OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the Learning Sciences is 3. 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
Interdisciplinary learning in the humanities: Knowledge building and identity work	22
Restorying a Black girl’s future: Using womanist storytelling methodologies to reimagine dominant narratives in computing education	20
Avoiding equity detours on the way to a more justice-oriented learning sciences	20
Toward epistemic justice in socio-scientific decision-making: How youth make sense of lively COVID-19 and vaccines data	20
The temporal dimension of teacher learning in a video-based professional development program: An ecological perspective	20
How kids manage self-directed programming projects: Strategies and structures	20
Interacting with nature in and through boundary crossing learning: A case of bioart-making	20
Material syntonicity: Examining computational performance and its materiality through weaving and sewing crafts	19
Planning for student-driven discussions: A revelatory case of curricular sensemaking for epistemic agency	19
Prolepsis & telos: Interpreting pedagogy and recovering imagination in the mediation of youth learning	18
Teachers as agentic synthesizers:Recontextualizing personally meaningful practices from professional development	18
Blackness, place and learning: Youth cultivating a sense of identity-in-place through spatial storylines	17
What kind of revolution? Thinking and rethinking educational technologies in the time of COVID-19	15
How students develop collaborative drawing to represent the transmission of sound: An analysis of explanatory scientific drawings with discourse maps	14
Zones of mathematical play	13
Naming and disrupting epistemic injustice across curated sites of learning	12
Experts’ adaptation of apt epistemic performance: The role of practical knowledge	12
“We got so much better at reading each other’s energy”: Knowing, acting, and attuning as an improv ensemble	11
Disciplinary skills are not enough: Resituating historical thinking within students’ racialized and linguistic experiences	11
An ecological paradigm of interdisciplinary learning: Implications for design	10
Opportunities and hindrances for promoting interdisciplinary learning in schools	10
In memoriam - Nora Sabelli: Master orchestrator of grant programs and mentor for advancing the interdisciplinary learning sciences field	9
Humanizing Co-design through attention to educators’ affective and relational experiences	9
Exploring how shared gaze visualizations support remote one-on-one teaching: A mixed method study	9
What happened to the interdisciplinary study of learning in humans and machines?	8

Beyond disciplinary engagement: Researching the ecologies of interdisciplinary learning	8
Scaffolding small groups at the group level: Improving the scaffolding behavior of mathematics teachers during mathematical discussions	7
Strategic shifts: How studio teachers use direction and support to build learner agency in the figured world of visual art	7
“Seeing power” between young people and conservation professionals in the design of a community-based watershed monitoring initiative	7
Reconfiguring science education through caring human inquiry and design with pets	7
The role of participatory identity in learners’ hybridization of activity across contexts	7
Interpersonal, intrapersonal, and cognitive tactics: A thematic analysis of adults’ 21 ^st century learning management	7
Young women of color figuring science and identity within and beyond an afterschool science program	6
Learning to program in middle school: How pair programming helps and hinders intrepid exploration	6
A framework for infrastructuring sustainable innovations in education	6
What do correct answers reveal? The interpersonal and mathematical aspects of students’ interactions during groupwork in seventh grade mathematics	5
Voice as an interactional accomplishment in art making about social issues	5
What pedagogy feels like: Teachers’ development of pedagogical empathy in rehearsal debriefs	5
Learning and constructions of us and them in teachers’ collaborative groups	4
The effect of language on the coherence of children’s conceptions of force	4
Constructing shared understanding of complex interdisciplinary problems: Epistemic games in interdisciplinary teamwork	4
A sociocultural approach to communication instruction: How insights from communication teaching practices can inform faculty development programs	4
Teacher professional dialogues during a school intervention: From stabilization to possibility discourse through reflexive noticing	3
From “Carrier” to “Creator”: The re-construction of national identity in more inclusive terms	3
Self-study enhances the learning effect of discussions	3
Group creativity in adolescence: Relational, material and institutional dimensions of creative collaboration	3
Early dawn toward imagining worlds	3