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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Scientific Literacy and Social Transformation	82
Shift From a Traditional to a Distance Learning Environment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	67
Computational Thinking, Between Papert and Wing	61
Developing and Using Multiple Models to Promote Scientific Literacy in the Context of Socio-Scientific Issues	61
The Nature of STEM Disciplines in the Science Education Standards Documents from the USA, Korea and Taiwan	56
Science Education in the Light of COVID-19	44
A Theoretical Framework for Integrated STEM Education	27
Risk Society and Science Education	26
Engineering Education as the Development of Critical Sociotechnical Literacy	24
Trends, Issues and Possibilities for an Interdisciplinary STEM Curriculum	24
The Present Shock and Time Re-appropriation in the Pandemic Era	24
Towards Covid-19 Literacy	22
Beyond Hypothesis Testing	21
Nature of “STEM”?	20
Hot Topics and Frontier Evolution of Science Education Research: a Bibliometric Mapping from 2001 to 2020	19
Pre-Service Teachers’ Analysis of Claims About COVID-19 in an Online Course	19
Reintroducing “the” Scientific Method to Introduce Scientific Inquiry in Schools?	15
Socioscientific Issues Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making	15
Understanding Biological Evolution Through Computational Thinking	15
Improving Students’ Conceptions of Nature of Science: A Review of the Literature	15
Epistemic and Political Confrontations Around the Public Policies to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic	14
A Growing Body of Knowledge	14
Providing Undergraduates with Opportunities to Explicitly Reflect on How News Articles Promote the Public (Mis)understanding of Science	14
When Science Denial Meets Epistemic Understanding	13
Aspects About Science in the Context of Production and Communication of Knowledge of COVID-19	13

Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA	13
Towards Equitable, Social Justice Criticality: Re-Constructing the “Black” Box and Making it Transparent for the Future of Science and Technology in Science Education	13
Enhancing Computational Thinking Skills Through Artificial Intelligence Education at a STEAM High School	13
Exploring the Inclusion of Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks	13
Talking Science	13
History of Science in Physics Teaching	12
Scientific Perspectivism in Secondary-School Chemistry Education	12
Who Speaks for Science?	12
Investigating Scientists’ Views of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	12
Examining the Nature of Practical Work in School Science Textbooks: Coverage of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	12
Untangling Trustworthiness and Uncertainty in Science	12
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	12
Using Explicit Teaching of Philosophy to Promote Understanding of the Nature of Science	12
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	12
Genetics and Identity	11
Nature of Science and Nature of Scientists	11
Nature of Engineering	11
Learning Science in Context: Integrating a Holistic Approach to Nature of Science in the Lower Secondary Classroom	11
From Basic to Humane Genomics Literacy	11
Influence of Public Engagement with Science on Scientific Information Literacy During the COVID‑19 Pandemic	11
Post-Truth and Education	11
Augmented Reality Application for Handheld Devices	10
Long-Lasting Conceptual Change in Science Education	10
Between Education and Opinion-Making	10
Balancing Emotion and Reason to Develop Critical Thinking About Popularized Neurosciences	10
Changing How We Teach Acid-Base Chemistry	10
Students’ Views of Nature of Science	10
Does Concrete Content Help People to Reason Scientifically?	10
Beyond a Pragmatic Account of the Aesthetic in Science Education	10
Exploring Spatial Cognitive Process Among STEM Students and Its Role in STEM Education	9
Making Sense of Uncertainty in the Science Classroom	9
Observation and Inference in Chemistry Teaching: a Model-Based Approach to the Integration of the Macro and Submicro Levels	9
Revisiting the Foundations of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science: Some New Ideas	9
An Educational Reconstruction of Special Relativity Theory for Secondary Education	9
Comparing Crosscutting Practices in STEM Disciplines	9
Choose Your Evidence	9
What do COVID-19 Tweets Reveal about Public Engagement with Nature of Science?	9
Analysis of Engineering Elements of K-12 Science Standards in Seven Countries Engaged in STEM Education Reform	8
Why People Trust Something Other than Science	8
STEM Problem Solving: Inquiry, Concepts, and Reasoning	8
Developing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills and Argumentation Abilities Through Augmented Reality–Based Argumentation Activities in Science Classes	8
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	8
Middle School Students’ Scientific Epistemological Beliefs, Achievements in Science and Intellectual Risk-Taking	7
Causal Mapping as a Teaching Tool for Reflecting on Causation in Human Evolution	7
Not Only Why but Also How to Trust Science: Reshaping Science Education Based on Science Studies for a Better Post-pandemic World	7
Conceptual Profile of Substance	7
Improving Teachers’ and Students’ Views on Nature of Science Through Active Instructional Approaches: a Review of the Literature	7
Pre-service Teachers’ False Beliefs in Superstitions and Pseudosciences in Relation to Science and Technology	7
Measuring Belief in Genetic Determinism: A Psychometric Evaluation of the PUGGS Instrument	7
The Effect of Replicating Historical Scientific Apparatus on High School Students’ Attitudes Towards Science and Their Understanding of Nature of Science	7

Investigating Student Nature of Science Views as Reflections of Authentic Science	7
Measuring Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Socioscientific Issues	7
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	7
Exploring Pre-service Biology Teachers’ Informal Reasoning and Decision-Making About COVID-19	7
Analysing Transdisciplinary Education: A Scoping Review	7
Trust and Mistrust in Sources of Scientific Information on Climate Change and Vaccines	7
The Coherence Between Epistemologies and SSI Teaching	7
On Idealizations and Models in Science Education	6
Trust, Science Education and Vaccines	6
Educating for Responsible Research Practice in Biomedical Sciences	6
Do We Have a Trust Problem? Exploring Undergraduate Student Views on the Tentativeness and Trustworthiness of Science	6
Data-Texts in the Sciences	6
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	6
Using Children’s Literature in the Middle School Science Class to Teach Nature of Science	6
Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Socioscientific Reasoning During a Decision-Making Activity in the Context of COVID-19	6
Science Education and the Pandemic, 1 Year On	6
Leaving the laboratory: Using Field Science to Disrupt and Expand Historically Enduring Narratives of Science Teaching and Learning	6
A Textbook Analysis to Uncover the Hidden Contributors of Science and Mathematics	6
Exploring Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding of Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Practices Through a Laboratory Course	6
Integrating History of Science in In‑service Physics Teacher Education: Impact on Teachers’ Practice	6
Elementary School Children’s Explanations of Day and Night	6
Using Drama to Enrich Students’ Argumentation About Genetically Modified Foods	5
Secondary and University Students’ Descriptions of Quantum Uncertainty and the Wave Nature of Quantum Particles	5
The Theoretical Foundations of Feng Shui and Science Education in China	5
Teaching Science as a Process, Not a Set of Facts	5
‘Should We Be Doing It, Should We Not Be Doing It, Who Could Be Harmed?’	5
Too Philosophical, Therefore Useless for Science Education?	5
On Beyond Constructivism	5
Analysis of the Last 40 Years of Science Education Research via Bibliometric Methods	5
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	5
Secondary School Students’ Reasoning About Science and Personhood	5
Summary Lecture as a Delay Organizer of Cultural Content Knowledge	5
Biological Conceptualization of Race	5
Exploring the Role of Trust in Scientists to Explain Health-Related Behaviors in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Teachers’ Incorporation of Epistemic Practices in K-8 Engineering and Their Views About the Nature of Engineering Knowledge	5
Behavioral Genetics, Population Genetics, and Genetic Essentialism	5