OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Educational Research Journal is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Are adult learners in Europe happier than non-learners? Statistical evidence from the European Social Survey	79
Schooling for integration? Reception of refugees in discourse and practice in Swedish rural municipalities 2015–2022	40
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950	31
Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	31
The marketisation of education and the democratic deficit	28
Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships	25
On the haunted ‘public’ in public education in Poland	24
Gender equity in academic knowledge production: the influence of politics, power and precarity	24
Equity lost: Sweden and Finland in the struggle for PISA scores	23
The Promise of edu-business: Storytelling and affective subjectivation of edu-preneurs in Finland	23
The European Union’s governance of teachers and the evolution of a bridging issue field since the mid-2000s	23
Questioning the rhetoric: A critical analysis of intergovernmental organisations’ entrepreneurship education policy	18
Framing policy problems and solutions in education policymaking: Pre-vocational education in Norwegian lower secondary school	17
Students’ experiences of internationalised MSc programmes in Denmark	17
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	14
Designing vocational training policies in an outermost European region: Highlights from a participatory process	14
Comparing national identity discourses in history, geography and civic education curricula: The case of France and Ireland	14
Analysis of joint action between trainer and teachers in an in-service training system through the prism of a comparative approach in didactics	13
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	13
Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies	12
Absence of education in civil defence education: Nationalising education and its actors and knowledge	12
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	12
Learning outcomes: The long goodbye: Vocational qualifications in the 21st century	11
Entanglement of support and governance in digital curriculum instruments: The case of educational reform in Norway	11
Educators’ interpretations of children’s belonging across borders: Thinking and talking with an image	11

Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	11
Citizenship-as-knowledge: How perspectives from Bildung-centred Didaktik can contribute to European Citizenship Education beyond competence	10
Innovation and risk in an innovative learning environment: A Private Public Partnership in Australia	10
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	10
Diversification of the teaching profession in Europe and beyond: Ambivalences of recognition in the context of (forced) migration	10
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	10
Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education	9
Is small beautiful? A scoping review of 21st-century research on small rural schools in Europe	9
Educational achievement disparities between second-generation and non-immigrant students: Do school characteristics account for tracking effects?	8
First-in-Family students’ roots and routes into higher education: Familial dynamics as drivers for breaking intergenerational cycles of educational attainment	8
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education: An analysis of Swedish and Italian policy investigations	8
‘Some change of feeling and purpose’: The League of Nations Union, emotions, and world citizenship in Britain, 1919–1939	8
Dancing with Covid: Choreographing examinations in pandemic times	8
Pedagogic rights, public education and democracy	8
Performing nationalism – Sámi culture and diversity in early education in Norway	8
‘Now we have gym, now we have to perform’: Norwegian students’ perceptions of assessment and grading in physical education	7
Supportive assessment strategies as curriculum events in a performance-oriented classroom context	7
UK membership(s) in the European Higher Education Area post-2020: A ‘Europeanisation’ agenda	7
How post-Bologna policies construct the purposes of higher education and students’ transitions into Masters programmes	7
How important are teacher characteristics to predict mathematics achievement in European countries?	7
‘Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)’: School-level enactment of an educational innovation policy in Barcelona	7
Historical development of job profiles in adult education in Germany through the interaction of intermediaries from a conventional-theoretical perspective	6
Stability or change? Social inequality at the transition from bachelor’s to master’s degree programmes in Germany. Empirical evidence from four graduate cohorts	6
Can participation in learning abroad mobility support pro-European Union attitudes among youth?	6
Worlds apart? On Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of education	6
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe	5
Comparative didactics today: Introducing a special issue	5
Unpacking ableist discourses in Cypriot education policy during the pandemic	5
Renegotiating the public good: Responding to the first wave of COVID-19 in England, Germany and Italy	5
Ethnic stratification in the Spanish education system	5
Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’	5
