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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law	61
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell	37
The Contribution of a History of Science Perspective to Photosynthesis Lessons in University Textbooks	36
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights	30
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	30
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis	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
Modeling the Epistemic Value of Classroom Practice in the Investigation of Effective Learning	26
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education	26
Sustainability as Living Architecture	26
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus	25
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science	25
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness	25
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings	23
Assessing Chemistry Teachers’ Understanding of Electrochemistry	23
Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching	22
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 2023	22
Quality Indicators of an Experienced Middle School Science Teacher’s Argument‑Based Inquiry Teaching	21
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	20
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	20
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	19
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	19
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss	19
Too Philosophical, Therefore Useless for Science Education?	19

Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education	18
Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	18
The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm	18
Integration of Philosophy of Science in Biomedical Data Science Education to Foster Better Scientific Practice	17
A Trial Patch to Sustainable Development	17
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	17
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education	16
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity	15
Untangling Trustworthiness and Uncertainty in Science	15
A Review on the Use of Large Language Models as Virtual Tutors	15
Scientific Thinking and Critical Thinking in Science Education	14
Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Strengthening HPSS Scholarship in Science Education	14
Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study	14
Discussing Science Values and Norms from a Learning Situation Historically Contextualised in Mendel’s Laws and Guided by Scientific Practices	14
HPS for All in Journal's Metrics	14
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
Trust in the Third Space of Science Education	13
Science and Religion Integration in Indonesian Islamic Senior High Schools: Analyzing Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices	13
Analog Modelling of the Haploid Book for Teaching Genetics	12
Estimating Epistemic Practices Loads in Elementary and Middle School Science Curricula	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
Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks	12
The Development of Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Understanding and Skills of Argumentation through Argument Driven Inquiry	12
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	11
Cobra Effect in Science Education?	11
Political Science as a Science	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
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	11
Cultivating Transdisciplinary Orientations in Science Education Research and Practice: Reflexivity, Pragmatism, and Dialogue	11
Scientists in the Textbook	10
Editorial Note: October 2025	10
The Practical Epistemologies of Design and Artificial Intelligence	10
Unpacking Epistemic Insights of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science Education: A Systematic Review	9
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	9
The Influence of Extended Reality on Climate Change Education	9
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	9
Vaccination Information Sources and Decision-Making Among Higher-Secondary Students in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Not Only Why but Also How to Trust Science: Reshaping Science Education Based on Science Studies for a Better Post-pandemic World	9
Presence and Absence of Social-Institutional Dimensions of Science in Secondary Education	9
The Ether Concept from Spanish Physics Textbooks (1840–1950)	9
Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks	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	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
Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course	8
Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science	8
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	8
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education	8

Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks	8
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein	8
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education	7
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science	7
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	7
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists	7
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?	7
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making	7
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy	7
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective	7
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	7
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments	7
Investigating How Teachers’ (Existing) Sociopolitical Consciousness Serves as a Resource for Adapting Science Materials to Bring in Pursuits of Criticality and Identity	7
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel?	7
Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts	7
Astronomy and Culture	7
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches	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
The Socio-Scientific Issue Based on Local Potential in Integrated Learning Instruction to Improve Student Ecological Literacy	7
Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives	7
Hot Topics and Frontier Evolution of Science Education Research: a Bibliometric Mapping from 2001 to 2020	6
Nature of Engineering	6
Exploring the Social Values in Mathematics Textbooks	6
Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory	6
The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters	6
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?	6
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War	6
Editorial Note: June 2025	6
Improving Teachers’ and Students’ Views on Nature of Science Through Active Instructional Approaches: a Review of the Literature	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
Quantification in Empirical Activity	6
Summary Lecture as a Delay Organizer of Cultural Content Knowledge	6