OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physical Review Physics Education Research 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	117
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	64
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	63
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	61
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	57
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	48
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	44
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	43
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	42
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	40
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	38
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	38
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	37
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	33
Defining and assessing understandings of evidence with the assessment rubric for physics inquiry: Towards integration of argumentation and inquiry	33
Collaborative physics teachers: Enhancing the use of the laboratory through action research in a community of learners	31
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	30
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice	28
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	28
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	26
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	26
Replicating analyses of item response curves using data from the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation	25
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	22
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	22
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories	21

Impact of inquiry-based teaching and group composition on students’ understanding of the nature of science in college physics laboratory	21
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?	20
Long and winding road toward change in teachers’ goals and orientations in the instructional lab	19
Bridging the novice-expert gap: The role of inhibitory control and interventions in overcoming buoyancy misconceptions	19
Exploratory analysis of students’ open-ended responses describing their perception of course inclusivity in an introductory physics course	19
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	18
Characterizing discourse group roles in inquiry-based university science labs	18
Evaluating IBM’s Watson natural language processing artificial intelligence as a short-answer categorization tool for physics education research	18
Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team’s change effort	18
Test of understanding of electric field, force, and flux: A reliable multiple-choice assessment tool	18
Central role of personnel in informal physics programming	17
Towards mapping the landscape of informal physics educational activities	17
Using drawing to study student research experiences	17
Gaze patterns enhance response prediction: More than correct or incorrect	17
Characterizing decision-making opportunities in undergraduate physics coursework	16
Development and validation of the Conceptual Survey on Wave Optics	16
Reply to “Comment on ‘Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions’ ”	16
Effect of representation format on conceptual question performance and eye-tracking measures	15
Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending	15
Investigating the efficacy of attending to reflexive cognitive processes in the context of Newton’s second law	15
Effect of group type on group performance in peer-collaborated two-round physics problem solving	15
Designing e-learning courses for classroom and distance learning in physics: The role of learning tasks	15
Assessing physics quantitative literacy development in algebra-based physics	14
Physics demonstrations, science show, or hands-on practical work? Exploring students’ intrinsic motivation	14
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics	14
Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.	13
Investigating the impact of problem properties on introductory and advanced student responses to introductory thermodynamics conceptual problems	13
Mandatory retrieval test to incentivize retrieval practice of physics principles	13
Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change	13
Assessment of conceptual understanding in student learning of evaporation	12
Unveiling the influence of pedagogical content knowledge in questioning on college students’ conceptual learning of introductory physics	12
Applying module analysis to the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment	12
Energy as a source of preservice teachers’ conceptions about radioactivity	12
Motivation and needs of informal physics practitioners	12
Assessment of student knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy	12
Development and reliability analysis of a split-administration test of the math epistemic games survey	12
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation	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
Inventory of Galilean Transformation of uniform linear motion in position-time graphs	11
Gender inequity in individual participation within physics and science, technology, engineering, and math courses	11
Editorial: Call for Papers Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions	10
Informal physics programs as communities of practice: How can programs support university students’ identities?	10
Role of departmental support structures and self-efficacy on physics student persistence: An examination of students’ experience from 19 physics graduate programs	10
Self-efficacy and conceptual knowledge in quantum mechanics during teaching reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Detecting preservice teachers’ visual attention under prediction and nonprediction conditions with eye-tracking technology	10
Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework	9
Impacts on student learning, confidence, and affect in a remote, large-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics	9
Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels	9
History of science based dialogues on sound waves: From sound atoms to phonons	9

