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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Engineering Education 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Erratum to “The effects of language learning and math mindsets on academic success in an engineering program”	55
Special issue on systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in engineering education: Highlights and future research directions	46
Understanding the relationship between idea contributions and idea enactments in student design teams: A social network analysis approach	41
Application of concept maps as an assessment tool in engineering education: Systematic literature review	41
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Gender, prior knowledge, and the impact of a flipped linear algebra course for engineers over multiple years	36
Motivational dynamics in basic needs profiles: Toward a person‐centered motivation approach in engineering education	33
The effects of language learning and math mindsets on academic success in an engineering program	31
Sense of belonging in engineering and identity centrality among undergraduate students at Hispanic‐Serving Institutions	30
Operationalizing and monitoring student support in undergraduate engineering education	29
Engineering play with blocks as an informal learning context for executive function and planning	28
Children's engineering identities‐in‐practice: An exploration of child–adult interactions in an out‐of‐school context	25
Reasons and root causes: Conventional characterizations of doctoral engineering attrition obscure underlying structural issues	24
How can I help move my manuscript smoothly through the review process?	23
Building bridges to engineering interest: Connections between student perceptions of instructor actions and interest in engineering classes	22
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Generative artificial intelligence and engineering education	20
A systematic literature review of reciprocity in engineering service‐learning/community engagement	20
Not returning to the “before times”	19
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Getting the picture: Developing intrinsic motivation to self‐regulate engineering documentation practices in a high school drone design challenge	19
Examining engineering students' perceptions of learner agency enactment in problem‐ and project‐based learning using Q methodology	18
Investigating engineering undergraduates' agentic and communal career values in writing responses	18
Supporting inclusivity in STEM makerspaces through critical theory: A systematic review	17
Exploring experiences that foster recognition in engineering across race and gender	17

The impact of emergency remote learning on students in engineering and computer science in the United States: An analysis of four universities	17
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The Undergraduate Engineering Mental Health Help‐Seeking Instrument (UE‐MH‐HSI): Development and validity evidence	16
Belonging in engineering: Exploring the predictive relevance of social interaction and individual factors on undergraduate students' belonging in engineering	16
Considering leadership in engineering education: A call to action for research and practice	16
Engineering climate for marginalized groups: Connections to peer relations and engineering identity	16
Comprehending multiple identities as minoritized students in engineering: How can diverse developmental networks grow meaning‐making capacity?	16
A funds of knowledge approach to developing engineering students' design problem framing skills	15
The assessment cycle: Insights from a systematic literature review on broadening participation in engineering and computer science	15
Self‐explanation activities in statics: A knowledge‐building activity to promote conceptual change	15
A scoping review of engineering education systematic reviews	15
Reflection types and students' viewing of feedback in a first‐year engineering course using standards‐based grading	15
Caring for the future: Empathy in engineering education to empower learning	14
First‐generation college students' funds of knowledge support the development of an engineering role identity	14
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A hazard identification digital simulation game developed based on the extended authentic learning framework	14
Engineering students' interests in nonprofit and public policy careers: Applying a data‐driven approach to identifying contributing factors	13
Assessing the impact of online collaborative problem solving on a calculus class for first‐year engineering students: A communities of practice lens	13
Gender and race/ethnicity differences in the predictors of course grade in a first‐year engineering course and continued enrollment in engineering	13
Mastery, models, messengers, and mixed emotions: Examining the development of engineering self‐efficacy by gender	13
Persistence at what cost? How graduate engineering students consider the costs of persistence within attrition considerations	13
How Latiné engineering students resist White male engineering culture: A multi‐institution analysis of academic engagement	13
Systematic review of spatial abilities and virtual reality: The role of interaction	13
Reviewing: A skill we can continuously develop	12
Connection and alienation during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The narratives of four engineering students	12
Moving beyond the “international” label: A call for the inclusion of the (in)visible international engineering students	11
Engineers, figuring it out: Collaborative learning in cultural worlds	11
How do ethics and diversity, equity, and inclusion relate in engineering? A systematic review	11
Why Australian female high school students do not choose construction as a career: A qualitative investigation into value beliefs about the construction industry	10
The social construction of professional shame for undergraduate engineering students	10
Learning to design for social justice in community‐engaged engineering	10
Potential engineers: A systematic literature review exploring Black children's access to and experiences with STEM	10
“Being is not knowing”: Cautionary discourse on reflexive sensemaking in engineering education	9
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Eurocentric epistemologies in engineering: Manifestations in first‐year student design teams and consequences for student learning	9
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Learning to prioritize the public good: Does training in classes, workplaces, and professional societies shape engineers' understanding of their public welfare responsibilities?	9
Impact ofCOVID‐19 on sense of belonging: Experiences of engineering students, faculty, and staff at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)	9
