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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring what student teachers do when preparing their lessons: four planning profiles	28
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	18
Further education and mental health during the pandemic: the moral impasse of meritocracy	18
A structured discussion of the fairness of GCSE and A level grades in England in summer 2020 and 2021	18
Does personality matter? The relationship between child personality and interaction quality in preschools	13
The impact of school culture, school climate, and teachers’ job satisfaction on the teacher-student relationship: a case study in four Estonian schools	11
Sociological perspectives on the mental health and wellbeing agenda in education	11
School inspections as a lever for educational quality: case studies on processes and effects	11
Boys, science and literacy: place-based masculinities, reading practices and the ‘science literate boy’	9
Exploring the effectiveness of clinical simulations to develop student teachers’ parent-teacher communication competence	9
Do School-Related Factors Affect Private Tutoring Attendance? Predictors of Private Tutoring in Maths and German among German Tenth-Graders	8
Responding to Child Neglect in Schools: factors which scaffold safeguarding practice for staff in mainstream education in Wales	8
Making decisions about attainment grouping in mathematics: teacher agency and autonomy in Norway	8
Navigating the secondary-tertiary education border: refugee-background students in Southern Aotearoa New Zealand	8
Using pupils’ grade obtained in national examinations as an outcome measure in evaluations: some considerations for the design of randomised controlled trials	7
University teachers’ well-being during a pandemic: the experiences of five academics	7
Writing as a craft: Re-considering teacher subject content knowledge for teaching writing	7
Interpreting the mental health and wellbeing agenda in adult community learning	7
School-level competition for US high school extracurricular resources	6
Upper secondary school students’ perspectives on un/fairness in group work assessment	6
Rigidity of class ability grouping practices in Australia	6
The association between teacher-to-teacher relationships and student achievement: a meta-analysis	6
International doctoral students’ academic socialisation in China: A social network analysis	5
Staying on track in higher secondary education in Flanders (Belgium). Mechanisms explaining social inequality in educational choice	5
It’s a hard-knock life for us: a multilevel analysis on the association between grade retention and being bullied in 25 countries	5

The effects of system type and characteristics on skills inequalities during upper secondary education: a quasi-cohort analysis of OECD data	5
Unlocking the power of big ideas in education: a systematic review from 2010 to 2022	5
Teacher learning in the context of teacher collaboration: connecting teacher dialogue to teacher learning	5
Ability grouping and student performance: A longitudinal investigation of teacher support as a mediator and moderator	5
Scope, nature and progress of impact in practice-oriented educational research: a conceptual and empirical substantiation	5
Academic self- concept, self-esteem and school attitudes in pre and mid adolescents: gender, SES and parenting	5
Mad student organizing and the growth of Mad Studies in Canada	4
It takes more than an interest in STEM: students’ experience of transition to study in STEM disciplines at university	4
Evidence bases to inform school improvement plans: findings from an umbrella review of school quality domains and specific improvement strategies for school leaders and early years specialists	4
Is academic selection in Northern Ireland a barrier to social cohesion?	4
The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives	4
Measuring parental income using administrative data. What is the best proxy available?	4