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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The adaptation of Kandel’s ideas in Chinese comparative education, 1920s–1930s	33
A study on the influences of parental involvement on the adaptation of college freshmen	27
Advertising a school’s merits in Hong Kong: weighing academic performance against students whole-person development	27
Analyzing changes in college students’ career decisions: using LCGA	26
Resonance as an educational response to alienation and acceleration in contemporary society	26
Adult educators as lifelong learners in Singapore: factors influencing lifelong learning participation and professional growth	26
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	25
Humility and its cultivation in Chinese schools: an exploratory study into teachers’ perspectives	24
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
Changes in English education during the pre- and post-Kim Jong Un Eras in North Korea: A comparative textbook analysis	21
Spontaneous Change: Applying Zhuangzi’s Concept of Hua (化) to Global Citizenship	21
“A very small cog in the wheel”: principals’ perceptions of change and continuity in the wake of ESSA reforms	20
Peace education research in East Asia, 2020–2025: key works published in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean	19
Measures to motivate teachers in Afghanistan: a proposal	18
Correction: Romanticizing decolonization and Asian epistemology: reflections on identity and space	17
Distributed leadership and teacher work engagement: the mediating role of teacher efficacy and the moderating role of interpersonal trust	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
Untangling the influence of data literacy and knowledge sharing willingness on academic achievement of college students in China: a moderated mediation model	17
The impact of non-agricultural employment of parents on the cognitive abilities of left-behind children in rural areas	17
Effectiveness of the prediction–observation–explanation strategy on students with mild intellectual disabilities	17
Examining non-Indigenous teacher perceptions of Indigenous students in Taiwan through a Strategic Relational Approach	16
Experienced nursery teachers gaze longer at children during play than do novice teachers: an eye-tracking study	16

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

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