OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of CBE-Life Sciences Education is 23. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Dancing for Parkinson’s: A Gateway for Connectedness to Peers and Social Assurance	95
Evaluating the Representation of Community Colleges in Biology Education Research Publications following a Call to Action	59
Annotations of LSE Research: Students Identify How to Support their Transfer from Community College	58
Using a STEM Course on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility to Explore Student Reflections on their Socialization into STEM and their Observations of the Figured World of Higher Education S	57
Who is in Our STEM Courses and How do We Know? Student Self-Descriptions, Intersectionality and Inclusive Education	48
What Happens When Undergraduate Biology Students Meet with Professional Scientists to Discuss Research? An Exploratory Investigation into Scientific Discourse, Motivation, and Sense of Belonging	40
Access Needs: Centering Students and Disrupting Ableist Norms in STEM	39
Examining and Supporting Mechanistic Explanations Across Chemistry and Biology Courses	37
Investigating the Influence of Assessment Question Framing on Undergraduate Biology Student Preference and Affect	36
Teaching the Tough Topics: Fostering Ideological Awareness through the Inclusion of Societally Impactful Topics in Introductory Biology	35
Undergraduate Lay Theories of Abilities: Mindset, universality, and brilliance beliefs uniquely predict undergraduate educational outcomes	33
Investigating Instructor Talk among Graduate Teaching Assistants in Undergraduate Biology Laboratory Classrooms	32
Using Systems and Systems Thinking to Unify Biology Education	32
Learning Introductory Biology: Students’ Concept-Building Approaches Predict Transfer on Biology Exams	32
Evidence for Professional Conceptualization in Science as an Important Component of Science Identity	30
A Study Planning Exercise Associated with Decreased Distraction Levels among Introductory Biology Students	30
A Call to Assess the Impacts of Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences for Career and Technical Education, Allied Health, and Underrepresented Students at Community Colleges	28
Improving University Life Science Instruction with Analogies: Insights from a Course for Graduate Teaching Assistants	26
Student Thinking in the Professional Development of College Biology Instructors: An Analysis through the Lens of Sociocultural Theory	25
Drawing on Internal Strengths and Creating Spaces for Growth: How Black Science Majors Navigate the Racial Climate at a Predominantly White Institution to Succeed	25
Reading Primary Scientific Literature: Approaches for Teaching Students in the Undergraduate STEM Classroom	24
GenBio-MAPS as a Case Study to Understand and Address the Effects of Test-Taking Motivation in Low-Stakes Program Assessments	24
Emotion in Teacher Learning and Professional Development	23
Costs and Benefits of Undergraduates Revealing Depression to Online Science Instructors	23
Ethical Dilemmas in Current Uses of AI in Science Education	23