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

Article	Citations
The adaptation of Kandel’s ideas in Chinese comparative education, 1920s–1930s	55
Advertising a school’s merits in Hong Kong: weighing academic performance against students whole-person development	46
A study on the influences of parental involvement on the adaptation of college freshmen	38
Resonance as an educational response to alienation and acceleration in contemporary society	35
Analyzing changes in college students’ career decisions: using LCGA	32
Adult educators as lifelong learners in Singapore: factors influencing lifelong learning participation and professional growth	28
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	27
Do peers affect private tutoring engagement in Korea? Evidence from a quasi-experimental approach	25
Humility and its cultivation in Chinese schools: an exploratory study into teachers’ perspectives	23
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
Satisfaction with acquired transferable competences among university students in Cambodia	21
Correction: Romanticizing decolonization and Asian epistemology: reflections on identity and space	21
Peace education research in East Asia, 2020–2025: key works published in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean	20
The impact of non-agricultural employment of parents on the cognitive abilities of left-behind children in rural areas	20
Untangling the influence of data literacy and knowledge sharing willingness on academic achievement of college students in China: a moderated mediation model	20
Changes in English education during the pre- and post-Kim Jong Un Eras in North Korea: A comparative textbook analysis	20
Disability counseling competencies: the influence of training and ınter-group contact	20
“A very small cog in the wheel”: principals’ perceptions of change and continuity in the wake of ESSA reforms	19
Ethical dilemmas facing female teachers in the Arab education system in Israel	18
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	17
No one left behind in education: blockchain-based transformation and its potential for social inclusion	16
Measures to motivate teachers in Afghanistan: a proposal	16
Social justice and multiculturalism in Asia–Pacific education: seeking contextualized theories and practices	16
Distributed leadership and teacher work engagement: the mediating role of teacher efficacy and the moderating role of interpersonal trust	15

Spontaneous Change: Applying Zhuangzi’s Concept of Hua (化) to Global Citizenship	15
Correction: Transnational juku: Japanese shadow education institutions in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai	14
The impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of preservice teacher education: a scoping review	14
Experienced nursery teachers gaze longer at children during play than do novice teachers: an eye-tracking study	14
Unveiling identities: exploring emotional self-expression and bilingualism through digital storytelling in teacher education	14
Transforming learning for sufficiency economy philosophy and sustainable development through the triangle of living learning lab	13
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 nonboarding on the development of disadvantaged boarding students in western rural China	13
Development of instructional design principles for using ICT in resource-limited learning environments: a case of Bangladesh	13
The Parrot’s Training in the pandemic: fallacies in India’s educational response to COVID-19	12
Integrating ease of use and affordable gamification-based instruction into a remote learning environment	12
#YouAreWelcomeHere? The two faces of American higher education toward Chinese international students	12
Social participation of social organizations in education governance in China	12
A spirit of service in liberal arts education: the legacy from China’s former Christian universities and the influence of contrasting social contexts	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
Exploring the impact of feedback timing on student performance in online testing	12
Association between psychological need satisfaction and online self-regulated learning	11
Mathematics learning as embodied making: primary students’ investigation of 3D geometry with handheld 3D printing technology	10
Editorial: What is the next step for APER to become an international journal?	10
What does “Asia–Pacific” mean to APER? Toward high-quality scholarship and inclusive practices in international education	10
Family structure and children’s academic performance in China: the roles of economic capital, social capital, and cultural capital	9
Longitudinal trajectories of the career barriers of school dropouts using latent class growth analysis	9
Examining dyadic conceptual elaboration regarding different group compositions in online asynchronous discussion	9
Leading with tough love: relationships between paternalistic leadership, teachers’ emotional labor, and absorption through leader-member exchange	9
Transformative learning in times of crisis: exploring teachers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
But yet included: effects of classmates with special needs on elementary school students’ civic-mindedness	8
Fostering collaboration and professionalism: insights from a korean kindergarten teacher learning community	8
Where to study abroad? American college students’ choice of a study abroad destination: pre-college, college and program capital	8
Long-term benefits of early childhood education on off-farm employment: evidence from rural China	8
The effect of interactive games on English language learners’ reading comprehension and attitudes	8
Relationships among learning organization, resistance to change, job crafting, and innovative work behavior in South Korea: public vs. for-profit sectors	8
School and teacher level predictors of organizational loyalty in an era of school reform	7
Timeless bonds amidst change: exploring teacher identity formation across various eras in South Korea	7
Challenging aspects of Kazakhstan’s trilingual education policy: evidence from a literature review	7
Inductive and combinatorial reasoning in international educational context: assessment, measurement invariance, and latent mean differences	7
Is government funding critical to the operating performance of technology universities? A case study of Taiwan	7
Inclusive education in Japan and its role in international cooperation: analysis of a project for children with disabilities in Mongolia	7
The tensions of general education reform in China	7
The way to sustainability: education for sustainable development in China	7
Understanding the counterfactual approach to instrumental variables: a practical guide	6
Agentic citizenship learning in China: official curriculum and student agency	6
Student- and school-level perceived ICT competence and academic performance in Chinese rural schools: a multilevel analysis	6
The influence of education and family systems on the sustainability values of Hong Kong University students	6
Working conditions in rural schools: an exploration of teachers’ experiences in Northern Sindh, Pakistan	6
“Why do I risk my professional reputation to do it?” Vietnamese teachers’ motivations and identities in relation to private tutoring	6
Correction to: How intercultural experience affects university students’ gender views: potential for transforming higher education in Japan	6
Defining, identifying, and estimating causal effects with the potential outcomes framework: a review for education research	6
The relationship of parents’ filial piety beliefs to their children’s filial piety beliefs and mathematics performance	6

The trajectory of teachers’ multicultural transformation: an analysis of teachers’ beliefs about mathematics as a school subject	5
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	5
Effects of mind mapping-based instruction on student cognitive learning outcomes: a meta-analysis	5
Education investment “rat race” in China: how income inequality shapes family investment in shadow education	5
Quasi-experimental designs for causal inference: an overview	5
Revisiting ‘Asia as method’ in education research: problems and prospects	5
An introduction to the difference-in-differences design in education policy research	5
The effects of self-controlled peers on students’ academic performance	5
The role of student–teacher college practicum experience on teaching self-efficacy, belief in the profession, and intention to teach in Kazakhstan	5
Exploring the factors that influence academic stress among elementary school students using a LASSO penalty regression model	5
Negotiating educational equities: Chinese middle-class parents’ distributive justice claims to school choice reform	5
Comparing cultures of school leadership effectiveness: rural leadership behaviors between China and the U.S.	5
Environmental Education in the Brazilian Amazon, in Pará State: the meanings of environmental governance	5
AI chatbot design principles to enhance the collective efficacy in collaborative learning	5
What deters some immigrants from learning the language of their new home: Factor analysis of immigrants’ deterrents to educational participation in South Korea	5
`Walking between the lines’: research evaluation in China beyond COVID-19	5
Educational materials in East Asian English-medium higher education settings	5
Teacher’s views on professional learning and development in primary schools in Fiji	5
What organizational supports matter in scholar development? An investigation of early career academics’ experiences in China	5