OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Educational Research is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Post-high-school pathways: The role of dispositional beliefs and aspirations	92
“Building the business model” or “Broadening our international perspectives”? Staff positioning on the values of hosting international students in the Australian school sector	41
Understanding human participant research ethics: The perspectives of social scientists in Central Asia	40
An analysis of the governance of the Japanese teacher license renewal system	38
Immigrant students’ acculturation profile and reading competence development in secondary school and beyond	33
Cultural identity in the arabic language textbooks of arab elementary schools in Israel	29
Preparing youth for participatory civil society: A call for spiritual, communal, and pluralistic humanism in education with a focus on community of philosophical inquiry	28
Evaluating the efficacy of Online Verbal Behaviour Training to ABA-Practitioners working with autistic individuals	28
Exploring the collective process of classroom dialogue using sequential pattern mining technique	27
Policy reconfiguration as enactment in the strategy of recontextualized neoliberalism: Paradigmatic shift in teacher education policy reform	26
The quality and influence of teachers’ curriculum making ego-networks: Scotland and Wales	25
Investigating STEM teachers’ personal and sociocultural particularities in the Ghanaian context	24
How do the “Pastoral Children” transform into Modern Students? Reflections from the perspectives of cultural reproduction and cultural acculturation	23
School teachers’ unions social justice approach in top-bottom decision-making process: A case study of school teachers’ unions in Northern Pakistan	22
Exemplars of purpose: Reliance on moral exemplars supports college students’ purpose in life	22
Literacy practices in childhood from a posthumanist perspective: A systematic review	21
The reproduction of social stratification through recontextualizing into forms of communication in Chinese secondary classrooms	19
School leadership development and academic achievement: Effectiveness of the High Performing Schools programme	19
“Well-being, that word is very wide”: Understanding how teachers in Uganda define and navigate their occupational well-being	18
The impact of China's “double world-class” policy on the scientific research outputs of basic disciplines in universities	18
Students' feelings of social presence when creating learning-by-teaching educational videos for a potential audience	17
Worlds beyond, self within: A systematic review of the effects of study abroad programs for teachers on their intercultural communication competence	17
Effects of personalized approach on fourth-grade students’ academic performance in project-based learning	16
What do we mean when we talk about teacher professional development in formative assessment? A systematic review	16
Activities with tadpoles, rockets, and many more: How do teachers reflect on integrating STEM into their Classroom?	15

A systematic review of the impact of precision teaching and fluency-building on teaching children diagnosed with autism	15
Strengthening Support of Teachers for Students to Improve Learning Outcomes in Mathematics: Empirical Evidence on a Structured Pedagogy Program in El Salvador	15
The politics of school dress codes and uniform policies: Towards gender diversity and gender equity in schools	15
Exploring parental perspectives and engagement in shared reading with digital books: A comparison of urban and rural Chinese families during the Covid-19 pandemic	14
Alternative knowledges in intercultural education and educators as epistemic subjects	14
Development of drama into teacher identity: Exchanges and experiences of English teachers	14
The P3 and academic performance in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Bridging the gap? Evaluating the effectiveness of Punjab's public–private partnership programmes in education	14
Being resilient to close the gap: Is it enough?	13
Inclusion in higher education in Argentina, Colombia, and Ecuador: Conceptualizations, advancements and challenges in access, retention, and graduation	13
Spiritual governance: You in me and me in you — The core of a spiritual democrat	13
Cooperative learning goes online: teaching and learning intervention in a digital environment impacts psychosocial outcomes in biology students	13
Benefits and limitations of partnerships amongst families, schools and universities: A systematic literature review	13
Reframing English Language Teaching through Engagements with Relationality and Intersectionality	13
Constructing symbolic capital to coordinate teaching-focused university-industry collaborations in China: a documentary, videological and empirical analysis	13
Exploring equity in educational policies and interventions in primary and secondary education in the context of public health emergencies: A systematic literature review	13
The concerns about inclusive education scale: Dimensionality, factor structure, and development of a short-form version (CIES-SF)	12
Equity, inclusion and multigrade classrooms in Indian context	12
"Each student is fitted with a customized suit": Teacher identity, the burden of intensive educational work, and ethical transgressions among teachers at an elite high school	12
Activating self-monitoring through the discourse of fear and hope: The subjectivation of enterprising teachers	12
Multigrade education and the montessori model: A pathway towards inclusion and equity	11
Undergraduate Research Experience Models: A systematic review of the literature from 2011 to 2021	11
Beyond the research–practice gap: Constructing epistemic relations in teacher education	11
Resilience: A mediator between teachers’ personal resources, contextual resources and positive outcomes of well-being and commitment	11
