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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies	88
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	28
Educators’ interpretations of children’s belonging across borders: Thinking and talking with an image	24
Pre-service teachers’ agency to enact multilingual pedagogies: A longitudinal case study	22
How auctions shape the value of education: Tendering-based procurement as management tool in adult education	19
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system: A case of a parents’ association (1975–2013)	16
Worlds apart? On Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of education	15
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education: An analysis of Swedish and Italian policy investigations	15
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
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
Becoming a student: Management of transition to higher education among first-generation students’	13
The historic importance of degree structure: A comparison of bachelor to master transitions in Norway and Denmark	12
The value of doctoral education in the intersection of the multiple purposes of higher education	11
Access to higher education during COVID-19: First-generation students in Austria	11
So close and yet so far: Comparing the experiences of university non-traditional students before and after the pandemic	10
Justification regimes and crisis practices: International educational collaboration amidst pandemic and war	9
Educating for anti-complicity: A pedagogical response to political and structural violence	8
Resisting Europeanisation: Poland’s education policy and its impact on the European Education Area	8
Where multilingualism and transnational education meet	8
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
Governing through consensus? The European Semester, soft power and education governance in the EU	8
Knowledge for sale: The construction of desired knowledge and identities in edu-marketing	8
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
Learning lessons from the collaborative design of guidance for new build schools	7
Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education	7
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	6
A matrix of educational policies to support migrant students across Europe	6
Can participation in learning abroad mobility support pro-European Union attitudes among youth?	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
Comparing national identity discourses in history, geography and civic education curricula: The case of France and Ireland	6
Schooling for integration? Reception of refugees in discourse and practice in Swedish rural municipalities 2015–2022	6
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	6
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
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
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	5
Partnerships in the metaverse	5