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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies	89
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	29
Educators’ interpretations of children’s belonging across borders: Thinking and talking with an image	24
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	22
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system: A case of a parents’ association (1975–2013)	19
The role of affective experiences of language and religion in religious heritage language education	16
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	16
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education: An analysis of Swedish and Italian policy investigations	15
Becoming a student: Management of transition to higher education among first-generation students’	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
Worlds apart? On Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of education	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	13
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
Access to higher education during COVID-19: First-generation students in Austria	10
Justification regimes and crisis practices: International educational collaboration amidst pandemic and war	9
So close and yet so far: Comparing the experiences of university non-traditional students before and after the pandemic	9
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
Learning lessons from the collaborative design of guidance for new build schools	8
Where multilingualism and transnational education meet	8
Resisting Europeanisation: Poland’s education policy and its impact on the European Education Area	8
Knowledge for sale: The construction of desired knowledge and identities in edu-marketing	8
Governing through consensus? The European Semester, soft power and education governance in the EU	8

Comparing national identity discourses in history, geography and civic education curricula: The case of France and Ireland	7
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
Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education	7
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	6
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	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
Schooling for integration? Reception of refugees in discourse and practice in Swedish rural municipalities 2015–2022	6
A matrix of educational policies to support migrant students across Europe	6
Inclusive education in the aftermath of the pandemic: Lessons from mainstream and special teachers who ‘escaped the room’	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
Beyond narrow definitions: Quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time	5
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
Education policy governance and the power of ideas in constructing the new European Education Area	5
Relations and locations: New topological spatio-temporalities in education	5
Partnerships in the metaverse	5
Can participation in learning abroad mobility support pro-European Union attitudes among youth?	5
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	4
Policy responses to diversity in early childhood education and care: Setting the agenda and meeting the challenges	4
Becoming morally equipped: A study of children’s public expressions	4
Theorizing the affective regime of “best practice” in education policy	4
Partnerships to tackle the effects of socio-economic inequality on children’s experiences of school	4
Can we cross? Exploring the epistemic-linguistic line in an in-service teacher education context	4
Educational achievement disparities between second-generation and non-immigrant students: Do school characteristics account for tracking effects?	3
Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education	3
Navigating European education in times of crisis? An analysis of socio-technological architectures and user interfaces of online learning initiatives	3
Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships	3
Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	3
Designing vocational training policies in an outermost European region: Highlights from a participatory process	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
Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	3
Learning outcomes: The long goodbye: Vocational qualifications in the 21st century	3
European colonization and the transmission of the Ewondo language in Cameroon and Abroad: Historical and transnational perspectives	3
The European Union’s governance of teachers and the evolution of a bridging issue field since the mid-2000s	3
Academic housework in pandemic times: COVID-19 effects on the gendered distribution of academic work in Portugal	3
Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’	2
Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?	2
Editorial special issue ‘Public Pedagogy and Sustainability Challenges’	2
Change in mathematics education during a time of crisis: Reflections through the lens of complexity constructs	2
Towards models of language supportive pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing and analysing curricula and practice	2
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe	2
Choosing (not) to be a chemistry teacher: Students’ negotiations of science identities at a research-intensive university	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
Which child to which school? How local politicians shape catchment areas, school choice and diversity	2
Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies	2

Digital infrastructures for education: On sociotechnical entrenchment, pedagogy and the public interest	2
After the ‘refugee crisis’ and the Yerevan Communiqué: Nationalism and empire as the not-so-hidden heart of European higher education	2
Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school	2
The experience of imposed digitalization of education provision across sectors: Comparative autoethnographic experiences through a Foucauldian lens	2
Interrogating “the nation” in European online education: Topological forms and movements	2
Unpacking ableist discourses in Cypriot education policy during the pandemic	1
‘Some change of feeling and purpose’: The League of Nations Union, emotions, and world citizenship in Britain, 1919–1939	1
The spatially uneven effects of a desegregation education policy	1
Aiming high: Learning investments in German upper secondary education. Differences between immigrant and non-immigrant youth	1
Informality as a resource: A systems-theoretical take on the open method of coordination in education	1
The meanings of ‘child participation’ in international and European policies on children(’s rights): A content analysis	1
Transculturation in Arabic literacy education within and beyond mainstream education in Norway and Sweden	1
Creating pathways for internationally educated teachers into the teaching profession: Practices, policies and problems in the Australian context	1
Europeanisation in Teacher Education: A Comparative Case Study of Teacher Education Policies and Practices, Review essay	1
Ethnic stratification in the Spanish education system	1
Comparative didactics today: Introducing a special issue	1
‘A little one among giants’: First-generation students transitioning to university in Italy, before and beyond the pandemic	1
Curriculum policy and instructional planning: Teachers’ autonomy across various school contexts	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
How post-Bologna policies construct the purposes of higher education and students’ transitions into Masters programmes	1
Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’: Expectations, decision-making and belonging in light of educational choices in Norway	1
Editorial: The diversification of the teaching profession in Europe and beyond. Ambivalences of recognition in the context of (forced) migration	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
Junior research groups: A promising format for PhD qualification	1
Civic purposes in teaching: A study among Finnish and German student teachers	1
Business as the new doxa in education? An analysis of edu-business events in Finland	1
Relationship between school and parents: A comparative analysis of the legislative framework in five different countries	1
“Ranking of LGBTQ+-Friendly Schools” as an educational intervention	1
UK membership(s) in the European Higher Education Area post-2020: A ‘Europeanisation’ agenda	1