Science & Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Science & Education is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Making Argumentation-Based Learning and Teaching Happen: Exploring the Development of Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Argumentation Competencies135
Reasoning in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic102
Preschool Teachers’ Argumentation on Socioscientific Issues Scenarios88
Engineering in grades 1–9 science education standards from China82
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law39
A Conversation with Michael Matthews29
Philosophy of Science Made Simple and Relevant26
Attacking a Straw Man? A theoretical alternative and an exploratory empirical approach on how to “inoculate” students against astrology25
Frontier Development and Insights of International Educational Science Research in the journals Nature and Science: a Systematic Literature Review over 40 Years22
Investigating Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Views of Nature of Science in a Philippine Teacher Education Institution22
Teacher Talk Supporting Student Progressive Discourse in Science22
Socioscientific Issues Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making22
Representational Pluralism in Science Education20
Stereotypical Attributes of Scientists and Engineers in Jokes20
Examining Bhutanese Science Teachers’ Epistemic Views of Scientific Inquiry20
Technology‑Embedded Argument‑DrivenInquiry in Preservice Chemistry Teacher Education20
When Nature of Science Meets Quantum Physics: Insights from NOS Representation in Chinese Physics Textbooks20
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education19
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods18
Representation of Changes about Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks17
The non-epistemic dimension, at last a key component in mainstream theoretical approaches to teaching the nature of science17
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis17
The Dynamics of Perspective in Quantum Physics17
Genetics in Context16
The Public Discussion on Flat Earth Movement16
Understanding Science Identity Development Among College Students16
Social Character of Science and Its Connection to Epistemic Reliability15
Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks15
Development and Validation of an Epistemological Profile Questionnaire in a Museum Environment 15
Heroes and Helpmeets15
Why Teachers (Do Not) Integrate History of Science into Physics Courses14
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways14
Modeling the Epistemic Value of Classroom Practice in the Investigation of Effective Learning14
Evaluation of the Level of Selected Inquiry Skills Among Grammar School Students14
Unmasking Gender Stereotypes14
Teachers' Conceptions About Science and Pseudoscience13
The Cosmic Interaction13
Explicit Instruction of Scientific Uncertainty in an Undergraduate Geoscience Field-Based Course13
Why People Trust Something Other than Science13
“L’Avenir” and the Courage to Make the Future What We Need13
On Beyond Constructivism13
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience13
Ecological Stimuli Predicting High School Students’ Genuine Interest in Socio-Scientific Issues13
Exploring Nature of Science Understanding, Science Self-efficacy and Their Relationships Among Secondary School Pre-service Science Teachers in Ethiopia12
Investigation of Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptions of the Nature of Science Based on the LDA Model12
Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course12
History of Science in Two Recent Versions of High School Physics Textbooks in China12
Observation and Inference in Chemistry Teaching: a Model-Based Approach to the Integration of the Macro and Submicro Levels12
Using Science Biographies to Understand Science: Why and How?11
Bangladeshi Science Teachers’ Perceived Importance and Perceived Current Practices in Promoting Science Education Through a Context-Based, Socio-scientific Framework11
Correction to: Computational Thinking, Between Papert and Wing10
Expert Text Analysis in the Inclusion of History and Philosophy of Science in Higher Education10
Correction to: Science Education and the Pandemic, 1 Year On10
Using Children’s Literature in the Middle School Science Class to Teach Nature of Science10
Teaching Mars Literature10
Performative Bundles: How Teaching Narratives and Academic Language Build Mental Models of Mechanisms10
Bringing Science Fiction Story Writing to Saudi Science Education10
Investigating Elementary Teachers’ Views, Implementation, and Longitudinal Enactment of Nature of Science Instruction10
Self-Study and Discussion Promote Students’ Science Learning10
Enhancing Science Education Through Visual Art and Complex Storytelling Using the Book “The Case Study of Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions”9
FEW and Far Between9
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights9
Trust, Science Education and Vaccines9
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell9
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education9
STEM and Non-STEM Misconceptions About Evolution: Findings from 5 Years of Data9
The Future of Knowledge: Conversations About Artificial Intelligence and Epistemic Insight8
Impact of GPT on the Academic Ecosystem8
Embodiment Matters in Knowledge Building8
Nature of Science in Norway’s Recent Curricula Reform8
Analysing the Nature of Science in the Brazilian Common Core Curriculum8
Can Generative AI and ChatGPT Outperform Humans on Cognitive-Demanding Problem-Solving Tasks in Science?8
Enhancing Computational Thinking Skills Through Artificial Intelligence Education at a STEAM High School8
Modelling Roles of Mathematics in Physics8
