OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Education Review is 4. 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
Using inquiry-based learning approach in the teaching process of divisibility rules	78
Educational materials in East Asian English-medium higher education settings	51
Modernizing higher education with industrial forces in Asia: a comparative study of discourse of university-industry collaboration in China, Japan and Singapore	40
Mobile inquiry and inquiry-based science learning in higher education: advantages, challenges, and attitudes	37
Innovation readiness for digital learning within the University 4.0 Model	35
“We know who we are”: segmentation and characterization of the academic community toward classified faculty evaluation reform in a Chinese non-research university	32
Estimating the causal impact of non-traditional household structures on children’s educational performance using a machine learning propensity score	28
The trajectory of teachers’ multicultural transformation: an analysis of teachers’ beliefs about mathematics as a school subject	28
Investigating teachers’ work in Singapore from interviews: An analysis based on Discursive Psychology	26
Towards network governance: educational reforms and governance changes in China (1985–2020)	26
Reflexivity and cross-cultural education: a Foucauldian framework for becoming an ethical teacher-researcher	24
Research vs. non-research universities: knowledge sharing and research engagement among academicians	23
Post-pandemic reflections: lessons from Chinese mathematics teachers about online mathematics instruction	22
Building capacity for grassroots reform: an Australian case study	21
Do peers affect private tutoring engagement in Korea? Evidence from a quasi-experimental approach	18
How does family cultural capital influence the individuals’ development? —case study about left-behind children in China	18
High-impact educational practices: participation of Chinese and American undergraduates during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
An interpretive analysis of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in Hong Kong public universities	16
Modernizing education with Chinese characteristics? The Chinese academic discourse on education modernization (1985–2021)	16
Resonance as an educational response to alienation and acceleration in contemporary society	16
The discursive construction of responsibility among teachers in Singapore: “Everything is good, so we do everything”	16
Translanguaging as a social justice strategy: the case of teaching Chinese to ethnic minority students in Hong Kong	16
Bridging principal-agent and mechanism design theories: an integrated conceptual framework for policy evaluation	15
`Walking between the lines’: research evaluation in China beyond COVID-19	14
What deters some immigrants from learning the language of their new home: Factor analysis of immigrants’ deterrents to educational participation in South Korea	14

Access to senior secondary science and mathematics: examining the evidence for stratification in an Australian school system	14
Correction to: Tackling school-related gender-based violence through teacher professional development in Cambodia	14
Effectiveness of automated writing evaluation program to enhance EFL undergraduates’ writing performance in China	13
Will COVID pandemic intensify the inequality in transnational education participation?	12
Examining student, parent, and school factors predicting science achievement using a multilevel approach: the case of Hong Kong from the Program for International Student Assessment 2015	12
Analyzing changes in college students’ career decisions: using LCGA	11
Beyond test scores: exploring the multiple determinants of performance pay for teachers in China	11
Advertising a school’s merits in Hong Kong: weighing academic performance against students whole-person development	11
The adaptation of Kandel’s ideas in Chinese comparative education, 1920s–1930s	11
Regression discontinuity designs in education: a practitioner’s guide	11
A study on the influences of parental involvement on the adaptation of college freshmen	11
Can school cultivate active global citizens? Exploring school and student factors related to students’ global citizenship in the Republic of Korea	11
Is the use of multiple-choice items and a holistically-scored paragraph translation task fair? Examining a large-scale translation subtest	10
The effects of self-controlled peers on students’ academic performance	10
Effects of learners’ course network characteristics on continuous online learning: moderation roles of social learning and social exposure	10
Teacher’s views on professional learning and development in primary schools in Fiji	9
Quasi-experimental designs for causal inference: an overview	9
STEM students’ self-perceptions of graduate employability: a gender, region, and gender-regional analysis in China	9
Negotiating educational equities: Chinese middle-class parents’ distributive justice claims to school choice reform	9
Why Chinese students choose to pursue secondary education in Canada: an empirical investigation based on push–pull model	8
Transnational juku: Japanese shadow education institutions in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai	8
