| World yearbook of education 2012: Policy borrowing and lending in education G Steiner-Khamsi Routledge, 2012 | 523* | 2012 |
| Rethinking the pattern of external policy referencing: Media discourses over the ‘Asian Tigers’’PISA success in Australia, Germany and South Korea F Waldow, K Takayama, YK Sung Comparative Education 50 (3), 302-321, 2014 | 262 | 2014 |
| What PISA did and did not do: Germany after the ‘PISA-shock’ F Waldow European Educational Research Journal 8 (3), 476-483, 2009 | 211 | 2009 |
| Undeclared imports: silent borrowing in educational policy‐making and research in Sweden F Waldow Comparative Education 45 (4), 477-494, 2009 | 188 | 2009 |
| Standardisation and legitimacy: Two central concepts in research on educational borrowing and lending F Waldow World Yearbook of Education 2012, 411-427, 2012 | 181 | 2012 |
| Finland has it all? Examining the media accentuation of ‘Finnish education’in Australia, Germany and South Korea K Takayama, F Waldow, YK Sung Research in Comparative and International Education 8 (3), 307-325, 2013 | 111 | 2013 |
| Standardisation and ‘quick languages’: the shape‐shifting of standardised measurement of pupil achievement in Sweden and Germany C Lundahl, F Waldow Comparative education 45 (3), 365-385, 2009 | 100 | 2009 |
| Projecting images of the ‘good’and the ‘bad school’: Top scorers in educational large-scale assessments as reference societies F Waldow Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 47 (5), 647-664, 2017 | 93 | 2017 |
| PISA for scandalisation, PISA for projection: the use of international large-scale assessments in education policy making–an introduction G Steiner-Khamsi, F Waldow Globalisation, Societies and Education 16 (5), 557-565, 2018 | 81 | 2018 |
| Understanding PISA’s attractiveness: Critical analyses in comparative policy studies F Waldow, G Steiner-Khamsi Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 | 73 | 2019 |
| Varia: Die merkwürdige Ehe zwischen technokratischer Bildungsreform und emphatischer Reformpädagogik J Bellmann, F Waldow Bildung und Erziehung 60 (4), 481-504, 2007 | 73 | 2007 |
| Der Traum vom" skandinavisch schlau Werden". Drei Thesen zur Rolle Finnlands als Projektionsfläche in der gegenwärtigen Bildungsdebatte F Waldow Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 56 (4), 497-511, 2010 | 68 | 2010 |
| From Taylor to Tyler to No Child Left Behind: Legitimating educational standards F Waldow Prospects 45, 49-62, 2015 | 56 | 2015 |
| From ‘silent borrowing’to the international argument–Legitimating Swedish educational policy from 1945 to the present day J Ringarp, F Waldow Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy 2016 (1), 29583, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
| Conceptions of justice in the examination systems of England, Germany, and Sweden: A look at safeguards of fair procedure and possibilities of appeal F Waldow Comparative Education Review 58 (2), 322-343, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| Utbildningspolitik, ekonomi och internationella utbildningstrender i Sverige 1930–2000 F Waldow Stockholms universitets förlag, 2008 | 44 | 2008 |
| Das Ausland als Gegenargument. Fünf Thesen zur Bedeutung nationaler Stereotype und negativer Referenzgesellschaften F Waldow Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 62 (3), 403-421, 2016 | 42* | 2016 |
| Private schools and school choice in compulsory education T Koinzer, R Nikolai, F Waldow Wiesbaden: Springer VS. Mahoney, J.(2000). Path dependence in historical …, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
| Introduction: Projection in education policy-making F Waldow Understanding PISA’s attractiveness: Critical analyses in comparative policy …, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Commentary to part III: Why is “being international” so attractive?“Being international” as a source of legitimacy and distinction F Waldow Elite education and internationalisation: From the early years to higher …, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
