OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Oxford Review of Education is 1. 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
What is academic development? Contributing a frontier-extending conceptual analysis to the field’s epistemic development	43
Improving but not equalising opportunity: the objective and effect of regulating fair access to higher education in England, and their implications for understanding higher education policy	40
Using GIS to analyse early years provision in Northern Ireland – adding another year of segregated education?	32
Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review	27
Can earmarked admission places help address the perceived rural disadvantage in higher education access? Evidence from Romania	20
Socio-economic inequality and education	20
Youth education decisions and occupational misalignment and mismatch: evidence from a representative cohort study of Australian youth	18
The cumulative impact of socioeconomic disadvantage on educational attainment during austerity: a comparative cross-cohort approach	17
Young people’s literacy, numeracy achievements, and the school-to-work transition: a longitudinal study of regional variation	16
Statistically guided grading judgements: contextualisation or contamination?	15
Financial sustainability in a marketised and partially autonomous environment: the case of small new public universities in England	15
Agenda-setting for education reform: the case of the Vision Statement for the Future of Scottish Education	14
Adolescents in transition: experiences and appraisals of immigrant students in school education	13
Social sustainability in Early Childhood Education and Care through play, responsiveness and inclusion: teachers’ responses to children’s non-verbal initiatives in play	13
Exploring dynamic processes within the ecological university: a focus on the adaptive cycle	12
The pronunciation of students’ names in higher education: identity work by academics and professional services staff	12
Concepts, collaboration, and a company of actors: a Vygotskian model for concept development in the 21st century	11
Contemporary education and guiding pedagogical principals: the prospects for an embodied and intersubjective interpretation of phenomenology	10
Youth experiences of co-designing a well-being intervention: reflections, learnings and recommendations	10
Measuring indicators of Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.2.1: factor structure of a direct assessment tool in four Asian countries	10
Formabiap’s Indigenous educative community, Peru: a biosocial pedagogy	9
Higher education expansion and the secondary school curriculum in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century	9
Leadership for ethical conduct of Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Nigeria and the challenge of ‘Miracle Examination Centres’	8
Competence, competition, content and control: sociological perspectives on educational assessment	8
The micro-politics of the enactment of a school literacy policy	8

A validation study for a short-version scale to assess 21^stcentury skills in flipped EFL classrooms	7
Redefining student voice: applying the lens of critical pragmatism	7
Testing for sequential bias in school inspections	7
Challenges facing interventions to promote equity in the early years: exploring the ‘impact’, legacy and lessons learned from a national evaluation of Children’s Centres in England	7
Understanding the salary gap between academic faculty and top administrators: a New Public Management perspective	6
The state and ‘field’ of comparative higher education	6
Factors influencing teachers’ grading standards in mathematics	6
Senior-secondary vocational tracking and socio-economic inequality in student educational performance: evidence from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey	6
Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation	6
Gender differences in students’ perceptions of teacher and peer feedback in mathematics: lessons from Denmark	6
Student diversity, university rankings and the positioning of Russell Group universities	6
Children, classrooms and challenging behaviour: do the rights of the many outweigh the rights of the few?	6
Looping: does keeping the same secondary school mathematics teacher lead to better outcomes?	6
Knowledge, expertise and policy in the examinations crisis in England	5
Understanding how institutional dynamics can contribute to educational inequality in Nordic cities	5
Increasing inclusion for ethnic minority students by teaching the British Empire and global history in the English history curriculum	5
Interventions fostering well-being of schoolteachers: a review of research	5
Student at a distance: exploring the potential and prerequisites of using telepresence robots in schools	4
Can a code-based approach to marking and feedback reduce teachers’ workload? An evaluation of the FLASH marking intervention	4
Can early schooling at age 2 narrow the gaps in child development? Evidence from the French Elfe cohort	4
Direct and indirect influences of familial socioeconomic status on students’ science achievement	4
Interconnected learning between university and the workplace: a socio-cultural perspective of graduate employability in the UK	4
Choosing private alternative schools in Czechia: parents’ narrative identity study	4
Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess classroom assessment from the self-regulated learning perspective	4
Theory-informed beliefs in early childhood education: contradictions in child development theories and models of play	4
Pedagogy and Indigenous knowing and learning	4
One index, two publishers and the global research economy	4
Scaling up early language intervention in educational settings: First steps matter	4
The association between social goals and academic variables in school: a systematic review	4
Environment in the views of preschool children: an investigation of children’s drawings and narratives in Turkey	4
Mary and David Medd’s work: domesticity in postwar British school design (1949–72)	4
Personalising assessment in the service of equity	4
The educational competence of the European Court of Human Rights: judicial pedagogies of religious symbols in classrooms	4
The core content framework and the ‘new science’ of educational research	3
Redefining the meaning of teaching in the era of (post-) performativity: the voices of Singaporean teachers	3
