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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies	27
Educators’ interpretations of children’s belonging across borders: Thinking and talking with an image	22
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	22
The role of affective experiences of language and religion in religious heritage language education	18
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	16
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	16
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education: An analysis of Swedish and Italian policy investigations	15
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system: A case of a parents’ association (1975–2013)	15
First-Generation Students in the post-pandemic university: Centring students’ experiences in moving towards a more inclusive higher education	15
Re-articulating the form of the political: Contemporary education governance in the European Union. Introduction to the Special Issue	14
Becoming a student: Management of transition to higher education among first-generation students’	13
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	11
Transforming language brokering policies at school: Learning from students with transnational biographies	11
The value of doctoral education in the intersection of the multiple purposes of higher education	10
Justification regimes and crisis practices: International educational collaboration amidst pandemic and war	10
Access to higher education during COVID-19: First-generation students in Austria	9
Educating for anti-complicity: A pedagogical response to political and structural violence	9
Resisting Europeanisation: Poland’s education policy and its impact on the European Education Area	8
Predicting educational exclusion: A literature review of risk factors associated with early leaving from education	8
Uncertainty as an opportunity: Teacher partnerships in international schools in Poland	8
Knowledge for sale: The construction of desired knowledge and identities in edu-marketing	8
So close and yet so far: Comparing the experiences of university non-traditional students before and after the pandemic	8
Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education	7
What is the ‘public’ in public education? Mapping past, present and future educational imaginaries of Europe and beyond	7
Governing through consensus? The European Semester, soft power and education governance in the EU	7

Where multilingualism and transnational education meet	7
Learning lessons from the collaborative design of guidance for new build schools	7
Revaluing and devaluing higher education beyond neoliberalism: Elitist, productivist, and populist policy and rhetoric in a field of conflict	7
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	6
A matrix of educational policies to support migrant students across Europe	6
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950	6
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	6
Schooling for integration? Reception of refugees in discourse and practice in Swedish rural municipalities 2015–2022	6
Entanglement of support and governance in digital curriculum instruments: The case of educational reform in Norway	6
Research discourse in the programme for international student assessment: A critical perspective	5
ChatGPT and the entangled evolution of society, education, and technology: A systems theory perspective	5
The Promise of edu-business: Storytelling and affective subjectivation of edu-preneurs in Finland	5
Can participation in learning abroad mobility support pro-European Union attitudes among youth?	5
Cultures of economic education: Grammar school curricula in a multilingual comparison	5
Comparing national identity discourses in history, geography and civic education curricula: The case of France and Ireland	5
Teachers and white privilege attitudes: Correlates and consequences for in-service secondary education teachers	5
Partnerships in the metaverse	5
Partnerships to tackle the effects of socio-economic inequality on children’s experiences of school	4
Beyond narrow definitions: Quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time	4
Becoming morally equipped: A study of children’s public expressions	4
Education policy governance and the power of ideas in constructing the new European Education Area	4
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	4
Relations and locations: New topological spatio-temporalities in education	4
Policy responses to diversity in early childhood education and care: Setting the agenda and meeting the challenges	4
Can we cross? Exploring the epistemic-linguistic line in an in-service teacher education context	4
Inclusive education in the aftermath of the pandemic: Lessons from mainstream and special teachers who ‘escaped the room’	4
Theorizing the affective regime of “best practice” in education policy	4
Empowering teacher agency in the development of digital competence in primary education: Lessons from the Escol@s Digitais Project	3
Do students’ ICT skills pay off in math performance? Examining the moderating role of countries’ ICT promotive environment	3
Mobility for teacher students or teacher students for mobility? Unravelling policy discourses on international student mobility in the context of teacher education	3
Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships	3
A theory of children’s human rights education	3
Academic housework in pandemic times: COVID-19 effects on the gendered distribution of academic work in Portugal	3
Examification: Curricular, temporal, affective, and discursive dimensions of examination’s effects on education	3
Colonial figures in metropolitan pedagogy. A layer in the “education for all” model, Denmark 1880s–1930s	3
European colonization and the transmission of the Ewondo language in Cameroon and Abroad: Historical and transnational perspectives	3
Navigating European education in times of crisis? An analysis of socio-technological architectures and user interfaces of online learning initiatives	3
The European Union’s governance of teachers and the evolution of a bridging issue field since the mid-2000s	2
A politics of temporality? Anticipatory governance and regimes of historicity in future-oriented education policy	2
Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?	2
Inequality in participation in shadow education in mathematics in Europe: An intersectional perspective	2
Illuminating inequalities in students’ sense of belonging at university from a Bourdieusian perspective	2
Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’	2
Designing vocational training policies in an outermost European region: Highlights from a participatory process	2
Digital infrastructures for education: On sociotechnical entrenchment, pedagogy and the public interest	2
Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies	2
Choosing (not) to be a chemistry teacher: Students’ negotiations of science identities at a research-intensive university	2
Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	2
Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	2
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe	2

After the ‘refugee crisis’ and the Yerevan Communiqué: Nationalism and empire as the not-so-hidden heart of European higher education	2
Editorial special issue ‘Public Pedagogy and Sustainability Challenges’	2
‘Some change of feeling and purpose’: The League of Nations Union, emotions, and world citizenship in Britain, 1919–1939	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
Absence of education in civil defence education: Nationalising education and its actors and knowledge	1
The experience of imposed digitalization of education provision across sectors: Comparative autoethnographic experiences through a Foucauldian lens	1
UK membership(s) in the European Higher Education Area post-2020: A ‘Europeanisation’ agenda	1
Civic purposes in teaching: A study among Finnish and German student teachers	1
Change in mathematics education during a time of crisis: Reflections through the lens of complexity constructs	1
The spatially uneven effects of a desegregation education policy	1
Towards models of language supportive pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing and analysing curricula and practice	1
Unpacking ableist discourses in Cypriot education policy during the pandemic	1
Ethnic stratification in the Spanish education system	1
Relationship between school and parents: A comparative analysis of the legislative framework in five different countries	1
Aiming high: Learning investments in German upper secondary education. Differences between immigrant and non-immigrant youth	1
Curriculum policy and instructional planning: Teachers’ autonomy across various school contexts	1
Which child to which school? How local politicians shape catchment areas, school choice and diversity	1
Shaping illiberal citizenries: Far-right justifications of educational structures	1
Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school	1
Interrogating “the nation” in European online education: Topological forms and movements	1
‘A little one among giants’: First-generation students transitioning to university in Italy, before and beyond the pandemic	1
How post-Bologna policies construct the purposes of higher education and students’ transitions into Masters programmes	1
Comparative didactics today: Introducing a special issue	1
Junior research groups: A promising format for PhD qualification	1
Transculturation in Arabic literacy education within and beyond mainstream education in Norway and Sweden	1
Educating to belong: Policy and practice of mother-tongue instruction for migrant students in the Danish welfare state	1
Business as the new doxa in education? An analysis of edu-business events in Finland	1
Navigating uncertainty in times of war: The staff-student partnership in times of crisis	1
Learning outcomes for museum personnel: Qualitative case studies on intersectional community engagement in Malta and Italy	1
Informality as a resource: A systems-theoretical take on the open method of coordination in education	1
Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’: Expectations, decision-making and belonging in light of educational choices in Norway	1