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Table 4 Top 10 most-cited articles published in 2021

From: Authorship and topic trends in STEM education research

Title (school level)

Author (country/region*)

Citation counts**

Effects of infusing the engineering design process into STEM project-based learning to develop preservice technology teachers’ engineering design thinking (post-secondary)

Lin et al. (Taiwan)

18

STEAM in education: a bibliometric analysis of performance and co-words in Web of Science (general)

Marin-Marin et al. (Spain)

17

Understanding coherence and integration in integrated STEM curriculum (K-12 school)

Roehrig et al. (USA)

15

Using design thinking to cultivate the next generation of female STEAM thinkers (K-12 school)

Kijima et al. (Canada)

14

STEM stereotypes predict students’ STEM career interest via self-efficacy and outcome expectations (K-12 school)

Luo et al. (Hong Kong)

12

A scoping review of literature assessing the impact of the learning assistant model (post-secondary)

Barrasso & Spilios (USA)

10

Active learning through flipped classroom in mechanical engineering: improving students’ perception of learning and performance (post-secondary)

Cho et al. (USA)

10

The influence of expressive and instrumental social capital from parents on women and underrepresented minority students’ declaration and persistence in engineering majors (post-secondary)

Puccia et al. (USA)

10

Instructor strategies to aid implementation of active learning: a systematic literature review (post-secondary)

Nguyen et al. (USA)

9

NGSS-based teacher professional development to implement engineering practices in STEM instruction (general)

Christian et al. (USA)

8

  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)