OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Education is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States	42
Learning from comparative ethnographic studies of early childhood education and care	33
Empire, civil society, and the beginnings of colonial education in India	29
Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA: Challenging OECD’s Educational Order	20
Migration for school choice: urbanisation and rural social stratification in China	19
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	19
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	18
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	16
The wheel of history and minorities’ ‘self-sacrifice’ for the Chinese nation	16
Comparison and explanation: a long saga	14
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	14
Family-run universities in Japan: sources of inbuilt resilience in the face of demographic pressure, 1992-2030 Family-run universities in Japan: sources of inbuilt resilience in the fac	14
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	14
Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-Colonial Contexts Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-C	13
The long road to systemic improvement in education: a comparative multi-level case study in federal countries	13
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	13
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	12
Where you place the stakes matter: examining the relationship between test-based accountability and shadow education	12
The impact of Covid-19 on the institutional fabric of higher education: old patterns, new dynamics, and changing rules?	12
Professor John Keith Philip Watson (1939–2024)	12
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	12
Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	11
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	11
‘Curui’: weaving climate justice and gender equality into Fijian educational policies and practices	11
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	11

Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	10
Culture and education: looking back to culture through education	10
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	10
Romancing the public school: attachment, publicness and privatisation	10
The promises and expectations of ILSAs regarding policymaking: lessons from Latin America	10
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists	9
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	9
‘Femininity’ and the history of women’s education: shifting the frame	9
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	9
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence: the uneven development of colonial schooling in Cyprus and Singapore	8
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	8
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao	8
Happiness education: holistic learning for sustainable well-being	8
Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’: affect and mediatisation in India	7
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	7
Empowerment from what? Teacher ‘citizenship talk’ practices for migrant children in China	7
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	7
Stretching spatial theories in comparative education: new approaches for challenging times	7
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	7
The global education policy field: theorization and problematization	7
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	6
School curriculum reform in contemporary Japan: competencies, subjects, and the ambiguities of PISA	6
Time-worn pebbles or unpolished gemstones? (Un)usable pasts and possible futures of comparative education	6
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: findings and policy implications from an international comparative study in early childhood education	6
Re-conceptualising education policy trajectories in a globalised world: lessons from a multi-level comparison of accountability in France and Quebec	6