OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ZDM-Mathematics Education is 24. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanisms and evidence of prospective teachers’ learning through enquiry-oriented practices: the case of a lesson study intervention	94
Mathematical creativity in modelling: further development of the construct, its measurement, and its empirical implementation	75
Neural connectivity in developmental dyscalculia: a resting-state fMRI study using ROI-based and connectome-based approaches	66
Problem solving in mathematics education: tracing its foundations and current research-practice trends	62
Video tools to support multimodal teacher noticing	58
Correction: Mathematics education research on language and on communication including some distinctions: where are we now?	48
Confronted with mathematics: the impact of pre-service elementary school teachers’ self-concept on emotional and physiological responses to mathematics exposure	47
Adolescents’ motivational beliefs and achievement in mathematics: the role of perceived teacher instrumental and emotional support	47
Dialogues Between Theoretical Approaches in Mathematics Education Research: A Systematic Review	46
Encouraging research on recursive thinking through the lens of a model of the spread of contagious diseases	38
The role of teacher professional networks in Egypt’s mathematics education reform	37
Teaching tactics supporting beginner modelling in upper secondary	37
First encounter with constructing graphs in the functional thinking approach to school algebra in 3rd and 4th grades	36
From the historical text to the classroom session: analysing the work of teachers-as-designers	34
Different lenses on distributions and the integration of context knowledge in data-ing processes of primary school students	32
Different cognitive mechanisms for process-open and process-constrained problem solving	32
Structured mathematical modelling in an authentic scientific-engineering context	31
International comparative studies in mathematics education: a scoping review of the literature from 2014 to 2023	29
History of mathematics in the context of mathematics teachers’ education: a dialogical/ethical perspective	29
Comparison of secondary mathematics textbooks on the topic of equations in Australia, China, Singapore, England, and the United States	28
Public engagement of underserved students with open civic data	27
Common spaces matter: curricular experiences through mathematics with young prisoners and prospective teachers	27
Mathematics teachers’ noticing of argumentation within small groups	24
Systematic review of learning trajectories in early mathematics	24