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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil	33
Modelling the immune system and vaccines through design-based research	26
Investigation of middle school and high school students’ ecosystem knowledge through their drawings	25
The UnEssay project as an enriching alternative to practical exams in pre-professional and graduate education	20
Measuring students’ plant awareness: A prerequisite for effective botany education	18
Fictional placemaking creating meaningful contexts for causal reasoning in secondary school biology education	17
Combining virtual simulations with take-home projects as a replacement for face-to-face labs in introductory biology laboratory courses	12
The purpose of the school garden is more than just growing plants	12
The influence of spatial ability on undergraduate students’ tree-thinking ability	11
Teachers’ views of Future-Oriented Pedagogy as part of inquiry-based molecular biology teaching in high school biology laboratories	10
Student informed development of virtual reality simulations for teaching and learning in the molecular sciences	10
Interactive socio-scientific inquiry for promoting scientific literacy, enhancing biological knowledge, and developing critical thinking	10
Laboratory class for isoenzymes teaching: simulation of creatine kinase electrophoresis using dyes	9
Differences between image presentation and video presentation on the outcome of teaching about the menstrual cycle	8
Conflict of allegiance: professional development challenges in transforming science teachers’ identities and practices	8
“Bacteria are not viruses; viruses are more malicious” - young pupils’ understanding of bacteria and viruses in the aftermath of COVID-19	8
The Conceptual Analysis of Disciplinary Evidence (CADE) framework as a guide for evidentiary reasoning: A practical implementation in a Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) laboratory investigation	8
Mapping the ‘becoming-integrated-academic’: an autoethnographic case study of professional becoming in the biosciences	8
Roteiro Entre-Marés: an educational app for ocean literacy promotion	7
The wolf is back! Revisiting the concept of the ecological niche to predict the viability of the wolf population with elementary students	7
Environmental literacy curriculum: an analysis of science textbooks for lower secondary education	6
Basque secondary school students’ understanding of natural selection and teleological reasoning: knowledge vs. knowledge application	6
Flower or leaf characteristics, coloured or black and white illustrations – what helps student teachers to identify plants?	6
Plant awareness: at the dawn of a new era	6
What is ‘research-led teaching’ and how can we deliver it in University STEM degrees?	6

Exploring and comparing the difficulties among undergraduate and postgraduate students’ understanding of experimentation using primary scientific literature	6
What is the future of knowledge?	5
Course-based undergraduate research experiences are a viable approach to increase access to research experiences in biology	5
Use of design thinking as a strategy to identify and clear students’ misconceptions in photosynthesis: a case study	5
Teaching for photosynthesis literacy: an education design research study	5
Application and exploration of blended learning with BOPPPS teaching model in a veterinary infectious diseases course	5
Pre-service teachers’ ideas about the path of water through the body and their intentions about explaining it to preschool children	4
In awe of awe	4
Decolonisation and socio-political arenas in science education: reflecting on the role of biological education	4
Characterisation of the pedagogical knowledge of evolution content using the mapping approach	4
Whole-school approach to sustainability: an in-depth study of six green schools in Sweden and Türkiye	4
The role of the education sector in shaping a sustainable future	4
Alcohol misuse affects learning in school and university students: a role for biological education	4
The role of biology teachers in epistemically insightful health and wellbeing education: a case study of the English relationships, sex and health education curriculum	4
Assessing the knowledge and attitude of middle and higher secondary school students towards waterbirds in Bhutan	4
Plants and the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework: educational approaches to support pro-conservation behaviours	4
Higher education and professional performance: gaps and opportunities for developing professional skills in marine biologist graduates	4
Conceptions of primary school students and trainee teachers about seed germination	4
What is a hypothesis anyway? A synthesis of perspectives and implications for undergraduate biology education based on publications in PLOS biology	4
When less is more in living systems: subtractive cognitive biases and life science learning	4
What do clean and dirty hands of primary school pupils look like?	3
Impact of outdoor place-based learning on elementary school students’ ability to make unsolicited observations about living organisms over time	3
Why are universities so important for biology teacher education?	3
Epistemic knowledge considered by secondary school students involved in the examination of a real alimentary emergency	3
Is it time to remove Mendel from the school curriculum?	3
Teaching for sustainable development in vocational education	3
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein produced by transgenic rice: research laboratory experience with secondary science students	3
Investigating student experiences of botanical field work using a semi-immersive virtual botanical fieldtrip	3
Introducing nematodes and the use of model organisms: a practical class for undergraduate students	3
Diagram production in Biology: comparing children and pre-service teachers’ performance	3
Cough, sneeze, pass it on – pupils’ understanding of infectious diseases in the aftermath of COVID-19	3
Innovations in microbiological research education: a practical approach for investigating the effects of graphene oxide sheet nanomaterial on opportunistic pathogen viability	3
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification	3
University students’ misconceptions of cellular structures and functions	3
Student reasoning during socio-scientific issues-based learning with a role play: a case study of breastfeeding versus milk formula	3
Exploring the local vegetation: botanical inquiry trail, an interactive journey of learning	2
Teaching ecosystem services: a pathway to improve students’ argumentation in favour of nature conservation and sustainable development?	2
Ontological assumptions on the introduction of the concepts of cells and the functioning of living beings in school textbooks	2
Realising the potential of ecological thinking in our universities	2
Do textbooks provide opportunities to develop meaningful botanical literacy? A case study of the scientific model of plant nutrition	2
Designing and evaluation of 3D materials for teaching biological systems to 6 ^th grade students with visual impairment (SVI)	2
Effects of online tours at the zoo and natural history museum on interest in extant and extinct animals	2
