OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Technology and Design Education is 18. 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
An exploration of an interprofessional embedded educational model between occupational therapy and industrial design: a qualitative hermeneutical phenomenological inquiry	69
Correction to: Investigating changes in preservice teachers’ conceptions of technological literacy	58
The mediating role of creative problem solving between design thinking and self-efficacy in STEM teaching for STEM teacher candidates	54
Correlates between imagination types and abilities in designing works	42
Gender disparity in STEM education: a survey research on girl participants in World Robot Olympiad	40
Cultivating empathy and upgrading design decisions of students: the impact of simulating public transit experiences of individuals with mild visual impairments	36
Situating technology teachers’ personal PCK: an investigation of the material preconditions for technology education in Sweden	33
The distant studio: a survey of design students’ experience with distance educational formats	32
Designing Maker initiatives for educational inclusion	26
The effect of a STEM integrated curriculum on design thinking dispositions in middle school students	25
Teachers’ cognitive beliefs about their assessment and use of tools when evaluating students’ learning of technological systems: a questionnaire study	25
Conceptions of nature of technology in educational research: a systematic literature review	20
A systematic literature review of student evaluation of peer exemplars and implications for design, Technology, and Engineering Learning	20
STEM education goals in the twenty-first century: Teachers’ perceptions and experiences	19
Design thinking in early childhood education and care. A literature review and consideration from the perspective of young learners’ craft, design, and technology education	19
Integrating story-based STEM design challenges in early childhood curricula: an activity theory perspective	19
Pedagogical approaches for eliciting students’ design thinking strategies: tell-and-practice vs. contrasting cases	19
Entrepreneurship, STEM attitude, and career interest development through 6E learning byDeSIGN™ model based STEM education	18