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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	125
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	72
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	71
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	68
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	61
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	53
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	51
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	49
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	48
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	45
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	42
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	42
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	33
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	33
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	33
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	28
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	27
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	27
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	26
Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	24
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	23
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	23
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	22
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	22