OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Biological Education is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Difficult topics in the revised biology curriculum for advanced level secondary schools in Rwanda: teachers’ perceptions of causes and remedies	29
Emotions, connectedness to nature and sustainable behaviour: investigating the effects of students’ engagement in extracurricular activities with living animals	24
Not all Bloom and gloom: assessing constructive alignment, higher order cognitive skills, and their influence on students’ perceived learning within the practical components of an undergraduate biolog	21
Drawing our garden’s insects : a didactic sequence to improve pre-service teachers’ knowledge and appreciation of insect diversity	15
Use of concept cartoons within the conceptual change model to address students’ misconceptions in biology: a case study	14
Pre-service teachers’ ideas about the path of water through the body and their intentions about explaining it to preschool children	12
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?	11
A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil	11
Using a social media project as a way to get students to communicate conservation messages to the general public	11
Policy responses to the decline in the number of students choosing biology beyond compulsory school level in Mauritius	10
Students’ perceptions of the presence of feral exotic pets and influencing factors	10
Representation of insulin synthesis and construction of a three-dimensional insulin model as didactic tools in basic education	10
Using lessons from a comparative study of chemistry & bioscience pre-lab activities to design effective pre-lab interventions : a case study	10
Epistemology and biology teaching: obstacles to a contemporary conceptualisation of living organisms among future teachers and biologists	9
Connecting plant science education in undergraduate life science courses to plant awareness disparity, Vision and Change , and sustainability careers	9
Teaching evolution: attitudes & strategies of educators in Utah – an update 20 years later	7
Exploring the local vegetation: botanical inquiry trail, an interactive journey of learning	7
Elementary school students’ interests and attitudes towards biology and physics	6
Preliminary Outcomes from a Learning Community to Increase Biology Course Knowledge	6
Grit matters to biology doctoral students’ perception of barriers to degree completion	6
Evolving UK biology education	6
Learning outcomes of transforming cutting-edge iPSC research into informal science courses for upper secondary school students	6
Attitudes towards plants – exploring the role of plants’ ecosystem services	6
Evidencing microbial communication through Quorum Sensing systems in the environment: a practical approach for undergraduate students	6
The notion of ‘information’ in genetics: a pragmatic model	6

Adapting Undergraduate Biology to Include Science Practices by Teaching Students to Generate Scientific Explanations	6
A study of the interactions and conversations of families visiting the museum of microbiology of the Butantan institute, São Paulo, Brazil	6
Towards a framework for analysing teachers’ Discourse during the teaching of genetics	5
In awe of awe	5
An online case study seminar for teaching C ₄ photosynthesis in an evolutionary context, by assembling multidisciplinary characters	5
Using a metacognitive awareness approach to improve perception of the fundamental biological principle – homeostasis	5
An analysis of plant awareness disparity within introductory biology textbook images	5
Bioscience laboratory practicals, projects and placements in a Covid-19 world	4
The UnEssay project as an enriching alternative to practical exams in pre-professional and graduate education	4
Interdisciplinary practices for teaching biology: a systematic review	4
Alcohol misuse affects learning in school and university students: a role for biological education	4
Lower secondary school students’ knowledge and understandings of bees	4
Decolonisation and socio-political arenas in science education: reflecting on the role of biological education	4
Teaching and learning about risk	4
Reflections of hands-on dissection and virtual dissection experiences of pre-service science teachers	4
Proficiency testing schemes in laboratory lessons: a useful and powerful educational tool in bioscience studies	4
Biology lecturers’ perceptions of genetics literacy in Indonesia: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study	4
ICT tools and citizen science: a pathway to promote science learning and Education for Sustainable Development in schools	4
‘I already know about it, I’ve been watching the Daily News and updates’: Teenagers’ questions about the scientific and social aspects of COVID-19	4
Investigation of middle school and high school students’ ecosystem knowledge through their drawings	4
Preservice science teachers’ conceptions of trees, forests and deforestation	4
Analysis of upper-secondary education students’ models and perceptions after an analogy-based didactic intervention	4
Bridging statistics and life sciences undergraduate education	3
Relationships between constructivist learning environment perceptions, conceptions of learning biology and achievement goal orientations	3
The effect of CKCM-oriented instruction on Grade 8 students’ conceptual understanding of sustainable development	3
Overcoming plant blindness: are the future teachers ready?	3
Creating an effective fluorescence microscopy lesson as a research experience for a science educator-in- training	3
The role of the education sector in shaping a sustainable future	3
An example to teach Markov chains and Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium through Mendel’s laws	3
Validation of Climate and Motivational Measures for Use in the Biology Laboratory Setting	3
“I just don’t find it interesting”: academic major and timing of enrollment predict motivation in an introductory biology course	3
Editorial	2
Conceptions of primary school students and trainee teachers about seed germination	2
You said, we did! Employer led work-simulated learning framework for enhancing ecology graduate employability	2
Higher education and professional performance: gaps and opportunities for developing professional skills in marine biologist graduates	2
Place-based education through immersive virtual experiences — preparing biology students for the field	2
Peer-Interaction – collaborative learning to foster and observe conceptional transformation in science education	2
Measuring students’ plant awareness: A prerequisite for effective botany education	2
The role of biology teachers in epistemically insightful health and wellbeing education: a case study of the English relationships, sex and health education curriculum	2
The influence of spatial ability on undergraduate students’ tree-thinking ability	2
High school students’ perceptions of science and scientists improve following university-based online DNA day	2
