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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies	27
The role of affective experiences of language and religion in religious heritage language education	24
Contesting doxa: The Swedish National Association of the Deaf’s Resistance to School Integration, 1963–1993	20
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	18
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system: A case of a parents’ association (1975–2013)	18
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	17
Making economic citizens beyond neoliberalism: Historical trajectories of a banker association’s efforts in economic education	17
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	15
Between past and future: Rethinking European citizenship education (CE) as a tectonic enterprise	14
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education: An analysis of Swedish and Italian policy investigations	14
The pedagogical relationship lost in translation? Insights from a segregated Ukrainian refugee school in Norway	14
First-Generation Students in the post-pandemic university: Centring students’ experiences in moving towards a more inclusive higher education	14
Becoming a student: Management of transition to higher education among first-generation students’	11
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
Re-articulating the form of the political: Contemporary education governance in the European Union. Introduction to the Special Issue	11
Transforming language brokering policies at school: Learning from students with transnational biographies	10
A glaring shortage of climate mobility education: A comparative analysis of curricula and textbooks in Finnish and Greek schools	9
Justification regimes and crisis practices: International educational collaboration amidst pandemic and war	9
The value of doctoral education in the intersection of the multiple purposes of higher education	9
Access to higher education during COVID-19: First-generation students in Austria	8
So close and yet so far: Comparing the experiences of university non-traditional students before and after the pandemic	8
Uncertainty as an opportunity: Teacher partnerships in international schools in Poland	7
Predicting educational exclusion: A literature review of risk factors associated with early leaving from education	7
Educating for anti-complicity: A pedagogical response to political and structural violence	7
Knowledge for sale: The construction of desired knowledge and identities in edu-marketing	7

Resisting Europeanisation: Poland’s education policy and its impact on the European Education Area	7
Learning lessons from the collaborative design of guidance for new build schools	6
Schooling for integration? Reception of refugees in discourse and practice in Swedish rural municipalities 2015–2022	6
What is the ‘public’ in public education? Mapping past, present and future educational imaginaries of Europe and beyond	6
Where multilingualism and transnational education meet	6
Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education	6
Revaluing and devaluing higher education beyond neoliberalism: Elitist, productivist, and populist policy and rhetoric in a field of conflict	6
Entanglement of support and governance in digital curriculum instruments: The case of educational reform in Norway	6
The Promise of edu-business: Storytelling and affective subjectivation of edu-preneurs in Finland	5
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	5
Comparing national identity discourses in history, geography and civic education curricula: The case of France and Ireland	5
A matrix of educational policies to support migrant students across Europe	5
Teachers and white privilege attitudes: Correlates and consequences for in-service secondary education teachers	4
Contested identities in Europe: Historical insights into the construction of citizenship education from the bottom up	4
Can participation in learning abroad mobility support pro-European Union attitudes among youth?	4
Educational empowerment and strategic guidance: A critical perspective on regional educational digital transformation	4
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	4
ChatGPT and the entangled evolution of society, education, and technology: A systems theory perspective	4
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950	4
Partnerships in the metaverse	4
Research discourse in the programme for international student assessment: A critical perspective	4
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	3
Policy responses to diversity in early childhood education and care: Setting the agenda and meeting the challenges	3
Do students’ ICT skills pay off in math performance? Examining the moderating role of countries’ ICT promotive environment	3
Can we cross? Exploring the epistemic-linguistic line in an in-service teacher education context	3
Education policy governance and the power of ideas in constructing the new European Education Area	3
Partnerships to tackle the effects of socio-economic inequality on children’s experiences of school	3
European colonization and the transmission of the Ewondo language in Cameroon and Abroad: Historical and transnational perspectives	3
Colonial figures in metropolitan pedagogy. A layer in the “education for all” model, Denmark 1880s–1930s	3
