Physical Review Physics Education Research

Papers
(The H4-Index of Physical Review Physics Education Research is 21. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs142
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?90
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course83
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses75
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden74
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study62
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers53
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program53
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students’ mechanistic sensemaking52
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course52
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs37
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy35
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements29
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics29
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies28
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?26
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory25
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research24
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 states24
Development of a multiple-choice test to assess critical thinking in climate change23
Psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics22
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories21
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