Repair tables, broken vacuum cleaners and posters: Weaving new worlds together in response to breakdowns	5
Research discourse in the programme for international student assessment: A critical perspective	5
Inequities in first education policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis in four Central and East European countries	4
COVID-19 and its effects: On the risk of social inequality through digitalization and the loss of trust in three European education systems	4
The risks of standardised school building design: Beyond aligning the parts of a learning environment	4
The colonial governmentality of Cambridge Assessment International Education	4
Transforming language brokering policies at school: Learning from students with transnational biographies	4
Pedagogical publics: Creating sustainable educational environments in times of climate change	4
ChatGPT and the entangled evolution of society, education, and technology: A systems theory perspective	4
The worry conversation: A loosening technology	4
The big acceleration in digital education in Italy: The COVID-19 pandemic and the blended-school form	4
Partnerships in the metaverse	4
Inclusive education in the aftermath of the pandemic: Lessons from mainstream and special teachers who ‘escaped the room’	3
Parents for whom school ‘is not that big a deal’. Parental support in home schooling during lockdown in France	3
Relations and locations: New topological spatio-temporalities in education	3
Analysis of a university-NGO research partnership with and for children and young people in Covid-19	3
Place, space and time: A topological perspective of a forest school-based educational mode of existence	3
Re-articulating the form of the political: Contemporary education governance in the European Union. Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Digital teaching as the new normal? Swedish upper secondary teachers’ experiences of emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 crisis	3

Becoming a student: Management of transition to higher education among first-generation students’	3
Negotiations of language(s) and inequalities in transnational family biographies	3
The instrumentation of public subsidies for private schools: Different regulatory models with concurrent equity implications	3
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	3
Cultures of economic education: Grammar school curricula in a multilingual comparison	3
Building trust, resilient regions, and educational narratives: Municipalities dealing with COVID-19 in border regions of Portugal	3
Inequality in participation in shadow education in mathematics in Europe: An intersectional perspective	3
What can explain the socio-economic gap in international student mobility uptake? Similarities between Germany, Hungary, Italy, and the UK	3
Education policy governance and the power of ideas in constructing the new European Education Area	3
Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’: Expectations, decision-making and belonging in light of educational choices in Norway	3
Moving to opportunity: Student trajectories in the post-Bologna university system in Denmark	3
Flexible and innovative learning spaces: An exploration of parental perspectives on change, consultation and participation	3
Partnerships to tackle the effects of socio-economic inequality on children’s experiences of school	2
From self-evident norms to contingent couplings: A systems-theoretical analysis of changes in the relationship between schools and the function systems in Denmark	2
After the ‘refugee crisis’ and the Yerevan Communiqué: Nationalism and empire as the not-so-hidden heart of European higher education	2
Conventions of skilling: The plural and prospective worlds of higher vocational education	2
Barriers to recognition for migrant teachers in Ireland	2
So close and yet so far: Comparing the experiences of university non-traditional students before and after the pandemic	2
Governing education in times of crisis: State interventions and school accountabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Problematising ‘education’ in the Modernisation Agenda for Higher Education: The onset of language(s) of education	2
Non-profit organizations in training for employment: On the transformative potential of their critique of education	2
The complexity of professional integration: An investigation of newly arrived teachers’ initial process of establishing themselves as teachers in Sweden	2
Europeanisation in Teacher Education: A Comparative Case Study of Teacher Education Policies and Practices, Review essay	2
Are interest groups effective public action influencers in the field of education? Case studies of two school reforms in Switzerland	2
Knowledge or competencies? A controversial question in contemporary curriculum debates	2
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	2
Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?	2
Choosing (not) to be a chemistry teacher: Students’ negotiations of science identities at a research-intensive university	2
Beyond narrow definitions: Quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time	2
Interrogating “the nation” in European online education: Topological forms and movements	2
From real to virtual mobility: Erasmus students’ transition to online learning amid the COVID-19 crisis	2
Editorial special issue ‘Public Pedagogy and Sustainability Challenges’	2