Adult educators as lifelong learners in Singapore: factors influencing lifelong learning participation and professional growth	8
The moderating role of teacher collaboration in the association between job satisfaction and job performance	8
The effects of adolescent prosocial behavior interventions: a meta-analytic review	8
Environmental Education in the Brazilian Amazon, in Pará State: the meanings of environmental governance	8
Flipped classroom improves academic achievement, learning retention and attitude towards course: a meta-analysis	8
Is gamification always productive? A study of the effectiveness of Bebras cards in promoting primary students’ computational thinking skills	7
Decolonizing research imagination: a journey of reshaping research epistemology and ontology	7
Self-directed computer-assisted professional development in Taiwanese bilingual schools: an exploratory study	7
Key issues impeding the integration of international faculty at Japanese universities	7
Effects of mind mapping-based instruction on student cognitive learning outcomes: a meta-analysis	7
Predictive factors for reading comprehension ability in indigenous high school students instructed through various teaching methods	7
Surviving and thriving in “accelerating” academia: toward a job demands-resources model of faculty well-being	7
A comparative study of the effects of social media and language learning apps on learners’ vocabulary performance	7
Humility and its cultivation in Chinese schools: an exploratory study into teachers’ perspectives	7
Relationships among the volitional strategies, task values, and goal commitment of remedial teaching teachers and differences in teaching experience and professional background	7
Introduction to causal graphs for education researchers	6
Utilization of differentiated instruction in K-12 classrooms: a systematic literature review (2000–2022)	6
Asian international graduate students’ experiences with their advisors in Korean higher education	6
Effectiveness of the prediction–observation–explanation strategy on students with mild intellectual disabilities	6
International academics in national research institutes in Korea and Japan: contributions, reasons for migration, and challenges	6
The impact of non-agricultural employment of parents on the cognitive abilities of left-behind children in rural areas	6
A primer on the validity typology and threats to validity in education research	6
Learning-by-doing in a professional learning community: technological pedagogical and content knowledge development of Hong Kong university teaching staff	6
Predicting academic success: machine learning analysis of student, parental, and school efforts	6
Untangling the influence of data literacy and knowledge sharing willingness on academic achievement of college students in China: a moderated mediation model	6
Co-teachers’ perceptions of collaborative EFL teaching: a case study in Taiwan	5
Predicting disadvantaged smallholder farmers’ intention to take distance learning: evidence from China	5
The relationship between distributed leadership and teacher commitment to change: the mediating roles of professional learning communities and job satisfaction	5
Examining the technical adequacy and efficacy of FABLe to identify students at-risk for reading difficulties in India	5

Using EASY framework to facilitate economics students’ critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions	5
Shock temporality: international students coping with disrupted lives and suspended futures	5
Involution life in the ivory tower: a Chinese university’s teacher perceptions on academic profession and well-being under the Double First-class Initiative	5
Evolution and trends in intelligent tutoring systems research: a multidisciplinary and scientometric view	5
“A very small cog in the wheel”: principals’ perceptions of change and continuity in the wake of ESSA reforms	5
Creative thinking patterns in primary school students’ hands-on science activities involving robotic as learning tools	4
Correction: Romanticizing decolonization and Asian epistemology: reflections on identity and space	4
Changes in English education during the pre- and post-Kim Jong Un Eras in North Korea: A comparative textbook analysis	4
Bilingual myths and challenges of bilingual parenting as nonnative English speakers	4
Student-centered, “embodied inter-referencing” as antiracist and anticolonial pedagogy	4
Re-examining cultural reproduction theory: cultural capital and adolescent academic achievement in China	4
Examining non-Indigenous teacher perceptions of Indigenous students in Taiwan through a Strategic Relational Approach	4
Correction to: Throwing light on fee-charging tutoring during the global pandemic in Kazakhstan: implications for the future of higher education	4
Measures to motivate teachers in Afghanistan: a proposal	4
Ethical dilemmas facing female teachers in the Arab education system in Israel	4
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	4
“Asia as method” as a quest of the spirit and finding we-togetherness: a collaborative autoethnography	4
Reduced in-person learning in COVID-19 widens student achievement gaps in schools	4
Satisfaction with acquired transferable competences among university students in Cambodia	4
Distributed leadership and teacher work engagement: the mediating role of teacher efficacy and the moderating role of interpersonal trust	4