OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Educational Research Journal 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies	88
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	28
Educators’ interpretations of children’s belonging across borders: Thinking and talking with an image	24
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	22
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	19
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system: A case of a parents’ association (1975–2013)	16
Worlds apart? On Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of education	15
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education: An analysis of Swedish and Italian policy investigations	15
A place for Basil Bernstein in the field: How applicable is Basil Bernstein’s theory of codes and social groups as a way of understanding educational inequity in upper secondary education in Iceland d	13
Re-articulating the form of the political: Contemporary education governance in the European Union. Introduction to the Special Issue	13
Transforming language brokering policies at school: Learning from students with transnational biographies	13
Becoming a student: Management of transition to higher education among first-generation students’	13
The historic importance of degree structure: A comparison of bachelor to master transitions in Norway and Denmark	12
The value of doctoral education in the intersection of the multiple purposes of higher education	11
Access to higher education during COVID-19: First-generation students in Austria	11
So close and yet so far: Comparing the experiences of university non-traditional students before and after the pandemic	10
Justification regimes and crisis practices: International educational collaboration amidst pandemic and war	9
Educating for anti-complicity: A pedagogical response to political and structural violence	8
Resisting Europeanisation: Poland’s education policy and its impact on the European Education Area	8
Where multilingualism and transnational education meet	8
What is the ‘public’ in public education? Mapping past, present and future educational imaginaries of Europe and beyond	8
Uncertainty as an opportunity: Teacher partnerships in international schools in Poland	8
Governing through consensus? The European Semester, soft power and education governance in the EU	8
Knowledge for sale: The construction of desired knowledge and identities in edu-marketing	8
Revaluing and devaluing higher education beyond neoliberalism: Elitist, productivist, and populist policy and rhetoric in a field of conflict	7

Entanglement of support and governance in digital curriculum instruments: The case of educational reform in Norway	7
Learning lessons from the collaborative design of guidance for new build schools	7
Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education	7
Can participation in learning abroad mobility support pro-European Union attitudes among youth?	6
The Promise of edu-business: Storytelling and affective subjectivation of edu-preneurs in Finland	6
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950	6
Comparing national identity discourses in history, geography and civic education curricula: The case of France and Ireland	6
Schooling for integration? Reception of refugees in discourse and practice in Swedish rural municipalities 2015–2022	6
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	6
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	6
A matrix of educational policies to support migrant students across Europe	6
Moving to opportunity: Student trajectories in the post-Bologna university system in Denmark	5
Research discourse in the programme for international student assessment: A critical perspective	5
Cultures of economic education: Grammar school curricula in a multilingual comparison	5
ChatGPT and the entangled evolution of society, education, and technology: A systems theory perspective	5
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	5
Partnerships in the metaverse	5
Relations and locations: New topological spatio-temporalities in education	4
Partnerships to tackle the effects of socio-economic inequality on children’s experiences of school	4
Becoming morally equipped: A study of children’s public expressions	4
Beyond narrow definitions: Quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time	4
Education policy governance and the power of ideas in constructing the new European Education Area	4
Inclusive education in the aftermath of the pandemic: Lessons from mainstream and special teachers who ‘escaped the room’	4
Policy responses to diversity in early childhood education and care: Setting the agenda and meeting the challenges	4
European colonization and the transmission of the Ewondo language in Cameroon and Abroad: Historical and transnational perspectives	3
Mobility for teacher students or teacher students for mobility? Unravelling policy discourses on international student mobility in the context of teacher education	3
Learning outcomes: The long goodbye: Vocational qualifications in the 21st century	3
Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education	3
Theorizing the affective regime of “best practice” in education policy	3
Academic housework in pandemic times: COVID-19 effects on the gendered distribution of academic work in Portugal	3
The European Union’s governance of teachers and the evolution of a bridging issue field since the mid-2000s	3
Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	3
Educational achievement disparities between second-generation and non-immigrant students: Do school characteristics account for tracking effects?	3
Do students’ ICT skills pay off in math performance? Examining the moderating role of countries’ ICT promotive environment	3
Navigating European education in times of crisis? An analysis of socio-technological architectures and user interfaces of online learning initiatives	3
Designing vocational training policies in an outermost European region: Highlights from a participatory process	3
Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	3
Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships	3
After the ‘refugee crisis’ and the Yerevan Communiqué: Nationalism and empire as the not-so-hidden heart of European higher education	2
Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?	2
Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies	2
Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school	2
Which child to which school? How local politicians shape catchment areas, school choice and diversity	2
Digital infrastructures for education: On sociotechnical entrenchment, pedagogy and the public interest	2
Inequality in participation in shadow education in mathematics in Europe: An intersectional perspective	2
Choosing (not) to be a chemistry teacher: Students’ negotiations of science identities at a research-intensive university	2
Change in mathematics education during a time of crisis: Reflections through the lens of complexity constructs	2
The meanings of ‘child participation’ in international and European policies on children(’s rights): A content analysis	2
Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’	2
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe	2

Editorial special issue ‘Public Pedagogy and Sustainability Challenges’	2
Shaping illiberal citizenries: Far-right justifications of educational structures	2
Towards models of language supportive pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing and analysing curricula and practice	2
Interrogating “the nation” in European online education: Topological forms and movements	2
Asylum seekers’ experiences of participatory barriers in the educative pre-integrational programmes	1
Europeanisation in Teacher Education: A Comparative Case Study of Teacher Education Policies and Practices, Review essay	1
Aiming high: Learning investments in German upper secondary education. Differences between immigrant and non-immigrant youth	1
Ethnic stratification in the Spanish education system	1
‘A little one among giants’: First-generation students transitioning to university in Italy, before and beyond the pandemic	1
The spatially uneven effects of a desegregation education policy	1
Business as the new doxa in education? An analysis of edu-business events in Finland	1
How post-Bologna policies construct the purposes of higher education and students’ transitions into Masters programmes	1
‘Some change of feeling and purpose’: The League of Nations Union, emotions, and world citizenship in Britain, 1919–1939	1
Editorial: The diversification of the teaching profession in Europe and beyond. Ambivalences of recognition in the context of (forced) migration	1
Comparative didactics today: Introducing a special issue	1
Absence of education in civil defence education: Nationalising education and its actors and knowledge	1
Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’: Expectations, decision-making and belonging in light of educational choices in Norway	1
Curriculum policy and instructional planning: Teachers’ autonomy across various school contexts	1
Transculturation in Arabic literacy education within and beyond mainstream education in Norway and Sweden	1
UK membership(s) in the European Higher Education Area post-2020: A ‘Europeanisation’ agenda	1
Informality as a resource: A systems-theoretical take on the open method of coordination in education	1
“Ranking of LGBTQ+-Friendly Schools” as an educational intervention	1
‘It is more than just education. It’s also a peace policy’: (Re)imagining the mission of the European Higher Education Area in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	1
Potentialising the potential: Dream of everything you can become, and become everything you dream of	1
Relationship between school and parents: A comparative analysis of the legislative framework in five different countries	1
Unpacking ableist discourses in Cypriot education policy during the pandemic	1
Junior research groups: A promising format for PhD qualification	1
The experience of imposed digitalization of education provision across sectors: Comparative autoethnographic experiences through a Foucauldian lens	1
School lockdown? Comparative analyses of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries	1
Educating to belong: Policy and practice of mother-tongue instruction for migrant students in the Danish welfare state	1
Stability or change? Social inequality at the transition from bachelor’s to master’s degree programmes in Germany. Empirical evidence from four graduate cohorts	1
Creating pathways for internationally educated teachers into the teaching profession: Practices, policies and problems in the Australian context	1