OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physical Review Physics Education Research is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	148
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	98
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	93
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	89
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	81
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	70
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	58
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	58
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students’ mechanistic sensemaking	57
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	32
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	32
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	32
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	31
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	30
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	25
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	23
Development of a multiple-choice test to assess critical thinking in climate change	21
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	21
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	21
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	20
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	20
Students’ eye-movement behaviors in solving physics problems with different information structures	19
Psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics	19
Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	19
Students’ understanding of the 2D heat equation: An action, process, object, schema approach	19

Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	18
Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	18
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	18
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	18
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	18
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	18
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	18
Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	18
Nature of heat inventory: Assessing student understanding of thermal processes in kinetic molecular terms	18
Long and winding road toward change in teachers’ goals and orientations in the instructional lab	17
Using drawing to study student research experiences	16
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	16
Bridging the novice-expert gap: The role of inhibitory control and interventions in overcoming buoyancy misconceptions	15
Test of understanding of electric field, force, and flux: A reliable multiple-choice assessment tool	15
Qualitative investigation of students’ cross-disciplinary understanding of energy concepts	14
Characterizing discourse group roles in inquiry-based university science labs	14
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	14
Defining a physics person: Tensions in the identity development of undergraduate women in physics	14
Effect of group type on group performance in peer-collaborated two-round physics problem solving	13
Designing e-learning courses for classroom and distance learning in physics: The role of learning tasks	13
Modeling when and how physics Ph.D. students search for a research group: The role of interests and prior research experiences in timely group integration	13
Effect of representation format on conceptual question performance and eye-tracking measures	13
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	13
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	13
Assessing physics quantitative literacy development in algebra-based physics	12
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	12
Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.	12
Expert perspectives on the future of quantum physics education at the secondary level	12
Mandatory retrieval test to incentivize retrieval practice of physics principles	12
Physics demonstrations, science show, or hands-on practical work? Exploring students’ intrinsic motivation	12
Leveraging generative artificial intelligence for simulation-based physics experiments: A new approach to virtual learning about the real world	11
Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change	11
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation	11
Dynamics of collaborative modeling in an ill-structured real-world problem	11
Self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge in quantum mechanics during teaching reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Taking introductory physics in studio, lecture, or online format: What difference does it make in subsequent courses, and for whom?	11
Energy as a source of preservice teachers’ conceptions about radioactivity	11
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	11
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners	11
Assessment of conceptual understanding in student learning of evaporation	11
Investigating the impact of problem properties on introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics conceptual problems	11
Applying module analysis to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	11
Development and reliability analysis of a split-administration test of the math epistemic games survey	11
Unveiling the influence of pedagogical content knowledge in questioning on college students’ conceptual learning of introductory physics	11
Role of departmental support structures and self-efficacy on physics student persistence: An examination of students’ experience from 19 physics graduate programs	11
Concept image framework for derivatives from contour graphs	10
Young women’s longitudinal identity negotiations in physics and mathematics throughout upper secondary education	10
Educational reconstruction of nuclear astrophysics in a design-based research project	10
When AI evaluates its own work: Validating learner-initiated, AI-generated physics practice problems	10
Using representational gesture to enact instants in collaborative problem solving in physics	10

Do we have a quantum computer? Expert perspectives on current state and future prospects	10
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	10
How gender composition and group formation impact the effectiveness of group work in two-stage collaborative exams	10
Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity	10
Can large language models correctly interpret equations with errors?	10
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: A case study of students’ experiences with early new policy	10
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	10
Inventory of Galilean Transformation of uniform linear motion in position-time graphs	10
Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	10
Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework	10
Examination of students’ quantum physics knowledge construction with peers and metacognitive evaluations	10
Enrollment to exams: Perceived stress dynamics among first-year physics students	10
Analyzing problem solving in secondary physics education: A rubric-guided approach to explore individual learning needs	9
Examining factors influencing the development and evolution of self-efficacy and sense of belonging in a physics class	9
Student sensemaking on electrostatics problems involving the method of images through the lens of epistemic game framework	9
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	9
Graph theoretical methods for understanding student social interactions in physics classrooms	9
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	9
Exploring physics teacher identity: Pathways toward equitable instruction among teachers	9
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	9
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	9
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	9
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	9
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	9
Overcoming the more measurements, the better intuitive heuristic in physics data evaluation: The role of inhibitory control	9
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	9
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	9
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	9
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	9
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	9
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	9
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	9
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	8
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	8
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	8
Investigating peer recognition across an introductory physics sequence: Do first impressions last?	8
Who and what gets recognized in peer recognition	8
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	8
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	8
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	8
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	8
Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression	8
Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance	8
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	8
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	8
Evaluation of a new teaching-learning sequence on the particulate nature of matter using crystal structures	8
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	8
Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance	8
Preservice physics teachers’ nonroutine problem-posing process: Metacognitive strategies and beliefs	8
Augmenting learning environments using AI custom chatbots: Effects on learning performance, cognitive load, and affective variables	7
Professional contexts of physics instructional labs: More than technical support	7
Generative AI for feedback and collaborative knowledge construction in preservice physics teacher education	7
Student difficulties and alternative conceptions in learning particle motion in force fields	7
How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT	7
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing	7
Assessment of expert decisions in graduate quantum mechanics	7
Visualizing and predicting the path to an undergraduate physics degree at two different institutions	7
How to evaluate students’ decisions in a data comparison problem: Correct decision for the wrong reasons?	7
Undergraduate physics students’ experiences: Exploring the impact of underrepresented identities and intersectionality	7
High-stakes exams inflate a gender gap and contribute to systematic grading errors in one introductory physics series	7
Incorporating explicit discussions on the duality of reasoning into physics instruction	7
Gaze behavior as a key to revealing strategies for identifying indirectly proportional graphs in thermodynamic and mathematical context	7
Evaluating a department-wide initiative incorporating computational methods into the undergraduate physics curriculum	7
Recognition and conversion of electric field representations: The case of electric field lines	7
Using expectancy-value theory to understand the teaching motivations of women physics lecturers	7
Empirical insights into the effects of research-based teaching strategies in quantum education	7
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	7