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction8
Mozambican Preservice Chemistry Teachers’ Performance when Analysing Textbook Analogies About the Atom7
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science7
Sustainability as Living Architecture7
Politicizing ‘Learning by Doing’: Shiono Naomichi and the Cultivation of the ‘Japanese Spirit’ in Primary and Secondary Science Education in Japan from 1931–19587
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science7
The Chimera, the Robot Artist, and the Cardboard Hand7
Methodological Diversity in HPS-Informed Science Education Research7
An Educational Reconstruction of Special Relativity Theory for Secondary Education7
Natural History Museum Guides’ Conceptions on the Integration of the Nature of Science7
Representations of Nature of Science in Science Textbooks7
Elaborating Nature of Engineering Through Family Resemblance Approach7
Respect for Evidence: Can Science Education Deliver It?6
Co-design of a Teaching–Learning Sequence to Address COVID‑19 as a Socio‑scientific Issue in an Infodemic Context6
Secondary Science Teachers’ Instructional Strategies for Promoting the Construction of Scientific Explanations6
Who Speaks for Science?6
The Influence of Real-Context Scientific Activities on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Thinking and Practice of Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry6
Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Physics Curriculum Standards over the Past Two Decades6
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings6
Science and Fengshui6
Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation6
Teaching Socioscientific Issues: A Systematic Review6
Analysis of Engineering Elements of K-12 Science Standards in Seven Countries Engaged in STEM Education Reform6
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 20236
Reflections of Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Understanding of the Nature of Science on a Socioscientific Issue6
A Theoretical Framework for Integrated STEM Education6
Lessons from the Past: Reviewing How We Teach Science, What’s Changed, and Why It Matters6
Astrobiology, The Way Forward6
Trust in Science and Science Education—Part 26
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology5
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings5
Reframing Chemical Thinking Through the Lens of Disciplinary Essential Questions and Perspectives for Teaching and Learning Chemistry5
Examining Biology Curricular Resources’ Scientific Depictions of Evolution, Race, Sexuality, and Identity5
Comparison of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Teachers’ Perceptions of Nature of Science and Domains of Science5
Replicating the Fontana-Ingenhousz Eudiometer5
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education5
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus5
What do COVID-19 Tweets Reveal about Public Engagement with Nature of Science?5
Art and Science5
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective5
Secondary and University Students’ Descriptions of Quantum Uncertainty and the Wave Nature of Quantum Particles5
Quality Indicators of an Experienced Middle School Science Teacher’s Argument‑Based Inquiry Teaching5
Bhutanese Primary Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs of Science5
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering5
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness5
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy5
STEM Problem Solving: Inquiry, Concepts, and Reasoning4
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches4
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein4
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel? 4
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists4
The Value of the Philosophy of Science in Senior High School Science Education from the Perspective of the Nature of Science4
The Power of Tentative Truth: The Impacts of Enhanced Science Instruction on Student Paranormal Beliefs4
Multivariate Analysis of Beliefs in Pseudoscience and Superstitions Among Pre-service Teachers in Spain4
Astronomy and Culture4
Environmental Education and Complexity4
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education4
Research on the Nature of Science in China’s Current High School Physics Textbooks4
Effectiveness of Inquiry-Based Instructional Design for Developing the Scientific Competency and Interdisciplinary Knowledge of Preservice Elementary Teachers4
Teaching What Is “Real” About Science4
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making4
A Conceptual Framework on Imaginative Education-Based Engineering Curriculum4
The Problem of Trust Without Intimacy: Education for Handling Expert Knowledge in a Neoliberal Marketplace4
Integrating Science Education Through Cross-Disciplinary Digital Picture Books4
Why We Eat Calories: A Plurality Metaphor of Energy in Scientific Disciplines4
The Concept of Weight as Reflecting the Epistemological Changes in Physics4
Aspects About Science in the Context of Production and Communication of Knowledge of COVID-194
Lineage Thinking in Evolutionary Biology: How to Improve the Teaching of Tree Thinking4
Curiosity Empowerment for Mathematics Learning4
Index Collaborative Analysis of Green Chemistry Literacy and Public Literacy of Ideological and Political Consciousness4
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss4
Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts4
A Liberal Arts Curriculum that Situates Science While Promoting STEM Graduation4
Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives4
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?3
A Systematic Review Using Feminist Perspectives on the Factors Affecting Girls’ Participation in STEM Subjects3
