OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science & Education is 5. 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
The Nature of STEM Disciplines in the Science Education Standards Documents from the USA, Korea and Taiwan	49
A Framework for Epistemological Discussion on Integrated STEM Education	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

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
Talking Science	13
Understanding Biological Evolution Through Computational Thinking	12
Epistemic and Political Confrontations Around the Public Policies to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Exploring the Inclusion of Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks	12
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
Using Explicit Teaching of Philosophy to Promote Understanding of the Nature of Science	11
Who Speaks for Science?	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
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
Genetics and Identity	9
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
Scientific Perspectivism in Secondary-School Chemistry Education	8
Changing How We Teach Acid-Base Chemistry	8
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
Observation and Inference in Chemistry Teaching: a Model-Based Approach to the Integration of the Macro and Submicro Levels	7
Integrating History of Science in In‑service Physics Teacher Education: Impact on Teachers’ Practice	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
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	6
Analysing Transdisciplinary Education: A Scoping Review	6
Trust and Mistrust in Sources of Scientific Information on Climate Change and Vaccines	6
Investigating Student Nature of Science Views as Reflections of Authentic Science	6
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	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
Does Social Constructionist Curricula Both Decrease Essentialist and Increase Nominalist Beliefs About Race?	6
Bringing Nuance to “the Science” in Public Policy and Science Understanding	6
Trust, Science Education and Vaccines	6
Educating for Responsible Research Practice in Biomedical Sciences	6
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
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