OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ETR&D-Educational Technology Research and Development is 31. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the influence of favorite projects on programming skill improvement: analyzing the longitudinal dataset of 5 years of public activity on scratch social media	338
Elementary Students Learning Computer Programming: an investigation of their knowledge Retention, Motivation, and perceptions	191
Impact of gender and prior knowledge on learning performance and motivation in a digital game-based learning biology course	177
Implementation of the flipped classroom approach for promoting college students’ deeper learning	129
Design mobile computational thinking-integrated mathematics lessons based on the 5E instructional model for primary students	86
From analogy to reflective thinking: an observation-identification-analogy-based virtual learning approach	77
Exploring the influence of competition and collaboration on learning performance in digital game-based learning	67
Facebook post data: a primer for educational research	67
A two-staged SEM: artificial neural network approach for understanding and predicting the factors of students’ satisfaction with emergency remote teaching	62
Education and technology: elements of a relevant, comprehensive, and cumulative research agenda	60
A study of using mobile phone application in badminton teaching and learning process based on deep learning and auto-feedback-based WISER model	59
Taking adaptive learning in educational settings to the next level: leveraging natural language processing for improved personalization	53
Should We account for classrooms? Analyzing online experimental data with student-level randomization	51
Successful and unsuccessful mapping behaviors for learning procedural-type knowledge	50
Entangled eclecticism: a sociotechnical-pedagogical systems theory approach to learning experience design	50
Design and development of an online formative peer assessment environment with instructional scaffolds	48
Preservice science teachers coding science simulations: epistemological understanding, coding skills, and lesson design	47
Exploring expert perceptions of creativity in instructional design: a phenomenographic study	45
The impact of synchronous online discussions and online flipped learning on student engagement and self-regulation among preliminary undergraduates in a basic math course	45
Designing for actively engaging with mathematics education research in mentoring practice: a Vignette Activity Sequence approach	42
Learner-centric MOOC model: a pedagogical design model towards active learner participation and higher completion rates	41
Development research on an AI English learning support system to facilitate learner-generated-context-based learning	40
Factors contributing to teachers’ acceptance intention to gamified EFL tools: a scale development study	39
Instructional designers’ professional futures: insights from best possible self and epistemic network analysis	38
Constructing problems in context: a synthesized model of dialectical problem-framing	37

What I think I learned	34
“Then You go to Snap”: Multimodal Making of Digital Comics in a Language Arts High School Classroom	34
Each discipline is different: teacher capabilities for future-focussed digitally infused undergraduate programmes	33
The effects of reading prompts and of post-reading generative learning tasks on multiple document integration: evidence from concept network analysis	33
Developing a digital tutor as an intermediary between students, teaching assistants, and lecturers	31
Instructional design for tutoring on interactive platforms: creating educational interventions overcoming the digital gap	31