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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil	55
The potential of a fantasy story picture book for learning biology in early years	27
Investigation of middle school and high school students’ ecosystem knowledge through their drawings	18
Modelling the immune system and vaccines through design-based research	17
Measuring students’ plant awareness: A prerequisite for effective botany education	16
The influence of spatial ability on undergraduate students’ tree-thinking ability	14
Fictional placemaking creating meaningful contexts for causal reasoning in secondary school biology education	12
Combining virtual simulations with take-home projects as a replacement for face-to-face labs in introductory biology laboratory courses	11
Open Schooling to raise student awareness and engagement: the case of tackling Antimicrobial Resistance	9
“ I felt happy to see animals because they are kind .” How zoological environments shape primary school students’ emotional engagement and interest in sc	9
Student informed development of virtual reality simulations for teaching and learning in the molecular sciences	9
Teachers’ views of Future-Oriented Pedagogy as part of inquiry-based molecular biology teaching in high school biology laboratories	9
The purpose of the school garden is more than just growing plants	8
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	7
Environmental literacy curriculum: an analysis of science textbooks for lower secondary education	7
Nature benefits for teenagers	7
Differences between image presentation and video presentation on the outcome of teaching about the menstrual cycle	7
Exploring and comparing the difficulties among undergraduate and postgraduate students’ understanding of experimentation using primary scientific literature	7
Addressing plant awareness in Chile: insights from high school students	6
Application and exploration of blended learning with BOPPPS teaching model in a veterinary infectious diseases course	6
Roteiro Entre-Marés: an educational app for ocean literacy promotion	6
Plant awareness: at the dawn of a new era	6
What is the future of knowledge?	6
Flower or leaf characteristics, coloured or black and white illustrations – what helps student teachers to identify plants?	6

Use of design thinking as a strategy to identify and clear students’ misconceptions in photosynthesis: a case study	6
What is ‘research-led teaching’ and how can we deliver it in University STEM degrees?	6
“Bacteria are not viruses; viruses are more malicious” - young pupils’ understanding of bacteria and viruses in the aftermath of COVID-19	6
Plants and the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework: educational approaches to support pro-conservation behaviours	5
Alcohol misuse affects learning in school and university students: a role for biological education	5
The role of the education sector in shaping a sustainable future	5
Higher education and professional performance: gaps and opportunities for developing professional skills in marine biologist graduates	5
Pre-service teachers’ ideas about the path of water through the body and their intentions about explaining it to preschool children	5
Teaching for photosynthesis literacy: an education design research study	5
In awe of awe	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	4
Teaching Greek and Latin morphemes: a Classics course correlates with improved biology and anatomy student outcomes	4
Innovations in microbiological research education: a practical approach for investigating the effects of graphene oxide sheet nanomaterial on opportunistic pathogen viability	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
Decolonisation and socio-political arenas in science education: reflecting on the role of biological 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
Understanding biodiversity through mental models: a study with preservice early childhood teachers	4
Conceptions of primary school students and trainee teachers about seed germination	4
Assessing the knowledge and attitude of middle and higher secondary school students towards waterbirds in Bhutan	4
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein produced by transgenic rice: research laboratory experience with secondary science students	3
Incomplete information or misconception?: investigation of pre-service science teachers’ knowledge and understanding of enzymes	3
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification	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
Learning outcomes of transforming cutting-edge iPSC research into informal science courses for upper secondary school students	3
Game-based learning to improve understanding of point mutations at secondary school level	3
An interest-oriented laboratory microbial engineering course is helpful for the cultivation of scientific literacy	3
University students’ misconceptions of cellular structures and functions	3
Impact of outdoor place-based learning on elementary school students’ ability to make unsolicited observations about living organisms over time	3
Is it time to remove Mendel from the school curriculum?	3
Student reasoning during socio-scientific issues-based learning with a role play: a case study of breastfeeding versus milk formula	3
Promoting dialogue in the feedback process: face-to-face marking of assignments with biomedical science students	3
S im H yb 2: a software tool to explore and illustrate evolutionary forces in population genetics	3
Lots to remember, but not a lot to think about? Using mass-participation online outreach to change students’ perception of biology	3
Exploring individual differences in photosynthesis and respiration knowledge in the context of green plants	3
What is a hypothesis anyway? A synthesis of perspectives and implications for undergraduate biology education based on publications in PLOS biology	3
When less is more in living systems: subtractive cognitive biases and life science learning	3
Teaching for sustainable development in vocational education	3
What do clean and dirty hands of primary school pupils look like?	3
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?	3
Opportunities for improving the student experience of science education	3
Between biology and religion: dialogue in the Saudi primary science classroom	3