OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Education is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A historical perspective on the OECD’s ‘humanitarian turn’: PISA for Development and the Learning Framework 2030	36
The internationalisation of China’s higher education: soft power with ‘Chinese characteristics’	35
Providing a platform for ‘what works’: platform-based governance and the reshaping of teacher learning through the OECD’s PISA4U	26
The multiple meanings of ‘student-centred’ or ‘learner-centred’ education, and the case for a more flexible approach to defining it	26
Global science and national comparisons: beyond bibliometrics and scientometrics	23
Introduction contextualising global flows of competency-based education: polysemy, hybridity and silences	21
Blurring the boundaries. University actorhood and institutional change in global higher education	18
Outcome-based accountability regimes in OECD countries: a global policy model?	18
Does school socioeconomic composition matter more in some countries than others, and if so, why?	17
Accelerating Hong Kong’s reeducation: ‘mainlandisation’, securitisation and the 2020 National Security Law	17
Educational inequality and state-sponsored elite education: the case of the Dutch gymnasium	17
Transnational competence frameworks and national curriculum-making: the case of Sweden	16
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	14
Translating PISA, translating the world	13
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	13
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	13
Voluntary school fees in segregated public schools: how selective public schools turbo-charge inequity and funding gaps	12
Parents, schools and the twenty-first-century state: comparative perspectives	12
Imagining globally competent learners: experts and education policy-making beyond the nation-state	11
Market models and segregation: examining mechanisms of student sorting	11
Moral priority or skill priority: a comparative analysis of key competencies frameworks in China and the United States	11
Comparative studies of early childhood education and care: beyond methodological nationalism	10
Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’: affect and mediatisation in India	10
Language of instruction: a question of disconnected capabilities	10
Scholarship in times of crises: towards a trans-discipline of early childhood	10

Aligning policy ideas and power: the roots of thecompetitiveness framein European education policy	10
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education	9
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	9
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law	9
Contextualising the achievement gap: assessing educational achievement, inequality, and disadvantage in high-Income countries	9
Global university rankings and Russia's quest for national sovereignty	9
21st century skills in the United States: a late, partial and silent reform	8
School segregation: theoretical insights and future directions	8
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	8
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	8
From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden	7
The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden: global management trends meet national political culture and governance models	7
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence: the uneven development of colonial schooling in Cyprus and Singapore	7
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	7
Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education	7
Some Japanese ways of conducting comparative educational research	7
Comparative education as a political project	7
Addressing silences in research on girls’ experiences of teacher sexual violence: insights from Uganda	7
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	7