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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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	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	15
Making decisions about attainment grouping in mathematics: teacher agency and autonomy in Norway	14
Advantages and Disadvantages of Being ‘Gifted’: Perceptions of the Label by Gifted Pupils	14
The role of homeroom teachers in mediating the impact of principals’ empowering leadership on adolescent engagement	14
Students’ contrasting their experiences of teacher expectations in streamed and mixed ability classes: A study of Grade 10 students in Western Australia	12
Unlocking the power of big ideas in education: a systematic review from 2010 to 2022	12
Teacher–student relationship and students’ social competence in relation to the quality of educational dialogue	11
Knotworking — not working: Interprofessional collaboration and co-figuration of pre-service special education teachers	10
Anti-bullying tensions in Chile: a figurational social-ecological analysis of policies, schools and families	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	10
Practicing voice: student voice experiences, democratic school culture and students’ attitudes towards voice	10
Playful punctuation in primary children’s narrative writing	10
Fair enough?! Investigating the specific challenges of diverse university first-year students	9
Whose goal emphases play a more important role in ESL/EFL learners’ motivation, self-regulated learning and achievement?: Teachers’ or parents’	9
An immersive, ‘Faster Read’: a pilot, mixed-method study, developing whole-text reading comprehension and engagement with adolescent struggling readers	9
Therapeutic discourse in teacher professional discourse: on multidimensionality and elasticity of psychology-based reasoning	8
Understanding subject choices from report card grades: gender and educational level disparities	8
Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden	8
Adaptive responses to contextualised and differentiated school improvement. Identifying institutional profiles of secondary schools	8
Postgraduate research in a sick society	7
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
The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives	5

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	5
International students’ identity negotiation in the context of international education: experiences of Burmese students in Hong Kong	5
Staying on track in higher secondary education in Flanders (Belgium). Mechanisms explaining social inequality in educational choice	5
Experienced burnout and teacher–working environment fit: a comparison of teacher cohorts with or without persistent turnover intentions	4
Using habitus and ethnic identity theory to investigate the decision-making of Canadian Modern Orthodox young people	4
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds	4
The emotional journey of the beginning teacher: Phases and coping strategies	4
Educational dialogue of preschool teachers experiencing different levels of stress	4
How do views of working conditions vary across school staff?	4
Is academic selection in Northern Ireland a barrier to social cohesion?	4