OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Compare-A Journal of Comparative and International Education is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Conflicted epistemologies in secondary school environmental education: implications for sustainable climate action in Uganda	77
‘Soon you will go far’: discourse analysis on vocational education policy of Israel	32
Transcending western-centrism and nationalism in education: China and beyond	30
The structural conditions and lived experiences of racism in education	25
Middle-class boys’ schools in England and Japan	25
The importance of trust in education decentralisation in West Africa	25
Deconstructing deficit in development discourses: young rural women in Northern Nigeria navigating work and education	24
The OECD’s shift towards environmental sustainability: assessing the Agency in the Anthropocene report	22
Generating and managing legitimacy: how the OECD established its role in monitoring sustainable development goal 4	22
Gender inequality in successful completion of higher education: evidence from a longitudinal study in India	18
Admission Olympics: the emerging tutoring market for kindergarten applicants	18
Policy–research partnerships for post-war reconstruction of education in Tigray, Ethiopia: the role of local university-based researchers	17
Critical comparative geographies of elite schooling: comparing the UK, Canada, and Sweden	16
What matters more? An investigation of factors influencing student satisfaction in transnational higher education	15
Teachers’ perspectives on Chinese philosophy and philosophy for children: navigating practical tensions in Chinese school settings	13
Students’ experiences of extracurricular activities in elite secondary schools in Lahore	13
Towards a typology of internationalisation at home activities in academic disciplines: a study conducted at a Dutch university of applied sciences	12
Generating views from Elsewhere : UIS and the global project of SDG4 indicators	12
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) for global learning in partnership: art-based collaboration for Internationalisation at a Distance	12
The double whammy of schooling–tutoring inequalities: hierarchical access and provisioning of private tutoring in India	11
Women’s constructions of successful academic careers in STEM field: empirical evidence from South Africa and Sweden	11
Mental health and early career adaptation challenges of Chinese returnees and Korean ambitionists among the STEAM doctoral cohorts in the post-pandemic academic job market	11
Social ties as facilitators of adaptation: the case of Turkish Erasmus sojourners	11
Germany’s international branch campuses: neoliberalising the Humboldtian university through the backdoor?	10
Decolonizing education for sustainable futures	10

Analyzing language of instruction and students’ learning achievements in Zambia: a fixed effects approach using PISA-D data	10
Investigating U.S. and German pre-service teachers’ beliefs regarding digital technology	10
The caving in and the crawling out: creating intergenerational vernacular food literacies	10
Demystifying underrepresentation of women leaders in higher education: comparative perspectives on gender-based leadership barriers and gender equality	10
Teachers in ‘international schools’ as an emerging field of inquiry: a literature review of themes and theoretical developments	9
Thailand: sufficiency education and the performance of peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	9
Teaching controversial issues in politically challenging times	9
From learning to teaching: does the OECD Teaching Compass transcend learnification?	9
A different ‘foundational’ learning: the basic education experiment in post-colonial India	9
Rural transitions to higher education in South Africa: decolonial perspectives Rural transitions to higher education in South Africa: decolonial perspectives , by S. Tim	8
Transcending Western-centrism and nationalism in Education: China and beyond	8
Examining educational policies in Latin America: Comprehensive insights into contemporary reform	8
‘I only belonged after I left’: affective delays and the unfinished pedagogies of short-term mobility in Southeast Asia	8
Towards a reconceptualisation of family literacy: exploring religious literacy learning and practices in two communities in Nepal	8
Characterising citizenship education in terms of its emancipatory potential: reflections from Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan	8
Core in ‘peripheral’ Asia? Evolution of transnational degree programmes in Japanese universities from 2007 to 2021	7
Negotiations, costs, and continuities: analysing the upward educational and social mobility of young men and women of Moroccan descent in Spain	7
A critical anthropology of childhood in Haiti: emotion, power, and white saviors	7
Cross-cultural insights into youth perceptions of climate change: a comparative study between the US and Vietnam	7
Network failure in Ethiopian education	7
Prefiguring a democratic state: student activism and the National Education Law in Myanmar	6
Externalisation and legitimacy in policy transfer: a case of standards for school leaders	6
Higher education leadership development in selected ASEAN countries: an exploratory study of challenges and prospects in public higher education institutions	6
Propagation of inequality: an analysis of capability development opportunities of Dalits in higher education on the Indian subcontinent	6
Does between-school tracking increase school segregation among migrant students? A difference-in-differences and multiverse analysis of international large-scale assessment data	6
The Bloomsbury handbook of theory in comparative and international education The Bloomsbury handbook of theory in comparative and international education , by Tavis D. J	6
Leading teacher professional learning for system-wide change: the leadership practices of teaching research officers ( jiaoyanyuan ) in China	6
Understanding educational policy transfer: an analysis of the Japanese influence on China’s vocational education	6
Improving girls’ education through student hostels	6
‘You want to be like Neymar?’: connections between football, schooling and the future in eastern Uganda	5
From university to the world of work: education and labour market experiences of women in STEM subjects in Ethiopia	5
COVID-19 and online teaching: mainland Chinese students encounter Taiwanese teachers	5
Teaching for peace and social justice in Myanmar: identity, agency, and critical pedagogy	5
Inside the bubble: English as an additional language policy in British international schools	5
Global perspectives on student affairs: competing institutional logics in massified higher education systems	5
Hidden, scattered and reconstructed: indigenous lifeways, knowledges and intergenerational learning	5
Multilingualism in the Andes, policies, politics, power	5
The uses of affect in literature education: trajectories of nationalism and solidarity in postcolonial Cyprus	5
The time inheritors: how time inequalities shape higher education mobility in China	5
Understanding secondary school students’ agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon	5
Competing or complementary goals for primary education: social-emotional learning across the Nigerien education system	5
Still ‘the conscience of humanity’? UNESCO’s vision of education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship	5
Peacebuilding Inc.: neoliberal influences on Rwanda’s vulnerable youth	5
Towards an historical sociology of global citizenship education policy in Australia	5
Are family variables or personal characteristics more important? Based on the evidence among learners in developed and developing countries	5
Learning to live together harmoniously: spiritual perspectives from Indian classrooms	4
Malawian teachers’ agency in using teaching and learning resources: a product of quality teaching, learning resources and teacher education	4
Educational anthropology and the comparative challenge	4
The culture trap: ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for Black youth	4
Haunted by the centre, animated by the pluriverse: rethinking comparative education from within	4

Reimagining political concepts in decolonisation debates: Franz Fanon’s zone of nonbeing and comparative education	4
Correction	4
Negotiating difference, (un)contesting temporalities: education as a site of struggle in Adivasi identities in India	4
The halted neoliberalising of public schools: policy trajectories of two ‘failed’ privatisation reforms in South Korea and China	4
Education, curriculum and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4
Podcasting comparative and international education: reflecting, reframing, or reorienting the field?	4