OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chemistry Education Research and Practice is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents list	44
Gender differences in high school students’ perceived values and costs of learning chemistry	43
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
Examining the role of assignment design and peer review on student responses and revisions to an organic chemistry writing-to-learn assignment	28
Supporting submicroscopic reasoning in students’ explanations of absorption phenomena using a simulation-based activity	26
A model of curricular content for the educational reconstruction of Green Chemistry: the voice of Chilean science teachers and science education researchers	23
Chemistry graduate teaching assistants’ teacher noticing	20
Contribution of an instructional module incorporating PhET simulations to Rwandan students' knowledge of chemical reactions, acids, and bases through social interactions	20
Using a combination technique for the assessment of students’ cognitive structures on acid–base chemistry	20
Practices in instrument use and development in chemistry education research and practice 2010–2021	19
A design-based research approach to improving pedagogy in the teaching laboratory	16
Implementing an interactive online platform in a large undergraduate general chemistry course and its impact on student learning and perceptions	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	16
Metacognitive problem solving: exploration of students’ perspectives through the lens of multi-dimensional engagement	15
Developing green chemistry educational principles by exploring the pedagogical content knowledge of secondary and pre-secondary school teachers	15
Beliefs versus resources: a tale of two models of epistemology	14
Augmented reality meets Peer instruction	14
‘Seeing’ chemistry: investigating the contribution of mental imagery strength on students’ thinking in relation to visuospatial problem solving in chemistry	14
Making sense of chemical equilibrium: productive teacher–student dialogues as a balancing act between sensemaking and managing tension	14
Revisiting secondary students’ ideas about air pollution. The challenge of particulate matter	13
Psychometric analysis of the resonance concept inventory	13
Navigating the interlanguage space: Chinese international students’ perceptions of a virtual chemistry laboratory course	13
Messages about valued knowledge products and processes embedded within a suite of transformed high school chemistry curricular materials	12
Laying the foundations to build on: exploring diversity in our Chemistry Education Research & Practice community	12

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	12
Effects of formative assessment with technology on students’ meaningful learning in chemistry equilibrium concepts	12
Attention is currency: how surface features of Lewis structures influence organic chemistry student reasoning about stability	12
“I’m still here and I want them to know that”: experiences of chemists with concealable identities in undergraduate research	11
A meta-analysis of effectiveness of chemical bonding-based intervention studies in improving academic performance	11
A social semiotic lens to capture meaning-making of polymeric concepts during modelling in chemistry education	11
Exploring post-secondary chemistry instructors’ knowledge for teaching ¹H NMR spectroscopy	11
Investigating evidence in support of validity and reliability for data collected with the meaningful learning in the laboratory instrument (MLLI)	10
Learning to teach chemical bonding: a framework for preservice teacher educators	10
Students’ interactive engagement, academic achievement and self concept in chemistry: an evaluation of cooperative learning pedagogy	10
Use of machine learning to analyze chemistry card sort tasks	10
Factors shaping the choice in chemistry: insights from undergraduate students within a societal context	10
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Factors affecting individuals’ cognitive engagement during group work in general chemistry: timing, group size, and question type	9
Investigation into the intersection between response process validity and answer-until-correct validity: development of the repeated attempt processing issue detection (RAPID) method	9
Optimizing testing feedback in introductory chemistry: a multi-treatment study exploring varying levels of assessment feedback and subsequent performance	9
Factors that influence general chemistry students’ decision making in study strategies	9
Could competence-based chemistry teaching in secondary school harm students’ performance in upper traditional exams?	9
Critiquing lab technique videos prior to class: can it improve demonstrated technique?	9
To identify or not to identify: a choice in chemistry education research and practice	8
Front cover	8
Evaluating the level of inquiry in postsecondary instructional laboratory experiments: results of a national survey	8
Comparing drawing tasks and elaborate single-choice questions in simulation-based learning: how do they facilitate students’ conceptual understanding on chemical equilibria?	8
Effectiveness of particulate nature of matter (PNM)-based intervention studies in improving academic performance: a meta-analysis study	8
Back cover	8
Harnessing indigenous scientific discovery in medicinal chemistry to promote selected nature of science attributes among Chinese high school students: case of Artemisinin	8
Progression from Chinese High School onto a TransNational Chinese-UK University joint BSc degree in chemistry; an international study focussing on laboratory practical skills	8
Contents list	8
