OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research Papers in Education 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of homeroom teachers in mediating the impact of principals’ empowering leadership on adolescent engagement	19
Further education and mental health during the pandemic: the moral impasse of meritocracy	18
The impact of school culture, school climate, and teachers’ job satisfaction on the teacher-student relationship: a case study in four Estonian schools	18
Using pupils’ grade obtained in national examinations as an outcome measure in evaluations: some considerations for the design of randomised controlled trials	16
Unlocking the power of big ideas in education: a systematic review from 2010 to 2022	14
Making decisions about attainment grouping in mathematics: teacher agency and autonomy in Norway	14
Students’ contrasting their experiences of teacher expectations in streamed and mixed ability classes: A study of Grade 10 students in Western Australia	13
Teacher–student relationship and students’ social competence in relation to the quality of educational dialogue	13
Advantages and Disadvantages of Being ‘Gifted’: Perceptions of the Label by Gifted Pupils	12
Knotworking — not working: Interprofessional collaboration and co-figuration of pre-service special education teachers	12
Practicing voice: student voice experiences, democratic school culture and students’ attitudes towards voice	12
Anti-bullying tensions in Chile: a figurational social-ecological analysis of policies, schools and families	12
Playful punctuation in primary children’s narrative writing	11
Developing metalinguistic understanding in the secondary English classroom: the role of teachers’ framing questions and responsive talk moves in dialogic metalinguistic talk about written text	11
‘Inhabiting uncertain terrain’: inequalities of access, experience, and outcomes for university education researchers in the UK	11
Fair enough?! Investigating the specific challenges of diverse university first-year students	9
Adaptive responses to contextualised and differentiated school improvement. Identifying institutional profiles of secondary schools	9
An immersive, ‘Faster Read’: a pilot, mixed-method study, developing whole-text reading comprehension and engagement with adolescent struggling readers	8
Understanding subject choices from report card grades: gender and educational level disparities	8
Whose goal emphases play a more important role in ESL/EFL learners’ motivation, self-regulated learning and achievement?: Teachers’ or parents’	7
Therapeutic discourse in teacher professional discourse: on multidimensionality and elasticity of psychology-based reasoning	7
More is more: exploring the relationship between young people’s experiences of school-based career education, information, advice and guidance at age 14–16 and wider adult outcomes at age 21–22 in Eng	6
Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden	6
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds	6
Teachers’ troubled interactions with prescribed school history and its national imaginaries: the case of post-Mugabe Zimbabwe	6

Postgraduate research in a sick society	6
International students’ identity negotiation in the context of international education: experiences of Burmese students in Hong Kong	6
Staying on track in higher secondary education in Flanders (Belgium). Mechanisms explaining social inequality in educational choice	6
Is academic selection in Northern Ireland a barrier to social cohesion?	5
Educational dialogue of preschool teachers experiencing different levels of stress	5
How do views of working conditions vary across school staff?	5
The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives	5
The emotional journey of the beginning teacher: Phases and coping strategies	5
School absences, exclusions and criminal sentences amongst high-achieving children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds	5
Using habitus and ethnic identity theory to investigate the decision-making of Canadian Modern Orthodox young people	5
Tracking and political engagement: an investigation of the mechanisms driving the effect of educational tracking on voting intentions among upper secondary students in France	4
Leadership for school mindfulness: the role of school ambidexterity and leaders’ cognitive complexity	4
Fostering culturally responsive pedagogy related competencies among pre-service teachers: a systematic review of the recent research literature	4
Adaptation, change and reaffirmation: investigating the limits of young working-class men adapting to elite higher education institutions	4
Experienced burnout and teacher–working environment fit: a comparison of teacher cohorts with or without persistent turnover intentions	4
Early dropout, earnings and skills in later life: evidence from Spain	3
Trialling open educational resources for technology-supported teacher professional development in rural Zimbabwe	3
Interpreting the mental health and wellbeing agenda in adult community learning	3
A structured discussion of the fairness of GCSE and A level grades in England in summer 2020 and 2021	3
Why do students leave? Persistence in selective universities	3
Zooming to work or working to Zoom: relations between Zoom fatigue, cognitive load, and boredom	3
School-level competition for US high school extracurricular resources	3
Upper secondary school students’ perspectives on un/fairness in group work assessment	3
Primary preservice teachers’ exploration of possible selves through narrated metaphors during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
It’s a hard-knock life for us: a multilevel analysis on the association between grade retention and being bullied in 25 countries	3
Rigidity of class ability grouping practices in Australia	3
Examining the relationship between ethnicity, school attainment and higher education participation in England	2
Career motivations and interest in teaching of tertiary students taking mathematics and science subjects	2
Parent priorities when navigating the decision to delay school entry	2
The importance of the figure of the imagined reader in shaping children’s metalinguistic awareness while writing	2
The long road to secondary school: background, home learning environment, and transition difficulties in Scotland	2
Including all: the contribution of a diverse research community	2
Sociological perspectives on the mental health and wellbeing agenda in education	2
Challenges for implementation in diverse settings: reflections on two randomised controlled trials of educational interventions in South American communities	2
Teachers matter: linking teachers and students’ self-regulated learning	2
Illustrating conceptual understanding in international business undergraduate writing	2
Effective practice in EAL education: enacting distributed school leadership	2
‘It was just as political as it was pragmatic’: the (in)formal roles and policy work of ‘curriculum leaders’ in a federated education context	2
A network approach to teachers’ interactional management in whole-class discussions	2
Metalinguistic understanding about the verb	2
Intertextuality and the advance of mathematisation in young children’s inscriptions	2
Be true to your school? Teachers’ turnover intentions: the role of socioeconomic composition, teachability perceptions, emotional exhaustion and teacher efficacy	2
Tackling misinformation: where do educationalists need to target their efforts?	2
A decolonial reading of the history curriculum: towards undoing historicide for curricular justice for the Zimbabwean learner	2
The what and why of supplementary schooling in Flanders: purposes and underlying motives as perceived by initiators	2
Scoping review of conceptions of literacy in middle school science	2
Bilingual school choice and socio-economic segregation: an analysis for Spain based on PISA 2015	2