OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chemistry Education Research and Practice 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining the role of assignment design and peer review on student responses and revisions to an organic chemistry writing-to-learn assignment	55
Practices in instrument use and development in chemistry education research and practice 2010–2021	49
Reply to the ‘Comment on “What resources do high school students activate to link energetic and structural changes in chemical reactions? – A qualitative study”’ by K. S. Taber,	33
Contents list	29
Chemistry graduate teaching assistants’ teacher noticing	27
A model of curricular content for the educational reconstruction of Green Chemistry: the voice of Chilean science teachers and science education researchers	27
Gender differences in high school students’ perceived values and costs of learning chemistry	24
A design-based research approach to improving pedagogy in the teaching laboratory	21
Contribution of an instructional module incorporating PhET simulations to Rwandan students' knowledge of chemical reactions, acids, and bases through social interactions	21
Using a combination technique for the assessment of students’ cognitive structures on acid–base chemistry	21
Supporting submicroscopic reasoning in students’ explanations of absorption phenomena using a simulation-based activity	19
Navigating the interlanguage space: Chinese international students’ perceptions of a virtual chemistry laboratory course	19
Metacognitive problem solving: exploration of students’ perspectives through the lens of multi-dimensional engagement	19
Making sense of chemical equilibrium: productive teacher–student dialogues as a balancing act between sensemaking and managing tension	17
Augmented reality meets Peer instruction	17
Beliefs versus resources: a tale of two models of epistemology	17
Developing green chemistry educational principles by exploring the pedagogical content knowledge of secondary and pre-secondary school teachers	16
Recognition experiences of women of color in chemistry: an intersectional study	16
Development of problem-solving skills supported by metacognitive scaffolding: insights from students’ written work	15
Implementing an interactive online platform in a large undergraduate general chemistry course and its impact on student learning and perceptions	15
Revisiting secondary students’ ideas about air pollution. The challenge of particulate matter	14
Laying the foundations to build on: exploring diversity in our Chemistry Education Research & Practice community	14
“I’m still here and I want them to know that”: experiences of chemists with concealable identities in undergraduate research	14
Messages about valued knowledge products and processes embedded within a suite of transformed high school chemistry curricular materials	14
‘Seeing’ chemistry: investigating the contribution of mental imagery strength on students’ thinking in relation to visuospatial problem solving in chemistry	14

Effects of formative assessment with technology on students’ meaningful learning in chemistry equilibrium concepts	14
A social semiotic lens to capture meaning-making of polymeric concepts during modelling in chemistry education	13
Attention is currency: how surface features of Lewis structures influence organic chemistry student reasoning about stability	13
Psychometric analysis of the resonance concept inventory	13
A meta -analysis of effectiveness of chemical bonding-based intervention studies in improving academic performance	13
STEM-PT Traveler, a game-based approach for learning elements of the periodic table: an approach for enhancing secondary school students’ motivation for learning chemistry	13
Investigating evidence in support of validity and reliability for data collected with the meaningful learning in the laboratory instrument (MLLI)	12
Learning to teach chemical bonding: a framework for preservice teacher educators	12
Exploring post-secondary chemistry instructors’ knowledge for teaching ¹ H NMR spectroscopy	12
Students’ interactive engagement, academic achievement and self concept in chemistry: an evaluation of cooperative learning pedagogy	12
Factors shaping the choice in chemistry: insights from undergraduate students within a societal context	12
Optimizing testing feedback in introductory chemistry: a multi-treatment study exploring varying levels of assessment feedback and subsequent performance	11
Contents list	11
Critiquing lab technique videos prior to class: can it improve demonstrated technique?	11
Use of machine learning to analyze chemistry card sort tasks	11
Elements constituting and influencing in-service secondary chemistry teachers’ pedagogical scientific language knowledge	10
Could competence-based chemistry teaching in secondary school harm students’ performance in upper traditional exams?	10
Back cover	10
Factors that influence general chemistry students’ decision making in study strategies	10
Effectiveness of particulate nature of matter (PNM)-based intervention studies in improving academic performance: a meta -analysis study	10
Inoculating students against science-based manipulation strategies in social media: debunking the concept of ‘water with conductivity extract’	10
Investigation into the intersection between response process validity and answer-until-correct validity: development of the repeated attempt processing issue detection (RAPID) method	10
