OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Chemical Education is 30. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Bio-oil from Piper nigrum L. Crop Waste as a Potential Biofuel and Its Contribution to Chemistry Education through Problematized Experimental Activity	241
An Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Technique Course using Scaffolded, Inquiry-Based Laboratories and Project-Based Learning	183
Antioxidant Capacity ofRhizophora mangleBark Extracts: A Contextualized Approach in the Teaching of Analytical Chemistry	118
On-the-Go Lab for Aqueous Reactions Demonstrations: Activities at the Microscale	93
The Visual Preparation of n-Bromobutane	85
Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences as a Community of Practice (CoP)	85
Green Synthetic Approach to Indole-Substituted Methane Derivatives via Multi-Component Reaction	68
Thinking and Learning in Nested Systems: The Individual Level	67
Synthesis and Analytical Characterization of Purpurogallin: A Pharmacologically Active Constituent of Oak Galls	59
Medicines, the Haute Couture of Pharmacy: A Summer Camp for High School Students	59
Understanding and Learning of Ionic Organic Reactions in Organic Chemistry Based on Acid–Base Theory	52
The Hydrogen Atom Spectrum: Experimental Analysis Using Iterative Model Building	49
Simplified Low-Cost LED Nephelometer and Turbidity Experiments for Practical Teaching	48
Encouraging Student Engagement by Using a POGIL Framework for a Gas-Phase IR Physical Chemistry Laboratory Experiment	42
Investigating Students’ Perceptions of Their Performance and the Relevance of Chemistry to Sustainable Development	41
Stepwise or Concerted Mechanisms? Rethinking of the Classical Carbocation Rearrangement Reaction	38
Integration of Teaching Laboratory Activities Based on the Valorization of Industrial Waste into Chemical Education to Address the Emerging Sustainable Development Goals	38
Investigating Crystal Violet Reactivity and Color with Quantum Theory and Interactive Webpages	37
Synthesis and Catalytic Performance of Cu-CeO₂ Nanoparticles and the Application in Cr(VI) Detection: Third-Year Undergraduate Comprehensive Laboratory Experiment	37
Synthesis of GR/TiO₂ Photocatalyst for Degradation of Methylene Blue─A Laboratory Experiment for Preservice Teachers	36
From Metal Complexes to BioMOFs: An Experimental Proposal for Teaching Coordination Chemistry Concepts	36
¹³C NMR Analysis of an Aqueous Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution (Synthesis of β-Resorcylic Acid)	36
Implementation of Reasoning Chain Construction Tasks to Support Student Explanations in General Chemistry	34
Quick-QM-Spectra (QQMS): A Website for the Visualization of Spectra and Molecules from the Output of Free Open-Source Electronic Structure Programs	34
Development and Evaluation of the Chemistry Multidimensional Belonging Scale (CMBS)	33

From a Hazardous Waste to a Commercial Product: Learning Circular Economy in the Chemistry Lab	33
Taking School Instrumentation One Step Forward: A Do-It-Yourself Type Spectrophotometer and a Jupyter Notebook That Enable Real Time Spectroscopy during School Lessons	31
Students Constructing for Themselves the Concept of Chemical Shift Correlation for Organic Substructures	31
Implementation of Laser-Printed Paper-Based Analytical Devices for Colorimetric Assay of Metals in the Teaching Laboratory	31
Utilization of Standardized College Entrance Metrics to Predict Undergraduate Student Success in Chemistry	30
The Effectiveness of the Competence Approach in the Training of Chemistry Teachers	30
Incorporation of a Virtual Proteomics Module into the Undergraduate Analytical Curriculum	30