Representation of insulin synthesis and construction of a three-dimensional insulin model as didactic tools in basic education	2
Between biology and religion: dialogue in the Saudi primary science classroom	2
Perceived relevance of critical thinking aspects for biology graduate students	2
Exploring individual differences in photosynthesis and respiration knowledge in the context of green plants	2
Epistemology and biology teaching: obstacles to a contemporary conceptualisation of living organisms among future teachers and biologists	2
Engaging seventh-grade students in prediction-observation-explanation of plant absorbance/transport phenomena: impact on relational conceptual changes and scientific inquiry abilities	2
Mycelial education to cure fungal awareness disparity syndrome	2
Promoting dialogue in the feedback process: face-to-face marking of assignments with biomedical science students	2

Learning genetics through an innovative game: Geneblock	2
Environmental education to engage urban youth: anecdotes from Southwest China	2
High school students’ perceptions of science and scientists improve following university-based online DNA day	2
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	2
Learning outcomes of transforming cutting-edge iPSC research into informal science courses for upper secondary school students	2
The role of reflective journals for biology education students in genetics course	2
An interest-oriented laboratory microbial engineering course is helpful for the cultivation of scientific literacy	2
Isn’t all about trash... Children’s conceptions about ecology and their implications for biology education in Colombia	2
S im H yb 2: a software tool to explore and illustrate evolutionary forces in population genetics teaching and research. Applicati	2
Understanding agency in evolutionary explanations: an assessment tool for biology education	2
The use of constructive controversy to improve students’ understandings of and attitudes towards animal welfare in China	2
Pokémon as a playful and didactic tool for teaching about ecological interactions	2
Antimicrobial resistance as a nexus between teaching and research	2
Guiding students’ explanations across levels of biological organisation: the case of wilted plants	2
‘Let’s play?’ A systematic review of board games in biology	2
Policy responses to the decline in the number of students choosing biology beyond compulsory school level in Mauritius	2
Inquiry practices and types of knowledge, with paths of logical associations between inquiry questions, presented as part of an open inquiry process	2
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?	2
Secondary school students’ misconceptions in genetics: origins and solutions	2
An experimental approach to evaluate osmosis and tonicity on white blood cells by flow cytometry for biomedical physiology students	2
Computational Modelling in High School Biology: A Teaching Intervention	2
Teacher views of experimentation in ecosystem science	1
Integrating museum education into an introductory biology CURE leads to positive perceptions of scientific research and museum exhibitions among students, faculty, and staff	1
Upper secondary students’ thinking pathways in cell membrane biology – an evidence-based development and evaluation of learning activities using the Model of Educational Reconstruction	1
Effective learning and testing of bird identification skills	1
Reclimating: 0°C as a target for global warming	1
The effect of CKCM-oriented instruction on Grade 8 students’ conceptual understanding of sustainable development	1
Understanding barriers to participation within undergraduate STEM laboratories: towards development of an inclusive curriculum	1
Graph argument analysis: vaccination and the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 as a context to promote learning of molecular biology and argumentation	1
What animals live there? Exploring the factors influencing primary school children’s awareness of native and exotic fauna	1
Difficult topics in the revised biology curriculum for advanced level secondary schools in Rwanda: teachers’ perceptions of causes and remedies	1
Adapting undergraduate Biology to include science practices by teaching students to generate scientific explanations	1
Biological Education in the age of Covid: Taking a global perspective	1
Using lessons from a comparative study of chemistry & bioscience pre-lab activities to design effective pre-lab interventions : a case study	1
Increasing retention in STEM by improving GPA through peer mentors and course enrichments in introductory biology	1
Sharpening the gaze, sharpening the pencil: supporting observational drawing in primary education	1
Students’ conceptions of keeping fattening pigs and dairy cows: an exploratory interview study with elementary school students in North-West Germany	1
Solving a problem about cancer treatment: how does the use of the mitotic spindle model evolve during small group discussions?	1
Using multiple strategies in deepening the understanding of the digestive system	1
Representation for whom? Transformation of sex/gender discussion from stereotypes to silence in Finnish biology textbooks from 20th to 21th century	1
The ‘Tea Test’ - a mobile phone based spectrophotometer protocol to introduce biochemical methods independent of the laboratory	1
Influencing the attitude towards hand hygiene and face masks by pathogen visualisation during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Students’ perceptions of the presence of feral exotic pets and influencing factors	1
Middle school students’ perception of marine and coastal environments	1
Lost in ‘translation’? A set of writing workshops improves Molecular Medicine Honours students’ perceptions of their scientific report writing skills	1
Using group metacognitive scaffolds in biology education to improve the collaborative problem-solving skills of high school students	1
Using a metacognitive awareness approach to improve perception of the fundamental biological principle – homeostasis	1
Designer considerations and processes in developing school-based citizen-science curricula for environmental education	1
The plant blindness and the humans-as-non-animals bias cycles in the educational system. The need to overcome them	1
Branches of plant blindness and their relationship with biodiversity conceptualisation among secondary students	1
3D printed chamber for live cell imaging on an upright epifluorescence microscope	1
Teaching evolution: attitudes & strategies of educators in Utah – an update 20 years later	1
Environmental literacy of lower secondary school pupils in the Czech Republic	1
Reflections of hands-on dissection and virtual dissection experiences of pre-service science teachers	1
Cadaveric specimens versus synthetic models for learning gross human anatomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Attitudes towards plants – exploring the role of plants’ ecosystem services	1
Evolving UK biology education	1
Blending educational gaming with physical experiments to engage high school students in inquiry-based learning	1
Creating an effective fluorescence microscopy lesson as a research experience for a science educator-in- training	1