OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Physical Review Physics Education Research is 23. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	111
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	59
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	57
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	51
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	49
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	43
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	42
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	42
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	38
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	36
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	35
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	32
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	31
Improving student understanding of the number of distinct many-particle states for a system of identical particles with a fixed number of available single-particle states	31
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	29
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	28
Replicating analyses of item response curves using data from the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation	27
Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	27
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	27
Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	26
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	25
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	23
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	23