OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Physical Review Physics Education Research is 22. 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
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	117
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	64
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	63
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	61
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	48
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	44
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	43
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	42
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	40
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	38
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	38
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	37
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	33
Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	33
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	31
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	30
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	28
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	28
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	26
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	26
Replicating analyses of item response curves using data from the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation	25
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	22
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	22