OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Biological Education is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Branches of plant blindness and their relationship with biodiversity conceptualisation among secondary students	15
Chlorophyll does not reflect green light – how to correct a misconception	13
Jigsaw method improves learning and retention for observation-based undergraduate biology laboratory activities	12
An analysis of plant awareness disparity within introductory biology textbook images	10
Designer considerations and processes in developing school-based citizen-science curricula for environmental education	9
Primary pre-service teachers’ emotions and interest towards insects: an explorative case study	9
What can be done to increase future teachers’ plant knowledge?	8
The problem-based learning (PBL) of biology for promoting health literacy in secondary school students	8
Interpreting students’ ideas on the availability of energy and matter in food webs	8
Context-Based Learning Supported by Environmental Measurement Devices in Science Teacher Education: A Mixed Method Research	8
Measuring Students’ Plant Awareness: A Prerequisite for Effective Botany Education	8
Pre-service teachers’ reflections when drama was integrated in a science teacher education program	7
Secondary school students’ misconceptions in genetics: origins and solutions	7
Traditional vs. virtual laboratories in health sciences education	6
Sex and fertility education in England: an analysis of biology curricula and students’ experiences	6
The UnEssay project as an enriching alternative to practical exams in pre-professional and graduate education	6
Doing coursework without doing biology: undergraduate students’ non-conceptual strategies to problem solving	6
The centrality of evolution in biology teaching: towards a pluralistic perspective	6
Studying natural history far from the museum: the impact of 3D models on teaching, learning, and motivation	6
Contribution of 3D modelling and printing to learning in primary schools: a case study with visually impaired students from an inclusive Biology classroom	6
How students engage in biomimicry	6
Environmental literacy of lower secondary school pupils in the Czech Republic	5
Using multiple strategies in deepening the understanding of the digestive system	5
Making a fictitious animal: 6-7 year-old Swedish children’s meaning making about evolution during a modelling task	5
Feedback loop reasoning in physiological contexts	5

Understanding barriers to participation within undergraduate STEM laboratories: towards development of an inclusive curriculum	5
The effect of CKCM-oriented instruction on Grade 8 students’ conceptual understanding of sustainable development	5
Difficult topics in the revised biology curriculum for advanced level secondary schools in Rwanda: teachers’ perceptions of causes and remedies	5
A hybrid strategy to develop real-life competences combining flipped classroom, jigsaw method and project-based learning	5
Interactive socio-scientific inquiry for promoting scientific literacy, enhancing biological knowledge, and developing critical thinking	5
The need for learning bioethics and law for biology students	5
From concept to reality: the use and impact of 3D prints as academic tools for high school biology education	4
Human evolution in your hands. Inclusive education with 3D-printed TYPHLOLOGICAL replicas	4
Microorganism education: misconceptions and obstacles	4
A protein purification card game develops subject knowledge and transferable skills	4
The notion of ‘information’ in genetics: a pragmatic model	4
Exploring the impacts of contextualised outdoor science education on learning: the case of primary school students learning about ecosystem relationships	4
Crash: Find the Exit- A neuroscience board game as a tool to discuss mechanisms of drug abuse and addiction issues in the classroom	4
Integration of ‘design thinking’ in a reflection model to enhance the teaching of biology	4
Bioscience laboratory practicals, projects and placements in a Covid-19 world	4
Design, delivery and evaluation of a bioinformatics education workshop for 13-16-year-olds	4
Teaching ecosystem services: a pathway to improve students’ argumentation in favour of nature conservation and sustainable development?	4
Teaching native biodiversity: an exploratory study with Brazilian teachers	4
Preschool children’s attitude toward some unpopular animals and formation of a positive attitude toward them through hands-on activities	4
Using lessons from a comparative study of chemistry & bioscience pre-lab activities to design effective pre-lab interventions : a case study	4
Inquiry-based learning in immunology: analysis of scientific argument construction by undergraduate students in biological science and health care classes	3
Learning the electron transport chain process in photosynthesis using video and serious game	3
Primary children’s views about appreciating, supporting, and learning about nature	3
Integration of biomimicry into science education: biomimicry teaching approach	3
Biology education – progress or retreat?	3
‘Let’s play?’ A systematic review of board games in biology	3
Cooperation as a causal factor in human evolution: a scientific clarification and analysis of German high school biology textbooks	3
