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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Enhancing Science Education Through Visual Art and Complex Storytelling Using the Book “The Case Study of Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions”	93
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell	45
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law	34
The Cosmic Interaction	26
Modeling the Epistemic Value of Classroom Practice in the Investigation of Effective Learning	24
Correction to: Computational Thinking, Between Papert and Wing	23
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	22
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis	22
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights	21
Sustainability as Living Architecture	20
Bringing Science Fiction Story Writing to Saudi Science Education	20
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 2023	20
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education	20
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings	20
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	19
Science and Fengshui	18
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	18
Too Philosophical, Therefore Useless for Science Education?	17
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness	17
Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation	17
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	16
An Educational Reconstruction of Special Relativity Theory for Secondary Education	16
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science	16
Quality Indicators of an Experienced Middle School Science Teacher’s Argument‑Based Inquiry Teaching	16
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus	16

Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching	15
An Explicit and Reflective Approach to Teaching Nature of Science in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience	15
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss	15
A Theoretical Framework for Integrated STEM Education	15
Using the Controversy over Human Race to Introduce Students to the Identification and the Evaluation of Arguments	14
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education	14
Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	13
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity	13
A Trial Patch to Sustainable Development	13
Scientific Thinking and Critical Thinking in Science Education	13
Untangling Trustworthiness and Uncertainty in Science	13
A Review on the Use of Large Language Models as Virtual Tutors	13
Integration of Philosophy of Science in Biomedical Data Science Education to Foster Better Scientific Practice	13
A Virtue Epistemological Approach to the Demarcation Problem	12
The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm	12
Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education	12
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	12
Trust in the Third Space of Science Education	11
HPS for All in Journal's Metrics	11
Discussing Science Values and Norms from a Learning Situation Historically Contextualised in Mendel’s Laws and Guided by Scientific Practices	11
Post-Truth and Education	11
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	11
Estimating Epistemic Practices Loads in Elementary and Middle School Science Curricula	10
Political Science as a Science	10
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	10
Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Strengthening HPSS Scholarship in Science Education	10
Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks	10
Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study	10
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	9
Science Teacher Perceptions of the State of Knowledge and Education at the Advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence Popularity	9
The Development of Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Understanding and Skills of Argumentation through Argument Driven Inquiry	9
Teachers’ Incorporation of Epistemic Practices in K-8 Engineering and Their Views About the Nature of Engineering Knowledge	9
The Practical Epistemologies of Design and Artificial Intelligence	8
Le Châtelier’s Principle a Language, Methodological and Ontological Obstacle: An Analysis of General Chemistry Textbooks	8
The Ether Concept from Spanish Physics Textbooks (1840–1950)	8
Not Only Why but Also How to Trust Science: Reshaping Science Education Based on Science Studies for a Better Post-pandemic World	8
Learning Science in Context: Integrating a Holistic Approach to Nature of Science in the Lower Secondary Classroom	8
Cobra Effect in Science Education?	8
Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks	8
Teaching Science as a Process, Not a Set of Facts	8
Scientists in the Textbook	8
Unpacking Epistemic Insights of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science Education: A Systematic Review	7
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education	7
Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks	7
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	7
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	7
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	7
Stereotypical Attributes of Scientists and Engineers in Jokes	7
Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course	7
Expert Text Analysis in the Inclusion of History and Philosophy of Science in Higher Education	7

The Influence of Extended Reality on Climate Change Education	7
Analysing Transdisciplinary Education: A Scoping Review	7
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	7
Socioscientific Issues Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making	7
Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives	7
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective	6
Towards Equitable, Social Justice Criticality: Re-Constructing the “Black” Box and Making it Transparent for the Future of Science and Technology in Science Education	6
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel?	6
Astronomy and Culture	6
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education	6
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?	6
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists	6
The Problem of Trust Without Intimacy: Education for Handling Expert Knowledge in a Neoliberal Marketplace	6
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy	6
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein	6
Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science	6
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	6
Lessons from the Past: Reviewing How We Teach Science, What’s Changed, and Why It Matters	6
Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts	6
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches	6
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	6
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science	6
Shift From a Traditional to a Distance Learning Environment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making	6
Indigenous Knowledge and Practices of the Tigray People: How Do Teachers and Students Perceive Its Integration in Science and Mathematics Education?	5
Improving Teachers’ and Students’ Views on Nature of Science Through Active Instructional Approaches: a Review of the Literature	5
‘Should We Be Doing It, Should We Not Be Doing It, Who Could Be Harmed?’	5
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War	5
Summary Lecture as a Delay Organizer of Cultural Content Knowledge	5
Investigation of Preservice Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Understanding and Decision Making on Socioscientific Issue through the Fractal Model	5
Who Says Scientific Laws Are Not Explanatory?	5
Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory	5
Nature of Engineering	5
Hot Topics and Frontier Evolution of Science Education Research: a Bibliometric Mapping from 2001 to 2020	5
Spanish Science Teacher Educators’ Preparation, Experiences, and Views About Nature of Science in Science Education	5
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?	5
Quantification in Empirical Activity	5
‘Happy Stories’ of Swedish Exceptionalism	5
Intercultural Education as Dialogue Between Knowledge Systems: Elements of a Theoretical Framework	5
In Sickness and in Health	5
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments	5
First-Year Teacher Education Students’ Epistemological Beliefs About Science and History: Domain-Specific Profiles and Relationships	5
Teaching Traditional Chinese Science as a Part of a NOS Curriculum in Hong Kong	5
Is Uncertainty a Barrier or Resource to Advance Science? The Role of Uncertainty in Science and Its Implications for Science Teaching and Learning	5
The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters	5