OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Chemical Education is 32. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Synthesis and Analytical Characterization of Purpurogallin: A Pharmacologically Active Constituent of Oak Galls	286
Understanding and Learning of Ionic Organic Reactions in Organic Chemistry Based on Acid–Base Theory	204
The Hydrogen Atom Spectrum: Experimental Analysis Using Iterative Model Building	141
Use of the Problem-Solving Methodology in Teaching Instrumental Analytical Chemistry to Non-Chemists: An Experience Report	106
Titration Straw: Educational Experiment for Visualization of Acid–Base Reaction in a Hydrogel	95
Student-Generated Exam Crib Sheets: What Do They Write? An Examination of Crib Sheet Features	95
Water Activation-Enabled Electrochemiluminescence for Sensitive Antioxidant Assay: A Comprehensive Laboratory Experiment for Third-Year Undergraduate Students	85
Investigating Students’ Perceptions of Their Performance and the Relevance of Chemistry to Sustainable Development	75
Implementation of an At-Home, First-Semester Biochemistry Lab Course: A Module Based on Banana Tyrosinase	63
Implementation of Reasoning Chain Construction Tasks to Support Student Explanations in General Chemistry	55
Students Constructing for Themselves the Concept of Chemical Shift Correlation for Organic Substructures	53
Medicines, the Haute Couture of Pharmacy: A Summer Camp for High School Students	51
Thinking and Learning in Nested Systems: The Individual Level	48
Antioxidant Capacity ofRhizophora mangleBark Extracts: A Contextualized Approach in the Teaching of Analytical Chemistry	47
Bio-oil from Piper nigrum L. Crop Waste as a Potential Biofuel and Its Contribution to Chemistry Education through Problematized Experimental Activity	44
Simplified Low-Cost LED Nephelometer and Turbidity Experiments for Practical Teaching	43
An Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Technique Course using Scaffolded, Inquiry-Based Laboratories and Project-Based Learning	43
Fostering Teachers’ Learning through Materials Featuring Research on Early Cancer Diagnosis as a Context	41
Evaluating Student Engagement with Quick Reference Videos for Common Organic Chemistry Laboratory Techniques	39
Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences as a Community of Practice (CoP)	38
A CURE for Microplastics: Introducing First-Year Honors Students to Environmental Chemistry through Undergraduate Research	38
Spices, Chemistry, and the Globalization of Chemical Education	37
Paracetamol Synthesis for Active Learning of Amide Functional Groups in Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratories	37
Simple Web-Based Interactive Visualizations to Illustrate and Explore Concepts in NMR Spectroscopy	34
Exploring Data Mining in Chemistry Education: Building a Web-Based Learning Platform for Learning Analytics	34

Homemade Paper Analytical Device and Digital Image Colorimetry as Tools for Learning about Calibration Curve Methods during the COVID Pandemic: A Remote vs In-Person Class Evaluation	34
Popularization Activities Promote Students’ Scientific Understanding of the Myths and Facts about Pesticides	33
Assessment of Students Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Prompting Strategies and Prompt Engineering in Chemistry Education	33
The Electronic Structure of the Atom: (Mis)Interpretations of Quantum Concepts by Brazilian University Chemistry Students	33
Introducing Data-Driven Materials Informatics into Undergraduate Courses through a Polymer Science Workshop	32
Laboratory Skills Assignments as a Teaching Tool to Develop Undergraduate Chemistry Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Practical Laboratory Skills	32
Simple Synthesis of Water-Soluble Biological Carbon Quantum Dots as Drug Delivery Carriers for Undergraduates Experiments	32