OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Stem Education is 29. 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
Which evidence-based teaching practices change over time? Results from a university-wide STEM faculty development program	185
“That’s just the way it is”: bullying and harassment in STEM academia	149
Teamwork dynamics in the context of large-size software development courses	149
Beyond “study skills”: a curriculum-embedded framework for metacognitive development in a college chemistry course	121
A decade of advancing development, diversity, engagement, and excellence in STEM education	112
Predicting implementation of active learning by tenure-track teaching faculty using robust cluster analysis	108
Characteristics of interactive classrooms that first year students find helpful	92
The impact of AI-assisted pair programming on student motivation, programming anxiety, collaborative learning, and programming performance: a comparative study with traditional pair programming and in	78
How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps	73
Enhancing programming learning performance through a Jigsaw collaborative learning method in a metaverse virtual space	65
Exploring instructional design in K-12 STEM education: a systematic literature review	65
The implementation of peer assessment as a scaffold during computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning in secondary STEM education	60
Building science through questions in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classrooms	57
Whose ability and growth matter? Gender, mindset and performance in physics	53
Investigation of STEM fields motivation among female students in science education colleges	49
Validity, acceptability, and procedural issues of selection methods for graduate study admissions in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a mapping review	46
Perceived network bridging influences the career commitment decisions of early career teachers	42
The computational thinking for science (CT-S) framework: operationalizing CT-S for K–12 science education researchers and educators	39
The power of interest: minoritized women’s interest in engineering fosters persistence beliefs beyond belongingness and engineering identity	38
Enhanced student perceptions of learning and performance using concept-point-recovery teaching sessions: a mixed-method approach	38
STEM education institutional change projects: examining enacted approaches through the lens of the Four Categories of Change Strategies Model	37
Development of the Departmental Climate around Teaching (DCaT) survey: neither psychological collective climate nor departmental collective climate predicts STEM faculty’s instructional practices	34
Equity-Oriented Conceptual Framework for K-12 STEM literacy	34
What do integrated STEM projects look like in middle school and high school classrooms? A systematic literature review of empirical studies of iSTEM projects	34
“Weebles wobble but they also commit to lifelong relationships”: teachers’ transdisciplinary learning in computational play	33

Seven years of development as building a foundation for the journal’s leadership in promoting STEM education internationally	31
Modality matters: how combining oral and written instructional explanations improves STEM learning from video lectures	31
Quantifying ento-literacy: development and validation of an international insect-focused attitude and knowledge survey instrument	30
Internal and external influences on role stereotype adherence and gender dynamics on engineering design teams	30
Comparing success of female students to their male counterparts in the STEM fields: an empirical analysis from enrollment until graduation using longitudinal register data	29
Applicant qualifications and characteristics in STEM faculty hiring: an analysis of faculty and administrator perspectives	29
Secondary school mathematics and entrance into the STEM professions: a longitudinal study	29