| The politics of international league tables: PISA in Japan’s achievement crisis debate K Takayama Comparative Education 44 (4), 387-407, 2008 | 367 | 2008 |
| Toward a postcolonial comparative and international education K Takayama, A Sriprakash, R Connell Comparative Education Review 61 (S1), S1-S24, 2017 | 336 | 2017 |
| 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 | 254 | 2014 |
| Politics of externalization in reflexive times: Reinventing Japanese education reform discourses through “Finnish PISA success” K Takayama Comparative Education Review 54 (1), 51-75, 2010 | 229 | 2010 |
| A Nation at Risk Crosses the Pacific: Transnational Borrowing of the U.S. Crisis Discourse in the Debate on Education Reform in Japan K Takayama Comparative Education Review 51 (4), 423-446, 2007 | 162 | 2007 |
| Policy mobilities and methodology: A proposition for inventive methods in education policy studies KN Gulson, S Lewis, B Lingard, C Lubienski, K Takayama, PT Webb Critical Studies in Education 58 (2), 224-241, 2017 | 160 | 2017 |
| Deploying the post-colonial predicaments of researching on/with ‘Asia’in education: A standpoint from a rich peripheral country K Takayama Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 37 (1), 70-88, 2016 | 109 | 2016 |
| 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 | 103 | 2013 |
| OECD,‘Key competencies’ and the new challenges of educational inequality K Takayama Journal of curriculum studies 45 (1), 67-80, 2013 | 84 | 2013 |
| A comparativist’s predicaments of writing about ‘other’education: A self-reflective, critical review of studies of Japanese education K Takayama Comparative Education 47 (4), 449-470, 2011 | 71 | 2011 |
| The cultural politics of borrowing: Japan, Britain, and the narrative of educational crisis K Takayama, MW Apple British Journal of Sociology of Education 29 (3), 289-301, 2008 | 59 | 2008 |
| Doing southern theory: Towards alternative knowledges and knowledge practices in/for education K Takayama, S Heimans, R Amazan, V Maniam Postcolonial Directions in Education, 2016 | 53 | 2016 |
| Japan’s Ministry of Education “becoming the Right”: neo‐liberal restructuring and the Ministry’s struggles for political legitimacy K Takayama Globalisation, Societies and Education 6 (2), 131-146, 2008 | 53 | 2008 |
| Datafication of schooling in Japan: An epistemic critique through the ‘problem of Japanese education’ K Takayama, B Lingard Journal of Education Policy 34 (4), 449-469, 2019 | 51 | 2019 |
| Beyond comforting histories: The colonial/imperial entanglements of the international institute, Paul Monroe, and Isaac L. Kandel at Teachers College, Columbia University K Takayama Comparative Education Review 62 (4), 459-481, 2018 | 49 | 2018 |
| An invitation to ‘negative’comparative education K Takayama Comparative Education 56 (1), 79-95, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| Is Japanese education the “exception”?: Examining the situated articulation of neo-liberalism through the analysis of policy keywords K Takayama Asia Pacific Journal of Education 29 (2), 125-142, 2009 | 48 | 2009 |
| Rethinking knowledge production and circulation in comparative and international education: Southern theory, postcolonial perspectives, and alternative epistemologies K Takayama, A Sriprakash, R Connell Comparative Education Review 59 (1), v-viii, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
| Exploring the interweaving of contrary currents: Transnational policy enactment and path-dependent policy implementation in Australia and Japan JK Takayama World Culture Re-Contextualised, 109-128, 2017 | 42 | 2017 |
| Beyond Orientalism in comparative education: Challenging the binary opposition between Japanese and American education K Takayama Asia Pacific Journal of Education 28 (1), 19-34, 2008 | 38 | 2008 |
