OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science & Education is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law	67
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis	40
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell	40
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights	33
The Contribution of a History of Science Perspective to Photosynthesis Lessons in University Textbooks	31
Modeling the Epistemic Value of Classroom Practice in the Investigation of Effective Learning	30
Enhancing Science Education Through Visual Art and Complex Storytelling Using the Book “The Case Study of Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions”	29
The Intersection Between Social-Institutional Aspects of Nature of Science and Social Justice in Natural History Museum Exhibitions	29
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	28
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education	28
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science	27
Sustainability as Living Architecture	27
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus	26
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness	26
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 2023	25
Assessing Chemistry Teachers’ Understanding of Electrochemistry	25
Quality Indicators of an Experienced Middle School Science Teacher’s Argument‑Based Inquiry Teaching	25
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	23
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	22
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	21
Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching	21
Too Philosophical, Therefore Useless for Science Education?	20
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings	20
An Explicit and Reflective Approach to Teaching Nature of Science in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience	20
Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation	19

Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education	19
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss	19
Integration of Philosophy of Science in Biomedical Data Science Education to Foster Better Scientific Practice	18
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity	18
The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm	18
A Review on the Use of Large Language Models as Virtual Tutors	17
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education	17
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	17
Scientific Thinking and Critical Thinking in Science Education	16
Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	16
HPS for All in Journal's Metrics	15
Untangling Trustworthiness and Uncertainty in Science	15
Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study	15
A Trial Patch to Sustainable Development	15
Impact of Argument-Driven Inquiry Activities on Pre-service Science Teachers’ Views of the Nature of Scientific Inquiry in the Context of Climate Change Education	14
Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Strengthening HPSS Scholarship in Science Education	14
Trust in the Third Space of Science Education	14
Discussing Science Values and Norms from a Learning Situation Historically Contextualised in Mendel’s Laws and Guided by Scientific Practices	14
Science and Religion Integration in Indonesian Islamic Senior High Schools: Analyzing Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices	14
Analog Modelling of the Haploid Book for Teaching Genetics	13
Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks	12
Political Science as a Science	12
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	12
The Heart is a Pump, a Dollhouse, a Car or a Ship: How Students Use Conventional and Spontaneously Generated Creative Metaphors to Understand Biology Concepts	12
The Development of Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Understanding and Skills of Argumentation through Argument Driven Inquiry	12
Estimating Epistemic Practices Loads in Elementary and Middle School Science Curricula	12
Cultivating Transdisciplinary Orientations in Science Education Research and Practice: Reflexivity, Pragmatism, and Dialogue	11
Vaccination Information Sources and Decision-Making Among Higher-Secondary Students in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	11
Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks	11
Learning Science in Context: Integrating a Holistic Approach to Nature of Science in the Lower Secondary Classroom	11
Science Teacher Perceptions of the State of Knowledge and Education at the Advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence Popularity	11
Cobra Effect in Science Education?	11
Theoretical Suggestions for the Nature of Integrated STEM Education: Notes on a “Poietic” STEM	10
Scientists in the Textbook	10
The Ether Concept from Spanish Physics Textbooks (1840–1950)	10
Editorial Note: October 2025	10
The Influence of Extended Reality on Climate Change Education	9
Exploring England’s Secondary Educational Policy Discourses from the Perspective of a Social Justice and Sociopolitical Turn in Science Education	9
The Practical Epistemologies of Design and Artificial Intelligence	9
Not Only Why but Also How to Trust Science: Reshaping Science Education Based on Science Studies for a Better Post-pandemic World	9
Dialogue Between Science and Religious Education	9
Presence and Absence of Social-Institutional Dimensions of Science in Secondary Education	9
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	9
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	9
Unpacking Epistemic Insights of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science Education: A Systematic Review	9
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education	8
Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course	8
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein	8
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making	8

Stereotypical Attributes of Scientists and Engineers in Jokes	8
Socioscientific Issues Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making	8
The Problem of Trust Without Intimacy: Education for Handling Expert Knowledge in a Neoliberal Marketplace	8
Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts	8
Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks	8
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	8
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	8
Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives	8
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education	8
Hot Topics and Frontier Evolution of Science Education Research: a Bibliometric Mapping from 2001 to 2020	7
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	7
Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science	7
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective	7
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel?	7
The Socio-Scientific Issue Based on Local Potential in Integrated Learning Instruction to Improve Student Ecological Literacy	7
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy	7
Towards Equitable, Social Justice Criticality: Re-Constructing the “Black” Box and Making it Transparent for the Future of Science and Technology in Science Education	7
Astronomy and Culture	7
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	7
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches	7
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments	7
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists	7
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science	7
Investigating How Teachers’ (Existing) Sociopolitical Consciousness Serves as a Resource for Adapting Science Materials to Bring in Pursuits of Criticality and Identity	7
Exploring the Social Values in Mathematics Textbooks	6
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?	6
Editorial Note: June 2025	6
‘Should We Be Doing It, Should We Not Be Doing It, Who Could Be Harmed?’	6
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War	6
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?	6
Nature of Engineering	6
Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory	6
The Impact of a Woman Role Model on Students’ Understanding of NOS and Motivation to do Science	6
Nature of Science in Science Educational Videos	6
First-Year Teacher Education Students’ Epistemological Beliefs About Science and History: Domain-Specific Profiles and Relationships	6
Who Says Scientific Laws Are Not Explanatory?	6
Beauty, Pleasure, and Vital Fluids in the Eighteenth Century Sexuality Education-A Hermeneutic Reading of the Linnaean Lecture About the Way to Become Together	6
The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters	6