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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Studying physics during the COVID-19 pandemic: Student assessments of learning achievement, perceived effectiveness of online recitations, and online laboratories	87
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	51
Effect of gender, self-efficacy, and interest on perception of the learning environment and outcomes in calculus-based introductory physics courses	39
Effect of integrating physics education technology simulations on students’ conceptual understanding in physics: A review of literature	35
Investigating the landscape of physics laboratory instruction across North America	31
Students’ sense of belonging in introductory physics course for bioscience majors predicts their grade	28
Lab instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects on student views about experimental physics in comparison with previous years	27
Effect of culture on women physicists’ career choice: A comparison of Muslim majority countries and the West	27
Effects of emergency remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic on university physics students in Italy	27
Investigating society’s educational debts due to racism and sexism in student attitudes about physics using quantitative critical race theory	27
Teaching and learning special relativity theory in secondary and lower undergraduate education: A literature review	25
Damage caused by societal stereotypes: Women have lower physics self-efficacy controlling for grade even in courses in which they outnumber men	25
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	25
Impact of a course transformation on students’ reasoning about measurement uncertainty	24
How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses	23
Implementing an epistemologically authentic approach to student-centered inquiry learning	23
Eye tracking in physics education research: A systematic literature review	22
Critical race and feminist standpoint theories in physics education research: A historical review and potential applications	21
Effect of an introductory quantum physics course using experiments with heralded photons on preuniversity students’ conceptions about quantum physics	21
Restructuring physics labs to cultivate sense of student agency	20