OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research Papers in Education 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Making decisions about attainment grouping in mathematics: teacher agency and autonomy in Norway	31
The impact of school culture, school climate, and teachers’ job satisfaction on the teacher-student relationship: a case study in four Estonian schools	19
Further education and mental health during the pandemic: the moral impasse of meritocracy	17
Using pupils’ grade obtained in national examinations as an outcome measure in evaluations: some considerations for the design of randomised controlled trials	13
How novel can examination questions really be? Exploring the boundaries of creativity in examination question writing	12
The role of homeroom teachers in mediating the impact of principals’ empowering leadership on adolescent engagement	12
Practicing voice: student voice experiences, democratic school culture and students’ attitudes towards voice	12
Unlocking the power of big ideas in education: a systematic review from 2010 to 2022	11
Advantages and Disadvantages of Being ‘Gifted’: Perceptions of the Label by Gifted Pupils	10
Anti-bullying tensions in Chile: a figurational social-ecological analysis of policies, schools and families	10
Teacher–student relationship and students’ social competence in relation to the quality of educational dialogue	10
Playful punctuation in primary children’s narrative writing	10
Students’ contrasting their experiences of teacher expectations in streamed and mixed ability classes: A study of Grade 10 students in Western Australia	10
Knotworking — not working: Interprofessional collaboration and co-figuration of pre-service special education teachers	10
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	9
Fair enough?! Investigating the specific challenges of diverse university first-year students	9
Understanding subject choices from report card grades: gender and educational level disparities	9
On reducing errors in assessment instruments	8
An immersive, ‘Faster Read’: a pilot, mixed-method study, developing whole-text reading comprehension and engagement with adolescent struggling readers	8
Adaptive responses to contextualised and differentiated school improvement. Identifying institutional profiles of secondary schools	8
Postgraduate research in a sick society	7
Therapeutic discourse in teacher professional discourse: on multidimensionality and elasticity of psychology-based reasoning	7
Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden	7
Whose goal emphases play a more important role in ESL/EFL learners’ motivation, self-regulated learning and achievement?: Teachers’ or parents’	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

Staying on track in higher secondary education in Flanders (Belgium). Mechanisms explaining social inequality in educational choice	6
Scope, nature and progress of impact in practice-oriented educational research: a conceptual and empirical substantiation	6
Teachers’ troubled interactions with prescribed school history and its national imaginaries: the case of post-Mugabe Zimbabwe	6
International students’ identity negotiation in the context of international education: experiences of Burmese students in Hong Kong	5
The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives	4
How do views of working conditions vary across school staff?	4
Fostering culturally responsive pedagogy related competencies among pre-service teachers: a systematic review of the recent research literature	4
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds	4
Educational dialogue of preschool teachers experiencing different levels of stress	4
Leadership for school mindfulness: the role of school ambidexterity and leaders’ cognitive complexity	4
Experienced burnout and teacher–working environment fit: a comparison of teacher cohorts with or without persistent turnover intentions	4
Is academic selection in Northern Ireland a barrier to social cohesion?	4
The emotional journey of the beginning teacher: Phases and coping strategies	4
Using habitus and ethnic identity theory to investigate the decision-making of Canadian Modern Orthodox young people	4