OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science & Education is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Scientific Literacy and Social Transformation	61
Shift From a Traditional to a Distance Learning Environment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	58
Computational Thinking, Between Papert and Wing	51
Developing and Using Multiple Models to Promote Scientific Literacy in the Context of Socio-Scientific Issues	51
A Framework for Epistemological Discussion on Integrated STEM Education	49
The Nature of STEM Disciplines in the Science Education Standards Documents from the USA, Korea and Taiwan	49
Science Education in the Light of COVID-19	42
A Critique of “STEM” Education	40
Exploring the Promises and Perils of Integrated STEM Through Disciplinary Practices and Epistemologies	33
Exploring the Inclusion of Nature of Science in Biology Curriculum and High-Stakes Assessments in Hong Kong	29
Effect of Scientific Argumentation on the Development of Critical Thinking	27
Engineering Education as the Development of Critical Sociotechnical Literacy	23
The Present Shock and Time Re-appropriation in the Pandemic Era	22
Risk Society and Science Education	22
Inquiring into the Nature of STEM Problems	21
Beyond Hypothesis Testing	21
Towards Covid-19 Literacy	21
Trends, Issues and Possibilities for an Interdisciplinary STEM Curriculum	19
A Theoretical Framework for Integrated STEM Education	19
Pre-Service Teachers’ Analysis of Claims About COVID-19 in an Online Course	18
Nature of “STEM”?	18
S + T + M = E as a Convergent Model for the Nature of STEM	17
Using Historical Scientific Controversies to Promote Undergraduates’ Argumentation	16
Reintroducing “the” Scientific Method to Introduce Scientific Inquiry in Schools?	14
Providing Undergraduates with Opportunities to Explicitly Reflect on How News Articles Promote the Public (Mis)understanding of Science	14

Talking Science	13
The Influence of PCK-Based NOS Teaching on Pre-service Science Teachers’ NOS Views	13
Aspects About Science in the Context of Production and Communication of Knowledge of COVID-19	13
When Science Denial Meets Epistemic Understanding	13
Socioscientific Issues Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making	13
Exploring the Inclusion of Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks	12
Understanding Biological Evolution Through Computational Thinking	12
Epistemic and Political Confrontations Around the Public Policies to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Using Explicit Teaching of Philosophy to Promote Understanding of the Nature of Science	11
Who Speaks for Science?	11
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	11
Hot Topics and Frontier Evolution of Science Education Research: a Bibliometric Mapping from 2001 to 2020	11
Examining the Nature of Practical Work in School Science Textbooks: Coverage of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	11
Towards Equitable, Social Justice Criticality: Re-Constructing the “Black” Box and Making it Transparent for the Future of Science and Technology in Science Education	11
Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA	11
Influence of Public Engagement with Science on Scientific Information Literacy During the COVID‑19 Pandemic	10
From Basic to Humane Genomics Literacy	10
Post-Truth and Education	10
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	10
Between Education and Opinion-Making	10
Learning Science in Context: Integrating a Holistic Approach to Nature of Science in the Lower Secondary Classroom	10
Nature of Science and Nature of Scientists	10
Improving Students’ Conceptions of Nature of Science: A Review of the Literature	10
Beyond a Pragmatic Account of the Aesthetic in Science Education	10
Investigating Scientists’ Views of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	10
History of Science in Physics Teaching	10
Balancing Emotion and Reason to Develop Critical Thinking About Popularized Neurosciences	10
Untangling Trustworthiness and Uncertainty in Science	10
Genetics and Identity	9
Does Concrete Content Help People to Reason Scientifically?	9
Exploring How Students Construct Collaborative Thought Experiments During Physics Problem-Solving Activities	9
Augmented Reality Application for Handheld Devices	9
Nature of Engineering	9
A Growing Body of Knowledge	9
An Educational Reconstruction of Special Relativity Theory for Secondary Education	9
Scientific Perspectivism in Secondary-School Chemistry Education	8
Changing How We Teach Acid-Base Chemistry	8
Indonesian Pre-service Biology Teachers’ and Biology Education Professors’ Views on Evolution	8
Long-Lasting Conceptual Change in Science Education	8
Why People Trust Something Other than Science	8
Choose Your Evidence	8
What do COVID-19 Tweets Reveal about Public Engagement with Nature of Science?	8
Exploring Spatial Cognitive Process Among STEM Students and Its Role in STEM Education	8
Observation and Inference in Chemistry Teaching: a Model-Based Approach to the Integration of the Macro and Submicro Levels	7
Students’ Views of Nature of Science	7
The Coherence Between Epistemologies and SSI Teaching	7
Enhancing Computational Thinking Skills Through Artificial Intelligence Education at a STEAM High School	7
Exploring Pre-service Biology Teachers’ Informal Reasoning and Decision-Making About COVID-19	7
Revisiting the Foundations of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science: Some New Ideas	7
Analysis of Engineering Elements of K-12 Science Standards in Seven Countries Engaged in STEM Education Reform	7