Drawing our garden’s insects: a didactic sequence to improve pre-service teachers’ knowledge and appreciation of insect diversity	3
Revisiting the landscape roaming metaphor to understand students’ ideas on mammals’ and birds’ thermal regulation	3
Use of design thinking as a strategy to identify and clear students’ misconceptions in photosynthesis: a case study	3
Climate change, sustainability and the environment: the continued importance of biological education	3
Use of technology in biology education – case of infrared thermal imaging	3
Flowers with powers – conception and evaluation of an ‘educational seed mix’	3
Designing a curriculum for the networked knowledge facet of systems thinking in secondary biology courses: a pragmatic framework	3
The role of reflective journals for biology education students in genetics course	3
Middle school students’ alternative conceptions about the human blood circulatory system using four-tier multiple-choice tests	3
Same, same but different! Exploring children’s understandings of within-species variation	3
Developing assessments to elicit and characterize undergraduate mechanistic explanations about information flow in biology	3
Undergraduate biochemistry student difficulties with topics requiring mathematical skills: use of an online maths skills support site	3
The ‘Tea Test’ - a mobile phone based spectrophotometer protocol to introduce biochemical methods independent of the laboratory	3
Approaching the risk perception gap: effects of a subject matter knowledge-based intervention in a health context	2
Algae photosynthesis and respiration experimentation with physical and augmented reality modes	2
‘I already know about it, I’ve been watching the Daily News and updates’: Teenagers’ questions about the scientific and social aspects of COVID-19	2
Could maggot therapy be taught in primary schools?	2
Not all Bloom and gloom: assessing constructive alignment, higher order cognitive skills, and their influence on students’ perceived learning within the practical components of an undergraduate biolog	2
Using a social media project as a way to get students to communicate conservation messages to the general public	2
Course-based undergraduate research experiences are a viable approach to increase access to research experiences in biology	2
Project-based learning in biomedical sciences: using the collaborative creation of revision resources to consolidate knowledge, promote cohort identity and develop transferable skills	2
Befriending Bumblebees through hands-on activities in biology classes: Living Bumblebees lead to lasting knowledge and provide high learning enjoyment	2
Teaching vegetable nutrition: from the problem to the proposal	2

Antimicrobial resistance as a nexus between teaching and research	2
Unravelling the Central Dogma of Biology in an active way: a case study	2
Danio adventure. Developmental biology of the zebrafish in science popularisation	2
Are early-years-children able to use magnifying glasses and dichotomous keys to observe, compare, classify and identify small animals?	2
Conflict of allegiance: professional development challenges in transforming science teachers’ identities and practices	2
Place-based education through immersive virtual experiences — preparing biology students for the field	2
ICT tools and citizen science: a pathway to promote science learning and Education for Sustainable Development in schools	2
A study of the interactions and conversations of families visiting the museum of microbiology of the Butantan institute, São Paulo, Brazil	2
Cockroaches: an alternative model to teach enzymatic inhibition to undergraduate students	2
Critical thinking activities in Florida undergraduate biology classes improves comprehension of climate change	2
A guided interactive simulation as a tool to teach the classical approach of monoclonal antibody (MAb) production to undergraduate immunology students	2
Solving a problem about cancer treatment: how does the use of the mitotic spindle model evolve during small group discussions?	2
Traditional gender ideology on boys’ participation in biology post-GCSE	2
Assessment of a flipped classroom model based on microlectures in a medical molecular biology course	2
The Pedagogical Impact of Board Games in Public Health Biology Education: The Bioracer Board Game	2
Application and exploration of blended learning with BOPPPS teaching model in a veterinary infectious diseases course	2
Have teachers’ opinions about outdoor education changed after the pandemic?	2
Describing changes in student thinking about evolution in response to instruction: the case of a group of Chilean ninth-grade students	2
Combining virtual simulations with take-home projects as a replacement for face-to-face labs in introductory biology laboratory courses	2
The use of a three-tier diagnostic test to investigate conceptions related to cell biology concepts among pre-service teachers of life and earth sciences	2
Saudi students’ and science teachers’ knowledge of and attitudes towards biotechnology	2
Validation of Climate and Motivational Measures for Use in the Biology Laboratory Setting	2
Study of the impact of objective structured laboratory examination to evaluate students’ practical competencies	2
