OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Physical Review Physics Education Research 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	146
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	98
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	90
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	86
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	80
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	67
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students’ mechanistic sensemaking	57
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	57
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	56
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	32
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	32
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	31
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	28
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	27
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	26
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	24
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	23
Students’ understanding of the 2D heat equation: An action, process, object, schema approach	21
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	20
Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	20