OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Education is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	40
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	32
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	30
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	30
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	28
Shadow education in the Middle East Shadow education in the Middle East , by Mark Bray and Anas Hajar, London, Routledge, 2022, 122 pp., $65 (hardback), ISBN 97810323298	24
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	24
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	23
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists	21
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	19
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	18
Raised to obey: the rise and spread of mass education	18
(Re)Imagining the future of education: a critical discourse analysis of digital transformation policies in China and Denmark	17
Outsourcing of teaching English to speakers of other languages: towards an equitable society	17
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	17
Comparative education and its discontents	16
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	16
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s	16
Correction	16
Education for societal transformation: alternatives for a just future	16
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method	16
Learning to lead for transformation: an African perspective on educational leadership	15
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism	15
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018	15
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	14

Editorial	13
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas	13
The darker side of Tianxia (All-under-heaven): decoloniality, imperial histories and China’s internationalisation of higher education	13
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators	13
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	13
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique	12
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative	11
Revisiting Chinese citizenship education: from political socialisation for Confucian collectivism to a new individualism	11
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®	11
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	11
The association between family socioeconomic status and academic achievement: new estimates using three-level meta-analysis of PISA 2009–2018 data	10
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law	10
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy	10
Comparative education as a political project	10
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao	9
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	9
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	9
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	9
The Dao of complexity: making sense and making waves in turbulent times	8
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency	8
Internationalisation struggles and student mobility: ethnic exclusion and racism in Philippine higher education	8
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	7
The rise of social and emotional development in the global education discourse, 1998–2023	7
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy	7
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	7
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	7
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education	6
‘Beyond’ critique: universities, human rights, decolonisation, and the Sustainable Development Goals	6
Education and social justice in Japan	6
Apprehending the subject? The significance of the categorisation debate in decolonial studies for the social sciences	6
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens	6
Comparative education: and now?	6
The Oxford handbook of the history of education; Handbook of historical studies in education. Debates, tensions, and directions	6
The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden: global management trends meet national political culture and governance models	5
Comparing stakeholders’ perceptions of the implementation of ‘learner-centred’ pedagogy: the case of Rwanda	5
Struggling for equal access and success: disability in European higher education	5
Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China	5
Missing in action? The World Bank’s surveys of teacher absenteeism in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability: insights from a cross-cultural teacher education programme	5
Correction	5
Reimagining national systems: Cosmopolitan Nationalism as a framework for educational regeneration	5
Comparative education and international relations	5
The politics of tinkering: developing the PISA assessment of global competence	5
Education, curriculum, and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education	4
Comparative studies of early childhood education and care: beyond methodological nationalism	4
Decolonisation as Dis-Enclosure : overcoming the dangers of positionality and identity in comparative education	4
Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis , edited by Eleftherios Kleri	4
From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden	4
Transnational academic mobility and knowledge production: learning and being differently in the global education policy field through multiple selves	4

Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence Based Education Assessment	4
Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being	4
International students in Soviet and Russian universities: a critical analysis of changing rationales 1950s – 2025	4
Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond	3
Understanding China’s policy responses to PISA: using a ti and yong framework	3
‘Our system fits us’: comparing teacher accountability, motivation, and sociocultural context in Finland and Singapore	3
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	3
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	3
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	3
Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on A Growing Global Network	3
Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field	3
The effects of private schooling on pupil achievement: a global systemic analysis	3
Internationalization, global higher education and postcolonial critiques	3
The impact of Covid-19 on the institutional fabric of higher education: old patterns, new dynamics, and changing rules?	3
Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	3
An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism	3
Creeping anglicisation: school inspection in Scotland and Ireland	3
Beyond decolonisation: criticism, comparison and conjectures from the global south	3
The Politics of Higher Education: The Imperial University in Northern Song China	3
The politics of education on China’s periphery: ‘Telling China’s Story Well’ – or honestly?	3
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States	3
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	3