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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell	88
The Contribution of a History of Science Perspective to Photosynthesis Lessons in University Textbooks	60
The Intersection Between Social-Institutional Aspects of Nature of Science and Social Justice in Natural History Museum Exhibitions	54
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education	48
Enhancing Science Education Through Visual Art and Complex Storytelling Using the Book “The Case Study of Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions”	46
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law	45
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis	42
Editorial Note: February 2026	42
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	40
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights	40
Navigating Post-truth: Challenges and Opportunities for Science Education Through Evolving Scientific Literacy Visions	32
Sustainability as Living Architecture	30
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus	30
Assessing Chemistry Teachers’ Understanding of Electrochemistry	29
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 2023	26
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	25
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	24
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science	24
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness	24
Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation	23
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	22
An Explicit and Reflective Approach to Teaching Nature of Science in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience	22
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss	21
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings	21
Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching	21

Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	19
The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm	19
Integration of Philosophy of Science in Biomedical Data Science Education to Foster Better Scientific Practice	18
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	18
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education	18
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity	18
Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education	16
Chinese Grade 12 Students’ Cognition and Coping Ways of Uncertainty in Science: A Study Based on Science Reading Texts	16
HPS for All in Journal's Metrics	15
Scientific Thinking and Critical Thinking in Science Education	15
Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study	15
A Review on the Use of Large Language Models as Virtual Tutors	15
Trust in the Third Space of Science Education	14
Discussing Science Values and Norms from a Learning Situation Historically Contextualised in Mendel’s Laws and Guided by Scientific Practices	14
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	14
Science and Religion Integration in Indonesian Islamic Senior High Schools: Analyzing Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices	14
Analog Modelling of the Haploid Book for Teaching Genetics	13
The Heart is a Pump, a Dollhouse, a Car or a Ship: How Students Use Conventional and Spontaneously Generated Creative Metaphors to Understand Biology Concepts	13
Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks	13
Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Strengthening HPSS Scholarship in Science Education	13
Political Science as a Science	12
Teaching Nature of Science: A Pedagogy of Practice Framework for Teachers’ Professional Development	12
The Development of Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Understanding and Skills of Argumentation through Argument Driven Inquiry	12
Science Teacher Perceptions of the State of Knowledge and Education at the Advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence Popularity	12
Cultivating Transdisciplinary Orientations in Science Education Research and Practice: Reflexivity, Pragmatism, and Dialogue	12
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	12
Editorial Note: October 2025	11
Theoretical Suggestions for the Nature of Integrated STEM Education: Notes on a “Poietic” STEM	11
Cobra Effect in Science Education?	11
Estimating Epistemic Practices Loads in Elementary and Middle School Science Curricula	11
The Ether Concept from Spanish Physics Textbooks (1840–1950)	11
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	11
Vaccination Information Sources and Decision-Making Among Higher-Secondary Students in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Scientists in the Textbook	10
The Practical Epistemologies of Design and Artificial Intelligence	10
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	10
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	10
Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks	10
The Influence of Extended Reality on Climate Change Education	10
Unpacking Epistemic Insights of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science Education: A Systematic Review	10
Dialogue Between Science and Religious Education	10
Exploring England’s Secondary Educational Policy Discourses from the Perspective of a Social Justice and Sociopolitical Turn in Science Education	10
Presence and Absence of Social-Institutional Dimensions of Science in Secondary Education	9
Associations between High School Students’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology, Sense of Belonging, and Physics Achievement	9
Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks	9
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	9
Stereotypical Attributes of Scientists and Engineers in Jokes	9
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy	9
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education	9
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	9

Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course	9
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	8
Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts	8
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education	8
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	8
Preservice Teacher Interest and Willingness to Use Stories from the History of Science	8
Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives	8
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making	8
Astronomy and Culture	7
Investigating How Teachers’ (Existing) Sociopolitical Consciousness Serves as a Resource for Adapting Science Materials to Bring in Pursuits of Criticality and Identity	7
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches	7
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective	7
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?	7
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?	7
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel?	7
Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science	7
Exploring the Social Values in Mathematics Textbooks	7
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science	7
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists	7
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War	6
Core Themes in Critical Thinking: Perspectives from Students and University Teachers in Norway and Germany	6
The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters	6
Nature of Science in Science Educational Videos	6
The Socio-Scientific Issue Based on Local Potential in Integrated Learning Instruction to Improve Student Ecological Literacy	6
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments	6
Editorial Note: June 2025	6
First-Year Teacher Education Students’ Epistemological Beliefs About Science and History: Domain-Specific Profiles and Relationships	6
Nature of Engineering	6
Who Says Scientific Laws Are Not Explanatory?	6
Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory	6