OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physical Review Physics Education Research is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	142
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	94
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	84
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	78
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	75
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	64
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	54
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students’ mechanistic sensemaking	54
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	53
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	38
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	31
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	30
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	29
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	26
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	26
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	26
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	25
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	24
Improving student understanding of the number of distinct many-particle states for a system of identical particles with a fixed number of available single-particle states	24
Development of a multiple-choice test to assess critical thinking in climate change	22
Psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics	21
Students’ understanding of the 2D heat equation: An action, process, object, schema approach	20
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	19
Students’ eye movement behaviors in solving physics problems with different information structures	19
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	18

Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	18
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	18
Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	18
Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	17
Bridging the novice-expert gap: The role of inhibitory control and interventions in overcoming buoyancy misconceptions	17
Using drawing to study student research experiences	17
Modeling when and how physics Ph.D. students search for a research group: The role of interests and prior research experiences in timely group integration	17
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	17
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	17
Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	17
Long and winding road toward change in teachers’ goals and orientations in the instructional lab	16
Test of understanding of electric field, force, and flux: A reliable multiple-choice assessment tool	16
Qualitative investigation of students’ cross-disciplinary understanding of energy concepts	16
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	16
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	15
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	15
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	15
Nature of heat inventory: Assessing student understanding of thermal processes in kinetic molecular terms	15
Expert perspectives on the future of quantum physics education at the secondary level	15
Gaze patterns enhance response prediction: More than correct or incorrect	15
Characterizing discourse group roles in inquiry-based university science labs	15
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	14
Physics demonstrations, science show, or hands-on practical work? Exploring students’ intrinsic motivation	14
Effect of group type on group performance in peer-collaborated two-round physics problem solving	13
Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.	13
Mandatory retrieval test to incentivize retrieval practice of physics principles	13
Designing e-learning courses for classroom and distance learning in physics: The role of learning tasks	13
Effect of representation format on conceptual question performance and eye-tracking measures	13
Leveraging generative artificial intelligence for simulation-based physics experiments: A new approach to virtual learning about the real world	13
Investigating the impact of problem properties on introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics conceptual problems	13
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	12
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	12
Development and reliability analysis of a split-administration test of the math epistemic games survey	12
Applying module analysis to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	12
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	12
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners	12
Energy as a source of preservice teachers’ conceptions about radioactivity	12
Assessing physics quantitative literacy development in algebra-based physics	12
Unveiling the influence of pedagogical content knowledge in questioning on college students’ conceptual learning of introductory physics	12
Self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge in quantum mechanics during teaching reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Analyzing identity trajectories within the physics community	11
Taking introductory physics in studio, lecture, or online format: What difference does it make in subsequent courses, and for whom?	11
Concept image framework for derivatives from contour graphs	11
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation	11
Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change	11
Young women’s longitudinal identity negotiations in physics and mathematics throughout upper secondary education	11
Dynamics of collaborative modeling in an ill-structured real-world problem	11
Using representational gesture to enact instants in collaborative problem solving in physics	11
Inventory of Galilean Transformation of uniform linear motion in position-time graphs	11
Role of departmental support structures and self-efficacy on physics student persistence: An examination of students’ experience from 19 physics graduate programs	11

Assessment of conceptual understanding in student learning of evaporation	11
Can large language models correctly interpret equations with errors?	11
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: A case study of students’ experiences with early new policy	10
Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity	10
Educational reconstruction of nuclear astrophysics in a design-based research project	10
Do we have a quantum computer? Expert perspectives on current state and future prospects	10
When AI evaluates its own work: Validating learner-initiated, AI-generated physics practice problems	10
Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework	10
Student sensemaking on electrostatics problems involving the method of images through the lens of epistemic game framework	10
How gender composition and group formation impact the effectiveness of group work in two-stage collaborative exams	10
Enrollment to exams: Perceived stress dynamics among first-year physics students	10
Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	10
Examination of students’ quantum physics knowledge construction with peers and metacognitive evaluations	10
Analyzing problem solving in secondary physics education: A rubric-guided approach to explore individual learning needs	9
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	9
Exploring physics teacher identity: Pathways toward equitable instruction among teachers	9
Evaluation of a new teaching-learning sequence on the particulate nature of matter using crystal structures	9
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	9
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	9
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	9
Overcoming the more measurements, the better intuitive heuristic in physics data evaluation: The role of inhibitory control	9
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	9
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	9
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	9
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	9
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	9
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	9
Graph theoretical methods for understanding student social interactions in physics classrooms	9
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	9
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	8
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	8
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	8
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	8
Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression	8
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	8
Preservice physics teachers’ nonroutine problem-posing process: Metacognitive strategies and beliefs	8
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	8
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	8
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	8
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	8
Evaluating a department-wide initiative incorporating computational methods into the undergraduate physics curriculum	8
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	8
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	8
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	8
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	8
Investigating peer recognition across an introductory physics sequence: Do first impressions last?	8
Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance	8
Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance	7
How to evaluate students’ decisions in a data comparison problem: Correct decision for the wrong reasons?	7
How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT	7
Generative AI for feedback and collaborative knowledge construction in preservice physics teacher education	7
Recognition and conversion of electric field representations: The case of electric field lines	7
Augmenting learning environments using AI custom chatbots: Effects on learning performance, cognitive load, and affective variables	7
Assessment of expert decisions in graduate quantum mechanics	7
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	7
Professional contexts of physics instructional labs: More than technical support	7
Analyzing the history of physics education in the USA and Europe through natural language processing	7
Empirical insights into the effects of research-based teaching strategies in quantum education	7
High-stakes exams inflate a gender gap and contribute to systematic grading errors in one introductory physics series	7
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	7
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing	7
Visualizing and predicting the path to an undergraduate physics degree at two different institutions	7
Incorporating explicit discussions on the duality of reasoning into physics instruction	7
Global blind spot in understanding trigonometric derivatives: A multinational analysis	7
Undergraduate physics students’ experiences: Exploring the impact of underrepresented identities and intersectionality	7
Using expectancy-value theory to understand the teaching motivations of women physics lecturers	7
Student difficulties and alternative conceptions in learning particle motion in force fields	7
Gaze behavior as a key to revealing strategies for identifying indirectly proportional graphs in thermodynamic and mathematical context	7
Who and what gets recognized in peer recognition	7