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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	81
Innovation and risk in an innovative learning environment: A Private Public Partnership in Australia	43
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	35
Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies	32
Educators’ interpretations of children’s belonging across borders: Thinking and talking with an image	31
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system: A case of a parents’ association (1975–2013)	27
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	27
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education: An analysis of Swedish and Italian policy investigations	26
Worlds apart? On Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of education	26
Building trust, resilient regions, and educational narratives: Municipalities dealing with COVID-19 in border regions of Portugal	24
Knowledge or competencies? A controversial question in contemporary curriculum debates	23
Transforming language brokering policies at school: Learning from students with transnational biographies	18
Becoming a student: Management of transition to higher education among first-generation students’	18
Digital teaching as the new normal? Swedish upper secondary teachers’ experiences of emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 crisis	16
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	16
Re-articulating the form of the political: Contemporary education governance in the European Union. Introduction to the Special Issue	16
Justification regimes and crisis practices: International educational collaboration amidst pandemic and war	15
So close and yet so far: Comparing the experiences of university non-traditional students before and after the pandemic	14
Access to higher education during COVID-19: First-generation students in Austria	13
Knowledge for sale: The construction of desired knowledge and identities in edu-marketing	12
The historic importance of degree structure: A comparison of bachelor to master transitions in Norway and Denmark	12
Home schooling through online teaching in the era of COVID-19: Exploring the role of home-related factors that deepen educational inequalities across European societies	12
Educating for anti-complicity: A pedagogical response to political and structural violence	12
The value of doctoral education in the intersection of the multiple purposes of higher education	12
Resisting Europeanisation: Poland’s education policy and its impact on the European Education Area	11

Where multilingualism and transnational education meet	10
Governing through consensus? The European Semester, soft power and education governance in the EU	10
Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education	10
Uncertainty as an opportunity: Teacher partnerships in international schools in Poland	10
Students’ choices and paths in the Bologna degree structure: An introduction to the special issue	9
What is the ‘public’ in public education? Mapping past, present and future educational imaginaries of Europe and beyond	9
Revaluing and devaluing higher education beyond neoliberalism: Elitist, productivist, and populist policy and rhetoric in a field of conflict	8
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	8
Entanglement of support and governance in digital curriculum instruments: The case of educational reform in Norway	8
Learning lessons from the collaborative design of guidance for new build schools	8
Comparing national identity discourses in history, geography and civic education curricula: The case of France and Ireland	8
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	8
Schooling for integration? Reception of refugees in discourse and practice in Swedish rural municipalities 2015–2022	8
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950	7
The Promise of edu-business: Storytelling and affective subjectivation of edu-preneurs in Finland	7
Supportive assessment strategies as curriculum events in a performance-oriented classroom context	7
A matrix of educational policies to support migrant students across Europe	7
Can participation in learning abroad mobility support pro-European Union attitudes among youth?	7
Inclusive education in the aftermath of the pandemic: Lessons from mainstream and special teachers who ‘escaped the room’	6
Partnerships in the metaverse	6
Research discourse in the programme for international student assessment: A critical perspective	6
Education policy governance and the power of ideas in constructing the new European Education Area	6
ChatGPT and the entangled evolution of society, education, and technology: A systems theory perspective	6
Beyond narrow definitions: Quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time	6
The worry conversation: A loosening technology	6
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	5
The big acceleration in digital education in Italy: The COVID-19 pandemic and the blended-school form	5
Moving to opportunity: Student trajectories in the post-Bologna university system in Denmark	5
The instrumentation of public subsidies for private schools: Different regulatory models with concurrent equity implications	5
Cultures of economic education: Grammar school curricula in a multilingual comparison	5
Partnerships to tackle the effects of socio-economic inequality on children’s experiences of school	5
Relations and locations: New topological spatio-temporalities in education	5
The risks of standardised school building design: Beyond aligning the parts of a learning environment	4
Policy responses to diversity in early childhood education and care: Setting the agenda and meeting the challenges	4
Academic housework in pandemic times: COVID-19 effects on the gendered distribution of academic work in Portugal	4
Troubled schools in troubled times: How COVID-19 affects educational inequalities and what measures can be taken	4
Do students’ ICT skills pay off in math performance? Examining the moderating role of countries’ ICT promotive environment	4
