OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science & Education is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell	53
Enhancing Science Education Through Visual Art and Complex Storytelling Using the Book “The Case Study of Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions”	32
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law	29
Modeling the Epistemic Value of Classroom Practice in the Investigation of Effective Learning	29
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights	28
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	27
The Cosmic Interaction	25
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education	24
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis	23
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 2023	23
Sustainability as Living Architecture	23
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus	22
Too Philosophical, Therefore Useless for Science Education?	22
An Explicit and Reflective Approach to Teaching Nature of Science in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience	22
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness	21
Assessing Chemistry Teachers’ Understanding of Electrochemistry	21
Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation	20
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings	20
An Educational Reconstruction of Special Relativity Theory for Secondary Education	19
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science	18
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	17
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	17
Quality Indicators of an Experienced Middle School Science Teacher’s Argument‑Based Inquiry Teaching	17
Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching	17
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss	16

Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	16
Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	16
A Trial Patch to Sustainable Development	16
Post-Truth and Education	15
Integration of Philosophy of Science in Biomedical Data Science Education to Foster Better Scientific Practice	15
Scientific Thinking and Critical Thinking in Science Education	15
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity	15
Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education	14
Untangling Trustworthiness and Uncertainty in Science	14
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education	14
A Review on the Use of Large Language Models as Virtual Tutors	14
Using the Controversy over Human Race to Introduce Students to the Identification and the Evaluation of Arguments	14
HPS for All in Journal's Metrics	13
The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm	13
Science and Religion Integration in Indonesian Islamic Senior High Schools: Analyzing Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices	13
Discussing Science Values and Norms from a Learning Situation Historically Contextualised in Mendel’s Laws and Guided by Scientific Practices	13
Impact of Argument-Driven Inquiry Activities on Pre-service Science Teachers’ Views of the Nature of Scientific Inquiry in the Context of Climate Change Education	13
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	13
Trust in the Third Space of Science Education	13
Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Strengthening HPSS Scholarship in Science Education	13
Estimating Epistemic Practices Loads in Elementary and Middle School Science Curricula	12
Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study	12
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	11
Teaching Science as a Process, Not a Set of Facts	11
Learning Science in Context: Integrating a Holistic Approach to Nature of Science in the Lower Secondary Classroom	11
Cultivating Transdisciplinary Orientations in Science Education Research and Practice: Reflexivity, Pragmatism, and Dialogue	11
The Development of Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Understanding and Skills of Argumentation through Argument Driven Inquiry	11
Political Science as a Science	11
Analog Modelling of the Haploid Book for Teaching Genetics	11
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	10
Science Teacher Perceptions of the State of Knowledge and Education at the Advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence Popularity	9
The Practical Epistemologies of Design and Artificial Intelligence	9
Not Only Why but Also How to Trust Science: Reshaping Science Education Based on Science Studies for a Better Post-pandemic World	9
Cobra Effect in Science Education?	9
The Influence of Extended Reality on Climate Change Education	9
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	9
Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks	9
The Ether Concept from Spanish Physics Textbooks (1840–1950)	9
Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks	9
Scientists in the Textbook	9
Presence and Absence of Social-Institutional Dimensions of Science in Secondary Education	8
Analysing Transdisciplinary Education: A Scoping Review	8
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education	8
Stereotypical Attributes of Scientists and Engineers in Jokes	8
Unpacking Epistemic Insights of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science Education: A Systematic Review	8
Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks	8
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	8
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	8
Vaccination Information Sources and Decision-Making Among Higher-Secondary Students in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Expert Text Analysis in the Inclusion of History and Philosophy of Science in Higher Education	8

Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course	8
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy	7
Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts	7
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective	7
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein	7
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel?	7
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education	7
Towards Equitable, Social Justice Criticality: Re-Constructing the “Black” Box and Making it Transparent for the Future of Science and Technology in Science Education	7
Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science	7
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists	7
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	7
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making	7
Socioscientific Issues Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making	7
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	7
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments	6
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches	6
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	6
Exploring the Social Values in Mathematics Textbooks	6
Hot Topics and Frontier Evolution of Science Education Research: a Bibliometric Mapping from 2001 to 2020	6
Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory	6
‘Should We Be Doing It, Should We Not Be Doing It, Who Could Be Harmed?’	6
First-Year Teacher Education Students’ Epistemological Beliefs About Science and History: Domain-Specific Profiles and Relationships	6
The Problem of Trust Without Intimacy: Education for Handling Expert Knowledge in a Neoliberal Marketplace	6
Spanish Science Teacher Educators’ Preparation, Experiences, and Views About Nature of Science in Science Education	6
Astronomy and Culture	6
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War	6
Quantification in Empirical Activity	6
The Socio-Scientific Issue Based on Local Potential in Integrated Learning Instruction to Improve Student Ecological Literacy	6
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?	6
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science	6
Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives	6
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?	6
Nature of Engineering	6
Editorial Note: June 2025	6