OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Research on Technology in Education is 20. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	223
Collaborative video production and middle school student collaboration, engagement, and interest	93
Training educators to use eCoaching to deliver behavior specific praise for math instruction: a randomized controlled trial	85
Implicit bias in large language models: Experimental proof and implications for education	58
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	49
The effect of peer assessment-based collaborative concept mapping on pre-service teachers’ perceptions on smart learning environments	46
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	40
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	40
Facilitating pre-service teachers’ instructional design and higher-order thinking with generative AI: an integrated approach with the peer assessment and concept map	33
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	29
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	29
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	29
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	27
Altering the playback speed of recorded lectures as a learning technique: Examining student practices, motivations, and beliefs	27
Two decades in the making: A scoping review on research on digital making and its potential for digital empowerment in non-formal settings	26
The effects of text-based conversational teachable agents’ communicative features on student math learning: Tone style and emoji use	26
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction	21
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	21
Understanding K-12 teachers’ prioritized decision-making about instructional design and technology integration: an exploratory study	21
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	20
Developing a technology-based instrument for assessing inductive reasoning in kindergarten: applicability, validity and reliability	20