Inoculating students against science-based manipulation strategies in social media: debunking the concept of ‘water with conductivity extract’	8
Elements constituting and influencing in-service secondary chemistry teachers’ pedagogical scientific language knowledge	8
The impact of co-design-based formative assessment practices on preservice science teachers’ understanding of chemical concepts in a general chemistry laboratory course	8
Capturing students' identification of the relevance of organic chemistry in writing	7
Chemical bonding in Swedish upper secondary school education: a force-based teaching model for enhanced understanding	7
Change in students’ explanation of the shape of snowflakes after collaborative immersive virtual reality	7
Evaluating electrophile and nucleophile understanding: a large-scale study of learners’ explanations of reaction mechanisms	7
The use of frameworks in chemistry education research	7
Investigating students' expectations and engagement in general and organic chemistry laboratory courses	7
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Using social influence models to characterize student interest in a general chemistry peer-led team learning setting	7
Self-regulated learning strategies for success in an online first-year chemistry course	7
Guided inquiry-based learning in secondary-school chemistry classes: a case study	7
Evaluative judgement – a practitioner's case in chemistry research projects	7
Guidance on the data availability statement requirement in CERP	7
Measuring student motivation in foundation-level inorganic chemistry courses: a multi-institution study	6
Flipping the script in organic reaction mechanism instruction: using generative pedagogies instead of lecture to improve learning outcomes	6
Predictions of success in organic chemistry based on a mathematics skills test and academic achievement	6
Investigation of students’ cognitive structures concerning the topic of physical and chemical changes: a cross-level study	6
Metacognition instruction enhances equity in effective study strategies across demographic groups in the general chemistry I course	6
A systematic review of green and sustainable chemistry training research with pedagogical content knowledge framework: current trends and future directions	6
A question of pattern recognition: investigating the impact of structure variation on students’ proficiency in deciding about resonance stabilization	6

Analysis of post-secondary instructors’ pedagogical content knowledge of organic acid–base chemistry using content representations	6
Factors associated with chemistry faculty members’ cooperative adoption of evidence-based instructional practices: results from a national survey	6
Teaching crystal structures in undergraduate courses: a systematic review from a disciplinary literacy perspective	6
Planning and evaluating chemistry outreach: a case study of one collegiate group's approach	6
Turkish science high school students’ mental models of the electron cloud	6
A systematic review of learning progressions for the concept of matter in science education	6
Pre-service chemistry teachers’ knowledge of the coordination number and the oxidation number in coordination compounds	6
Impacts of the flipped classroom on student performance and problem solving skills in secondary school chemistry courses	6
Secondary chemistry teacher learning: precursors for and mechanisms of pedagogical conceptual change	6
Assessing high school students’ chemical thinking using an essential questions-perspective framework	6
Patterns of reasoning – exploring the interplay of students’ work with a scaffold and their conceptual knowledge in organic chemistry	6
Development and implementation of innovative concepts for language-sensitive student laboratories	6
What's in a word? Student beliefs and understanding about green chemistry	5
Chinese chemistry motivation questionnaire II: adaptation and validation of the science motivation questionnaire II in high school students	5
A problem-based learning activity for enhancing inquiry skills and facilitating conceptual change in a biological chemistry course	5
Reconstructing perspectives: investigating how molecular geometry cards (MGCards) and molecular model building (MMB) disrupt students' alternative notions of molecular structure – a qualitative study	5
The development of pre-service teachers’ argumentation self-efficacy through argumentation-based chemistry instruction	5
Investigating the mangle of teaching oxidation–reduction with the VisChem approach: problematising symbolic traditions that undermine chemistry concept development	5
Organic chemistry students’ use of stability in mental models on acid and base strength	5
Resources for reasoning of chemistry concepts: multimodal molecular geometry	5
Course letter grades and rates of D, W, F grades can introduce variability to course comparisons	5
The evolution of an assignment: how a Writing-to-Learn assignment's design shapes organic chemistry students’ elaborations on reaction mechanisms	5
Design, development, and evaluation of the organic chemistry representational competence assessment (ORCA)	5
Investigating changes in students’ attitudes towards organic chemistry: a longitudinal study	5
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Enabling general chemistry students to take part in experimental design activities	5
When a machine detects student reasoning: a review of machine learning-based formative assessment of mechanistic reasoning	5
The complexity of chemistry mindset beliefs: a multiple case study approach	5
Pre-service chemistry teachers’ understanding of knowledge related to climate change	5
Children's emergent mechanistic reasoning in chemistry: a case study about early primary students’ reasoning about the phenomenon of thermal expansion of air	5