OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Science Education is 19. 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
Underrepresented minority students receive lower grades and have higher rates of attrition across STEM disciplines: A sign of inequity?	46
Doing science through translanguaging: a study of translanguaging practices in secondary English as a medium of instruction science laboratory sessions	41
Enhancing students’ interest in science and understandings of STEM careers: the role of career-based scenarios	37
A cross-country comparison of climate change in middle school science and geography curricula	33
Measurement of socio-scientific reasoning (SSR) and exploration of SSR as a progression of competencies	28
Mapping the nature of science in the Italian physics curriculum: from missing links to opportunities for reform	27
Vertebrate species knowledge: an important skill is threatened by extinction	24
Secondary school science teachers’ attitudes towards STEM education in Liberia	23
An interdisciplinary approach to primary school mathematics and science learning	22
Citizen science and its potential for science education	22
Factual knowledge of students about plants is associated with attitudes and interest in botany	22
Aesthetics, affect, and making meaning in science education: an introduction	21
What do they know? Investigating students’ ability to analyse experimental data in secondary physics education	21
Maintaining secondary school students’ STEM career aspirations: the role of perceived parental expectations, self-efficacy, and cultural capital	20
Multi-dimensional explorations into the relationships between high school students’ science learning self-efficacy and engagement	20
Motivational factors that influence student science achievement: a systematic literature review of TIMSS studies	20
International collaborative follow-up investigation of graduating high school students’ understandings of the nature of scientific inquiry: is progress Being made?	19
Learning democratic participation? Meaning-making in discussion of socioscientific issues in science education	19
Determining factors influencing students’ future intentions to enroll in chemistry-related courses: integrating self-determination theory and theory of planned behavior	19