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War3
Abduction as a Mode of Inference in Science Education3
Exploring Teachers’ Professional Development on Socioscientific Issues and Model-Based Learning: A Multiple Case Study3
Theoretical Framework and Assessment Questionnaire of Critical Thinking for Chinese Middle School Students in Science Classrooms3
Is There a Limit to Resemblances?3
Towards Equitable, Social Justice Criticality: Re-Constructing the “Black” Box and Making it Transparent for the Future of Science and Technology in Science Education3
Representations of the Nature of Science in South African Physical Sciences Textbooks on Electricity and Magnetism3
South African Grade 12 Science Students’ Understandings of Scientific Inquiry3
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education3
Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues3
Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education3
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments3
Using Drama to Enrich Students’ Argumentation About Genetically Modified Foods3
Developing a Phenomenographic Argument for Science Teacher Educators’ Conceptions Regarding Question-Asking3
Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching3
An Explicit and Reflective Approach to Teaching Nature of Science in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience3
Toward Understanding Science as a Whole3
A Textbook Analysis to Uncover the Hidden Contributors of Science and Mathematics3
To FRA or not to FRA: What is the question for science education?3
Exploring the boundaries in an interdisciplinary context through the Family Resemblance Approach: The Dialogue Between Physics and Mathematics3
Learning About Different Models of Theory Change Using an Adapted Mystery Tube Activity in Science Teacher Education3
Is the Effect of Educational Attainments on Trust in Scientists Underestimated?3
Nepali Cultural Worldview as Eclectic Space in Transformative Action Research for Post-Critical Scientific Literacy3
Purpose is Dead, Long Live Purpose!3
Post-Truth and Education3
Indonesian Prospective Teachers’ Scientific Habits of Mind:A Cross‑Grade Study in the Context of Local and Global Socio‑scientific Issues3
Collaborative Learning with Artificial Intelligence Speakers3
Shift From a Traditional to a Distance Learning Environment during the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Too Philosophical, Therefore Useless for Science Education?3
Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science3
The Role of Materiality in an Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence3
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education3
A Growing Body of Knowledge3
Ethnicity and Gender in Museum Representations of Human Evolution2
Making Sense of Uncertainty in the Science Classroom2
Using the Controversy over Human Race to Introduce Students to the Identification and the Evaluation of Arguments2
Leaving the laboratory: Using Field Science to Disrupt and Expand Historically Enduring Narratives of Science Teaching and Learning2
A Trial Patch to Sustainable Development2
Correction to: Epistemic and Political Confrontations Around the Public Policies to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic2
Hot Topics and Frontier Evolution of Science Education Research: a Bibliometric Mapping from 2001 to 20202
Educational Practices in Sommerfeld School2
The Effectiveness of the Interactive Book Reading on Primary School Students’ Images of Scientists2
A Virtue Epistemological Approach to the Demarcation Problem2
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”2
Spanish Science Teacher Educators’ Preparation, Experiences, and Views About Nature of Science in Science Education2
Does Concrete Content Help People to Reason Scientifically?2
Integration of Philosophy of Science in Biomedical Data Science Education to Foster Better Scientific Practice2
Managing Wide Plurality Through Metarepresentations2
An Investigation of High School Students’ Attitudes and Perceptions About the Diversity of Scientific Methods in Chemistry Learning2
A Mythical Exploration of Evolutions and Existence2
A Justification of Legitimate Teleological Explanations in Physics Education2
Facilitating Middle School Students’ Reasoning About Vaccines2
First-Year Teacher Education Students’ Epistemological Beliefs About Science and History: Domain-Specific Profiles and Relationships2
The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm2
Between Scientific Ideas and Christian Religious Beliefs2
A Model-Based Constructivist Approach for Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects in Teaching and Learning the First Law of Thermodynamics2
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity2
Untangling Trustworthiness and Uncertainty in Science2
Turkish Science Teachers’ Views on Nature of Science: Curriculum and Implementation2
Modeling and Representing Conceptual Change in the Learning of Successive Theories2
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?2
Feng Shui and the Demarcation Project2
Understanding STEM Teachers’ Power Distance Values from a Sociocultural Perspective on Interdisciplinary Collaboration2
On Idealizations and Models in Science Education2
Exploring the Impact of a Task-specific Warning to Overcome Intuitive Interference: Humble Lesson on How to Teach in the Context of Representational Plurality2
A Map for the Ontological Crossroads2
Students’ Proof Construction through Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: The Perspectives of Habermas’ Theory of Rationality and Duval’s Theory of Registers of Semiotic Representation2
High School and College Students’ Graph-Interpretation Competence in Scientific and Daily Contexts of Data Visualization2
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