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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell	84
The Contribution of a History of Science Perspective to Photosynthesis Lessons in University Textbooks	59
The Intersection Between Social-Institutional Aspects of Nature of Science and Social Justice in Natural History Museum Exhibitions	51
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education	46
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	44
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law	39
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis	39
Enhancing Science Education Through Visual Art and Complex Storytelling Using the Book “The Case Study of Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions”	39
Editorial Note: February 2026	39
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights	38
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science	30
Sustainability as Living Architecture	30
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus	27
Assessing Chemistry Teachers’ Understanding of Electrochemistry	26
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 2023	25
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	24
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss	23
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	23
Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation	22
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings	22
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness	22
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	22
An Explicit and Reflective Approach to Teaching Nature of Science in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience	21
Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching	20
Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education	20

The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm	19
Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	19
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education	18
A Review on the Use of Large Language Models as Virtual Tutors	18
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity	18
Chinese Grade 12 Students’ Cognition and Coping Ways of Uncertainty in Science: A Study Based on Science Reading Texts	17
Integration of Philosophy of Science in Biomedical Data Science Education to Foster Better Scientific Practice	17
Scientific Thinking and Critical Thinking in Science Education	16
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	16
HPS for All in Journal's Metrics	15
Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study	15
Discussing Science Values and Norms from a Learning Situation Historically Contextualised in Mendel’s Laws and Guided by Scientific Practices	14
Trust in the Third Space of Science Education	14
Science and Religion Integration in Indonesian Islamic Senior High Schools: Analyzing Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices	14
Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Strengthening HPSS Scholarship in Science Education	13
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	13
Analog Modelling of the Haploid Book for Teaching Genetics	13
Cultivating Transdisciplinary Orientations in Science Education Research and Practice: Reflexivity, Pragmatism, and Dialogue	13
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	13
Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks	12
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	12
Political Science as a Science	12
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	12
The Development of Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Understanding and Skills of Argumentation through Argument Driven Inquiry	12
Science Teacher Perceptions of the State of Knowledge and Education at the Advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence Popularity	11
Estimating Epistemic Practices Loads in Elementary and Middle School Science Curricula	11
Vaccination Information Sources and Decision-Making Among Higher-Secondary Students in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Learning Science in Context: Integrating a Holistic Approach to Nature of Science in the Lower Secondary Classroom	11
Editorial Note: October 2025	11
Cobra Effect in Science Education?	11
The Ether Concept from Spanish Physics Textbooks (1840–1950)	11
Theoretical Suggestions for the Nature of Integrated STEM Education: Notes on a “Poietic” STEM	10
The Practical Epistemologies of Design and Artificial Intelligence	10
Dialogue Between Science and Religious Education	10
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	10
The Influence of Extended Reality on Climate Change Education	10
Unpacking Epistemic Insights of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science Education: A Systematic Review	10
Exploring England’s Secondary Educational Policy Discourses from the Perspective of a Social Justice and Sociopolitical Turn in Science Education	10
Scientists in the Textbook	10
Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks	10
Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course	9
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	9
Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives	9
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy	9
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	9
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education	9
Associations between High School Students’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology, Sense of Belonging, and Physics Achievement	9
Preservice Teacher Interest and Willingness to Use Stories from the History of Science	9
Presence and Absence of Social-Institutional Dimensions of Science in Secondary Education	9
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	9

Stereotypical Attributes of Scientists and Engineers in Jokes	9
Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks	9
Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts	8
Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science	8
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	8
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making	8
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	8
Astronomy and Culture	8
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science	8
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel?	7
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists	7
Exploring the Social Values in Mathematics Textbooks	7
Nature of Science in Science Educational Videos	7
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches	7
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective	7
Investigating How Teachers’ (Existing) Sociopolitical Consciousness Serves as a Resource for Adapting Science Materials to Bring in Pursuits of Criticality and Identity	7
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education	7
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?	7
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?	7
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
Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory	6
The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters	6
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War	6
Core Themes in Critical Thinking: Perspectives from Students and University Teachers in Norway and Germany	6
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments	6
Summary Lecture as a Delay Organizer of Cultural Content Knowledge	6
The Socio-Scientific Issue Based on Local Potential in Integrated Learning Instruction to Improve Student Ecological Literacy	6
Nature of Engineering	6
Editorial Note: June 2025	6
The Impact of a Woman Role Model on Students’ Understanding of NOS and Motivation to do Science	6