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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell	98
The Contribution of a History of Science Perspective to Photosynthesis Lessons in University Textbooks	68
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights	64
Enhancing Science Education Through Visual Art and Complex Storytelling Using the Book “The Case Study of Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions”	64
Navigating Post-truth: Challenges and Opportunities for Science Education Through Evolving Scientific Literacy Visions	53
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis	51
Editorial Note: February 2026	51
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law	47
The Intersection Between Social-Institutional Aspects of Nature of Science and Social Justice in Natural History Museum Exhibitions	46
Sustainability as Living Architecture	43
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus	38
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 2023	35
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	32
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science	31
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	31
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness	30
An Explicit and Reflective Approach to Teaching Nature of Science in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience	29
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings	29
Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation	25
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss	25
Assessing Chemistry Teachers’ Understanding of Electrochemistry	25
Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching	24
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education	22
The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm	22
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity	20

Chinese Grade 12 Students’ Cognition and Coping Ways of Uncertainty in Science: A Study Based on Science Reading Texts	20
Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	20
Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education	19
Scientific Thinking and Critical Thinking in Science Education	18
A Review on the Use of Large Language Models as Virtual Tutors	17
Science and Religion Integration in Indonesian Islamic Senior High Schools: Analyzing Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices	16
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	16
Discussing Science Values and Norms from a Learning Situation Historically Contextualised in Mendel’s Laws and Guided by Scientific Practices	16
HPS for All in Journal's Metrics	16
Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Strengthening HPSS Scholarship in Science Education	16
Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study	16
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	15
Analog Modelling of the Haploid Book for Teaching Genetics	14
Estimating Epistemic Practices Loads in Elementary and Middle School Science Curricula	14
Cultivating Transdisciplinary Orientations in Science Education Research and Practice: Reflexivity, Pragmatism, and Dialogue	14
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	14
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	14
Teaching Nature of Science: A Pedagogy of Practice Framework for Teachers’ Professional Development	14
Political Science as a Science	14
Fostering Epistemological Vigilance in Physics Teacher Education: A Didactic Methodology Grounded in History of Science and the Notion of Hypotheses	13
Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks	13
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	13
The Development of Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Understanding and Skills of Argumentation through Argument Driven Inquiry	13
Science Teacher Perceptions of the State of Knowledge and Education at the Advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence Popularity	13
Theoretical Suggestions for the Nature of Integrated STEM Education: Notes on a “Poietic” STEM	12
Exploring England’s Secondary Educational Policy Discourses from the Perspective of a Social Justice and Sociopolitical Turn in Science Education	12
Scientists in the Textbook	12
Editorial Note: October 2025	12
The Ether Concept from Spanish Physics Textbooks (1840–1950)	12
Dialogue Between Science and Religious Education	12
Cobra Effect in Science Education?	12
The Influence of Extended Reality on Climate Change Education	12
Opening the Black Box of Scientific Practices	11
Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks	11
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	11
Vaccination Information Sources and Decision-Making Among Higher-Secondary Students in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
The Practical Epistemologies of Design and Artificial Intelligence	11
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	10
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education	10
Unpacking Epistemic Insights of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science Education: A Systematic Review	10
Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course	10
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	10
Associations between High School Students’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology, Sense of Belonging, and Physics Achievement	10
Presence and Absence of Social-Institutional Dimensions of Science in Secondary Education	9
Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts	9
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches	9
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	9
Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives	9
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	9
Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks	9

An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making	9
Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science	9
Exploring the Social Values in Mathematics Textbooks	8
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	8
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy	8
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective	8
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education	8
Investigating How Teachers’ (Existing) Sociopolitical Consciousness Serves as a Resource for Adapting Science Materials to Bring in Pursuits of Criticality and Identity	8
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists	8
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science	8
First-Year Teacher Education Students’ Epistemological Beliefs About Science and History: Domain-Specific Profiles and Relationships	8
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?	8
Preservice Teacher Interest and Willingness to Use Stories from the History of Science	8
Astronomy and Culture	8
Nature of Science in Science Educational Videos	7
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments	7
Nature of Engineering	7
Core Themes in Critical Thinking: Perspectives from Students and University Teachers in Norway and Germany	7
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War	7
Editorial Note: June 2025	6
A Professional Development Program to Improve NOSI Views and Lesson Plan Design Skills of Science Teachers Utilizing Argumentation-Driven Inquiry	6
Improving Teachers’ and Students’ Views on Nature of Science Through Active Instructional Approaches: a Review of the Literature	6
The Critical Role of Understanding Epistemic Practices in Science Teaching Using Wicked Problems	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
Who Says Scientific Laws Are Not Explanatory?	6
Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory	6
A Comparative Epistemic Network Analysis of the Nature of Science in Turkish National Physics Curriculum and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Physics Curriculum	6
Scientific Values and the Value of Science	6
Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science in Middle-School Science Textbooks from Brazil and South Korea Regarding Environmental Issues	6
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?	6
The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters	6
The Impact of a Woman Role Model on Students’ Understanding of NOS and Motivation to do Science	6
‘Happy Stories’ of Swedish Exceptionalism	6
Indigenous Knowledge and Practices of the Tigray People: How Do Teachers and Students Perceive Its Integration in Science and Mathematics Education?	6
Rethinking Nature of STEM: Theoretical Insights and the Development of EPISTEMIK-Fire as an Assessment Tool	6
The Socio-Scientific Issue Based on Local Potential in Integrated Learning Instruction to Improve Student Ecological Literacy	6