Elite schools and educational inequality: Evidence from a private university in Kazakhstan	11
Technology-enhanced cooperative language learning: A systematic review	11
An Apple for teacher (education)? Reconstituting teacher professional learning and expertise via the Apple Teacher digital platform	11
Evaluating the large-scale implementation of structured literacy teaching in New Zealand: Evidence from the Better Start Literacy Approach	11
The impact of literary works containing characters with disabilities on students' perception and attitudes towards people with disabilities	11
Effects of special educational needs and socioeconomic status on academic achievement. Separate or confounded?	11
The challenges and solutions of technology integration in rural schools: A systematic literature review	11
New insights on the persistence and reproduction of educational inequality and injustice: Towards a synthesis of Nussbaum's capabilities approach and Bourdieu's theories	10
Non-completion of teacher education students. Educational and occupational pathways of persons who withdraw from a teacher education program in Germany	10
Prevention of violence against LGBTIQ+ youth: A systematic review of successful strategies	10
Students’ identity repositioning after academic setbacks: A discourse analysis	9
The place of death in elementary and secondary school curricula in Turkey	9
Turkish Pre-service Teachers' Understandings of War, Peace, and Peace Education	9
Exploring the efficacy of problem-based learning in diverse secondary school classrooms: Characteristics and goals of problem-based learning	9
International student mobility and poverty reduction: A cross-national analysis of low- and middle-income countries	9
The COVID-19 pandemic and post-graduation outcomes: Evidence from Chinese elite universities	9
Reconceptualising postgraduate taught student experience through the lens of emotions and well-being: Moving from explanatory methodology to revelatory	9
A Historical Investigation and Classification Analysis of Seven Controversies on the Reform and Abolition of the 1300-year Chinese Imperial Examination System	9
Teachers in transition: A qualitative exploration into the impact of emergency remote teaching on professional development	9
Association between prospective elementary school teachers’ year of study and their type of conception of intelligence	9
Enriching parent-child play through supported play groups to foster children's self-regulation: Protocol for a randomised control trial	9
Artificial intelligence in classroom discourse: A systematic review of the past decade	8
Editorial Board	8
Impact of reduced idea density on pharmacy students' attainment in pharmaceutical calculations: A study protocol for a single-blind multicentre randomised controlled trial	8
Institutionalising English as a foreign language teachers for global sustainability: Perceptions of education for sustainable development in Turkey	8
Positions of children's human rights in school-age educare centers	8

Exploring the motivations and career choices of expatriate teachers in international schools: Embracing personal growth, professional development, and teacher autonomy	8
Understanding the nexus of school types, school cultures and educational outcomes and its implication for policy and practice	8
High and low performing schools in South Africa: Metaphors as a lens to understand teachers’ views of school organisation	8
Creating classrooms for change: A qualitative study of practices to promote children's skills for adaptability in primary schools in Kigali, Rwanda	8
Unveiling the Interplay: Capital expenditures, capital stock, racial composition, and educational attainment in U.S. schools	8
Supporting children's self-regulation development in play-based kindergarten classrooms	8
Educating courageously: Transformative pedagogy infusing spirituality in K-12 education for fostering civil society and democracy	8
Editorial Board	8
New philanthropy and policy networks in global education governance: the case of OECD's netFWD	8
A case of teaching in multigrade classrooms in Uruguay: Challenges and opportunities for learning and teaching in inclusive environments	8
Decoloniality, identity and the third space: The case of students’ experiences of well-being from an indigenous knowledge system university programme in south africa	8
Questioning inclusive city quality: Teachers' perspectives and experiences in sexuality education for children with special needs in Indonesia	8
School-based collaboration as a learning context for teachers: A systematic review	7
Discourse of contemporary chinese ideological and political education: Development directions and teaching methods	7
Factors influencing global citizenship competencies: A structural equation model of adult learners in Taiwan	7
The effects of self-monitoring on strategy use and academic performance: A meta-analysis	7
A new conceptual and analytic framework for collective engagement in mathematics	7
Motivations, benefits, and challenges of university-industry partnerships in Kazakhstan	7
The effects of self-affirmation on school adjustment of college freshmen: A randomized controlled trial	7
“Soccer is all I am, there is nothing else”: Self, future orientation, and cultural capital among low SES youth who play professional soccer	7
I can get off this bus and do something important for myself. The city as a space for adult learning in the perspective of local urban elites	7
Navigating the academic road with an empty tank? The impact of financial and time scarcity mindsets on students’ sense of agency	7
Decoding digital empowerment: Key factors and practical mechanisms in teaching decisions-A grounded theory study	7
Cooperative-flipped classroom under online modality: Enhancing students' mathematics achievement and critical thinking attitude	7
