OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chemistry Education Research and Practice is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Supporting submicroscopic reasoning in students’ explanations of absorption phenomena using a simulation-based activity	33
Examining the role of assignment design and peer review on student responses and revisions to an organic chemistry writing-to-learn assignment	31
Contents list	31
Chemistry graduate teaching assistants’ teacher noticing	28
Practices in instrument use and development in chemistry education research and practice 2010–2021	23
Using a combination technique for the assessment of students’ cognitive structures on acid–base chemistry	22
A design-based research approach to improving pedagogy in the teaching laboratory	21
Contribution of an instructional module incorporating PhET simulations to Rwandan students' knowledge of chemical reactions, acids, and bases through social interactions	21
Gender differences in high school students’ perceived values and costs of learning chemistry	21
A model of curricular content for the educational reconstruction of Green Chemistry: the voice of Chilean science teachers and science education researchers	20
Reply to the ‘Comment on “What resources do high school students activate to link energetic and structural changes in chemical reactions? – A qualitative study”’ by K. S. Taber, Chem. Educ. Res. Pr	20
‘Seeing’ chemistry: investigating the contribution of mental imagery strength on students’ thinking in relation to visuospatial problem solving in chemistry	19
Recognition experiences of women of color in chemistry: an intersectional study	19
Front cover	19
Development of problem-solving skills supported by metacognitive scaffolding: insights from students’ written work	18
Navigating the interlanguage space: Chinese international students’ perceptions of a virtual chemistry laboratory course	17
Metacognitive problem solving: exploration of students’ perspectives through the lens of multi-dimensional engagement	16
Developing green chemistry educational principles by exploring the pedagogical content knowledge of secondary and pre-secondary school teachers	16
Augmented reality meets Peer instruction	16
Making sense of chemical equilibrium: productive teacher–student dialogues as a balancing act between sensemaking and managing tension	15
Implementing an interactive online platform in a large undergraduate general chemistry course and its impact on student learning and perceptions	15
Beliefs versus resources: a tale of two models of epistemology	15
Attention is currency: how surface features of Lewis structures influence organic chemistry student reasoning about stability	14
Investigating the role of multiple categorization tasks in a curriculum designed around mechanistic patterns and principles	14
Psychometric analysis of the resonance concept inventory	14

“I’m still here and I want them to know that”: experiences of chemists with concealable identities in undergraduate research	14
STEM-PT Traveler, a game-based approach for learning elements of the periodic table: an approach for enhancing secondary school students’ motivation for learning chemistry	13
Considering the hexad of learning domains in the laboratory to address the overlooked aspects of chemistry education and fragmentary approach to assessment of student learning	13
Effects of formative assessment with technology on students’ meaningful learning in chemistry equilibrium concepts	13
Revisiting secondary students’ ideas about air pollution. The challenge of particulate matter	13
VR in chemistry, a review of scientific research on advanced atomic/molecular visualization	13
Laying the foundations to build on: exploring diversity in our Chemistry Education Research & Practice community	12
Messages about valued knowledge products and processes embedded within a suite of transformed high school chemistry curricular materials	12
Contents list	12
Exploring post-secondary chemistry instructors’ knowledge for teaching ¹H NMR spectroscopy	11
A social semiotic lens to capture meaning-making of polymeric concepts during modelling in chemistry education	11
Factors shaping the choice in chemistry: insights from undergraduate students within a societal context	11
The effect of metacognition on students’ chemistry identity: the chain mediating role of chemistry learning burnout and chemistry learning flow	11
Investigating evidence in support of validity and reliability for data collected with the meaningful learning in the laboratory instrument (MLLI)	11
A meta-analysis of effectiveness of chemical bonding-based intervention studies in improving academic performance	10
Investigating student perceptions of transformational intent and classroom culture in organic chemistry courses	10
Use of machine learning to analyze chemistry card sort tasks	10
Critiquing lab technique videos prior to class: can it improve demonstrated technique?	9
Advancing students’ scientific inquiry performance in chemistry through reading and evaluative reflection	9
Contents list	9
Factors affecting individuals’ cognitive engagement during group work in general chemistry: timing, group size, and question type	9
Factors that influence general chemistry students’ decision making in study strategies	9
