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

Article	Citations
Adapting Undergraduate Biology to Include Science Practices by Teaching Students to Generate Scientific Explanations	24
Difficult topics in the revised biology curriculum for advanced level secondary schools in Rwanda: teachers’ perceptions of causes and remedies	21
Evidencing microbial communication through Quorum Sensing systems in the environment: a practical approach for undergraduate students	16
A study of the interactions and conversations of families visiting the museum of microbiology of the Butantan institute, São Paulo, Brazil	12
Pre-service teachers’ ideas about the path of water through the body and their intentions about explaining it to preschool children	12
A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil	11
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	10
Use of concept cartoons within the conceptual change model to address students’ misconceptions in biology: a case study	10
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?	10
Using lessons from a comparative study of chemistry & bioscience pre-lab activities to design effective pre-lab interventions : a case study	9
Students’ perceptions of the presence of feral exotic pets and influencing factors	9
Using a social media project as a way to get students to communicate conservation messages to the general public	9
Policy responses to the decline in the number of students choosing biology beyond compulsory school level in Mauritius	9
Representation of insulin synthesis and construction of a three-dimensional insulin model as didactic tools in basic education	8
Epistemology and biology teaching: obstacles to a contemporary conceptualisation of living organisms among future teachers and biologists	8
Exploring the local vegetation: botanical inquiry trail, an interactive journey of learning	7
Connecting plant science education in undergraduate life science courses to plant awareness disparity, Vision and Change , and sustainability careers	7
An analysis of plant awareness disparity within introductory biology textbook images	7
Critical thinking activities in Florida undergraduate biology classes improves comprehension of climate change	6
Evolving UK biology education	6
Preliminary Outcomes from a Learning Community to Increase Biology Course Knowledge	6
Teaching evolution: attitudes & strategies of educators in Utah – an update 20 years later	6
Elementary school students’ interests and attitudes towards biology and physics	6
Learning outcomes of transforming cutting-edge iPSC research into informal science courses for upper secondary school students	5
Decolonisation and socio-political arenas in science education: reflecting on the role of biological education	5

The notion of ‘information’ in genetics: a pragmatic model	5
Attitudes towards plants – exploring the role of plants’ ecosystem services	5
Teaching and learning about risk	5
Grit matters to biology doctoral students’ perception of barriers to degree completion	5
Bioscience laboratory practicals, projects and placements in a Covid-19 world	5
‘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	5
Drawing our garden’s insects : a didactic sequence to improve pre-service teachers’ knowledge and appreciation of insect diversity	5
Bridging statistics and life sciences undergraduate education	4
An example to teach Markov chains and Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium through Mendel’s laws	4
Investigation of middle school and high school students’ ecosystem knowledge through their drawings	4
Designing a curriculum for the networked knowledge facet of systems thinking in secondary biology courses: a pragmatic framework	4
Using multiple strategies in deepening the understanding of the digestive system	4
Peer-Interaction – collaborative learning to foster and observe conceptional transformation in science education	4
Biology lecturers’ perceptions of genetics literacy in Indonesia: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study	4
Saudi students’ and science teachers’ knowledge of and attitudes towards biotechnology	4
Relationships between constructivist learning environment perceptions, conceptions of learning biology and achievement goal orientations	4
Preschool children’s attitude toward some unpopular animals and formation of a positive attitude toward them through hands-on activities	4
The effect of CKCM-oriented instruction on Grade 8 students’ conceptual understanding of sustainable development	4
Conceptual alignment between the somatic cell division curriculum, textbooks, instruction, and assessment in high school	4
Validation of Climate and Motivational Measures for Use in the Biology Laboratory Setting	4
Creating an effective fluorescence microscopy lesson as a research experience for a science educator-in- training	4
The role of the education sector in shaping a sustainable future	4
What have we learned?	4
Studying natural history far from the museum: the impact of 3D models on teaching, learning, and motivation	3
Reflections of hands-on dissection and virtual dissection experiences of pre-service science teachers	3
The ‘Tea Test’ - a mobile phone based spectrophotometer protocol to introduce biochemical methods independent of the laboratory	3
The UnEssay project as an enriching alternative to practical exams in pre-professional and graduate education	3
Interdisciplinary practices for teaching biology: a systematic review	3
ICT tools and citizen science: a pathway to promote science learning and Education for Sustainable Development in schools	3
Place-based education through immersive virtual experiences — preparing biology students for the field	3
“I just don’t find it interesting”: academic major and timing of enrollment predict motivation in an introductory biology course	3
Measuring students’ plant awareness: A prerequisite for effective botany education	3
In awe of awe	3
An online case study seminar for teaching C ₄ photosynthesis in an evolutionary context, by assembling multidisciplinary characters	3
Cooperation as a causal factor in human evolution: a scientific clarification and analysis of German high school biology textbooks	3
Inquiry-based learning in immunology: analysis of scientific argument construction by undergraduate students in biological science and health care classes	3
How does a queen ant behave? An inquiry-based pre-service teacher learning experience	3
Traditional vs. virtual laboratories in health sciences education	3