OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Education Policy 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Special issue introduction: education and the law: critical perspectives on juridification, education governance and social justice	41
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	37
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	36
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	31
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	25
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	25
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	23
A political sociology of education policy	19
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
Hybrid network governance: methodologies of studying online and offline networking in global climate education policy	15
The pictorial turn that wasn’t (yet?): visuals and the study of education policy and governance	15
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	15
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	15
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	15
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	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
The psychological complex in contemporary education policy	12
Federations of academic departments: performance-based funding and academic field-level expenditures at Russell group universities	12
Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	11
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	11
Rethinking educational federalism: using assemblage theory to analyse policy travel and transformation in Argentina	11
Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	10
Analyzing school leadership policy reform in Lebanon	10

Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: an analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms	8
Commoning education, challenging the state: the radical instability of Bachilleratos Populares in Buenos Aires	8
Local pathways to sustainability education policies: a Comparative case study of three large school districts in the USA	7
Teacher-led issue networks in Swedish ed-tech policymaking – the case of generative AI	7
Examining paradoxes of access in disability law: a critical analysis of the least restrictive environment	7
Neurofarming HE: how to think, feel and act in the Ne(ur)oliberal university	7
Performing the epistemorphic in social policy: the case of higher education	7
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	7
Comparing two transfer spaces over time and against a global script: the case of school-autonomy-with-accountability	6
Information and attitudes about a counter-cultural educational policy: a mixed study on school choice in Chile	6
Artificial intelligence as a site of global educational governance: the case of UNESCO	6
“Inclusion has gone too far”: how a slogan became policy in Swedish education	6
Educational equity in a global context: cases and conversations in educational ethics	6
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	6
Street-Level Bureaucracy in health promoting schools: a cross case analysis through Bourdieu’s capital theory	6
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	5
The neurotic parent: affect, risk and school choice	5
Rootedness, continuity and connection: the value of place in discussions of social mobility	5
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	5
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	5
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	5
Equity audits and school resource allocation: Applying critical resource theory to increase equal opportunity in schools	5
Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	5
Pursuing social justice through education policy programmes: capturing subtleties with a modified welfare regime analysis	5
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5
Cutting the Gordian knot of the education ‘crisis’ with teacher testing. A blunt instrument that crushes marginalised pre-service teachers	4
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	4
(Re-)framing the teaching profession by reforming teacher education and careers in Chile	4
The ‘performative’ university: theoretical and personal reflections	4
Using Zemiology to explore the potential social harms of a lifelong learning entitlement	4
Ofsted experiences: performing inspection and suicidal ideations	4
Affective philanthropy and the im/possibility of governance: the LEGO Foundation’s involvement in public education	4
What is governance? Projects, objects and analytics in education	4
The policy simulacrum: text, discourse and the hyperreal	4
Policy tug of war: EBacc, progress 8 and modern foreign languages in England	4
Metrics, standards and alignment in teacher policy: critiquing fundamentalism and imagining pluralism Metrics, standards and alignment in teacher policy: critiquing fundamentalism and i	4
Resisting regulation: revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru	4
Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs	4
Accountability with Chinese characteristics: exploring foreign teachers’ experiences of curriculum reform in international schools in China	4
“Don’t take it personally”: the scandal of school and democracy	4
Governing teachers’ subjectivity in neoliberal times: the fabrication of the bonsai teacher	4