Learning to teach chemical bonding: a framework for preservice teacher educators	9
Investigating small-group cognitive engagement in general chemistry learning activities using qualitative content analysis and the ICAP framework	9
Investigation into the intersection between response process validity and answer-until-correct validity: development of the repeated attempt processing issue detection (RAPID) method	9
Front cover	9
Students’ interactive engagement, academic achievement and self concept in chemistry: an evaluation of cooperative learning pedagogy	9
Intersecting visual and verbal representations and levels of reasoning in the structure of matter learning progression	9
Optimizing testing feedback in introductory chemistry: a multi-treatment study exploring varying levels of assessment feedback and subsequent performance	9
Insights into the manuscript review process viewed as a constructive journey rather than surviving hurdles	9
Could competence-based chemistry teaching in secondary school harm students’ performance in upper traditional exams?	9
Inoculating students against science-based manipulation strategies in social media: debunking the concept of ‘water with conductivity extract’	8
Elements constituting and influencing in-service secondary chemistry teachers’ pedagogical scientific language knowledge	8
Effectiveness of particulate nature of matter (PNM)-based intervention studies in improving academic performance: a meta-analysis study	8
To identify or not to identify: a choice in chemistry education research and practice	8
Evaluating the level of inquiry in postsecondary instructional laboratory experiments: results of a national survey	7
Contents list	7
Motivation to learn chemistry: a thorough analysis of the CMQ-II within the Brazilian context	7
Evaluating electrophile and nucleophile understanding: a large-scale study of learners’ explanations of reaction mechanisms	7
Progression from Chinese High School onto a TransNational Chinese-UK University joint BSc degree in chemistry; an international study focussing on laboratory practical skills	7
Ontological orientations of educators’ sense of the atom and underlying source domains: a case study of Kotebe Metropolitan University, Ethiopia	7
Back cover	7
Integrating informal learning in college general chemistry courses	7
Evaluative judgement – a practitioner's case in chemistry research projects	7
The impact of co-design-based formative assessment practices on preservice science teachers’ understanding of chemical concepts in a general chemistry laboratory course	7
Front cover	7
Student teachers’ problem-based investigations of chemical phenomena in the nearby outdoor environment	7
Harnessing indigenous scientific discovery in medicinal chemistry to promote selected nature of science attributes among Chinese high school students: case of Artemisinin	7
Guidance on the data availability statement requirement in CERP	7
Comparing drawing tasks and elaborate single-choice questions in simulation-based learning: how do they facilitate students’ conceptual understanding on chemical equilibria?	7

Front cover	6
Change in students’ explanation of the shape of snowflakes after collaborative immersive virtual reality	6
Of teachers and textbooks: lower secondary teachers' perceived importance and use of chemistry textbook components	6
Teaching crystal structures in undergraduate courses: a systematic review from a disciplinary literacy perspective	6
Contents list	6
Investigating students' expectations and engagement in general and organic chemistry laboratory courses	6
Guided inquiry-based learning in secondary-school chemistry classes: a case study	6
“Every little thing that could possibly be provided helps”: analysis of online first-year chemistry resources using the universal design for learning framework	6
The use of frameworks in chemistry education research	6
Using social influence models to characterize student interest in a general chemistry peer-led team learning setting	6
Capturing students' identification of the relevance of organic chemistry in writing	6
Chemical bonding in Swedish upper secondary school education: a force-based teaching model for enhanced understanding	6
Self-regulated learning strategies for success in an online first-year chemistry course	6
Secondary chemistry teacher learning: precursors for and mechanisms of pedagogical conceptual change	5
Planning and evaluating chemistry outreach: a case study of one collegiate group's approach	5
Pre-service chemistry teachers’ knowledge of the coordination number and the oxidation number in coordination compounds	5
Prompting hypothetical social comparisons to support chemistry students’ data analysis and interpretations	5
Exploring the role of scaffolds in problem-based learning (PBL) in an undergraduate chemistry laboratory	5
Measuring student motivation in foundation-level inorganic chemistry courses: a multi-institution study	5
A question of pattern recognition: investigating the impact of structure variation on students’ proficiency in deciding about resonance stabilization	5
Patterns of reasoning – exploring the interplay of students’ work with a scaffold and their conceptual knowledge in organic chemistry	5
