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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘I am done with that now.’ Sense of alienations in Finnish academia	39
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	31
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	29
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	24
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	21
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	20
Early childhood education and care in South America — a new curricular wave?	20
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	20
Reframing educational governance and its crisis through the ‘totally pedagogised society’	19
A political sociology of education policy	18
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	16
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	15
On the uses and use of NAPLAN: the hidden effects of test-based data-centric accountabilities	15
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	14
School reform in an era of standardization. Authentic accountabilities	14
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	14
Education and support for Scottish Independence, 1979-2016	13
Venture philanthropy in public schools in Australia: tracing policy mobility and policy networks	12
A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong	11
The psychological complex in contemporary education policy	11
When policy intermediaries produce knowledge: A Bourdieusian analysis of the Education Endowment Foundation’s influence in a multi-academy trust	11
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	11
Power, authority and expertise: policy making about relationships and sex education in English primary schools	10
Federations of academic departments: performance-based funding and academic field-level expenditures at Russell group universities	10
Ability, inequality and post-pandemic schools. Rethinking contemporary myths of meritocracy	9

Examining paradoxes of access in disability law: a critical analysis of the least restrictive environment	8
Commoning education, challenging the state: the radical instability of Bachilleratos Populares in Buenos Aires	8
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	8
Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	8
Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	8
Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: an analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms	8
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	8
Educational imaginaries: governance at the intersection of technology and education	7
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	7
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	7
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: the development and application of a public-private index	7
Comparing two transfer spaces over time and against a global script: the case of school-autonomy-with-accountability	7
Effects of spatial competition on public educational efficiency: an analysis for the Chilean Metropolitan Region	6
Educational equity in a global context: cases and conversations in educational ethics	6
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	6
Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	6
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5
The intricacies of conditionality: education policy review in Greece 2015–2018	5
Resisting regulation: revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru	5
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	5
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	5
The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: a license for commercialisation	5
Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs	5
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	5
Cutting the Gordian knot of the education ‘crisis’ with teacher testing. A blunt instrument that crushes marginalised pre-service teachers	5
STEM, social mobility and equality: avenues for widening access	5