OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Literacy Research is 2. 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
“We Are the Future”: Critical Inquiry and Social Action in the Classroom	22
Global Literacies Research Diversity: A Manifesto for Change	21
Global, International, and Transnational Perspectives on Literacy: A Special Issue	15
Students’ Interpretations of a Persuasive Multimodal Video About Vaccines	14
Dark Persistence: Black College Women's COVID-19 Photo Essays	13
Éclosions in Literacy Research: Rereading Brandt and Clinton’s “Limits of the Local”	12
Book Choice and the Affective Economy of Literacy	10
Special Call Issue “Critical Religious Literacy”	9
Debunking Deficit Ideologies and Recruiting Diverse Students’ Repertoires for Reading and Other Literate Engagements	8
The Ideological Motivation for Writing Romanized Taiwanese	8
Running Around in the Story: Un/Raveling Compositions of Narrative Play	8
Refrains of Friendship in Young Children's Postdigital Play	7
Leading Literate Lives: Afghan Refugee Children in a First-Asylum Country	7
Early Childhood Teachers’ Emergent Literacy Data Practices	7
Gateway Moments to Literate Identities	7
Beyond Emergence: Transcending Boundaries Across Literacy Education	7
“Our Voice and Dreams Matter”: Supporting Youths’ Racial Literacy	6
Teachers’ Vocabulary Talk in Early-Elementary Science Instruction	6
Understanding Affect and Culture Within Pedagogical and Assessment Practices in Language and Literacy Education	6
Theorizing Literacies as Affective Flows: Attuning to the Otherwise Possibilities of Hip-Hop's “In-the-Red Frequencies”	5
Argumentative Writing as an Epistemic Practice in Middle School Science	5
Private Readerly Experiences of Presence: Why They Matter	5
Narrating Global Literacies: Crossing Borders of Exclusion During a Time of Crisis	5
Interaction of Socioeconomic Status and Class Relations on Reading	5
Coaching Using Racial Literacy in Preservice Teacher Education	5

Challenging Autonomous Boundaries in Literacy Education Across the World	5
Multilingual Implications for Reading Prosody Assessment	5
“I Try to Read to Them in Both Languages”: Bilingual Maestras’ Enactment and Embodiment of Critical Biliteracies Through Bilanguaging Love	5
Editorial Introduction: Considering the Preponderance of “Multi-” in Literacy Education	5
Queer Literacies: Queer Objects, Disorientation, and Sponsors of Literacy	4
“SAME GURL”: Political Feeling in LGBTQ+ Digital Composing	4
From Haiti to Detroit Through Black Immigrant Languages and Literacies	4
Teacher and Emergent Bilingual Student Read-Aloud Mediations	4
Elementary Translanguaging Writing Pedagogy: A Literature Review	4
The Voices of Transnational MotherScholars of Emergent Bilinguals	3
Beyond Racial, Religious, and Political Binaries: Toward Antisemitism Literacy	3
Small Moves: New Teachers’ Perceptions of Authoritative Discourse	3
Science of Literacies: Meaning Making & Critical Pragmatism in the Postdigital Age	3
Sustaining Textual Passions: Teaching With Texts Youth Love	3
Infusing Taoist Principles into Early Literacy Professional Learning	3
Squeezed in: Writing Instruction Over Time	3
Literacy Measures That Leverage the Strengths of Spanish-Speaking Latino Kindergarteners	2
“I Am a Parrot”: Literacy Ideologies and Rote Learning	2
Critically Engaging “the Other”: Mediating Relationships through Narrative	2
“I Don’t Feel I’m Capable of More”: Affect, Literacy, Dis/Ability	2
Always at the Bottom: Ideologies in Assessment of Emergent Bilinguals	2
Critical Religious Literacy: From Conflict to Convergence	2
Himpathy, Herasure, and Down Girl Moves: A Critical Content Analysis of Sexual Assault in Young Adult Literature	2
Rural Women, Creative Writing, and Resistance	2
Apprenticing for Equity Literacy Teaching: A Needed Change in Teacher Education	2
Categorization in Literacy Contexts: The Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Labeling Students and Their Literacies	2
The Monstrous Hospitality of Canonical Text Selections: The Need for a Hospitable Literacy Framework	2
Student-Generated Questions in Literacy Education and Assessment	2
Pedagogy of Possibility: Proleptic Teaching and Language Learning	2