Turkish science high school students’ mental models of the electron cloud	5
Investigation of students’ cognitive structures concerning the topic of physical and chemical changes: a cross-level study	5
Factors associated with chemistry faculty members’ cooperative adoption of evidence-based instructional practices: results from a national survey	5
Benefits of desirable difficulties: comparing the influence of mixed practice to that of categorized sets of questions on students’ problem-solving performance in chemistry	5
The conceptual profile of equilibrium and its contributions to the teaching of chemical equilibrium	5
Correction: South African physical sciences teachers’ use of formulae and proportion when answering reaction-based stoichiometry calculation questions	5
Metacognition instruction enhances equity in effective study strategies across demographic groups in the general chemistry I course	5
Problem solving in chemistry supported by metacognitive scaffolding: teaching associates’ perspectives and practices	5
The role of authentic contexts and social elements in supporting organic chemistry students’ interactions with writing-to-learn assignments	5
Predictions of success in organic chemistry based on a mathematics skills test and academic achievement	5
Impacts of the flipped classroom on student performance and problem solving skills in secondary school chemistry courses	5
Flipping the script in organic reaction mechanism instruction: using generative pedagogies instead of lecture to improve learning outcomes	5
Analysis of post-secondary instructors’ pedagogical content knowledge of organic acid–base chemistry using content representations	5
Development of the Chemistry Mindset Instrument (CheMI) for use with introductory undergraduate chemistry students	4
A problem-based learning activity for enhancing inquiry skills and facilitating conceptual change in a biological chemistry course	4
What's in a word? Student beliefs and understanding about green chemistry	4
Development of the Assessment of Student Knowledge of Green Chemistry Principles (ASK-GCP)	4
Reconstructing perspectives: investigating how molecular geometry cards (MGCards) and molecular model building (MMB) disrupt students' alternative notions of molecular structure – a qualitative study	4
The evolution of an assignment: how a Writing-to-Learn assignment's design shapes organic chemistry students’ elaborations on reaction mechanisms	4
Organic chemistry students’ use of stability in mental models on acid and base strength	4
Chinese chemistry motivation questionnaire II: adaptation and validation of the science motivation questionnaire II in high school students	4
Promoting metacognition through measures of linked concepts with learning objectives in introductory chemistry	4
Development and implementation of innovative concepts for language-sensitive student laboratories	4
The effectiveness of education with the STEM approach in the development of entrepreneurial thinking in chemistry students	4
Assessing high school students’ chemical thinking using an essential questions-perspective framework	4
ChemSims: using simulations and screencasts to help students develop particle-level understanding of equilibrium in an online environment before and during COVID	4
The relationship between self-handicapping in chemistry and chemistry academic engagement: a moderated mediation model investigation	4
Design, development, and evaluation of the organic chemistry representational competence assessment (ORCA)	4
Let's frame it differently – analysis of instructors’ mechanistic explanations	4
Course letter grades and rates of D, W, F grades can introduce variability to course comparisons	4
Children's emergent mechanistic reasoning in chemistry: a case study about early primary students’ reasoning about the phenomenon of thermal expansion of air	4
Examining relationships between chemistry anxiety, chemistry identity, and chemistry career choice in terms of gender: a comparative study using multigroup structural equation modelling	4
The complexity of chemistry mindset beliefs: a multiple case study approach	4
A systematic review of green and sustainable chemistry training research with pedagogical content knowledge framework: current trends and future directions	4
A systematic review of learning progressions for the concept of matter in science education	4
How do we know when students are learning? Shining a light on chemistry education practitioner research articles	4
The development of pre-service teachers’ argumentation self-efficacy through argumentation-based chemistry instruction	4
Investigating the mangle of teaching oxidation–reduction with the VisChem approach: problematising symbolic traditions that undermine chemistry concept development	4
Pre-service chemistry teachers’ understanding of knowledge related to climate change	4
When a machine detects student reasoning: a review of machine learning-based formative assessment of mechanistic reasoning	4
Multi-framework case study characterizing organic chemistry instructors’ approaches toward teaching about representations	4
Investigating changes in students’ attitudes towards organic chemistry: a longitudinal study	4
Contents list	4
Resources for reasoning of chemistry concepts: multimodal molecular geometry	4