Alis Oancea

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Alis Oancea is a scholar working on Education, Political Science and International Relations and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Alis Oancea has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Education, 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Alis Oancea's work include Education and Critical Thinking Development (8 papers), Evaluation and Performance Assessment (8 papers) and Educational Assessment and Improvement (7 papers). Alis Oancea is often cited by papers focused on Education and Critical Thinking Development (8 papers), Evaluation and Performance Assessment (8 papers) and Educational Assessment and Improvement (7 papers). Alis Oancea collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Hong Kong. Alis Oancea's co-authors include Keith F. Punch, Janet Orchard, Christopher Winch, John Furlong, Richard Pring, Xin Xu, Heath Rose, Alastair M. Buchan, Pavel V. Ovseiko and Ken Spours and has published in prestigious journals such as Sustainability, Teaching and Teacher Education and Science Education.

In The Last Decade

Alis Oancea

42 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Introduction to Research Methods in Education

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alis Oancea United Kingdom	17	876	357	238	149	121	44	1.5k
Richard Pring United Kingdom	22	1.2k 1.3×	435 1.2×	310 1.3×	122 0.8×	106 0.9×	97	1.6k
Michael Barber United States	16	728 0.8×	235 0.7×	255 1.1×	81 0.5×	130 1.1×	83	1.3k
Mary Taylor Huber United States	22	1.6k 1.8×	230 0.6×	214 0.9×	159 1.1×	84 0.7×	69	2.3k
Kathryn G.Herr United States	15	863 1.0×	485 1.4×	75 0.3×	129 0.9×	104 0.9×	32	1.5k
Peter Davies United Kingdom	24	1.2k 1.4×	555 1.6×	226 0.9×	160 1.1×	71 0.6×	120	1.9k
Jacky Lumby United Kingdom	24	1.2k 1.3×	288 0.8×	258 1.1×	108 0.7×	93 0.8×	97	1.7k
David F. Labaree United States	22	1.9k 2.1×	819 2.3×	486 2.0×	148 1.0×	156 1.3×	75	2.5k
Eric Hoyle United Kingdom	19	1.2k 1.4×	413 1.2×	248 1.0×	146 1.0×	147 1.2×	53	1.7k
Christopher Winch United Kingdom	27	1.3k 1.5×	617 1.7×	476 2.0×	139 0.9×	77 0.6×	132	2.1k
Ian Hardy Australia	24	1.7k 1.9×	572 1.6×	540 2.3×	223 1.5×	233 1.9×	141	2.4k

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Oancea, Alis, et al.. (2025). European higher education policy as a plastique palimpseste: understanding national visions for the European Universities Initiative. Higher Education. 91(2). 759–780. 2 indexed citations

Cheung, Kason Ka Ching, Sibel Erduran, & Alis Oancea. (2025). Promoting linguistic equity: multilingual students’ multimodal meaning making of culture of scientific practices. Cultural Studies of Science Education. 20(3-4). 345–387. 1 indexed citations

Cheung, Kason Ka Ching, Sibel Erduran, & Alis Oancea. (2025). ‘Swirling' around translanguaging spaces of nature of science in multilingual classrooms. International Journal of Science Education. 1–25. 2 indexed citations

Derrick, Gemma, et al.. (2024). The gravity of the status quo: the response of research governance to system-level shocks. Higher Education. 90(1). 89–108. 1 indexed citations

Cheung, Kason Ka Ching, Alis Oancea, & Sibel Erduran. (2024). Students' Meaning‐Making of Nature of Science: Interaction Between Visual, Verbal, and Written Modes of Representation. Science Education. 109(2). 480–505. 5 indexed citations

Oancea, Alis, et al.. (2022). The use of technology in higher education teaching by academics during the COVID-19 emergency remote teaching period: a systematic review. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. 19(1). 59–59. 31 indexed citations

Mayer, Diane & Alis Oancea. (2021). Teacher education research, policy and practice: finding future research directions. Oxford Review of Education. 47(1). 1–7. 18 indexed citations

Xu, Xin, Alis Oancea, & Heath Rose. (2021). The Impacts of Incentives for International Publications on Research Cultures in Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences. Minerva. 59(4). 469–492. 34 indexed citations

Xu, Xin, Heath Rose, & Alis Oancea. (2019). Incentivising international publications: institutional policymaking in Chinese higher education. Studies in Higher Education. 46(6). 1132–1145. 44 indexed citations

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Oancea, Alis, et al.. (2017). Qualitative network analysis tools for the configurative articulation of cultural value and impact from research. Research Evaluation. 26(4). 302–315. 19 indexed citations

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Winch, Christopher, Alis Oancea, & Janet Orchard. (2015). The contribution of educational research to teachers’ professional learning: philosophical understandings. Oxford Review of Education. 41(2). 202–216. 136 indexed citations

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Ovseiko, Pavel V., Alis Oancea, & Alastair M. Buchan. (2012). Assessing research impact in academic clinical medicine: a study using Research Excellence Framework pilot impact indicators. BMC Health Services Research. 12(1). 478–478. 42 indexed citations

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Oancea, Alis & Janet Orchard. (2012). The Future of Teacher Education. Journal of Philosophy of Education. 46(4). 574–588. 8 indexed citations

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Pring, Richard, Ann Hodgson, Jill R. Johnson, et al.. (2012). Education for All. 2 indexed citations

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Pollard, Andrew J. & Alis Oancea. (2010). Unlocking Learning? : towards evidence-informed policy and practice in education. Final report of the UK Strategic Forum for Research in Education, 2008-2010. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 7 indexed citations

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Oancea, Alis & David Bridges. (2009). Philosophy of education in the UK: the historical and contemporary. Oxford Review of Education. 35(5). 1 indexed citations

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Oancea, Alis, Petra Engelbrecht, & Jaco Hoffman. (2009). Research Policy and Governance in the United Kingdom--Critical Perspective and Implications for South African Higher Education Research.. South African Journal of Higher Education. 23(6). 1101–1114.

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Oancea, Alis & David Bridges. (2009). Philosophy of education in the UK: the historical and contemporary tradition. Oxford Review of Education. 35(5). 553–568. 15 indexed citations

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Oancea, Alis. (2008). Performative Accountability and the UK Research Assessment Exercise. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 27. 153. 11 indexed citations

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Oancea, Alis. (2007). From Procrustes to Proteus: trends and practices in the assessment of education research. International Journal of Research & Method in Education. 30(3). 243–269. 12 indexed citations

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