Factors affecting individuals’ cognitive engagement during group work in general chemistry: timing, group size, and question type	10
To identify or not to identify: a choice in chemistry education research and practice	10
The impact of co-design-based formative assessment practices on preservice science teachers’ understanding of chemical concepts in a general chemistry laboratory course	9
Evaluating the level of inquiry in postsecondary instructional laboratory experiments: results of a national survey	9
Contents list	9
Progression from Chinese High School onto a TransNational Chinese-UK University joint BSc degree in chemistry; an international study focussing on laboratory practical skills	9
Front cover	9
Capturing students' identification of the relevance of organic chemistry in writing	8
Comparing drawing tasks and elaborate single-choice questions in simulation-based learning: how do they facilitate students’ conceptual understanding on chemical equilibria?	8
Change in students’ explanation of the shape of snowflakes after collaborative immersive virtual reality	8
The use of frameworks in chemistry education research	8
Evaluating electrophile and nucleophile understanding: a large-scale study of learners’ explanations of reaction mechanisms	8
Contents list	8
Using social influence models to characterize student interest in a general chemistry peer-led team learning setting	8
Investigating students' expectations and engagement in general and organic chemistry laboratory courses	8
Guided inquiry-based learning in secondary-school chemistry classes: a case study	8
Harnessing indigenous scientific discovery in medicinal chemistry to promote selected nature of science attributes among Chinese high school students: case of Artemisinin	8
Evaluative judgement – a practitioner's case in chemistry research projects	8
Guidance on the data availability statement requirement in CERP	8
Self-regulated learning strategies for success in an online first-year chemistry course	7
Teaching crystal structures in undergraduate courses: a systematic review from a disciplinary literacy perspective	7
A question of pattern recognition: investigating the impact of structure variation on students’ proficiency in deciding about resonance stabilization	7
Flipping the script in organic reaction mechanism instruction: using generative pedagogies instead of lecture to improve learning outcomes	7
Patterns of reasoning – exploring the interplay of students’ work with a scaffold and their conceptual knowledge in organic chemistry	7
Assessing high school students’ chemical thinking using an essential questions-perspective framework	7
Chemical bonding in Swedish upper secondary school education: a force-based teaching model for enhanced understanding	7
Investigation of students’ cognitive structures concerning the topic of physical and chemical changes: a cross-level study	7
Predictions of success in organic chemistry based on a mathematics skills test and academic achievement	7

Pre-service chemistry teachers’ knowledge of the coordination number and the oxidation number in coordination compounds	7
Planning and evaluating chemistry outreach: a case study of one collegiate group's approach	7
Secondary chemistry teacher learning: precursors for and mechanisms of pedagogical conceptual change	7
Impacts of the flipped classroom on student performance and problem solving skills in secondary school chemistry courses	7
Measuring student motivation in foundation-level inorganic chemistry courses: a multi-institution study	7
Factors associated with chemistry faculty members’ cooperative adoption of evidence-based instructional practices: results from a national survey	7
Analysis of post-secondary instructors’ pedagogical content knowledge of organic acid–base chemistry using content representations	7
Turkish science high school students’ mental models of the electron cloud	7
Course letter grades and rates of D, W, F grades can introduce variability to course comparisons	6
Resources for reasoning of chemistry concepts: multimodal molecular geometry	6
A systematic review of learning progressions for the concept of matter in science education	6
Development and implementation of innovative concepts for language-sensitive student laboratories	6
Organic chemistry students’ use of stability in mental models on acid and base strength	6
The evolution of an assignment: how a Writing-to-Learn assignment's design shapes organic chemistry students’ elaborations on reaction mechanisms	6
What's in a word? Student beliefs and understanding about green chemistry	6
Metacognition instruction enhances equity in effective study strategies across demographic groups in the general chemistry I course	6
A problem-based learning activity for enhancing inquiry skills and facilitating conceptual change in a biological chemistry course	6
Contents list	6
The complexity of chemistry mindset beliefs: a multiple case study approach	6
When a machine detects student reasoning: a review of machine learning-based formative assessment of mechanistic reasoning	6
A systematic review of green and sustainable chemistry training research with pedagogical content knowledge framework: current trends and future directions	6
Chinese chemistry motivation questionnaire II: adaptation and validation of the science motivation questionnaire II in high school students	6
Investigating changes in students’ attitudes towards organic chemistry: a longitudinal study	6