education and economic development: A social and statistical analysis	34
Leading to enhance university faculty members’ positive working attitudes: the mediating roles of research self-efficacy and job stress	34
The ‘hidden curriculum’ of vietnam’s English school textbooks: a longitudinal analysis	32
Dynamic assessment of students’ academic writing: Vygotskian and systemic functional linguistic perspectives	25
Forcing quality without substance: a critical analysis of evaluating teacher education programmes in South Korea	23
Future readiness for redesigning school education from the impacts of Covid-19 on school teachers in Japan: a case of teachers in Hiroshima	20
Job stressors and the innovative work behaviour of STEM teachers: serial multiple mediation role of creative self-efficacy and creative motivation	20
Multilingual Approach to Diversity in Education (MADE): a methodology for linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms Multilingual Approach to Diversity in Education (MADE): a meth	18
English language teacher education in changing times: Perspectives, strategies and new ways of teaching and learning English language teacher education in changing times: Perspectives,	18
Exploring the nexus of self-efficacy in digital literacy and technology acceptance: insights from L2 Chinese teachers	17
Towards Asia “curriculum-as-lived”: Amplifying student voice in the Asia literacy curricular landscape	17
How Learning Study could empower teachers to embrace education initiatives through research–practice partnership in Hong Kong	16
Family capital and parental involvement among parents in public elementary and secondary schools in the Philippines: perspectives of parents and children	16
Learning to teach critical thinking: testimonies of three EFL teachers in China	15
(Re)imagining ambivalent Australia: the curriculum as a tool of nation	15
Staying ahead with generative artificial intelligence for learning: navigating challenges and opportunities with 5Ts and 3Rs	15
Academic satisfaction and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of interpersonal relationships and subjective well-being	13
Enhancing students’ science learning using virtual simulation technologies: a systematic review	13
Handbook of practical second language teaching and learning	12
“Bright, busy, but Doesn’t go extra mile”: how school racial context moderates personality penalties on Asians’ high school GPA	12
Book review of technology and entrepreneurship education: adopting creative digital approaches to learning and teaching	12
Chinese university EFL learners’ foreign language classroom anxiety and enjoyment in an online learning environment during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
“Why are we doing this in the first place?”: youth motivations, school environments, and volunteer experiences in a system of compulsory school-based volunteerism	10

Learners’ speaking self-efficacy, self-efficacy sources and their relations in the traditional and flipped instructional modes	10
Unpacking in-service EFL teachers’ professional learning in a study abroad teacher education programme: an ecological perspective	10
Assessing metacognitive writing strategies and the predictive effects on multimedia writing	10
The integration of Internet of Toys in early childhood education. Research from Australia, England, and Norway The integration of Internet of Toys in early childhood education. Research	10
Perspectives of Indonesian parents towards school-based sexuality education	9
The role of context in language teachers’ self development and motivation: Perspectives from multilingual settings	9
Understanding Emotions in English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds Understanding Emotions in English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds	9
Using student ratings and external observations to detect the effects of quality of teaching on student learning outcomes: a longitudinal study in the Maldives	9
International higher education and the rise of soft power as cultural diplomacy: a comparative study of Morocco and South Korea International higher education and the rise of soft power	9
Examining teacher-academic collaboration in lesson study for its potential in shaping teacher research identity	9
Digital learning based education: transcending physical barriers	9
Educational equity in China: The experience of school choice reform in Shanghai	8
Countering stuckness: international doctoral students’ experiences of disrupted mobility amidst COVID-19	8
Learning intelligence: innovative and digital transformative learning strategies - Cultural and Social Engineering Perspectives	8
Applying modified TATE framework in equipping learners with action competence on future skills: Towards learners’ future-readiness	8
Developing excellence in teaching and learning in higher education through observation Developing excellence in teaching and learning in higher education through observation	8
New Generation Schools in Cambodia: a farewell to shadow education?	8
Fundamental motor skills correlate with mathematical performance rather than language performance in kindergarten children	8
Parental involvement and barriers in East Asian countries: understanding home-school relations	7
Factors influencing academic resilience of master students in China	7
Teachers’ understanding of inclusive education: comparing perspectives in China and Italy	7
How Chinese students manage their transition to higher education effectively: student initiative at Sino-Foreign cooperative universities	7
Leaders of future-ready learners in the Singapore education system: perceptions, roles and implications	7
Contesting globalization and internationalization of higher education: discourse and responses in the Asia Pacific Region	7
Children and Interculturality in Education Children and Interculturality in Education , by Andreas Jacobsson, Heidi Layne & Fred Dervin, Oxon, Routledge, 2023, 118 p	6
English for Young Learners in Asia: Challenges and Directions for Teachers Education	6
Exploring the significance of Indian logic in overcoming contemporary limitations in the Indian education system	6
A sensory approach to STEAM teaching and learning: materials-based units for student K-6 A sensory approach to STEAM teaching and learning: materials-based units for student K-6	6
AI and education in China: imagining the future, excavating the past	6
History of subjectivity in dispositif: changing arrangements of Vietnamese teachers’ meeting through lesson study for learning community	6
English language education in Singapore: research, practice & implications	6
Understanding spiritual health, depression, anxiety, and stress among tertiary students under the impact of COVID-19 in Hong Kong	6
The role of involution on Chinese youth pursuit of postgraduate education abroad: examine through the lens of normative social behaviour	6
Sources of pre-service teacher self-efficacy: a longitudinal qualitative inquiry	6
