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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	38
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	33
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	28
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	27
Early childhood education and care in South America — a new curricular wave?	24
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	19
‘I am done with that now.’ Sense of alienations in Finnish academia	19
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	18
A political sociology of education policy	18
Reframing educational governance and its crisis through the ‘totally pedagogised society’	18
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	15
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	14
Education and support for Scottish Independence, 1979-2016	14
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	14
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	14
School reform in an era of standardization. Authentic accountabilities	14
When policy intermediaries produce knowledge: A Bourdieusian analysis of the Education Endowment Foundation’s influence in a multi-academy trust	11
A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong	11
The psychological complex in contemporary education policy	11
Venture philanthropy in public schools in Australia: tracing policy mobility and policy networks	11
Federations of academic departments: performance-based funding and academic field-level expenditures at Russell group universities	10
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	9
Power, authority and expertise: policy making about relationships and sex education in English primary schools	9
Conservative philanthropies and organizations shaping U.S. educational policy and practice	9

Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	8
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	8
Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	8
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
Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: an analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms	8
Ability, inequality and post-pandemic schools. Rethinking contemporary myths of meritocracy	8
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in 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	7
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: the development and application of a public-private index	7
Educational imaginaries: governance at the intersection of technology and education	7
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	6
The intricacies of conditionality: education policy review in Greece 2015–2018	6
Effects of spatial competition on public educational efficiency: an analysis for the Chilean Metropolitan Region	6
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	6
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	6
Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	6
Educational equity in a global context: cases and conversations in educational ethics	6
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	5
An affirmative-diffractive re-reading of the policy instrumentation approach through agential realism and the accreditation instrument	5
The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: a license for commercialisation	5
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	5
Education department policy constructions within highly political contexts: a critical policy study of multiculturalism	5
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5