Comparing Crosscutting Practices in STEM Disciplines	7
Causal Mapping as a Teaching Tool for Reflecting on Causation in Human Evolution	7
Conceptual Profile of Substance	7
STEM Problem Solving: Inquiry, Concepts, and Reasoning	7
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	6
Integrating History of Science in In‑service Physics Teacher Education: Impact on Teachers’ Practice	6
Analysing Transdisciplinary Education: A Scoping Review	6
Teachers’ Conceptions about the Origin of Humans in the Context of Three Latin American Countries with Different Forms and Degrees of Secularism	6
Re-examining Postcolonial Science Education Within a Power-Knowledge Framework	6
Trust and Mistrust in Sources of Scientific Information on Climate Change and Vaccines	6
Measuring Belief in Genetic Determinism: A Psychometric Evaluation of the PUGGS Instrument	6
Pre-service Teachers’ False Beliefs in Superstitions and Pseudosciences in Relation to Science and Technology	6
Investigating Student Nature of Science Views as Reflections of Authentic Science	6
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	6
Does Social Constructionist Curricula Both Decrease Essentialist and Increase Nominalist Beliefs About Race?	6
Educating for Responsible Research Practice in Biomedical Sciences	6
Bringing Nuance to “the Science” in Public Policy and Science Understanding	6
Trust, Science Education and Vaccines	6
Behavioral Genetics, Population Genetics, and Genetic Essentialism	5
Measuring Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Socioscientific Issues	5
Making Sense of Uncertainty in the Science Classroom	5
A Textbook Analysis to Uncover the Hidden Contributors of Science and Mathematics	5
Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Socioscientific Reasoning During a Decision-Making Activity in the Context of COVID-19	5
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	5
Elementary School Children’s Explanations of Day and Night	5
Using Drama to Enrich Students’ Argumentation About Genetically Modified Foods	5
Leaving the laboratory: Using Field Science to Disrupt and Expand Historically Enduring Narratives of Science Teaching and Learning	5
Using Children’s Literature in the Middle School Science Class to Teach Nature of Science	5
Not Only Why but Also How to Trust Science: Reshaping Science Education Based on Science Studies for a Better Post-pandemic World	5
Do We Have a Trust Problem? Exploring Undergraduate Student Views on the Tentativeness and Trustworthiness of Science	5
‘Should We Be Doing It, Should We Not Be Doing It, Who Could Be Harmed?’	5
Supporting Elementary Teachers' Collective Inquiry into the “E” in STEM	5
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	5
On Beyond Constructivism	5
The Theoretical Foundations of Feng Shui and Science Education in China	5
Middle School Students’ Scientific Epistemological Beliefs, Achievements in Science and Intellectual Risk-Taking	5
Cultivating Science Teachers’ Understandings of Science as a Discipline	4
Teaching Science as a Process, Not a Set of Facts	4
Teaching the Nature of Science from a Philosophical Perspective	4
Science Teachers’ Views on the Nature of Science and its Integration into Instruction	4
Mediating Students’ Fixation with Grades in an Inquiry-Based Undergraduate Biology Course	4
Feng Shui and the Demarcation Project	4
Science Teachers’ Professional Development about Science Centers	4
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	4
Investigating Elementary Teachers’ Views, Implementation, and Longitudinal Enactment of Nature of Science Instruction	4
Making Connections	4
Exploring the Role of Trust in Scientists to Explain Health-Related Behaviors in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Do What Darwin Did	4
Data-Texts in the Sciences	4
Science Education and the Pandemic, 1 Year On	4
What Knowledge is Worth Knowing?	4
On Idealizations and Models in Science Education	4
Secondary and University Students’ Descriptions of Quantum Uncertainty and the Wave Nature of Quantum Particles	4
Modeling the Epistemic Value of Classroom Practice in the Investigation of Effective Learning	4
How Should We Select Conceptual Content for Biology High School Curricula?	4
Exploring Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding of Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Practices Through a Laboratory Course	4
Developing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills and Argumentation Abilities Through Augmented Reality–Based Argumentation Activities in Science Classes	4
Teachers’ Incorporation of Epistemic Practices in K-8 Engineering and Their Views About the Nature of Engineering Knowledge	4
Trust in Science and Science Education — Part 1	4
Summary Lecture as a Delay Organizer of Cultural Content Knowledge	4
Indonesian Prospective Teachers’ Scientific Habits of Mind:A Cross‑Grade Study in the Context of Local and Global Socio‑scientific Issues	4
Spanish Science Teacher Educators’ Preparation, Experiences, and Views About Nature of Science in Science Education	4
Science and Fengshui	4
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education	4
Can Faraday's The Chemical History of a Candle Inform the Teaching of Experimentation?	4
Trends and Hot Topics of STEM and STEM Education: a Co-word Analysis of Literature Published in 2011–2020	3
Secondary School Students’ Reasoning About Science and Personhood	3
Exploring Science Identity Development of Women in Physics and Physical Sciences in Higher Education	3
