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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring Students’ Plant Awareness: A Prerequisite for Effective Botany Education	16
An analysis of plant awareness disparity within introductory biology textbook images	16
Branches of plant blindness and their relationship with biodiversity conceptualisation among secondary students	16
Chlorophyll does not reflect green light – how to correct a misconception	12
The problem-based learning (PBL) of biology for promoting health literacy in secondary school students	12
Designer considerations and processes in developing school-based citizen-science curricula for environmental education	12
Interpreting students’ ideas on the availability of energy and matter in food webs	11
Secondary school students’ misconceptions in genetics: origins and solutions	11
A hybrid strategy to develop real-life competences combining flipped classroom, jigsaw method and project-based learning	10
What can be done to increase future teachers’ plant knowledge?	10
Contribution of 3D modelling and printing to learning in primary schools: a case study with visually impaired students from an inclusive Biology classroom	10
Traditional vs. virtual laboratories in health sciences education	9
Integration of biomimicry into science education: biomimicry teaching approach	9
Studying natural history far from the museum: the impact of 3D models on teaching, learning, and motivation	9
Interactive socio-scientific inquiry for promoting scientific literacy, enhancing biological knowledge, and developing critical thinking	9
Understanding barriers to participation within undergraduate STEM laboratories: towards development of an inclusive curriculum	8
Sex and fertility education in England: an analysis of biology curricula and students’ experiences	8
Feedback loop reasoning in physiological contexts	8
Microorganism education: misconceptions and obstacles	7
Environmental literacy of lower secondary school pupils in the Czech Republic	7
Human evolution in your hands. Inclusive education with 3D-printed TYPHLOLOGICAL replicas	6
The need for learning bioethics and law for biology students	6
Preschool children’s attitude toward some unpopular animals and formation of a positive attitude toward them through hands-on activities	6
The UnEssay project as an enriching alternative to practical exams in pre-professional and graduate education	6
Exploring the impacts of contextualised outdoor science education on learning: the case of primary school students learning about ecosystem relationships	6

The effect of CKCM-oriented instruction on Grade 8 students’ conceptual understanding of sustainable development	6
Teaching ecosystem services: a pathway to improve students’ argumentation in favour of nature conservation and sustainable development?	5
Using multiple strategies in deepening the understanding of the digestive system	5
From concept to reality: the use and impact of 3D prints as academic tools for high school biology education	5
Teaching native biodiversity: an exploratory study with Brazilian teachers	5
Difficult topics in the revised biology curriculum for advanced level secondary schools in Rwanda: teachers’ perceptions of causes and remedies	5
Use of design thinking as a strategy to identify and clear students’ misconceptions in photosynthesis: a case study	5
Place-based education through immersive virtual experiences — preparing biology students for the field	5
Bioscience laboratory practicals, projects and placements in a Covid-19 world	4
Using lessons from a comparative study of chemistry & bioscience pre-lab activities to design effective pre-lab interventions : a case study	4
A guided interactive simulation as a tool to teach the classical approach of monoclonal antibody (MAb) production to undergraduate immunology students	4
Primary children’s views about appreciating, supporting, and learning about nature	4
Developing assessments to elicit and characterize undergraduate mechanistic explanations about information flow in biology	4
‘Let’s play?’ A systematic review of board games in biology	4
The ‘Tea Test’ - a mobile phone based spectrophotometer protocol to introduce biochemical methods independent of the laboratory	4
The notion of ‘information’ in genetics: a pragmatic model	4
Middle school students’ alternative conceptions about the human blood circulatory system using four-tier multiple-choice tests	4
Design, delivery and evaluation of a bioinformatics education workshop for 13-16-year-olds	4
Application and exploration of blended learning with BOPPPS teaching model in a veterinary infectious diseases course	4
Climate change, sustainability and the environment: the continued importance of biological education	4
Integration of ‘design thinking’ in a reflection model to enhance the teaching of biology	4
‘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	4
Attitudes towards plants – exploring the role of plants’ ecosystem services	4
Course-based undergraduate research experiences are a viable approach to increase access to research experiences in biology	4
The Pedagogical Impact of Board Games in Public Health Biology Education: The Bioracer Board Game	4
Same, same but different! Exploring children’s understandings of within-species variation	4
How students engage in biomimicry	4
Cooperation as a causal factor in human evolution: a scientific clarification and analysis of German high school biology textbooks	4
How can learners explain phenomena in ecology using evolutionary evidence from informal learning environments as resources?	3
Befriending Bumblebees through hands-on activities in biology classes: Living Bumblebees lead to lasting knowledge and provide high learning enjoyment	3
Representation for whom? Transformation of sex/gender discussion from stereotypes to silence in Finnish biology textbooks from 20th to 21th century	3
High school students’ perceptions of science and scientists improve following university-based online DNA day	3
ICT tools and citizen science: a pathway to promote science learning and Education for Sustainable Development in schools	3
Drawing our garden’s insects : a didactic sequence to improve pre-service teachers’ knowledge and appreciation of insect diversity	3
The role of reflective journals for biology education students in genetics course	3
Describing changes in student thinking about evolution in response to instruction: the case of a group of Chilean ninth-grade students	3
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification	3
Inquiry-based learning in immunology: analysis of scientific argument construction by undergraduate students in biological science and health care classes	3
Study of the impact of objective structured laboratory examination to evaluate students’ practical competencies	3
The effect of the ‘Predict-Observe-Explain (POE)’ strategy in teaching photosynthesis and respiration concepts to pre-service science teachers	3
Upper secondary students’ thinking pathways in cell membrane biology – an evidence-based development and evaluation of learning activities using the Model of Educational Reconstruction	3
“Bacteria are not viruses; viruses are more malicious” - young pupils’ understanding of bacteria and viruses in the aftermath of COVID-19	3
Have teachers’ opinions about outdoor education changed after the pandemic?	3
Designing a curriculum for the networked knowledge facet of systems thinking in secondary biology courses: a pragmatic framework	3
A study of the interactions and conversations of families visiting the museum of microbiology of the Butantan institute, São Paulo, Brazil	3