OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Education Review 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Advertising a school’s merits in Hong Kong: weighing academic performance against students whole-person development	35
Analyzing changes in college students’ career decisions: using LCGA	29
The shared desire for third places on campus in Japan: a study of Japanese and American university undergraduate students with experience studying in both countries	29
Adult educators as lifelong learners in Singapore: factors influencing lifelong learning participation and professional growth	27
The adaptation of Kandel’s ideas in Chinese comparative education, 1920s–1930s	26
Humility and its cultivation in Chinese schools: an exploratory study into teachers’ perspectives	25
Resonance as an educational response to alienation and acceleration in contemporary society	24
A study on the influences of parental involvement on the adaptation of college freshmen	23
Satisfaction with acquired transferable competences among university students in Cambodia	22
Unfolding the typology and quality of the learner agency practices in the teachers’ implementation of the 2013 curriculum in Indonesia: the normalisation process theory perspective	22
Disability counseling competencies: the influence of training and ınter-group contact	22
Peace education research in East Asia, 2020–2025: key works published in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean	21
“A very small cog in the wheel”: principals’ perceptions of change and continuity in the wake of ESSA reforms	21
Distributed leadership and teacher work engagement: the mediating role of teacher efficacy and the moderating role of interpersonal trust	21
The impact of non-agricultural employment of parents on the cognitive abilities of left-behind children in rural areas	19
Measures to motivate teachers in Afghanistan: a proposal	19
Examining non-Indigenous teacher perceptions of Indigenous students in Taiwan through a Strategic Relational Approach	18
Effectiveness of the prediction–observation–explanation strategy on students with mild intellectual disabilities	18
Changes in English education during the pre- and post-Kim Jong Un Eras in North Korea: A comparative textbook analysis	18
Untangling the influence of data literacy and knowledge sharing willingness on academic achievement of college students in China: a moderated mediation model	18
Correction: Romanticizing decolonization and Asian epistemology: reflections on identity and space	17
Ethical dilemmas facing female teachers in the Arab education system in Israel	17
Social justice and multiculturalism in Asia–Pacific education: seeking contextualized theories and practices	17
Unveiling identities: exploring emotional self-expression and bilingualism through digital storytelling in teacher education	16
Spontaneous Change: Applying Zhuangzi’s Concept of Hua (化) to Global Citizenship	16

Anchoring and resilience: reconceptualizing the adaptation mechanisms of first-generation college students in Chinese elite universities	16
Experienced nursery teachers gaze longer at children during play than do novice teachers: an eye-tracking study	16
Transforming learning for sufficiency economy philosophy and sustainable development through the triangle of living learning lab	15
Development of instructional design principles for using ICT in resource-limited learning environments: a case of Bangladesh	14
Correction: Transnational juku: Japanese shadow education institutions in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai	14
Family income, non-cognitive skills and academic performance	13
Practice of leadership competencies by a principal: case study of a public experimental school in Taiwan	13
The impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of preservice teacher education: a scoping review	12
Editorial: What is the next step for APER to become an international journal?	12
Integrating ease of use and affordable gamification-based instruction into a remote learning environment	12
Navigating formative assessment literacy in a performative system: a qualitative study of Chinese K–12 teachers	12
Social participation of social organizations in education governance in China	12
Correction: An Exploration of Korean traditional parenting virtues among Korean-American parents and the impact of the Ottuki parenting program	12
Governance reform of local university under the “Double World-Class” policy: are there unintended but not unanticipated consequences?	12
Family structure and children’s academic performance in China: the roles of economic capital, social capital, and cultural capital	12
Exploring the impact of feedback timing on student performance in online testing	11
A spirit of service in liberal arts education: the legacy from China’s former Christian universities and the influence of contrasting social contexts	11
#YouAreWelcomeHere? The two faces of American higher education toward Chinese international students	11
Leading with tough love: relationships between paternalistic leadership, teachers’ emotional labor, and absorption through leader-member exchange	11
Association between psychological need satisfaction and online self-regulated learning	10
Fostering collaboration and professionalism: insights from a korean kindergarten teacher learning community	10
Longitudinal trajectories of the career barriers of school dropouts using latent class growth analysis	10
What does “Asia–Pacific” mean to APER? Toward high-quality scholarship and inclusive practices in international education	10
Long-term benefits of early childhood education on off-farm employment: evidence from rural China	10
