OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Educational Research Journal is 5. 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
Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	31
Regeneration through education? Citizenship education, Flemish teacher training and the legacy of the world wars, 1918–1950	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
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
Equity lost: Sweden and Finland in the struggle for PISA scores	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
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
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	14
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	13
Analysis of joint action between trainer and teachers in an in-service training system through the prism of a comparative approach in didactics	13
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	12
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
Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	11
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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