Biology teachers’ views towards using living organisms in biology education	2
Excitation spectrum, nanoparticles, and their applications in cellular optical imaging	2
How can learners explain phenomena in ecology using evolutionary evidence from informal learning environments as resources?	2
Mapping the ‘becoming-integrated-academic’: an autoethnographic case study of professional becoming in the biosciences	2
A journey through the digestive system: analysis of a practical activity's use as a didactic resource for undergraduate students	2
Pokémon as a playful and didactic tool for teaching about ecological interactions	2
Novel, simple and inexpensive programmed lab experiments to evaluate the biocontrol activity of rhizobacteria on fungal phytopathogens	2
Reclimating: 0°C as a target for global warming	2
High school students’ perceptions of science and scientists improve following university-based online DNA day	2
Environmental education to engage urban youth: anecdotes from Southwest China	1
Guiding students’ explanations across levels of biological organisation: the case of wilted plants	1
Editorial	1
Simple experiment on legume-rhizobium symbiosis aimed at students without laboratory experience	1
Do examinations prepare students for higher education? A lesson from the Covid-19 lockdown	1
Blending educational gaming with physical experiments to engage high school students in inquiry-based learning	1
Using animations to support student learning in undergraduate physiology	1
The Development and Validation of the Mutation Criterion Referenced Assessment (MuCRA)	1
Elementary school students’ interests and attitudes towards biology and physics	1
Exploring the use of problem-based learning in clinical embryology training	1
Is it time to remove Mendel from the school curriculum?	1
Basque secondary school students’ understanding of natural selection and teleological reasoning: knowledge vs. knowledge application	1
Representation for whom? Transformation of sex/gender discussion from stereotypes to silence in Finnish biology textbooks from 20th to 21th century	1
The wolf is back! Revisiting the concept of the ecological niche to predict the viability of the wolf population with elementary students	1
Generalised mutagenesis with transposon Tn5. A laboratory procedure for the identification of genes responsible for a bacterial phenotype and its regulation, illustrated with phenazine producti	1
Designing and evaluation of 3D materials for teaching biological systems to 6 ^th grade students with visual impairment (SVI)	1
Improving research capacity of practising dietitians through interactive sessions: evidence from a pilot study	1
Designing a module for supporting secondary biology students’ morality through socioscientific issues in the human-nature context	1
Teacher views of experimentation in ecosystem science	1
Integrating museum education into an introductory biology CURE leads to positive perceptions of scientific research and museum exhibitions among students, faculty, and staff	1
Teaching and learning about risk	1
Exploring individual differences in photosynthesis and respiration knowledge in the context of green plants	1
Upper secondary students’ thinking pathways in cell membrane biology – an evidence-based development and evaluation of learning activities using the Model of Educational Reconstruction	1
Can current science research in the biological sciences be used in primary school children’s scientific enquiry?	1
Students’ conceptions of keeping fattening pigs and dairy cows: an exploratory interview study with elementary school students in North-West Germany	1
The Conceptual Analysis of Disciplinary Evidence (CADE) framework as a guide for evidentiary reasoning: A practical implementation in a Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) laboratory investigation	1
Examining the effect of reporting based on science writing heuristic approach on written argument quality in general biology laboratory	1
Diagram production in Biology: comparing children and pre-service teachers’ performance	1
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification	1
You said, we did! Employer led work-simulated learning framework for enhancing ecology graduate employability	1
Developing students’ scientific literacy through an e-portfolio project at a community college gateway science course	1
The use of near-peer tutors to improve level of learning & confidence in areas of human physiology	1
Lost in ‘translation’? A set of writing workshops improves Molecular Medicine Honours students’ perceptions of their scientific report writing skills	1
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?	1
‘Are they walking their talk?’: alignment of teachers’ professed beliefs and enacted practices for teaching through dialogic argumentation	1
Learning perception of Veterinary students about cardiovascular physiology using a functional model	1
Isn’t all about trash... Children’s conceptions about ecology and their implications for biology education in Colombia	1
Young children’s spontaneous use of isometric and non-isometric symmetries: a study regarding their unprompted depictions of plant life	1
Metacognitive judgements in the learning of cellular theory in elementary school students	1