OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Biological Education is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil	36
Modelling the immune system and vaccines through design-based research	26
Measuring students’ plant awareness: A prerequisite for effective botany education	20
Investigation of middle school and high school students’ ecosystem knowledge through their drawings	13
The UnEssay project as an enriching alternative to practical exams in pre-professional and graduate education	12
Fictional placemaking creating meaningful contexts for causal reasoning in secondary school biology education	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	11
Teachers’ views of Future-Oriented Pedagogy as part of inquiry-based molecular biology teaching in high school biology laboratories	10
Combining virtual simulations with take-home projects as a replacement for face-to-face labs in introductory biology laboratory courses	9
Interactive socio-scientific inquiry for promoting scientific literacy, enhancing biological knowledge, and developing critical thinking	8
Open Schooling to raise student awareness and engagement: the case of tackling Antimicrobial Resistance	8
Student informed development of virtual reality simulations for teaching and learning in the molecular sciences	8
“ I felt happy to see animals because they are kind .” How zoological environments shape primary school students’ emotional engagement and interest in science learning	8
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	7
Laboratory class for isoenzymes teaching: simulation of creatine kinase electrophoresis using dyes	7
Differences between image presentation and video presentation on the outcome of teaching about the menstrual cycle	7
“Bacteria are not viruses; viruses are more malicious” - young pupils’ understanding of bacteria and viruses in the aftermath of COVID-19	7
Roteiro Entre-Marés: an educational app for ocean literacy promotion	6
The wolf is back! Revisiting the concept of the ecological niche to predict the viability of the wolf population with elementary students	6
Environmental literacy curriculum: an analysis of science textbooks for lower secondary education	6
Conflict of allegiance: professional development challenges in transforming science teachers’ identities and practices	6
Flower or leaf characteristics, coloured or black and white illustrations – what helps student teachers to identify plants?	5
Plant awareness: at the dawn of a new era	5
Exploring and comparing the difficulties among undergraduate and postgraduate students’ understanding of experimentation using primary scientific literature	5

Use of design thinking as a strategy to identify and clear students’ misconceptions in photosynthesis: a case study	5
What is ‘research-led teaching’ and how can we deliver it in University STEM degrees?	5
Application and exploration of blended learning with BOPPPS teaching model in a veterinary infectious diseases course	5
The role of the education sector in shaping a sustainable future	4
Teaching for photosynthesis literacy: an education design research study	4
Teaching Greek and Latin morphemes: a Classics course correlates with improved biology and anatomy student outcomes	4
Investigating student experiences of botanical field work using a semi-immersive virtual botanical fieldtrip	4
What is a hypothesis anyway? A synthesis of perspectives and implications for undergraduate biology education based on publications in PLOS biology	4
Higher education and professional performance: gaps and opportunities for developing professional skills in marine biologist graduates	4
Alcohol misuse affects learning in school and university students: a role for biological education	4
Pre-service teachers’ ideas about the path of water through the body and their intentions about explaining it to preschool children	4
Decolonisation and socio-political arenas in science education: reflecting on the role of biological education	4
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification	4
When less is more in living systems: subtractive cognitive biases and life science learning	4
Innovations in microbiological research education: a practical approach for investigating the effects of graphene oxide sheet nanomaterial on opportunistic pathogen viability	4
In awe of awe	4
What is the future of knowledge?	4
Plants and the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework: educational approaches to support pro-conservation behaviours	4
Conceptions of primary school students and trainee teachers about seed germination	4
Whole-school approach to sustainability: an in-depth study of six green schools in Sweden and Türkiye	4
Impact of outdoor place-based learning on elementary school students’ ability to make unsolicited observations about living organisms over time	4
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein produced by transgenic rice: research laboratory experience with secondary science students	3
Student reasoning during socio-scientific issues-based learning with a role play: a case study of breastfeeding versus milk formula	3
What do clean and dirty hands of primary school pupils look like?	3
Is it time to remove Mendel from the school curriculum?	3
Epistemic knowledge considered by secondary school students involved in the examination of a real alimentary emergency	3
Assessing the knowledge and attitude of middle and higher secondary school students towards waterbirds in Bhutan	3
Why are universities so important for biology teacher education?	3
University students’ misconceptions of cellular structures and functions	3
Diagram production in Biology: comparing children and pre-service teachers’ performance	3
Computational Modelling in High School Biology: A Teaching Intervention	3
Inquiry practices and types of knowledge, with paths of logical associations between inquiry questions, presented as part of an open inquiry process	3
Characterisation of the pedagogical knowledge of evolution content using the mapping approach	3
Introducing nematodes and the use of model organisms: a practical class for undergraduate students	3
Teaching for sustainable development in vocational education	3
Cough, sneeze, pass it on – pupils’ understanding of infectious diseases in the aftermath of COVID-19	3
Exploring individual differences in photosynthesis and respiration knowledge in the context of green plants	3
An interest-oriented laboratory microbial engineering course is helpful for the cultivation of scientific literacy	3
The role of biology teachers in epistemically insightful health and wellbeing education: a case study of the English relationships, sex and health education curriculum	3