Theorizing the affective regime of “best practice” in education policy	4
Becoming morally equipped: A study of children’s public expressions	4
European colonization and the transmission of the Ewondo language in Cameroon and Abroad: Historical and transnational perspectives	4
Mobility for teacher students or teacher students for mobility? Unravelling policy discourses on international student mobility in the context of teacher education	3
Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	3
Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships	3
Inequities in first education policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis in four Central and East European countries	3
Editorial special issue ‘Public Pedagogy and Sustainability Challenges’	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
Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education	3
Educational achievement disparities between second-generation and non-immigrant students: Do school characteristics account for tracking effects?	3
Renegotiating the public good: Responding to the first wave of COVID-19 in England, Germany and Italy	3

Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	3
The flash of a van: A cartography of a mobile educational initiative in the Claymore district of Sydney	3
The European Union’s governance of teachers and the evolution of a bridging issue field since the mid-2000s	3
Learning outcomes: The long goodbye: Vocational qualifications in the 21st century	3
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe	3
Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’	3
Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?	2
Towards models of language supportive pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing and analysing curricula and practice	2
Inequality in participation in shadow education in mathematics in Europe: An intersectional perspective	2
Shaping illiberal citizenries: Far-right justifications of educational structures	2
Interrogating “the nation” in European online education: Topological forms and movements	2
Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school	2
Education: Forming the Life Course	2
The experience of imposed digitalization of education provision across sectors: Comparative autoethnographic experiences through a Foucauldian lens	2
Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies	2
Change in mathematics education during a time of crisis: Reflections through the lens of complexity constructs	2
Choosing (not) to be a chemistry teacher: Students’ negotiations of science identities at a research-intensive university	2
Which child to which school? How local politicians shape catchment areas, school choice and diversity	2
After the ‘refugee crisis’ and the Yerevan Communiqué: Nationalism and empire as the not-so-hidden heart of European higher education	2
Exploring a low sense of social belonging in first-generation students in post-pandemic university in Austria	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
Creating pathways for internationally educated teachers into the teaching profession: Practices, policies and problems in the Australian context	1
Unpacking ableist discourses in Cypriot education policy during the pandemic	1
Aiming high: Learning investments in German upper secondary education. Differences between immigrant and non-immigrant youth	1
Editorial: The diversification of the teaching profession in Europe and beyond. Ambivalences of recognition in the context of (forced) migration	1
The spatially uneven effects of a desegregation education policy	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
School lockdown? Comparative analyses of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries	1
How post-Bologna policies construct the purposes of higher education and students’ transitions into Masters programmes	1
Ethnic stratification in the Spanish education system	1
In between the fields of research of special educational needs and multilingual education – Swedish heritage language teachers’ perspectives on special educational needs in multilingual students	1
Asylum seekers’ experiences of participatory barriers in the educative pre-integrational programmes	1
Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’: Expectations, decision-making and belonging in light of educational choices in Norway	1
Comparative didactics today: Introducing a special issue	1
Is small beautiful? A scoping review of 21st-century research on small rural schools in Europe	1
Educating to belong: Policy and practice of mother-tongue instruction for migrant students in the Danish welfare state	1
Joy of distance learning? How student self-efficacy and emotions relate to social support and school environment	1
Curriculum policy and instructional planning: Teachers’ autonomy across various school contexts	1
‘Some change of feeling and purpose’: The League of Nations Union, emotions, and world citizenship in Britain, 1919–1939	1
The meanings of ‘child participation’ in international and European policies on children(’s rights): A content analysis	1
Facilitators and barriers to policy implementation: A mixed-method study on the plurilingual policy in Luxembourg	1
Potentialising the potential: Dream of everything you can become, and become everything you dream of	1
“Ranking of LGBTQ+-Friendly Schools” as an educational intervention	1
Europeanisation in Teacher Education: A Comparative Case Study of Teacher Education Policies and Practices, Review essay	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
UK membership(s) in the European Higher Education Area post-2020: A ‘Europeanisation’ agenda	1
‘A little one among giants’: First-generation students transitioning to university in Italy, before and beyond the pandemic	1
Business as the new doxa in education? An analysis of edu-business events in Finland	1
Informality as a resource: A systems-theoretical take on the open method of coordination in education	1
Dancing with Covid: Choreographing examinations in pandemic times	1