Cultures of economic education: Grammar school curricula in a multilingual comparison	3
Relations and locations: New topological spatio-temporalities in education	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
Becoming morally equipped: A study of children’s public expressions	3
Inclusive education in the aftermath of the pandemic: Lessons from mainstream and special teachers who ‘escaped the room’	3
Beyond narrow definitions: Quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time	3
Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	2
A politics of temporality? Anticipatory governance and regimes of historicity in future-oriented education policy	2
Mobility for teacher students or teacher students for mobility? Unravelling policy discourses on international student mobility in the context of teacher education	2
The European Union’s governance of teachers and the evolution of a bridging issue field since the mid-2000s	2
Digital infrastructures for education: On sociotechnical entrenchment, pedagogy and the public interest	2
Rethinking the use of digital media for sustainability, inclusion and personal well-being	2
Processing uncertainty: Exclusionary institutional timescapes of German schools in the context of refugee migration from Ukraine	2
Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?	2
Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	2
Empowering teacher agency in the development of digital competence in primary education: Lessons from the Escol@s Digitais Project	2
Math anxiety, math teaching anxiety, and math attitudes in primary school teachers: A multi-country study	2
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe	2
Enforced freedoms: Testing art students’ artistic engagements in a folk high school	2
Illuminating inequalities in students’ sense of belonging at university from a Bourdieusian perspective	2

Choosing (not) to be a chemistry teacher: Students’ negotiations of science identities at a research-intensive university	2
Editorial special issue ‘Public Pedagogy and Sustainability Challenges’	2
Designing vocational training policies in an outermost European region: Highlights from a participatory process	2
Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships	2
Examification: Curricular, temporal, affective, and discursive dimensions of examination’s effects on education	2
Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’	2
After the ‘refugee crisis’ and the Yerevan Communiqué: Nationalism and empire as the not-so-hidden heart of European higher education	2
Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies	2
Learning outcomes for museum personnel: Qualitative case studies on intersectional community engagement in Malta and Italy	2
Inequality in participation in shadow education in mathematics in Europe: An intersectional perspective	2
Relationship between school and parents: A comparative analysis of the legislative framework in five different countries	1
Ethnic stratification in the Spanish education system	1
Informality as a resource: A systems-theoretical take on the open method of coordination in education	1
The experience of imposed digitalization of education provision across sectors: Comparative autoethnographic experiences through a Foucauldian lens	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
Transculturation in Arabic literacy education within and beyond mainstream education in Norway and Sweden	1
When EdTech makes us wait: Temporal bordering and inequalities in European classrooms	1
Comparative didactics today: Introducing a special issue	1
UK membership(s) in the European Higher Education Area post-2020: A ‘Europeanisation’ agenda	1
Curriculum policy and instructional planning: Teachers’ autonomy across various school contexts	1
The spatially uneven effects of a desegregation education policy	1
Which child to which school? How local politicians shape catchment areas, school choice and diversity	1
Navigating uncertainty in times of war: The staff-student partnership in times of crisis	1
Junior research groups: A promising format for PhD qualification	1
Towards models of language supportive pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing and analysing curricula and practice	1
EduTopics: ECER: A webapp for interactive visualisation and exploration of ECER contributions since 1998	1
From global integration to sovereign education: Russia’s policy evolution (1992–2025)	1
The principal and inclusive education: Investigating the dynamics of negotiation and resistance in Finnish and Swedish education union journals	1
Unpacking ableist discourses in Cypriot education policy during the pandemic	1
‘A little one among giants’: First-generation students transitioning to university in Italy, before and beyond the pandemic	1
Aiming high: Learning investments in German upper secondary education. Differences between immigrant and non-immigrant youth	1
Interrogating “the nation” in European online education: Topological forms and movements	1
Shaping illiberal citizenries: Far-right justifications of educational structures	1
Business as the new doxa in education? An analysis of edu-business events in Finland	1
Absence of education in civil defence education: Nationalising education and its actors and knowledge	1
‘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