OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Education Policy 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Special issue introduction: education and the law: critical perspectives on juridification, education governance and social justice	43
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	40
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	28
Exploring school absences for children in care in England: systemic pressures, local challenges and admissions resistance	27
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	24
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	23
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	22
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	21
A political sociology of education policy	19
Hybrid network governance: methodologies of studying online and offline networking in global climate education policy	17
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	17
On the uses and use of NAPLAN: the hidden effects of test-based data-centric accountabilities	16
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	15
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	14
Calling out policy bullshit: an index for assessing evidence claims in education	14
The pictorial turn that wasn’t (yet?): visuals and the study of education policy and governance	13
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	13
When policy intermediaries produce knowledge: A Bourdieusian analysis of the Education Endowment Foundation’s influence in a multi-academy trust	13
A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong	13
Federations of academic departments: performance-based funding and academic field-level expenditures at Russell group universities	12
Time in education policy transfer. The seven temporalities of global school reform	12
The psychological complex in contemporary education policy	12
Constructing the ‘reflective’ and ‘difficult’ teacher: pragmatic policy discourses in China and France (2000–2023)	11
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	11
Commoning education, challenging the state: the radical instability of Bachilleratos Populares in Buenos Aires	9

Visible yet fuzzy: new adventures in (post)panopticism under England’s 2019 Education Inspection Framework	9
Analyzing school leadership policy reform in Lebanon	9
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	9
Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: an analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms	9
Examining paradoxes of access in disability law: a critical analysis of the least restrictive environment	8
Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	8
Rethinking educational federalism: using assemblage theory to analyse policy travel and transformation in Argentina	8
The invisible re-segregation of immigrant students at Chilean high schools	8
Teacher-led issue networks in Swedish ed-tech policymaking – the case of generative AI	8
Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	8
Local pathways to sustainability education policies: a Comparative case study of three large school districts in the USA	7
Performing the epistemorphic in social policy: the case of higher education	7
Street-Level Bureaucracy in health promoting schools: a cross case analysis through Bourdieu’s capital theory	7
Neurofarming HE: how to think, feel and act in the Ne(ur)oliberal university	7
‘Piecing things together as best we can’: PreK teacher enactment of hybrid policies during COVID-19	6
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	6
“Inclusion has gone too far”: how a slogan became policy in Swedish education	6
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	6
Comparing two transfer spaces over time and against a global script: the case of school-autonomy-with-accountability	6
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	6
Artificial intelligence as a site of global educational governance: the case of UNESCO	6
Information and attitudes about a counter-cultural educational policy: a mixed study on school choice in Chile	6
Educational equity in a global context: cases and conversations in educational ethics	6
Rootedness, continuity and connection: the value of place in discussions of social mobility	5
Pursuing social justice through education policy programmes: capturing subtleties with a modified welfare regime analysis	5
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	5
Resisting regulation: revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru	5
The neurotic parent: affect, risk and school choice	5
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5
Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs	5
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	5
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	5
Equity audits and school resource allocation: Applying critical resource theory to increase equal opportunity in schools	5
Affective philanthropy and the im/possibility of governance: the LEGO Foundation’s involvement in public education	5
Ofsted experiences: performing inspection and suicidal ideations	5