What Is the Role of the Body in Science Education? A Conversation Between Traditions	3
A Model for Teaching About the Nature of Science in the Context of Biological Education	3
A Model-Based Constructivist Approach for Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects in Teaching and Learning the First Law of Thermodynamics	3
Guiding Physics Teachers by Following in Galileo’s Footsteps	3
Between Scientific Ideas and Christian Religious Beliefs	3
Biological Conceptualization of Race	3
History of Science in Two Recent Versions of High School Physics Textbooks in China	3
Scientists in the Textbook	3
Misconceptions, Knowledge, and Attitudes Towards the Phenomenon of Radioactivity	3
Aspects and Abilities of Science Literacy in the Context of Nature of Science Teaching	3
Investigating the Development of Preservice Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Instructional Views Across Rings of the Family Resemblance Approach Wheel	3
The Effect of Replicating Historical Scientific Apparatus on High School Students’ Attitudes Towards Science and Their Understanding of Nature of Science	3

The Universality of Science and Traditional Chinese Medicine	3
Trustworthiness of Science in Debate: Challenges, Responses, and Implications	3
Facilitating Middle School Students’ Reasoning About Vaccines	3
South African Grade 12 Science Students’ Understandings of Scientific Inquiry	3
Too Philosophical, Therefore Useless for Science Education?	3
Respect for Evidence: Can Science Education Deliver It?	3
Expert Text Analysis in the Inclusion of History and Philosophy of Science in Higher Education	3
Challenges of designing and carrying out laboratory experiments about Newton's second law	3
Rethinking the Nature of Engineering: Attending to the Social Context of Engineering	3
Moral Considerations of Artificial Intelligence	3
The Presentation of Science Practice in Twenty Historical Cases	3
Multivariate and Longitudinal Profile of Brazilian Journals on Science Education from 2013 to 2019	3
The Impact of Life Philosophy and Major Field of Study on Brazilian Students’ Knowledge of Biological Evolution	3
The Impact of Personal Moral Philosophies on the Safe Practice of Students in Chemistry and Related Majors	3
High School and College Students’ Graph-Interpretation Competence in Scientific and Daily Contexts of Data Visualization	3
Philosophical Standpoints of Textbooks in Quantum Mechanics	3
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel?	3
Representations of the Nature of Science in South African Physical Sciences Textbooks on Electricity and Magnetism	3
Analysis of the Last 40 Years of Science Education Research via Bibliometric Methods	3
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	2
Examining Biology Curricular Resources’ Scientific Depictions of Evolution, Race, Sexuality, and Identity	2
Genetics in Context	2
Pre-service Chemistry Teachers’ Views about the Tentative and Durable Nature of Scientific Knowledge	2
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	2
Scientific Knowledge vs. Knowledge of Science	2
Exploring Middle School Science Teachers’ Error-Reaction Patterns by Classroom Discourse Analysis	2
How Did Darwin Prefer His Tea?	2
The Committed Objectivity of Science and the Importance of Scientific Knowledge in Ethical and Political Education	2
Teaching Traditional Chinese Science as a Part of a NOS Curriculum in Hong Kong	2
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	2
A Virtue Epistemological Approach to the Demarcation Problem	2
Toward Understanding Science as a Whole	2
Modelling Roles of Mathematics in Physics	2
Investigation of Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptions of the Nature of Science Based on the LDA Model	2
Agency and Transformative Potential of Technology in Students’ Images of the Future	2
Representation of Changes about Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks	2
Climate Change and Political Controversy in the Science Classroom	2
Feng Shui in Science Programmes	2
In Sickness and in Health	2
Correction to: A Multi-Perspective Reflection on How Indigenous Knowledge and Related Ideas Can Improve Science Education for Sustainability	2
A Trial Patch to Sustainable Development	2
Bangladeshi Science Teachers’ Perceived Importance and Perceived Current Practices in Promoting Science Education Through a Context-Based, Socio-scientific Framework	2
Ethnicity and Gender in Museum Representations of Human Evolution	2
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	2
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	2
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	2
Social Character of Science and Its Connection to Epistemic Reliability	2
Integration of the Topic of Social Justice into High School Biology Curricula	2
Middle School Science Teachers’ Discursive Purposes and Talk Moves in Supporting Students’ Experiments	2
Exploratory Considerations in Chemistry Education—Didactic Modelling for Complexity in Students’ Discussions	2
Le Châtelier’s Principle a Language, Methodological and Ontological Obstacle: An Analysis of General Chemistry Textbooks	2
Improving Preservice Primary Teachers’ Understanding of the Nature of Methods of Science Through Reflective Reading of News Articles	2
Examining Teaching Emphases of History of Science in Award-Winning Science Lesson Plans in Macao	2
A Justification of Legitimate Teleological Explanations in Physics Education	2
FEW and Far Between	2
Abduction as a Mode of Inference in Science Education	2