Effects of socioeconomic status and its components on academic achievement: evidence from Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang (China)	6
Exploring EFL university teachers’ beliefs in integrating ChatGPT and other large language models in language education: a study in China	5
English teacher competency: a study with different school levels and teaching experience	5
Instilling the need for academic honesty into Hong Kong university students: how well are we doing?	5
Advancing e-assessment for learning in the primary EFL writing classroom: the role of collaborative teacher professional learning	5
Contemporary Issues in Science and Technology Education	5
Overcome fear: the effect of faculty-student out-of-class interaction and faculty authority on student participation in class	5
Voices on “voice”: A juxtaposition of teachers’ and students’ perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of student voice in teaching and learning	5
Determinants of Chinese students’ increasing pursuit of UK’s taught master degree under the third wave of international education mobility	5
Daily activities and social interactions predict students’ positive feelings	5
Differences between Chinese and Western English-speaking teachers in providing disagreement in EFL teaching in China	5
Has the smart classroom revolutionized general education in Chinese universities? A comparative analysis of its influence path with that of traditional multimedia classrooms	5
Innovation in language learning and teaching: the case of Vietnam and Cambodia	5
Interdisciplinary practices in academia: writing, teaching and assessment	5
Careers for students with special educational needs: perspectives on development and transitions from the Asia-Pacific Region	5
Understanding students’ college choices in Taiwan: an investigation of social-class inequalities in choices of institutional types and college pathways	4

Repositioning Singlish in Singapore’s language-in-education policies	4
Instructional leadership, power distance, teacher enthusiasm, and differentiated instruction in Turkey: testing a multilevel moderated mediation model	4
Twenty-first century learning skills and music engagement among young children: a systematic review	4
Formative assessment in English language teaching: exploring the enactment practices of teachers within three primary schools in Singapore	4
Factors influencing Chinese parents’ willingness to send children to study abroad: findings from the China family panel studies	4
The comparison of general tips for mathematical problem solving generated by generative AI with those generated by human teachers	4
English in East and South Asia: Policy, Features and Language in use English in East and South Asia: Policy, Features and Language in use , by Ee Ling Low and Anne Pakir	4
Teacher-student relationships and hope among rural adolescents: a moderated mediation model	4
The impact of digital transformation on the quality of college English teaching: the mediating role of teachers’ support	4
From admission to assertion: democracy rhetoric and citizenship education in post-socialist China	4
A comparison of structure and effectiveness of principal leadership between elementary and secondary schools in China	4
The international political economy of educational policy development in Nepal: 1950-2020	4
Building confidence in the digital age: the effects of online professional development on Vietnamese teachers’ media and information literacy	4
The roles of growth mindsets and psychological speaking needs in the relationships between grit and willingness to communicate among foreign language learners	4
Utopia as method: a response to education in crisis?	4
Critical pedagogies for modern languages education: criticality, decolonization, and social justice Critical pedagogies for modern languages education: criticality, decolonization, and	3
East Asian perspectives on silence in English language education	3
Linguistic distance and translanguaging: teaching Malay-English bilingual learners	3
The impact of the future time perspective on student learning motivation and autonomous learning behaviours in the context of a work-based program	3
How teacher characteristics shape Chinese undergraduate EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety	3
Generative AI in higher education: the ChatGPT effect	3
Educational leadership and Asian culture: culturally sensitive leadership practice	3
Being and Bildung : appropriating Heidegger and Aquinas	3
A critical discourse analysis of cultural representation in language learning tasks: The case of an English language textbook used in Indonesian secondary schools	3
The appraisal antecedents of Shanghai students’ mathematics anxiety and the moderating effects of teacher behaviours: from the perspective of the control-value theory	3
Ecological factors influencing early-career teachers retention and attrition: insights from Bhutan	3
A comparative analysis of career trajectories for U.S.-trained and Japanese-trained Chinese PhDs in engineering	3
“I wonder who I am when my assessment ideas are not respected”: a case-study inquiry into the role of institutional policies in English language teachers’ assessment identity	3
Correction	3
Correction	3
A mixed-method inquiry into Arabic-speaking students’ experiences with English academic writing at the undergraduate level	3
Exploring perspectives on creativity theory and research in education	3
“Voices unheard”: a critical policy analysis of teacher participation in South Korea’s 2022 curriculum reform	3
A framework informing the interplay of physical, digital and social spaces in supporting an environment for active learning	3
Language teacher motivation, autonomy and development in East Asia Language teacher motivation, autonomy and development in East Asia , edited by Yuzo Kimura, Luxin Yang	3
Education for the Elderly in the Asia Pacific	3
Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) through lesson and learning studies in Asia: moving beyond steps to support transformation of practices	3
Rethinking international student mobility through the lens of “crisis” at a juncture of pandemic and global uncertainties	3
Pre-service CEIT teachers’ preferred YouTube use motives, engagements, video categories, and differences by gender	3
Work values, perceived employability and rural employment intention among Chinese college students: the mediating effect of protean career orientation	3
Using English to Realize “the Chinese dream”: the political-economic ideology of language planning in China	3
Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education , edited by Lily A. Arasaratnam-Smith, Darla K. Deardorff	3
Refining the opportunity to learn construct through the Productive Disciplinary Engagement framework	3
Digital storytelling for global citizenship education: a Chinese case study	3
Learning through EMI (English-medium instruction) in a Macau university: students’ perspectives and content and language outcomes	3