OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Biological Education is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil	30
The UnEssay project as an enriching alternative to practical exams in pre-professional and graduate education	26
Investigation of middle school and high school students’ ecosystem knowledge through their drawings	24
Modelling the immune system and vaccines through design-based research	19
Measuring students’ plant awareness: A prerequisite for effective botany education	17
Fictional placemaking creating meaningful contexts for causal reasoning in secondary school biology education	17
Teachers’ views of Future-Oriented Pedagogy as part of inquiry-based molecular biology teaching in high school biology laboratories	12
Combining virtual simulations with take-home projects as a replacement for face-to-face labs in introductory biology laboratory courses	11
The influence of spatial ability on undergraduate students’ tree-thinking ability	11
The purpose of the school garden is more than just growing plants	10
Interactive socio-scientific inquiry for promoting scientific literacy, enhancing biological knowledge, and developing critical thinking	9
Roteiro Entre-Marés: an educational app for ocean literacy promotion	8
The wolf is back! Revisiting the concept of the ecological niche to predict the viability of the wolf population with elementary students	8
Student informed development of virtual reality simulations for teaching and learning in the molecular sciences	8
Flower or leaf characteristics, coloured or black and white illustrations – what helps student teachers to identify plants?	8
Exploring and comparing the difficulties among undergraduate and postgraduate students’ understanding of experimentation using primary scientific literature	7
What is ‘research-led teaching’ and how can we deliver it in University STEM degrees?	7
Laboratory class for isoenzymes teaching: simulation of creatine kinase electrophoresis using dyes	7
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	6
Mapping the ‘becoming-integrated-academic’: an autoethnographic case study of professional becoming in the biosciences	6
Differences between image presentation and video presentation on the outcome of teaching about the menstrual cycle	6
“Bacteria are not viruses; viruses are more malicious” - young pupils’ understanding of bacteria and viruses in the aftermath of COVID-19	6
Environmental literacy curriculum: an analysis of science textbooks for lower secondary education	6
Application and exploration of blended learning with BOPPPS teaching model in a veterinary infectious diseases course	5
Conflict of allegiance: professional development challenges in transforming science teachers’ identities and practices	5

Plant awareness: at the dawn of a new era	5
Use of design thinking as a strategy to identify and clear students’ misconceptions in photosynthesis: a case study	5
Decolonisation and socio-political arenas in science education: reflecting on the role of biological education	4
Higher education and professional performance: gaps and opportunities for developing professional skills in marine biologist graduates	4
Characterisation of the pedagogical knowledge of evolution content using the mapping approach	4
What is the future of knowledge?	4
Plants and the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework: educational approaches to support pro-conservation behaviours	4
Using a social media project as a way to get students to communicate conservation messages to the general public	4
Alcohol misuse affects learning in school and university students: a role for biological education	4
Conceptions of primary school students and trainee teachers about seed germination	4
The role of the education sector in shaping a sustainable future	4
Basque secondary school students’ understanding of natural selection and teleological reasoning: knowledge vs. knowledge application	4
Course-based undergraduate research experiences are a viable approach to increase access to research experiences in biology	4
Teaching and learning about risk	4
In awe of awe	4
The role of biology teachers in epistemically insightful health and wellbeing education: a case study of the English relationships, sex and health education curriculum	4
Teaching for photosynthesis literacy: an education design research study	4
Pre-service teachers’ ideas about the path of water through the body and their intentions about explaining it to preschool children	4
What is a hypothesis anyway? A synthesis of perspectives and implications for undergraduate biology education based on publications in PLOS biology	3
Impact of outdoor place-based learning on elementary school students’ ability to make unsolicited observations about living organisms over time	3
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification	3
Innovations in microbiological research education: a practical approach for investigating the effects of graphene oxide sheet nanomaterial on opportunistic pathogen viability	3
Diagram production in Biology: comparing children and pre-service teachers’ performance	3
Why are universities so important for biology teacher education?	3
When less is more in living systems: subtractive cognitive biases and life science learning	3
Assessing the knowledge and attitude of middle and higher secondary school students towards waterbirds in Bhutan	3
Whole-school approach to sustainability: an in-depth study of six green schools in Sweden and Türkiye	3
Investigating student experiences of botanical field work using a semi-immersive virtual botanical fieldtrip	3
‘Let’s play?’ A systematic review of board games in biology	2
High school students’ perceptions of science and scientists improve following university-based online DNA day	2
Promoting dialogue in the feedback process: face-to-face marking of assignments with biomedical science students	2
Epistemology and biology teaching: obstacles to a contemporary conceptualisation of living organisms among future teachers and biologists	2
Secondary school students’ misconceptions in genetics: origins and solutions	2
An experimental approach to evaluate osmosis and tonicity on white blood cells by flow cytometry for biomedical physiology students	2
Epistemic knowledge considered by secondary school students involved in the examination of a real alimentary emergency	2
University students’ misconceptions of cellular structures and functions	2
Teaching for sustainable development in vocational education	2
The role of reflective journals for biology education students in genetics course	2
Learning outcomes of transforming cutting-edge iPSC research into informal science courses for upper secondary school students	2
Engaging seventh-grade students in prediction-observation-explanation of plant absorbance/transport phenomena: impact on relational conceptual changes and scientific inquiry abilities	2
Understanding agency in evolutionary explanations: an assessment tool for biology education	2
Exploring the local vegetation: botanical inquiry trail, an interactive journey of learning	2
Policy responses to the decline in the number of students choosing biology beyond compulsory school level in Mauritius	2
An interest-oriented laboratory microbial engineering course is helpful for the cultivation of scientific literacy	2
Representation of insulin synthesis and construction of a three-dimensional insulin model as didactic tools in basic education	2
Isn’t all about trash... Children’s conceptions about ecology and their implications for biology education in Colombia	2
What do clean and dirty hands of primary school pupils look like?	2
Computational Modelling in High School Biology: A Teaching Intervention	2
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein produced by transgenic rice: research laboratory experience with secondary science students	2
Exploring individual differences in photosynthesis and respiration knowledge in the context of green plants	2

Perceived relevance of critical thinking aspects for biology graduate students	2
Designing and evaluation of 3D materials for teaching biological systems to 6 ^th grade students with visual impairment (SVI)	2
Between biology and religion: dialogue in the Saudi primary science classroom	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
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?	2
Inquiry practices and types of knowledge, with paths of logical associations between inquiry questions, presented as part of an open inquiry process	2
Cough, sneeze, pass it on – pupils’ understanding of infectious diseases in the aftermath of COVID-19	2
Is it time to remove Mendel from the school curriculum?	2
Student reasoning during socio-scientific issues-based learning with a role play: a case study of breastfeeding versus milk formula	2
Introducing nematodes and the use of model organisms: a practical class for undergraduate students	2
S im H yb 2: a software tool to explore and illustrate evolutionary forces in population genetics teaching and research. Applicati	2