Teacher views of experimentation in ecosystem science	2
Do examinations prepare students for higher education? A lesson from the Covid-19 lockdown	2
Biology teachers’ implementation of the competence based curriculum in Tanzania: challenges and opportunities	2
Exploring the nature of science with abnormal frogs	2
Student informed development of virtual reality simulations for teaching and learning in the molecular sciences	2
Traditional vs. virtual laboratories in health sciences education	2
How does a queen ant behave? An inquiry-based pre-service teacher learning experience	2
The ‘Tea Test’ - a mobile phone based spectrophotometer protocol to introduce biochemical methods independent of the laboratory	2
Whole-school approach to sustainability: an in-depth study of six green schools in Sweden and Türkiye	2

Characterisation of the pedagogical knowledge of evolution content using the mapping approach	2
Impact of outdoor place-based learning on elementary school students’ ability to make unsolicited observations about living organisms over time	2
A homemade laboratory applied to the phytoremediation of textile dyes by high school students in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Teaching native biodiversity: an exploratory study with Brazilian teachers	2
Increasing retention in STEM by improving GPA through peer mentors and course enrichments in introductory biology	2
When less is more in living systems: subtractive cognitive biases and life science learning	2
Development and validation of a measure instrument for the understanding of structural-functional correlations of the locomotor system (MUSCLS)	2
Using multiple strategies in deepening the understanding of the digestive system	2
Cooperation as a causal factor in human evolution: a scientific clarification and analysis of German high school biology textbooks	2
What is a hypothesis anyway? A synthesis of perspectives and implications for undergraduate biology education based on publications in PLOS biology	2
Acceptance of CRISPR-based technologies for clinical application: a Thematic Analysis of Attitudes on Novel Gene Therapies in Undergraduates	2
Engaging seventh-grade students in prediction-observation-explanation of plant absorbance/transport phenomena: impact on relational conceptual changes and scientific inquiry abilities	2
Preservice biology teachers’ decision-making on, and informal reasoning about, an agriculture-based socioscientific issue	2
Assessing the knowledge and attitude of middle and higher secondary school students towards waterbirds in Bhutan	2
‘Let’s play?’ A systematic review of board games in biology	2
How do plants protect themselves from insects? A practical laboratory exercise to illustrate the defence mechanisms of the plant through secondary metabolites	1
Reconstructing student conceptions by modelling and using the zoom map: the case of cherry rain-cracking and osmosis	1
Representation for whom? Transformation of sex/gender discussion from stereotypes to silence in Finnish biology textbooks from 20th to 21th century	1
Introducing nematodes and the use of model organisms: a practical class for undergraduate students	1
College students in the southern US can change their views about evolution	1
Teaching for sustainable development in vocational education	1
Integration of ‘design thinking’ in a reflection model to enhance the teaching of biology	1
A Phase Overshadowed by Mitotic Division: Interphase	1
Visualisation of deep evolutionary time: looking back and looking forward	1
Climate change, sustainability and the environment: the continued importance of biological education	1
Combining virtual simulations with take-home projects as a replacement for face-to-face labs in introductory biology laboratory courses	1
Innovations in microbiological research education: a practical approach for investigating the effects of graphene oxide sheet nanomaterial on opportunistic pathogen viability	1
Fictional placemaking creating meaningful contexts for causal reasoning in secondary school biology education	1
What can be done to increase future teachers’ plant knowledge?	1
A fictional field case study to understand the genetic basis of host-fungal pathogen interactions using the wheat powdery mildew-wheat pathosystem	1
Why are universities so important for biology teacher education?	1
Jigsaw dissection activity enhances student ability to relate morphology and ecology in aquatic insects	1
Guiding students’ explanations across levels of biological organisation: the case of wilted plants	1
Pre-Service Biology Teachers’ Perceptions of the Concepts of ‘System’ and ‘Biological System’	1
Diagram production in Biology: comparing children and pre-service teachers’ performance	1
Microorganism education: misconceptions and obstacles	1
Approaching the risk perception gap: effects of a subject matter knowledge-based intervention in a health context	1
Influencing the attitude towards hand hygiene and face masks by pathogen visualisation during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The wolf is back! Revisiting the concept of the ecological niche to predict the viability of the wolf population with elementary students	1
Interactive socio-scientific inquiry for promoting scientific literacy, enhancing biological knowledge, and developing critical thinking	1
Investigating student experiences of botanical field work using a semi-immersive virtual botanical fieldtrip	1
Shaping young naturalists, owl pellets dissection to train high-school students in comparative anatomy and molecular biology	1
‘Awesome to see the immense time before us on Earth’ – Students’ affective responses when interacting with a tree of life visualising evolutionary concepts	1
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification	1
What is ‘research-led teaching’ and how can we deliver it in University STEM degrees?	1
Putting nature back into secondary biology education: a framework for integration	1
The use of a three-tier diagnostic test to investigate conceptions related to cell biology concepts among pre-service teachers of life and earth sciences	1
Befriending Bumblebees through hands-on activities in biology classes: Living Bumblebees lead to lasting knowledge and provide high learning enjoyment	1
Plants, education and sustainability: rethinking the teaching of botany in school science	1
Why the distinction between explanation and argumentation matters for school biology	1
Environmental literacy of lower secondary school pupils in the Czech Republic	1
Development and validation of the Perspective Scale on the Origin of Life and Biodiversity (PSOLB)	1
Teachers’ views of Future-Oriented Pedagogy as part of inquiry-based molecular biology teaching in high school biology laboratories	1
Have teachers’ opinions about outdoor education changed after the pandemic?	1
Designing and evaluation of 3D materials for teaching biological systems to 6 ^th grade students with visual impairment (SVI)	1