OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research Papers in Education is 5. 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
The impact of school culture, school climate, and teachers’ job satisfaction on the teacher-student relationship: a case study in four Estonian schools	18
Further education and mental health during the pandemic: the moral impasse of meritocracy	18
Using pupils’ grade obtained in national examinations as an outcome measure in evaluations: some considerations for the design of randomised controlled trials	16
Making decisions about attainment grouping in mathematics: teacher agency and autonomy in Norway	14
Unlocking the power of big ideas in education: a systematic review from 2010 to 2022	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
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
Advantages and Disadvantages of Being ‘Gifted’: Perceptions of the Label by Gifted Pupils	12
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
Playful punctuation in primary children’s narrative writing	11
Adaptive responses to contextualised and differentiated school improvement. Identifying institutional profiles of secondary schools	9
Fair enough?! Investigating the specific challenges of diverse university first-year students	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
Therapeutic discourse in teacher professional discourse: on multidimensionality and elasticity of psychology-based reasoning	7
Whose goal emphases play a more important role in ESL/EFL learners’ motivation, self-regulated learning and achievement?: Teachers’ or parents’	7
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
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
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
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