OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Literacy Research 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Global, International, and Transnational Perspectives on Literacy: A Special Issue	23
Éclosions in Literacy Research: Rereading Brandt and Clinton’s “Limits of the Local”	16
Running Around in the Story: Un/Raveling Compositions of Narrative Play	15
Interaction of Socioeconomic Status and Class Relations on Reading	13
Theorizing Literacies as Affective Flows: Attuning to the Otherwise Possibilities of Hip-Hop's “In-the-Red Frequencies”	12
Challenging Autonomous Boundaries in Literacy Education Across the World	11
Religious Metaphor in Media Reporting on the “Science of Reading”	10
Teacher and Emergent Bilingual Student Read-Aloud Mediations	10
Squeezed in: Writing Instruction Over Time	8
“I Am a Parrot”: Literacy Ideologies and Rote Learning	8
Infusing Taoist Principles into Early Literacy Professional Learning	8
Small Moves: New Teachers’ Perceptions of Authoritative Discourse	8
The Longitudinal Pathways Linking SES to Reading Comprehension	7
Using Asian Americans’ Counternarratives for Social Justice and Equity	7
The Jewish Question(s) and Literacy Practices in Time: An Essay	7
Love, Islam, and How Literacy Is Conceptualized	6
“Our Voice and Dreams Matter”: Supporting Youths’ Racial Literacy	6
Children Translating When Reading Dual-Language Books	6
Gateway Moments to Literate Identities	6
Looking Closely to Understand Literacy More Deeply: Exploring Established Literacy Refrains From Unique Vantage Points	6
Neoliberal Logics: An Analysis of Texas’s STAAR Exam Writing Prompts	5
Temporal Seeing as Visual Literacy	5
Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity	5
Sustaining Textual Passions: Teaching With Texts Youth Love	5
Race Talk Moves for Racial Literacy in the Elementary Classroom	5

Nurturing the Literacy Lives of Boys of Color During COVID-19	5
Early Childhood Teachers’ Emergent Literacy Data Practices	5
How Feeling Supports Students’ Interpretive Discussions About Literature	4
Critical Religious Literacies and Opportunities for Alterity across YA Literature	4
Picturebooks as Critical Literacy: Experiences and Perspectives of Translingual Children From Refugee Backgrounds	4
Differences in Reading Motivation Between American and Japanese Students	4
Reading Spanish Prosody: The Role of Word Reading and Syntactic Knowledge	4
Reading Rhetorically: Discussing the Ethics of Narrative Form	4
Media, Legislation, and the Science of Reading: Understanding Policy Narratives for a Path to Collaboration	4
Debunking Deficit Ideologies and Recruiting Diverse Students’ Repertoires for Reading and Other Literate Engagements	3
Lexical and Sublexical Skills in Children's Literacy	3
Argumentative Writing as an Epistemic Practice in Middle School Science	3
“I Don’t Feel I’m Capable of More”: Affect, Literacy, Dis/Ability	3
The Monstrous Hospitality of Canonical Text Selections: The Need for a Hospitable Literacy Framework	3
Private Readerly Experiences of Presence: Why They Matter	3
Literacy and Identity Development of Indigenous Rukai Children	3
Queer Literacies: Queer Objects, Disorientation, and Sponsors of Literacy	3
Always at the Bottom: Ideologies in Assessment of Emergent Bilinguals	2
Literacy as Bearing Witness: Teachers Expanding Literacy Through Authentic and Hybrid Student Narratives	2
Teen Activism and Civic Participation: A Cross-Case Analysis	2
Student-Generated Questions in Literacy Education and Assessment	2
Assessing Diversity: A Case of Black English and Running Records	2
What Is Islamophobia? Teaching Strategies for Critical Literacy	2
African American Language in Children’s Literature	2
Black Youth Poetry of 2020 and Reimagined Literacies	2
Post-White Excursuses: Distracting from Westerly Desires and Destinations in Critical Religious Literacy	2
Dark Persistence: Black College Women's COVID-19 Photo Essays	1
Centering Student Voice in Literacy Research	1
Himpathy, Herasure, and Down Girl Moves: A Critical Content Analysis of Sexual Assault in Young Adult Literature	1
“What's Unexpected?” Interventionist Explanations of Dyslexia	1
Global Literacies Research Diversity: A Manifesto for Change	1
Whose Reality Matters? Children’s Ontologies, Theories of Mind, and Reading	1
“Bet You Can’t Wait to Get Out”: Complicating Narratives of Leaving in Rural Young Adult Literature	1
Leading Literate Lives: Afghan Refugee Children in a First-Asylum Country	1
These Tellings: Explosive Love as Literacy Research	1
From Haiti to Detroit Through Black Immigrant Languages and Literacies	1