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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of school culture, school climate, and teachers’ job satisfaction on the teacher-student relationship: a case study in four Estonian schools	27
Further education and mental health during the pandemic: the moral impasse of meritocracy	27
The role of homeroom teachers in mediating the impact of principals’ empowering leadership on adolescent engagement	17
Making decisions about attainment grouping in mathematics: teacher agency and autonomy in Norway	17
Dialogic collaborative problem solving: a theoretical framework for analyzing students’ dialogic interaction in collaborative problem solving	14
Bringing conflicting sources into the classroom. Eliciting and scaffolding reflective thinking in Dutch L1 linguistic education	14
Unlocking the power of big ideas in education: a systematic review from 2010 to 2022	14
Teacher–student relationship and students’ social competence in relation to the quality of educational dialogue	14
Practicing voice: student voice experiences, democratic school culture and students’ attitudes towards voice	14
Knotworking — not working: Interprofessional collaboration and co-figuration of pre-service special education teachers	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
Anti-bullying tensions in Chile: a figurational social-ecological analysis of policies, schools and families	11
Fair enough?! Investigating the specific challenges of diverse university first-year students	10
Adaptive responses to contextualised and differentiated school improvement. Identifying institutional profiles of secondary schools	10
Understanding subject choices from report card grades: gender and educational level disparities	9
Postgraduate research in a sick society	9
Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden	9
Therapeutic discourse in teacher professional discourse: on multidimensionality and elasticity of psychology-based reasoning	9
An immersive, ‘Faster Read’: a pilot, mixed-method study, developing whole-text reading comprehension and engagement with adolescent struggling readers	9
Digital personalised learning to improve literacy and numeracy outcomes: a randomised controlled trial in Kenyan pre-primary classrooms	8
Teachers’ troubled interactions with prescribed school history and its national imaginaries: the case of post-Mugabe Zimbabwe	7
Staying on track in higher secondary education in Flanders (Belgium). Mechanisms explaining social inequality in educational choice	7
Pre-Service Teacher perceptions of Professional Experience in Australia: a scoping review	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	7
International students’ identity negotiation in the context of international education: experiences of Burmese students in Hong Kong	6
Is academic selection in Northern Ireland a barrier to social cohesion?	6
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds	6
An eye-tracking study to investigate the impact of media multitasking behaviour on visual attention and learning performance in online learning	5
How do views of working conditions vary across school staff?	5
Fostering culturally responsive pedagogy related competencies among pre-service teachers: a systematic review of the recent research literature	5
The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives	5
From thesis to teacher: research competencies of Flemish student teachers in research-based teacher education	5
Why do students leave? Persistence in selective universities	5
Using habitus and ethnic identity theory to investigate the decision-making of Canadian Modern Orthodox young people	5
Experienced burnout and teacher–working environment fit: a comparison of teacher cohorts with or without persistent turnover intentions	5
School absences, exclusions and criminal sentences amongst high-achieving children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds	5
Zooming to work or working to Zoom: relations between Zoom fatigue, cognitive load, and boredom	4
It’s a hard-knock life for us: a multilevel analysis on the association between grade retention and being bullied in 25 countries	4
Leadership for school mindfulness: the role of school ambidexterity and leaders’ cognitive complexity	4
Primary preservice teachers’ exploration of possible selves through narrated metaphors during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
A structured discussion of the fairness of GCSE and A level grades in England in summer 2020 and 2021	4
Adaptation, change and reaffirmation: investigating the limits of young working-class men adapting to elite higher education institutions	4
Interpreting the mental health and wellbeing agenda in adult community learning	4
Rigidity of class ability grouping practices in Australia	4
Upper secondary school students’ perspectives on un/fairness in group work assessment	3
Intertextuality and the advance of mathematisation in young children’s inscriptions	3
Be true to your school? Teachers’ turnover intentions: the role of socioeconomic composition, teachability perceptions, emotional exhaustion and teacher efficacy	3
Examining the relationship between ethnicity, school attainment and higher education participation in England	3
Early dropout, earnings and skills in later life: evidence from Spain	3
Career motivations and interest in teaching of tertiary students taking mathematics and science subjects	3
Teachers matter: linking teachers and students’ self-regulated learning	3
School-level competition for US high school extracurricular resources	3
Tackling misinformation: where do educationalists need to target their efforts?	3
Effective practice in EAL education: enacting distributed school leadership	3
Parent priorities when navigating the decision to delay school entry	3
It takes more than an interest in STEM: students’ experience of transition to study in STEM disciplines at university	2
Supporting teachers’ participation in Lesson Study with Facilitators or Advisors: investigating the impact on their students’ mathematical reasoning	2
Bilingual school choice and socio-economic segregation: an analysis for Spain based on PISA 2015	2
Socioeconomic inequalities in teacher-student relationships at age 5	2
Sociological perspectives on the mental health and wellbeing agenda in education	2
Educational quality in strategic negotiation: a critical discourse analysis of the rebranding of the PISA 2025 Science test rationale	2
A network approach to teachers’ interactional management in whole-class discussions	2
The importance of the figure of the imagined reader in shaping children’s metalinguistic awareness while writing	2
Including all: the contribution of a diverse research community	2
Scoping review of conceptions of literacy in middle school science	2
Do School-Related Factors Affect Private Tutoring Attendance? Predictors of Private Tutoring in Maths and German among German Tenth-Graders	2
Shadow education in rural Kazakhstan: patterns and implications for access to higher education	2
The psychological network structure of school principal well-being: the age effect?	2
Metalinguistic understanding about the verb	2
The effects of system type and characteristics on skills inequalities during upper secondary education: a quasi-cohort analysis of OECD data	2