OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the Learning Sciences is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The temporal dimension of teacher learning in a video-based professional development program: An ecological perspective	24
Avoiding equity detours on the way to a more justice-oriented learning sciences	23
Interacting with nature in and through boundary crossing learning: A case of bioart-making	23
Interdisciplinary learning in the humanities: Knowledge building and identity work	22
How kids manage self-directed programming projects: Strategies and structures	21
Planning for student-driven discussions: A revelatory case of curricular sensemaking for epistemic agency	20
Toward epistemic justice in socio-scientific decision-making: How youth make sense of lively COVID-19 and vaccines data	20
Note from the new co-editors: expanding “what counts” in the learning sciences	20
Restorying a Black girl’s future: Using womanist storytelling methodologies to reimagine dominant narratives in computing education	19
Material syntonicity: Examining computational performance and its materiality through weaving and sewing crafts	17
What kind of revolution? Thinking and rethinking educational technologies in the time of COVID-19	16
Blackness, place and learning: Youth cultivating a sense of identity-in-place through spatial storylines	14
Prolepsis & telos: Interpreting pedagogy and recovering imagination in the mediation of youth learning	14
Teachers as agentic synthesizers:Recontextualizing personally meaningful practices from professional development	14
How students develop collaborative drawing to represent the transmission of sound: An analysis of explanatory scientific drawings with discourse maps	12
“We got so much better at reading each other’s energy”: Knowing, acting, and attuning as an improv ensemble	11
Naming and disrupting epistemic injustice across curated sites of learning	11
Opportunities and hindrances for promoting interdisciplinary learning in schools	11
An ecological paradigm of interdisciplinary learning: Implications for design	11
In memoriam - Nora Sabelli: Master orchestrator of grant programs and mentor for advancing the interdisciplinary learning sciences field	10
Disciplinary skills are not enough: Resituating historical thinking within students’ racialized and linguistic experiences	10
Experts’ adaptation of apt epistemic performance: The role of practical knowledge	10
Humanizing Co-design through attention to educators’ affective and relational experiences	9
Exploring how shared gaze visualizations support remote one-on-one teaching: A mixed method study	9
Beyond disciplinary engagement: Researching the ecologies of interdisciplinary learning	8

What happened to the interdisciplinary study of learning in humans and machines?	8
Scaffolding small groups at the group level: Improving the scaffolding behavior of mathematics teachers during mathematical discussions	7
The role of participatory identity in learners’ hybridization of activity across contexts	7
Reconfiguring science education through caring human inquiry and design with pets	7
Strategic shifts: How studio teachers use direction and support to build learner agency in the figured world of visual art	7
How physics students build computational literacy by creating computational literature	7
Learning to program in middle school: How pair programming helps and hinders intrepid exploration	6
Interpersonal, intrapersonal, and cognitive tactics: A thematic analysis of adults’ 21 ^st century learning management	6
Young women of color figuring science and identity within and beyond an afterschool science program	6
“Seeing power” between young people and conservation professionals in the design of a community-based watershed monitoring initiative	6
A framework for infrastructuring sustainable innovations in education	6
What do correct answers reveal? The interpersonal and mathematical aspects of students’ interactions during groupwork in seventh grade mathematics	5
What pedagogy feels like: Teachers’ development of pedagogical empathy in rehearsal debriefs	5
Voice as an interactional accomplishment in art making about social issues	5
The effect of language on the coherence of children’s conceptions of force	4
Caught between expansive world-building and the status quo: Using figured worlds to understand world-building in AI for educational co-design contexts	4
A sociocultural approach to communication instruction: How insights from communication teaching practices can inform faculty development programs	4
Constructing shared understanding of complex interdisciplinary problems: Epistemic games in interdisciplinary teamwork	4
Group creativity in adolescence: Relational, material and institutional dimensions of creative collaboration	4
Learning and constructions of us and them in teachers’ collaborative groups	3
From “Carrier” to “Creator”: The re-construction of national identity in more inclusive terms	3
Creative expansion of knowledge-creating learning	3
Early dawn toward imagining worlds	3
Productive failure and learning through argumentation: Building a bridge between two research traditions to understand the process of peer learning	3
Teacher professional dialogues during a school intervention: From stabilization to possibility discourse through reflexive noticing	3
Self-study enhances the learning effect of discussions	3
Learning with and beyond the body: The production of mobile architectures in a ballet variations class	3