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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil	45
Investigation of middle school and high school students’ ecosystem knowledge through their drawings	30
Modelling the immune system and vaccines through design-based research	23
The UnEssay project as an enriching alternative to practical exams in pre-professional and graduate education	17
Measuring students’ plant awareness: A prerequisite for effective botany education	15
The purpose of the school garden is more than just growing plants	14
Fictional placemaking creating meaningful contexts for causal reasoning in secondary school biology education	13
The influence of spatial ability on undergraduate students’ tree-thinking ability	13
Open Schooling to raise student awareness and engagement: the case of tackling Antimicrobial Resistance	12
Combining virtual simulations with take-home projects as a replacement for face-to-face labs in introductory biology laboratory courses	11
Student informed development of virtual reality simulations for teaching and learning in the molecular sciences	9
Interactive socio-scientific inquiry for promoting scientific literacy, enhancing biological knowledge, and developing critical thinking	9
Teachers’ views of Future-Oriented Pedagogy as part of inquiry-based molecular biology teaching in high school biology laboratories	9
Laboratory class for isoenzymes teaching: simulation of creatine kinase electrophoresis using dyes	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
“Bacteria are not viruses; viruses are more malicious” - young pupils’ understanding of bacteria and viruses in the aftermath of COVID-19	8
Differences between image presentation and video presentation on the outcome of teaching about the menstrual cycle	7
Flower or leaf characteristics, coloured or black and white illustrations – what helps student teachers to identify plants?	7
Roteiro Entre-Marés: an educational app for ocean literacy promotion	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	7
Conflict of allegiance: professional development challenges in transforming science teachers’ identities and practices	7
What is ‘research-led teaching’ and how can we deliver it in University STEM degrees?	7
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	6
Addressing plant awareness in Chile: insights from high school students	6

Teaching for photosynthesis literacy: an education design research study	6
Use of design thinking as a strategy to identify and clear students’ misconceptions in photosynthesis: a case study	6
Plant awareness: at the dawn of a new era	6
Pre-service teachers’ ideas about the path of water through the body and their intentions about explaining it to preschool children	6
Exploring and comparing the difficulties among undergraduate and postgraduate students’ understanding of experimentation using primary scientific literature	6
What is the future of knowledge?	6
Plants and the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework: educational approaches to support pro-conservation behaviours	6
The role of the education sector in shaping a sustainable future	6
Teaching Greek and Latin morphemes: a Classics course correlates with improved biology and anatomy student outcomes	5
The role of biology teachers in epistemically insightful health and wellbeing education: a case study of the English relationships, sex and health education curriculum	5
Decolonisation and socio-political arenas in science education: reflecting on the role of biological education	5
In awe of awe	5
Higher education and professional performance: gaps and opportunities for developing professional skills in marine biologist graduates	5
Alcohol misuse affects learning in school and university students: a role for biological education	5
Conceptions of primary school students and trainee teachers about seed germination	5
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein produced by transgenic rice: research laboratory experience with secondary science students	4
Anthropocentrism in biology teaching and learning	4
From reflection to framework: investigating biology pre-service teachers’ understanding of genetic information flow, exchange, and storage (IFES)	4
Characterisation of the pedagogical knowledge of evolution content using the mapping approach	4
Innovations in microbiological research education: a practical approach for investigating the effects of graphene oxide sheet nanomaterial on opportunistic pathogen viability	4
Assessing the knowledge and attitude of middle and higher secondary school students towards waterbirds in Bhutan	4
Student reasoning during socio-scientific issues-based learning with a role play: a case study of breastfeeding versus milk formula	4
Impact of outdoor place-based learning on elementary school students’ ability to make unsolicited observations about living organisms over time	4
What is a hypothesis anyway? A synthesis of perspectives and implications for undergraduate biology education based on publications in PLOS biology	4
When less is more in living systems: subtractive cognitive biases and life science learning	4
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification	4
Teaching for sustainable development in vocational education	4
Whole-school approach to sustainability: an in-depth study of six green schools in Sweden and Türkiye	4
Investigating student experiences of botanical field work using a semi-immersive virtual botanical fieldtrip	4
An interest-oriented laboratory microbial engineering course is helpful for the cultivation of scientific literacy	3
What do clean and dirty hands of primary school pupils look like?	3
Epistemic knowledge considered by secondary school students involved in the examination of a real alimentary emergency	3
Is it time to remove Mendel from the school curriculum?	3
Promoting dialogue in the feedback process: face-to-face marking of assignments with biomedical science students	3
High school students’ perceptions of science and scientists improve following university-based online DNA day	3
Development and validation of an instrument measuring students’ self-efficacy regarding explaining evolutionary changes	3
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?	3
Policy responses to the decline in the number of students choosing biology beyond compulsory school level in Mauritius	3
Perceived relevance of critical thinking aspects for biology graduate students	3
Inquiry practices and types of knowledge, with paths of logical associations between inquiry questions, presented as part of an open inquiry process	3
Incomplete information or misconception?: investigation of pre-service science teachers’ knowledge and understanding of enzymes	3
University students’ misconceptions of cellular structures and functions	3
Game-based learning to improve understanding of point mutations at secondary school level	3
Representation of insulin synthesis and construction of a three-dimensional insulin model as didactic tools in basic education	3
Designing and evaluation of 3D materials for teaching biological systems to 6 ^th grade students with visual impairment (SVI)	3
‘Let’s play?’ A systematic review of board games in biology	3
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	3
S im H yb 2: a software tool to explore and illustrate evolutionary forces in population genetics teaching and research. Applicati	3
Computational Modelling in High School Biology: A Teaching Intervention	3
Cough, sneeze, pass it on – pupils’ understanding of infectious diseases in the aftermath of COVID-19	3

The role of reflective journals for biology education students in genetics course	3
Exploring individual differences in photosynthesis and respiration knowledge in the context of green plants	3
Engaging seventh-grade students in prediction-observation-explanation of plant absorbance/transport phenomena: impact on relational conceptual changes and scientific inquiry abilities	3
Understanding agency in evolutionary explanations: an assessment tool for biology education	3
Learning outcomes of transforming cutting-edge iPSC research into informal science courses for upper secondary school students	3
Exploring the local vegetation: botanical inquiry trail, an interactive journey of learning	3
Between biology and religion: dialogue in the Saudi primary science classroom	3