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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	130
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	73
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	72
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	67
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	55
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	54
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	53
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	50
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	48
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	45
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	44
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	35
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students’ mechanistic sensemaking	34
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	34
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	30
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	28
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	28
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	25
Psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics	25
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	24
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	24
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	23
Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	21
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	20
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	20

Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	19
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	19
Development of a multiple-choice test to assess critical thinking in climate change	19
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	19
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	19
Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	18
Bridging the novice-expert gap: The role of inhibitory control and interventions in overcoming buoyancy misconceptions	18
Test of understanding of electric field, force, and flux: A reliable multiple-choice assessment tool	18
Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	17
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	17
Characterizing discourse group roles in inquiry-based university science labs	17
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	16
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	16
Using drawing to study student research experiences	16
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	15
Long and winding road toward change in teachers’ goals and orientations in the instructional lab	15
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	15
Gaze patterns enhance response prediction: More than correct or incorrect	14
Effect of group type on group performance in peer-collaborated two-round physics problem solving	14
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	14
Development and validation of the Conceptual Survey on Wave Optics	14
Designing e-learning courses for classroom and distance learning in physics: The role of learning tasks	14
Qualitative investigation of students’ cross-disciplinary understanding of energy concepts	14
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	14
Mandatory retrieval test to incentivize retrieval practice of physics principles	13
Assessing physics quantitative literacy development in algebra-based physics	13
Investigating the impact of problem properties on introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics conceptual problems	13
Physics demonstrations, science show, or hands-on practical work? Exploring students’ intrinsic motivation	13
Effect of representation format on conceptual question performance and eye-tracking measures	12
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	12
Unveiling the influence of pedagogical content knowledge in questioning on college students’ conceptual learning of introductory physics	12
Leveraging generative artificial intelligence for simulation-based physics experiments: A new approach to virtual learning about the real world	12
Expert perspectives on the future of quantum physics education at the secondary level	12
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners	12
Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.	12
Inventory of Galilean Transformation of uniform linear motion in position-time graphs	11
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	11
Development and reliability analysis of a split-administration test of the math epistemic games survey	11
Energy as a source of preservice teachers’ conceptions about radioactivity	11
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation	11
Applying module analysis to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	11
Self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge in quantum mechanics during teaching reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change	10
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: A case study of students’ experiences with early new policy	10
Role of departmental support structures and self-efficacy on physics student persistence: An examination of students’ experience from 19 physics graduate programs	10
Concept image framework for derivatives from contour graphs	10
Examination of students’ quantum physics knowledge construction with peers and metacognitive evaluations	10
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	10
Detecting preservice teachers’ visual attention under prediction and nonprediction conditions with eye-tracking technology	10
Taking introductory physics in studio, lecture, or online format: What difference does it make in subsequent courses, and for whom?	10

Assessment of conceptual understanding in student learning of evaporation	10
Using representational gesture to enact instants in collaborative problem solving in physics	9
History of science based dialogues on sound waves: From sound atoms to phonons	9
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	9
Analyzing problem-solving in secondary physics education: A rubric-guided approach to explore individual learning needs	9
LGBT+physicists: Harassment, persistence, and uneven support	9
Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity	9
Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework	9
Impacts on student learning, confidence, and affect in a remote, large-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	9
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	9
Do we have a quantum computer? Expert perspectives on current state and future prospects	9
How gender composition and group formation impact the effectiveness of group work in two-stage collaborative exams	9
Enrollment to exams: Perceived stress dynamics among first-year physics students	9
Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	9
Can large language models correctly interpret equations with errors?	9
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	9
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	9
Examining the relationship between informal science experiences and physics identity: Unrealized possibilities	9
Cross-disciplinary learning index: A quantitative measure of cross-disciplinary learning about energy	8
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	8
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	8
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	8
Graph theoretical methods for understanding student social interactions in physics classrooms	8
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	8
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	8
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	8
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	8
Evaluation of a new teaching-learning sequence on the particulate nature of matter using crystal structures	8
Exploring physics teacher identity: Pathways toward equitable instruction among teachers	8
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	8
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	8
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	8
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	8
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	8
Assessment of expert decisions in graduate quantum mechanics	7
Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance	7
What decisions do experts make when doing back-of-the-envelope calculations?	7
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	7
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	7
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	7
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	7
Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression	7
Gaze behavior as a key to revealing strategies for identifying indirectly proportional graphs in thermodynamic and mathematical context	7
Incorporating explicit discussions on the duality of reasoning into physics instruction	7
Who and what gets recognized in peer recognition	7
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	7
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	7
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	7
Increased learning in a college physics course with timely use of short multimedia summaries	7
Augmenting learning environments using AI custom chatbots: Effects on learning performance, cognitive load, and affective variables	7
Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance	7
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	7
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	7
Overcoming the more measurements, the better intuitive heuristic in physics data evaluation: The role of inhibitory control	7
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	7
Preservice physics teachers’ nonroutine problem posing process: Metacognitive strategies and beliefs	7
Investigating peer recognition across an introductory physics sequence: Do first impressions last?	7