Conceptualising small rural school-community relationships within a divided society: people, meanings, practices and spaces	3
Making the case for local strategic coordination? An investigation of fair access protocols and their role in the reintegration of pupils from alternative provision to mainstream school	3
Foreword to the fiftieth volume	3
Standardised testing in the context of constitutionally protected freedom of education – the case of Flanders	3
When the ‘mindfulness wars’ enter the classroom: making sense of the critique of school-based mindfulness	3
The influence of socio-demographics and school factors on GCSE attainment: results from the first record linkage data in Northern Ireland	3
Politics of PISA in educational agenda-setting: an analysis of the media coverage of PISA 2000-2018 in South Korea	3
The power of stories: oral storytelling, schooling and onto-epistemologies in rural Malawi	3
Pedagogical practice and students’ perceptions of fully online flipped instruction during COVID-19	3
Only Ada?: dominance of entrepreneurial white men as the famous figures in computing and technology for young people	3
Examining the factors influencing mathematics academic achievement in mainland China: A multilevel analysis	2
Country houses repurposed as private schools: what might be the motivations?	2
Is a more selective exit exam related to shadow education use? An analysis of two cohorts of final-year secondary school students in the Netherlands	2
Expectations of progression to university among pupils in rural communities: the role of social influences	2
Track prejudice in Belgian secondary schools: examining the influence of social-psychological and structural school features	2

Territorial learning and childcare practices: exploring relations between territory and care in the intercultural training of Indigenous educators in Brazil	2
Privacy, power, and relationship: ethics and the home-school partnership	2
Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings	2
On silent feet: the library and the child	2
Decolonial perspectives on global higher education: Disassembling data infrastructures, reassembling the field	2
Social differentiation in career decision-making processes and higher education intentions: the role of family background and school composition in the use of different sources of information	2
A capability approach to understanding academic and socio-emotional outcomes of students with special educational needs in Ireland	2
School climate and resilience promoting characteristics: exploring latent patterns of student perceptions in California	2
Student composition, equity, and mathematics learning outcomes during a time of educational reforms in Ethiopia	2
Test anxiety: Is it associated with performance in high-stakes examinations?	2
Effects of a professional development programme on teachers’ classroom practices in Colombia	2
Mathematics curriculum waves within vocational education	2
Promoting politically contested change by invisible education policies: the case of ultra-Orthodox public schools in Israel	2
‘Alternative’ education provision: a mapping and critique	2
Shifting power relations in innovative learning environments: implications for initial teacher education and practicum	1
Tessellation, shamanism, and being alive to things	1
Oral language at school entry: dimensionality of speaking and listening skills	1
Research on international and global higher education: Six different perspectives	1
Pedagogies for the future: ethnographic reflections on two Latin American learning journeys	1
Young children’s pre-academic and social skills: role of parents’ locus of control and children’s ADHD behaviours	1
Interpreting the effectiveness of academic English writing programmes in higher education: A meta-analysis	1
Rethinking the ‘global’ in global higher education studies: From the lens of the Chinese idea oftianxia	1
Expanding educational opportunities or widening learning inequalities? Evidence from national reform of pre-primary education in Ethiopia	1
The limits to dialogue	1
Social in/justice and the deficit foundations of oracy	1
Examining Teaching for Mastery as an instance of ‘hyperreal’ cross national policy borrowing	1
‘Shi men’ as key doctoral practice: understanding international doctoral students’ learning communities and research culture in China	1
Complicated shadows: a discussion of positionality within educational research	1
What makes care-experienced young people ‘survivors’ in education: evidence from China	1
Typologising the corporatisation of parent roles in the ‘modern’ governance of Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in subordinated communities	1
A slippery slope: early learning and equity in rural India	1
Serving their communities? The under-admission of children with disabilities and ‘special educational needs’ to ‘faith’ primary schools in England	1
The DECAY of Merton’s scientific norms and the new academic ethos	1
What to learn? Curricular interest among socially vulnerable students	1
The role of education in a democracy: continuing the debate	1
Modelling gender equity in the classroom: from teacher educators to pre-service teachers and what gets lost in translation	1
Gender stereotyping in mothers’ and teachers’ perceptions of boys’ and girls’ mathematics performance in Ireland	1
Systematic review synthesising the effects of study abroad experience on the development of language fluency	1
Pupil voice as a method in education research: thinking the ‘in-between’	1
Perceptions and pedagogical considerations in professional development training for integration of an early literacy program in Kenya	1
The perceived quality, fairness of and corruption in education in Europe	1
Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education	1
The pedagogy of latrines. A kaleidoscopic look at the history of school bathrooms in Argentina, 1880-1930	1
Inside mathematics learning inequality: an analysis of Young Lives Survey data, India	1
Who are the children we teach? Considering identities, place and time-space in education	1
Insights on student-centred and knowledge-centred teaching: Jewish studies teachers, pedagogy and community	1
What is global higher education?	1
Predictors and mediators of pressure/tension in university students’ distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: A self-determination theory perspective	1
Accountability as praxis: a dialectical conversation on decolonising teaching methods	1