OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Stem Education is 30. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
“That’s just the way it is”: bullying and harassment in STEM academia	257
The implementation of peer assessment as a scaffold during computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning in secondary STEM education	208
How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps	175
Beyond “study skills”: a curriculum-embedded framework for metacognitive development in a college chemistry course	155
Predicting implementation of active learning by tenure-track teaching faculty using robust cluster analysis	131
Characteristics of interactive classrooms that first year students find helpful	106
Teamwork dynamics in the context of large-size software development courses	89
Which evidence-based teaching practices change over time? Results from a university-wide STEM faculty development program	72
Exploring instructional design in K-12 STEM education: a systematic literature review	71
A decade of advancing development, diversity, engagement, and excellence in STEM education	66
The impact of AI-assisted pair programming on student motivation, programming anxiety, collaborative learning, and programming performance: a comparative study with traditional pair programming and in	54
Enhancing programming learning performance through a Jigsaw collaborative learning method in a metaverse virtual space	54
Perceived network bridging influences the career commitment decisions of early career teachers	54
A systematic review of STEM teacher recruitment and retention interventions	51
The computational thinking for science (CT-S) framework: operationalizing CT-S for K–12 science education researchers and educators	50
Utilizing an NLP-supported mobile reflection application to explore academic engagement, application engagement, and performance in engineering and physics courses	44
Investigation of STEM fields motivation among female students in science education colleges	43
Validity, acceptability, and procedural issues of selection methods for graduate study admissions in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a mapping review	43
Whose ability and growth matter? Gender, mindset and performance in physics	41
Modality matters: how combining oral and written instructional explanations improves STEM learning from video lectures	38
Enhancing STEM outcomes through mentorship (Mis)matching: an identity grafting approach	38
STEM education institutional change projects: examining enacted approaches through the lens of the Four Categories of Change Strategies Model	36
“Weebles wobble but they also commit to lifelong relationships”: teachers’ transdisciplinary learning in computational play	35
Internal and external influences on role stereotype adherence and gender dynamics on engineering design teams	33
What do integrated STEM projects look like in middle school and high school classrooms? A systematic literature review of empirical studies of iSTEM projects	33

Quantifying ento-literacy: development and validation of an international insect-focused attitude and knowledge survey instrument	32
Comparing success of female students to their male counterparts in the STEM fields: an empirical analysis from enrollment until graduation using longitudinal register data	32
Applicant qualifications and characteristics in STEM faculty hiring: an analysis of faculty and administrator perspectives	31
Investigating the impact of peer supplemental instruction on underprepared and historically underserved students in introductory STEM courses	31
Seven years of development as building a foundation for the journal’s leadership in promoting STEM education internationally	30
Characteristics of departments with high-use of active learning in introductory STEM courses: implications for departmental transformation	30
Secondary school mathematics and entrance into the STEM professions: a longitudinal study	30