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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Scientific Literacy and Social Transformation	97
Shift From a Traditional to a Distance Learning Environment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	73
Computational Thinking, Between Papert and Wing	71
Developing and Using Multiple Models to Promote Scientific Literacy in the Context of Socio-Scientific Issues	67
Risk Society and Science Education	30
A Theoretical Framework for Integrated STEM Education	29
Towards Covid-19 Literacy	23
Beyond Hypothesis Testing	21
Pre-Service Teachers’ Analysis of Claims About COVID-19 in an Online Course	21
Enhancing Computational Thinking Skills Through Artificial Intelligence Education at a STEAM High School	20
Hot Topics and Frontier Evolution of Science Education Research: a Bibliometric Mapping from 2001 to 2020	20
A Growing Body of Knowledge	17
Socioscientific Issues Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making	17
Improving Students’ Conceptions of Nature of Science: A Review of the Literature	17
Towards Equitable, Social Justice Criticality: Re-Constructing the “Black” Box and Making it Transparent for the Future of Science and Technology in Science Education	16
Reintroducing “the” Scientific Method to Introduce Scientific Inquiry in Schools?	16
Who Speaks for Science?	15
Providing Undergraduates with Opportunities to Explicitly Reflect on How News Articles Promote the Public (Mis)understanding of Science	15
When Science Denial Meets Epistemic Understanding	15
Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA	14
Epistemic and Political Confrontations Around the Public Policies to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic	14
From Basic to Humane Genomics Literacy	13
Untangling Trustworthiness and Uncertainty in Science	13
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	13
History of Science in Physics Teaching	13

Aspects About Science in the Context of Production and Communication of Knowledge of COVID-19	13
Exploring the Inclusion of Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks	13
Post-Truth and Education	13
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	13
Genetics and Identity	12
Using Explicit Teaching of Philosophy to Promote Understanding of the Nature of Science	12
STEM Problem Solving: Inquiry, Concepts, and Reasoning	12
Investigating Scientists’ Views of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	12
Examining the Nature of Practical Work in School Science Textbooks: Coverage of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	12
Choose Your Evidence	12
Nature of Engineering	12
Developing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills and Argumentation Abilities Through Augmented Reality–Based Argumentation Activities in Science Classes	11
Learning Science in Context: Integrating a Holistic Approach to Nature of Science in the Lower Secondary Classroom	11
Influence of Public Engagement with Science on Scientific Information Literacy During the COVID‑19 Pandemic	11
Making Sense of Uncertainty in the Science Classroom	10
An Educational Reconstruction of Special Relativity Theory for Secondary Education	10
Students’ Views of Nature of Science	10
Analysing Transdisciplinary Education: A Scoping Review	10
Long-Lasting Conceptual Change in Science Education	10
Analysis of Engineering Elements of K-12 Science Standards in Seven Countries Engaged in STEM Education Reform	10
Exploring Pre-service Biology Teachers’ Informal Reasoning and Decision-Making About COVID-19	10
Augmented Reality Application for Handheld Devices	10
Does Concrete Content Help People to Reason Scientifically?	10
Trust, Science Education and Vaccines	10
Exploring Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding of Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Practices Through a Laboratory Course	10
Middle School Students’ Scientific Epistemological Beliefs, Achievements in Science and Intellectual Risk-Taking	9
Revisiting the Foundations of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science: Some New Ideas	9
What do COVID-19 Tweets Reveal about Public Engagement with Nature of Science?	9
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	9
Investigating Student Nature of Science Views as Reflections of Authentic Science	9
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	9
Trust and Mistrust in Sources of Scientific Information on Climate Change and Vaccines	9
Measuring Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Socioscientific Issues	9
Observation and Inference in Chemistry Teaching: a Model-Based Approach to the Integration of the Macro and Submicro Levels	9
‘Should We Be Doing It, Should We Not Be Doing It, Who Could Be Harmed?’	8
Not Only Why but Also How to Trust Science: Reshaping Science Education Based on Science Studies for a Better Post-pandemic World	8
Leaving the laboratory: Using Field Science to Disrupt and Expand Historically Enduring Narratives of Science Teaching and Learning	8
Improving Teachers’ and Students’ Views on Nature of Science Through Active Instructional Approaches: a Review of the Literature	8
Why People Trust Something Other than Science	8
Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Socioscientific Reasoning During a Decision-Making Activity in the Context of COVID-19	7
Climate Change and Political Controversy in the Science Classroom	7
The Coherence Between Epistemologies and SSI Teaching	7
A Textbook Analysis to Uncover the Hidden Contributors of Science and Mathematics	7
Exploring the Role of Trust in Scientists to Explain Health-Related Behaviors in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Do We Have a Trust Problem? Exploring Undergraduate Student Views on the Tentativeness and Trustworthiness of Science	7
Elementary School Children’s Explanations of Day and Night	7
Educating for Responsible Research Practice in Biomedical Sciences	7
Integrating History of Science in In‑service Physics Teacher Education: Impact on Teachers’ Practice	7
Using Drama to Enrich Students’ Argumentation About Genetically Modified Foods	7
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education	6

Analysis of the Last 40 Years of Science Education Research via Bibliometric Methods	6
Investigating the Development of Preservice Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Instructional Views Across Rings of the Family Resemblance Approach Wheel	6
On Idealizations and Models in Science Education	6
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	6
Using Children’s Literature in the Middle School Science Class to Teach Nature of Science	6
Rethinking the Nature of Engineering: Attending to the Social Context of Engineering	6
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	6
Science Education and the Pandemic, 1 Year On	6
Too Philosophical, Therefore Useless for Science Education?	6
Science and Fengshui	6
Investigating Elementary Teachers’ Views, Implementation, and Longitudinal Enactment of Nature of Science Instruction	6
Teachers’ Incorporation of Epistemic Practices in K-8 Engineering and Their Views About the Nature of Engineering Knowledge	6
Data-Texts in the Sciences	6
Secondary and University Students’ Descriptions of Quantum Uncertainty and the Wave Nature of Quantum Particles	6
Summary Lecture as a Delay Organizer of Cultural Content Knowledge	5
A Trial Patch to Sustainable Development	5
The Role of Materiality in an Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence	5
On Beyond Constructivism	5
Agency and Transformative Potential of Technology in Students’ Images of the Future	5
Moral Considerations of Artificial Intelligence	5
Secondary School Students’ Reasoning About Science and Personhood	5
The Universality of Science and Traditional Chinese Medicine	5
Biological Conceptualization of Race	5
Can Generative AI and ChatGPT Outperform Humans on Cognitive-Demanding Problem-Solving Tasks in Science?	5
The Theoretical Foundations of Feng Shui and Science Education in China	5
Exploring Science Identity Development of Women in Physics and Physical Sciences in Higher Education	5
What Is the Role of the Body in Science Education? A Conversation Between Traditions	5
Science Teachers’ Views on the Nature of Science and its Integration into Instruction	5
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	5
Investigation of Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptions of the Nature of Science Based on the LDA Model	5
Integration of the Topic of Social Justice into High School Biology Curricula	5
Teaching Science as a Process, Not a Set of Facts	5
Behavioral Genetics, Population Genetics, and Genetic Essentialism	5