Anat Zohar

7.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
75 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Anat Zohar is a scholar working on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Anat Zohar has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Education, 39 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Anat Zohar's work include Education and Critical Thinking Development (36 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (27 papers) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (23 papers). Anat Zohar is often cited by papers focused on Education and Critical Thinking Development (36 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (27 papers) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (23 papers). Anat Zohar collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Anat Zohar's co-authors include Sarit Barzilai, Yehudit Judy Dori, Pinchas Tamir, Deanna Kuhn, Christopher Andersen, David Klahr, Mercè García-Milà, Sheldon H. White, Sharon M. Carver and Yaki Saciuk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Infectious Diseases and Emerging infectious diseases.

In The Last Decade

Anat Zohar

71 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Fostering students' knowledge and argumentation skills through dilemmas in human genetics

2001 986 citations Anat Zohar et al. profile →
A review of research on metacognition in science education: current and future directions

2013 282 citations Anat Zohar, Sarit Barzilai profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anat Zohar Israel	32	3.6k	2.5k	335	331	315	75	4.7k
Steven M. Ross United States	32	2.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	214 0.6×	377 1.1×	295 0.9×	211	3.5k
Terry Wood United States	24	2.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.4×	206 0.6×	217 0.7×	177 0.6×	68	3.0k
Guangwei Hu Hong Kong	39	1.8k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	145 0.4×	334 1.0×	278 0.9×	199	5.6k
Michael O. Martín United States	19	3.0k 0.8×	843 0.3×	310 0.9×	517 1.6×	357 1.1×	50	4.0k
Philip Scott United Kingdom	17	2.9k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	405 1.2×	165 0.5×	292 0.9×	26	3.5k
Sven De Mæyer Belgium	28	1.2k 0.3×	419 0.2×	254 0.8×	216 0.7×	240 0.8×	134	2.3k
Panayiota Kendeou United States	40	2.5k 0.7×	4.4k 1.8×	319 1.0×	863 2.6×	1.2k 3.8×	119	6.3k
Scott Baker United States	36	3.2k 0.9×	3.5k 1.4×	60 0.2×	110 0.3×	176 0.6×	143	5.1k
Saouma BouJaoude Lebanon	24	2.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	581 1.7×	144 0.4×	367 1.2×	55	3.1k
Eileen Wood Canada	28	1.6k 0.4×	1.0k 0.4×	280 0.8×	339 1.0×	943 3.0×	101	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anat Zohar

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zohar, Anat & Yochai Shavit. (2025). Bridging geragogy and pedagogy: Towards a learning-sciences-based approach to older adults’ education. Educational Gerontology. 1–19.

Zohar, Anat, Tal Gilead, Sarit Barzilai, & Abraham Arcavi. (2024). Designing Guiding Principles for Twenty-First Century Curricula: Navigating Knowledge, Thinking Skills, and Pedagogical Autonomy in the Israeli Curriculum. Interchange. 55(1). 93–113.

Nir, Adam E., et al.. (2024). Promoting 21 ^st century pedagogy: can school autonomy and school-based professional development processes make a difference?. Education Inquiry. 1–24. 1 indexed citations

Zohar, Anat. (2023). Cognitive growth rather than decline: examining highly educated, third age women’s learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education. 42(4). 342–360. 2 indexed citations

Zohar, Anat, et al.. (2023). “The king will be corrupt too!” Teaching thinking in bible studies. Journal of Curriculum Studies. 55(1). 63–81.

David, Shirley Shapiro Ben, et al.. (2022). Immediate side effects of Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine: A nationwide survey of vaccinated people in Israel, December 2020 to March 2021. Eurosurveillance. 27(13). 12 indexed citations

Saciuk, Yaki, et al.. (2021). Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine effectiveness against Sars-Cov-2 infection: Findings from a large observational study in Israel. Preventive Medicine. 155. 106947–106947. 30 indexed citations

Dori, Yehudit Judy, et al.. (2018). Gender-fair assessment of young gifted students’ scientific thinking skills. International Journal of Science Education. 40(6). 595–620. 16 indexed citations

Zohar, Anat, et al.. (2017). Raising test scores vs. teaching higher order thinking (HOT): senior science teachers’ views on how several concurrent policies affect classroom practices. Research in Science & Technological Education. 36(2). 243–260. 40 indexed citations

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Nir, Adam E., et al.. (2016). School autonomy and 21st century skills in the Israeli educational system. International Journal of Educational Management. 30(7). 1231–1246. 60 indexed citations

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Barzilai, Sarit & Anat Zohar. (2012). Epistemic Thinking in Action: Evaluating and Integrating Online Sources. Cognition and Instruction. 30(1). 39–85. 179 indexed citations

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Zohar, Anat & Yehudit Judy Dori. (2012). Metacognition in science education : trends in current research. Springer eBooks. 65 indexed citations

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Zohar, Anat, et al.. (2008). Contribution of Meta‐strategic Knowledge to Scientific Inquiry Learning. International Journal of Science Education. 31(12). 1657–1682. 63 indexed citations

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Barzilai, Sarit & Anat Zohar. (2007). Is information acquisition still important in the information age?. Education and Information Technologies. 13(1). 35–53. 4 indexed citations

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Zohar, Anat. (2006). Connected Knowledge in Science and Mathematics Education. International Journal of Science Education. 28(13). 1579–1599. 31 indexed citations

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Zohar, Anat, et al.. (1998). Lifting the taboo regarding teleology and anthropomorphism in biology education—Heretical suggestions. Science Education. 82(6). 679–697. 6 indexed citations

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Zohar, Anat. (1998). Result or conclusion? Students' differentiation between experimental results and conclusions. Journal of Biological Education. 32(1). 53–59. 7 indexed citations

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Friedler, Yael, Anat Zohar, & Pinchas Tamir. (1993). The effect of age and of learning on the ability to distinguish between anthropomorphic and teleological explanations. International Journal of Science Education. 15(4). 439–443. 15 indexed citations

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Zohar, Anat & Pinchas Tamir. (1993). Incorporating Critical Thinking Into a Regular High School Biology Curriculum. School Science and Mathematics. 93(3). 136–140. 26 indexed citations

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Zohar, Anat & Pinchas Tamir. (1986). A New Instrument to Assess the Inquiry Characteristics of Science Computer Software. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching. 6(1). 44–46.

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