OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Biological Education is 3. 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
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
Teachers’ views of Future-Oriented Pedagogy as part of inquiry-based molecular biology teaching in high school biology laboratories	10
Laboratory class for isoenzymes teaching: simulation of creatine kinase electrophoresis using dyes	9
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
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 wolf is back! Revisiting the concept of the ecological niche to predict the viability of the wolf population with elementary students	7
Roteiro Entre-Marés: an educational app for ocean literacy promotion	7
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
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
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
What is the future of knowledge?	5
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
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
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
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