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Table 3 Top 10 most-cited articles published from 2014 to 2021

From: Authorship and topic trends in STEM education research

Title (year of publication)

Author (country/region*)

Citation counts**

A conceptual framework for integrated STEM education (2016)

Kelley & Knowles (USA)

487

STEM education K-12: perspectives on integration (2016)

English (Australia)

313

Teachers’ perception of STEM integration and education: a systematic literature review (2019)

Margot & Kettler (USA)

189

Race and gender differences in how sense of belonging influences decisions to major in STEM (2018)

Rainey et al. (USA)

163

STEM learning through engineering design: fourth-grade students’ investigations in aerospace (2015)

English & King (Australia)

120

Assessing teacher education and professional development needs for the implementation of integrated approaches to STEM education (2017)

Shernoff et al. (USA)

109

The importance of context: an exploration of factors influencing the adoption of student-centered teaching among chemistry, biology, and physics faculty (2015)

Lund & Stains (USA)

101

Strategies to mitigate student resistance to active learning (2018)

Tharayil et al. (USA)

90

Research trends on argumentation in science education: a journal content analysis from 1998 to 2014 (2015)

Erduran et al. (UK)

89

Research and trends in STEM education: a systematic review of journal publications (2020)

Li et al. (USA)

87

  1. *Country/region refers to where the corresponding author’s research organization or institution was located at the time of publication
  2. **Citation counts retrieved from Springer Nature Insights/Dimensions on August 31st, 2022. (Source: Springer)