OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Moral 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	34
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood	22
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	15
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	15
Associations of parenting styles with moral reasoning in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis	14
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	11
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	11
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	10
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	10
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	9
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet	9
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	8
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen	8
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	8
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	8
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	8
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman	7
Institutionalized empathy	7
Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study	7
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education	6
Mental images and imagination in moral education	6
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making	5
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students	5
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor	5
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools	5

Moral motivations of bystanders in potential sexual assault situations	5
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	4
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer	4
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	4
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	4
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character	4
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework	4
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis	4
Connecting moral development with critical pedagogy: A reply to Winston Thompson	3
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	3
Teaching virtue virtually: Can the virtue of tolerance of diversity of conscience be taught online?	3
Modelling teachers’ caring behaviour through the lens of high school students	3
Self-regulation through storytelling: A demonstration study detailing the educational book Game On for resilience building in early school children	3
Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education	3
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	3
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	3
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope	3