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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil	54
The potential of a fantasy story picture book for learning biology in early years	27
Investigation of middle school and high school students’ ecosystem knowledge through their drawings	16
Modelling the immune system and vaccines through design-based research	16
Measuring students’ plant awareness: A prerequisite for effective botany education	16
The influence of spatial ability on undergraduate students’ tree-thinking ability	15
Fictional placemaking creating meaningful contexts for causal reasoning in secondary school biology education	14
Open Schooling to raise student awareness and engagement: the case of tackling Antimicrobial Resistance	12
Combining virtual simulations with take-home projects as a replacement for face-to-face labs in introductory biology laboratory courses	10
“ I felt happy to see animals because they are kind .” How zoological environments shape primary school students’ emotional engagement and interest in science learning	9
Student informed development of virtual reality simulations for teaching and learning in the molecular sciences	9
Teachers’ views of Future-Oriented Pedagogy as part of inquiry-based molecular biology teaching in high school biology laboratories	9
The purpose of the school garden is more than just growing plants	8
Laboratory class for isoenzymes teaching: simulation of creatine kinase electrophoresis using dyes	8
Roteiro Entre-Marés: an educational app for ocean literacy promotion	7
Exploring and comparing the difficulties among undergraduate and postgraduate students’ understanding of experimentation using primary scientific literature	7
Environmental literacy curriculum: an analysis of science textbooks for lower secondary education	7
Differences between image presentation and video presentation on the outcome of teaching about the menstrual cycle	7
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	7
Use of design thinking as a strategy to identify and clear students’ misconceptions in photosynthesis: a case study	6
What is ‘research-led teaching’ and how can we deliver it in University STEM degrees?	6
Plant awareness: at the dawn of a new era	6
What is the future of knowledge?	6
“Bacteria are not viruses; viruses are more malicious” - young pupils’ understanding of bacteria and viruses in the aftermath of COVID-19	6
Teaching for photosynthesis literacy: an education design research study	6

Application and exploration of blended learning with BOPPPS teaching model in a veterinary infectious diseases course	6
Flower or leaf characteristics, coloured or black and white illustrations – what helps student teachers to identify plants?	6
Nature benefits for teenagers	6
Addressing plant awareness in Chile: insights from high school students	6
The role of the education sector in shaping a sustainable future	5
Plants and the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework: educational approaches to support pro-conservation behaviours	5
Alcohol misuse affects learning in school and university students: a role for biological education	5
Pre-service teachers’ ideas about the path of water through the body and their intentions about explaining it to preschool children	5
Teaching Greek and Latin morphemes: a Classics course correlates with improved biology and anatomy student outcomes	5
In awe of awe	5
Higher education and professional performance: gaps and opportunities for developing professional skills in marine biologist graduates	5
Conceptions of primary school students and trainee teachers about seed germination	4
From reflection to framework: investigating biology pre-service teachers’ understanding of genetic information flow, exchange, and storage (IFES)	4
Investigating student experiences of botanical field work using a semi-immersive virtual botanical fieldtrip	4
Impact of outdoor place-based learning on elementary school students’ ability to make unsolicited observations about living organisms over time	4
Characterisation of the pedagogical knowledge of evolution content using the mapping approach	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
Whole-school approach to sustainability: an in-depth study of six green schools in Sweden and Türkiye	4
Decolonisation and socio-political arenas in science education: reflecting on the role of biological education	4
Innovations in microbiological research education: a practical approach for investigating the effects of graphene oxide sheet nanomaterial on opportunistic pathogen viability	4
Anthropocentrism in biology teaching and learning	4
Assessing the knowledge and attitude of middle and higher secondary school students towards waterbirds in Bhutan	4
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	3
Exploring the local vegetation: botanical inquiry trail, an interactive journey of learning	3
S im H yb 2: a software tool to explore and illustrate evolutionary forces in population genetics	3
Promoting dialogue in the feedback process: face-to-face marking of assignments with biomedical science students	3
Is it time to remove Mendel from the school curriculum?	3
Student reasoning during socio-scientific issues-based learning with a role play: a case study of breastfeeding versus milk formula	3
When less is more in living systems: subtractive cognitive biases and life science learning	3
What is a hypothesis anyway? A synthesis of perspectives and implications for undergraduate biology education based on publications in PLOS biology	3
Lots to remember, but not a lot to think about? Using mass-participation online outreach to change students’ perception of biology	3
Opportunities for improving the student experience of science education	3
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?	3
An interest-oriented laboratory microbial engineering course is helpful for the cultivation of scientific literacy	3
Exploring individual differences in photosynthesis and respiration knowledge in the context of green plants	3
University students’ misconceptions of cellular structures and functions	3
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification	3
What do clean and dirty hands of primary school pupils look like?	3
Between biology and religion: dialogue in the Saudi primary science classroom	3
What Jane Goodall taught us	3
Learning outcomes of transforming cutting-edge iPSC research into informal science courses for upper secondary school students	3
Game-based learning to improve understanding of point mutations at secondary school level	3
Computational Modelling in High School Biology: A Teaching Intervention	3
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein produced by transgenic rice: research laboratory experience with secondary science students	3
Incomplete information or misconception?: investigation of pre-service science teachers’ knowledge and understanding of enzymes	3
Cough, sneeze, pass it on – pupils’ understanding of infectious diseases in the aftermath of COVID-19	3
Teaching for sustainable development in vocational education	3