Young- and adult-learner language teachers’ social justice-oriented practices and professional identity construction	7
Vocal participation and attentive listening in teacher-led classroom discussions: The role of prior achievement level, situational experiences and motivation	7
Emotions in classroom video evaluation—The interplay of student teachers’ joy and anger and the quality of classroom management in video clips	7
Educational ‘exchange rates’ in (re)settlement: The use of formal and informal learning resources by displaced people from Ukraine in Australia	7
What key contextual factors contribute to students’ reading literacy among top-performing countries and economies? Statistical and machine learning analyses	6
Interventions to reduce academic procrastination: A systematic review	6
Why Do Teachers Matter? A Meta-Analytic Review of how Teacher Characteristics and Competencies Affect Students’ Academic Achievement	6
Opening the black box of teacher leader development: An investigation of teachers’ motivation to lead	6
The golden path in the lives of Arab-Bedouin female students: "The profession of teaching for myself and for family support as a lever for academic success"	6
School work performance in sub-Saharan Africa: A bivariate multilevel analysis	6
Examining Basil Bernstein's rules of recognition and realization in the case of underachieving students in math tests	6
Self-selection or self-disqualification? Chinese rural-to-urban migrant parents’ involvement imaginaries in home-school interaction	6
Editorial Board	6
Benefits and barriers: Improving boys’ mental health education in high schools	6
Revisiting the research on teachers’ emotion regulation: A systematic review and future directions	6
What is the role of learning style preferences on the STEM learning attitudes among high school students?	6
A co-designed by students “architecture of schooling” framework: Informing a novel architecture lens within the field of inclusive education	6
Flipped Classroom or flip to foster self-regulation competencies in Mathematics in Economics and Business students	6
Light and shadow: Students' first-year transition through the complexities of higher education	6
Care in the academy: How our online writing group transformed into a caring community	6
Teachers’ sense-making of the decentralizing curriculum reform policy: A comparative case study in South Korea	6
Enhancing students’ metacognitive development in higher education: A classroom-based inquiry	6
Impact of international student mobility in rural Portuguese regions	5
Exploring the impact of an English talent program on college students' language proficiency: A mixed-methods study	5
Institutional characteristics moderating the relationship between classroom socioeconomic composition and teacher qualifications: Evidence from 46 education systems in TALIS 2018	5
Editorial Board	5
A critical realist analysis of kindergarten teachers' professional identity in Chinese policy	5
Editorial Board	5
Schools across borders: expatriate teachers in the United Arab Emirates: Navigating personal, school, and external factors	5
Epistemological entanglements: Decolonizing understandings of identity and knowledge in English language teaching	5
Leveraging pedagogical knowledge for effective technology integration in education: A research-based approach	5
Exploring the transition challenges of first-year College of Business students in Fiji	5
Education along border regions in Ireland: Challenges and opportunities	5
Exploring inequality in high school transitions within an evolving high school system: Using the effectively maintained inequality theory	5
Barriers to inclusion of Muslim migrant students in western schools. A systematic review	5
Transition to post-compulsory education according to migrant background and gender in Catalonia: Exploring the effect of non-native student concentration	5
The impact of the pre-school self-regulation program on the self-regulation, problem behavior and social skills of children	5
Equality of opportunity: Social determinants of university expectation amongst school attending adolescents in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau	5
Working with a young people's advisory panel to conduct educational research: Young people's perspectives and researcher reflections	5
Organisational career growth: implications for future perceived employability in students who work	5
Is the Practicum an efficient process for the development of competences of future teachers? An approach from the perspective of professional socialisation	5
Faculty subjective well-being: An achievement goal approach	5
Co-regulating the child's emotions in the classroom: Teachers’ interpretations of and decision-making in emotional situations	5
On saying “enough”: Decolonizing subjectivities in English language learning	5
Experimental impacts of teacher professional development on adolescent socio-emotional skills, achievement, and hazardous child labor: Evidence from a remedial school program in Ecuador	5
UDL for inclusive higher education—What makes group work effective for diverse international students in UK?	5
Foreign language learning motivation and the socioeconomic status of Czech lower secondary students: An analysis of mediating factors	5
Do teachers compensate for or compound disparities in academic achievement?	5
Impact of academic involution atmosphere on college students' mental exhaustion: A chain mediation model	5
Enacting power, solidarity and masculinity in sport: A discourse analysis of the language-in-action of Aboriginal boys	5
School autonomy policies lead to increases in principal autonomy and job satisfaction	5
Evolution to revolution: Critical exploration of educators’ perceptions of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the teaching and learning process in the GCC region	5