Where to study abroad? American college students’ choice of a study abroad destination: pre-college, college and program capital	9
The effect of interactive games on English language learners’ reading comprehension and attitudes	9
A bibliometric analysis of international student mobility research in Asia: developments, research gaps and future directions	9
But yet included: effects of classmates with special needs on elementary school students’ civic-mindedness	9
Timeless bonds amidst change: exploring teacher identity formation across various eras in South Korea	9
School and teacher level predictors of organizational loyalty in an era of school reform	9
Relationships among learning organization, resistance to change, job crafting, and innovative work behavior in South Korea: public vs. for-profit sectors	9
Challenging aspects of Kazakhstan’s trilingual education policy: evidence from a literature review	8
The way to sustainability: education for sustainable development in China	8
The tensions of general education reform in China	8
Inclusive education in Japan and its role in international cooperation: analysis of a project for children with disabilities in Mongolia	8
The relationship of parents’ filial piety beliefs to their children’s filial piety beliefs and mathematics performance	7
The influence of education and family systems on the sustainability values of Hong Kong University students	7
AI chatbot design principles to enhance the collective efficacy in collaborative learning	7
Working conditions in rural schools: an exploration of teachers’ experiences in Northern Sindh, Pakistan	7
Revisiting ‘Asia as method’ in education research: problems and prospects	7
Defining, identifying, and estimating causal effects with the potential outcomes framework: a review for education research	7
Transformative learning in times of crisis: exploring teachers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Comparing cultures of school leadership effectiveness: rural leadership behaviors between China and the U.S.	7
Education investment “rat race” in China: how income inequality shapes family investment in shadow education	7
Exploring the factors that influence academic stress among elementary school students using a LASSO penalty regression model	7
Is government funding critical to the operating performance of technology universities? A case study of Taiwan	7
“Why do I risk my professional reputation to do it?” Vietnamese teachers’ motivations and identities in relation to private tutoring	7
Understanding the counterfactual approach to instrumental variables: a practical guide	7
Agentic citizenship learning in China: official curriculum and student agency	7
Correction to: How intercultural experience affects university students’ gender views: potential for transforming higher education in Japan	7

Student- and school-level perceived ICT competence and academic performance in Chinese rural schools: a multilevel analysis	7
Educational materials in East Asian English-medium higher education settings	6
What deters some immigrants from learning the language of their new home: Factor analysis of immigrants’ deterrents to educational participation in South Korea	6
Mobilising parental capital for integration: new immigrant parents’ strategies to facilitate 1.5- and second-generation immigrant children’s academic and socio-cultural integration in Singapore	6
The trajectory of teachers’ multicultural transformation: an analysis of teachers’ beliefs about mathematics as a school subject	6
The effects of self-controlled peers on students’ academic performance	6
An introduction to the difference-in-differences design in education policy research	6
Environmental Education in the Brazilian Amazon, in Pará State: the meanings of environmental governance	6
The role of student–teacher college practicum experience on teaching self-efficacy, belief in the profession, and intention to teach in Kazakhstan	6
Asian international graduate students’ experiences with their advisors in Korean higher education	5
A narrative exploration of agency in the education-migration nexus	5
A pedagogy of emptiness: a daoist perspective	5
Negotiating educational equities: Chinese middle-class parents’ distributive justice claims to school choice reform	5
Exploring means–ends decoupling in the tenure track system of China’s “Double First-Class” universities: an institutional logics perspective	5
Creative thinking patterns in primary school students’ hands-on science activities involving robotic as learning tools	5
Effects of interventions using graphic organizer in Korea: a meta-analysis	5
Predicting disadvantaged smallholder farmers’ intention to take distance learning: evidence from China	5
Teacher and student led curriculum development: ainu indigenous education in Japan	5
Quasi-experimental designs for causal inference: an overview	5
University students’ perceptions of remote laboratory courses necessitated by COVID-19: differences in emergent teaching strategies at a Korean university	5
`Walking between the lines’: research evaluation in China beyond COVID-19	5
Introduction to causal graphs for education researchers	5
Rethinking the assessment of the quality of teacher reflection by validating an innovative vignette-based instrument and an analytic coding scheme	5
Exploring the relationship between sustainability and human rights: ecological transition education and its relevance to students’ human rights in South Korean education	5
What organizational supports matter in scholar development? An investigation of early career academics’ experiences in China	5
Teacher’s views on professional learning and development in primary schools in Fiji	5
College quality and initial employment: insights from the Japanese labor market	5