Inequity in graduate engineering identity: Disciplinary differences and opportunity structures	9
Engineering culture under stress: A comparative case study of undergraduate mechanical engineering student experiences	9
Lacking time: A case study of student and faculty perceptions of academic workload in the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
Investigating culturally contextualized making with the Navajo Nation	9
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“They are here to support me”: Community cultural wealth assets and precollege experiences of undergraduate Black men in engineering	8
Sketching assessment in engineering education: A systematic literature review	8
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Examining interests and goals as predictors of gender differences in engineers' pursuit of managerial roles	8

How did the landscape of student belonging shift during COVID‐19?	8
Exploring epistemic aspects of engineering for K–12 science and engineering education	8
The fallacy of “there are no candidates”: Institutional pathways of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino doctorate earners	8
Are MOOCs a new way of learning in engineering education in light of the literature? A systematic review and bibliometric analysis	7
Expanding possibilities for generative AI in qualitative analysis: Fostering student feedback literacy through the application of a feedback quality rubric	7
Civil engineering students as avoidant actors: Using culturally relevant problem‐solving to increase critical action attitudes	7
Leveraging a comprehensive systems thinking framework to analyze engineer complex problem‐solving approaches	7
Surviving, thriving, departing, and the hidden competencies of engineering graduate school	7
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Am I smart enough to be an engineer? How undergraduate engineering students articulate their identities	7
An exploration of engineering instructors' pedagogical adaptations early in the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Exploring fundamental engineering course instructors' test usage beliefs and behaviors: A multicase study	6
The career outlook of engineering PhDs: Influence of postdoctoral research positions on early career salaries and the attainment of tenure‐track faculty positions	6
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A need for engagement opportunities and personal connections: Understanding the social community outcomes of engineering undergraduates in a mentoring program	6
Elements of engineering culture affecting undergraduate students' mental health and their help‐seeking attitudes	6
The climate is changing. Engineering education needs to change as well	6
“Sick and tired of being sick and tired”	6
Sources contributing to engineering students' academic well‐being: An exploration using the Q methodology	6
The role of undergraduate assistants in a university makerspace	6
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Investigating students' motivational goals and self‐efficacy and task beliefs in relationship to course attendance and prior knowledge in an undergraduate statics course	5
The effectiveness of physical and virtual manipulatives on learning and motivation in structural engineering	5
Beyond buildings: Designing and maintaining classroom laboratory spaces for physical accessibility	5
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Undergraduate students' espoused beliefs about different approaches to engineering design decisions	5
The New Normal	5
Person‐centered analyses in quantitative studies about broadening participation for Black engineering and computer science students	5
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Photovoice: Visualizing the engineering identity experiences of sophomore students	5
(Mis)alignments between postdoctoral and supervisors' perceptions of mentorship competencies in engineering and computer science	5
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Making whiteness visible: The promise of critical race theory in engineering education	5
Fifty‐three years of the Journal of Engineering Education: A bibliometric overview	5
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Beliefs in engineering education research: A systematic scoping review for studying beliefs beyond the most popular constructs	4
An engineer, for what? On the different invitations a university extends to its students to acquire a professional identity	4
Adapting the Utrecht‐Management of Identity Commitments Scale to assess engineering identity formation	4
On the importance of (white) humility: Epistemological decentering as a positional orientation toward research	4
Characterizing engineering outreach educators' talk moves: An exploratory framework	4
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Exploring scenario‐based assessment of students' global engineering competency: Building evidence of validity of a China‐based situational judgment test	4
My purple pen	4
Engineering ableism: The exclusion and devaluation of engineering students and professionals with physical disabilities and chronic and mental illness	4
“The lab isn't life”: Black engineering graduate students reprioritize values at the intersection of two pandemics	4
Exploring applications of complexity theory in engineering education research: A systematic literature review	4
Erratum to “A Multimodal Exploration of Engineering Students' Emotions and Electrodermal Activity in Design Activities”	3
How do undergraduate engineering students conceptualize product design? An analysis of two third‐year design courses	3
What engineering employers want: An analysis of technical and professional skills in engineering job advertisements	3
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Using eye gaze to reveal cognitive processes and strategies of engineering students when solving spatial rotation and mental cutting tasks	3
Exploring how personal and program characteristics inform the experiences of engineering students abroad	3
Arrebatos and institutionalized barriers encountered by low‐income Latino/a/x engineering students at Hispanic‐Serving Institutions (HSIs) and emerging HSIs	3
The role of learner trust in generative artificially intelligent learning environments	3
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What about your friends: A critical qualitative inquiry of the experiences of Black and Latiné women in computing	3
Crafting the self: The interplay of agency, entrepreneurial mindset, and narrative identity	3
Barriers instructors experience in adopting active learning: Instrument development	3
Special report: The research topics addressed and research methods applied in the Journal of Engineering Education (1993–2022)	3
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