How perception of learning environment predicts male and female students’ grades and motivational outcomes in algebra-based introductory physics courses	9
Graduate program reform in one department of physics and astronomy: A case study of students’ experiences with early new policy	9
Concept image framework for derivatives from contour graphs	9
Examining the relationship between informal science experiences and physics identity: Unrealized possibilities	9
Cross-disciplinary learning index: A quantitative measure of cross-disciplinary learning about energy	9
LGBT+physicists: Harassment, persistence, and uneven support	9
Examination of students’ quantum physics knowledge construction with peers and metacognitive evaluations	9
Enrollment to exams: Perceived stress dynamics among first-year physics students	9
Endorsement of gender stereotypes affects high school students’ science identity	9
Effects of male-dominated physics culture on undergraduate women	9
How gender composition and group formation impact the effectiveness of group work in two-stage collaborative exams	9
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics	8
Evaluation of a new teaching-learning sequence on the particulate nature of matter using crystal structures	8
Development, evaluation, and gender differences in a novel workshop intervention to narrow the physics gender gap at postcompulsory level	8
Limiting case analysis in an electricity and magnetism course	8
Exploring physics teacher identity: Pathways toward equitable instruction among teachers	8
Sense of belonging is an important predictor of introductory physics students’ academic performance	8
Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class	8
Validation of two test anxiety scales for physics undergraduate courses through confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis	8
Beyond normalized gain: Improved comparison of physics educational outcomes	8
Hybrid teaching: A tale of two populations	8
Role of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics teaching	8
Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy: A tool for assessing mathematical reasoning in introductory physics	8
Impact of perceived recognition by physics instructors on women’s self-efficacy and interest	8
Restructuring physics labs to cultivate sense of student agency	7
Relationship between semiotic representations and student performance in the context of refraction	7
Enhancing peer instruction in physics: Understanding cognitive processes and refining rules	7
Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs	7
Exploring techniques to improve machine learning’s identification of at-risk students in physics classes	7
Quantum mechanics curriculum in the U.S.: Quantifying the instructional time, content taught, and paradigms used	7
Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students’ proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts	7
Not feeling recognized as a physics person by instructors and teaching assistants is correlated with female students’ lower grades	7
Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics	7
Seeing quantum effects in experiments	7
Investigating student ability to follow reasoning chains: The role of conceptual understanding	7
Increased learning in a college physics course with timely use of short multimedia summaries	7
Network analysis of graduate program support structures through experiences of various demographic groups	7
Educational data augmentation in physics education research using ChatGPT	7
Self-efficacy changes and gender effects on self-efficacy in a large-scale robotic telescope focused curriculum	7
Who and what gets recognized in peer recognition	6
Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression	6
Investigating peer recognition across an introductory physics sequence: Do first impressions last?	6
Incorporating explicit discussions on the duality of reasoning into physics instruction	6
Student difficulties and alternative conceptions in learning particle motion in force fields	6
Investigating unprompted and prompted diagrams generated by physics majors during problem solving	6
Recognition and conversion of electric field representations: The case of electric field lines	6
Undergraduate physics students’ experiences: Exploring the impact of underrepresented identities and intersectionality	6
Working together or alone, near, or far: Social connections and communities of practice in in-person and remote physics laboratories	6
Could an artificial-intelligence agent pass an introductory physics course?	6
Gaze behavior as a key to revealing strategies for identifying indirectly proportional graphs in thermodynamic and mathematical context	6
Improving student understanding of fermionic and bosonic wave function	6
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing	6
Augmenting learning environments using AI custom chatbots: Effects on learning performance, cognitive load, and affective variables	6
Examining reasons undergraduate women join physics	6
Gender differences in grades versus grade penalties: Are grade anomalies more detrimental for female physics majors?	6
Effectiveness of conceptual-framework-based instruction on promoting knowledge integration in learning simple electric circuit	6
Professional contexts of physics instructional labs: More than technical support	6
Impact of more realistic and earlier practice exams on student metacognition, study behaviors, and exam performance	6
Assessment of expert decisions in graduate quantum mechanics	6
What decisions do experts make when doing back-of-the-envelope calculations?	6
Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding physics: A practical guide for researchers	6
Using expectancy-value theory to understand the teaching motivations of women physics lecturers	6
How to evaluate students’ decisions in a data comparison problem: Correct decision for the wrong reasons?	6
How do physics students evaluate artificial intelligence responses on comprehension questions? A study on the perceived scientific accuracy and linguistic quality of ChatGPT	6
Empirical insights into the effects of research-based teaching strategies in quantum education	6
Visualizing and predicting the path to an undergraduate physics degree at two different institutions	6
Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance	6