Rola Khishfe

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Rola Khishfe is a scholar working on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Rola Khishfe has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Education, 23 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 3 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Rola Khishfe's work include Science Education and Pedagogy (26 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (23 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (19 papers). Rola Khishfe is often cited by papers focused on Science Education and Pedagogy (26 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (23 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (19 papers). Rola Khishfe collaborates with scholars based in Lebanon, United States and Egypt. Rola Khishfe's co-authors include Fouad Abd‐El‐Khalick, Norman G. Lederman, Hagop A. Yacoubian, Saouma BouJaoude, Nasser Mansour, Reneé Schwartz, Lee Matthews, Shiang‐Yao Liu and Murad Jurdak and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Research in Science Teaching, International Journal of Science Education and Science & Education.

In The Last Decade

Rola Khishfe

27 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Influence of explicit and reflective versus implicit inquiry‐oriented instruction on sixth graders' views of nature of science

2002 584 citations Rola Khishfe, Fouad Abd‐El‐Khalick Journal of Research in Science Teaching profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rola Khishfe Lebanon	17	1.6k	1.1k	245	143	69	27	1.7k
Michael L. Simmons United States	3	998 0.6×	591 0.5×	199 0.8×	117 0.8×	151 2.2×	6	1.2k
Lisa A. Donnelly United States	14	839 0.5×	529 0.5×	296 1.2×	85 0.6×	121 1.8×	15	1.1k
Phil Scott United Kingdom	12	811 0.5×	508 0.5×	104 0.4×	47 0.3×	82 1.2×	27	947
María Pilar Jiménez‐Aleixandre Spain	14	758 0.5×	544 0.5×	110 0.4×	61 0.4×	92 1.3×	33	934
Tina Jarvis United Kingdom	14	775 0.5×	353 0.3×	246 1.0×	182 1.3×	65 0.9×	24	966
Antonio García–Carmona Spain	19	861 0.5×	531 0.5×	134 0.5×	233 1.6×	66 1.0×	124	1.1k
Sylvia Hogarth United Kingdom	6	538 0.3×	292 0.3×	95 0.4×	66 0.5×	61 0.9×	8	744
Carolyn W. Keys United States	11	1.0k 0.6×	647 0.6×	55 0.2×	141 1.0×	48 0.7×	14	1.2k
Cathleen C. Loving United States	12	670 0.4×	324 0.3×	104 0.4×	101 0.7×	108 1.6×	28	825
Varda Bar Israel	11	686 0.4×	390 0.4×	231 0.9×	35 0.2×	29 0.4×	19	791

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Khishfe, Rola & Murad Jurdak. (2024). Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues. Science & Education. 34(6). 3859–3884. 1 indexed citations

Khishfe, Rola. (2024). Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course. Science & Education. 34(3). 1223–1247. 3 indexed citations

Khishfe, Rola. (2024). Nature of science conceptions and argumentation skills in different socioscientific contexts. International Journal of Science Education. 47(12). 1542–1567. 1 indexed citations

Khishfe, Rola. (2022). Relationship Between Nature of Science and Argumentation: a Follow-Up Study. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. 21(4). 1081–1102. 6 indexed citations

Khishfe, Rola. (2022). Nature of Science and Argumentation Instruction in socioscientific and scientific contexts. International Journal of Science Education. 44(4). 647–673. 18 indexed citations

Khishfe, Rola. (2022). Improving Students’ Conceptions of Nature of Science: A Review of the Literature. Science & Education. 32(6). 1887–1931. 27 indexed citations

Khishfe, Rola. (2020). Retention of acquired argumentation skills and nature of science conceptions. International Journal of Science Education. 42(13). 2181–2204. 8 indexed citations

Yacoubian, Hagop A. & Rola Khishfe. (2018). Argumentation, critical thinking, nature of science and socioscientific issues: a dialogue between two researchers. International Journal of Science Education. 40(7). 796–807. 45 indexed citations

Khishfe, Rola. (2017). Consistency of nature of science views across scientific and socio-scientific contexts. International Journal of Science Education. 39(4). 403–432. 36 indexed citations

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Khishfe, Rola. (2015). A Look into Students’ Retention of Acquired Nature of Science Understandings. International Journal of Science Education. 37(10). 1639–1667. 22 indexed citations

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Khishfe, Rola & Saouma BouJaoude. (2014). LEBANESE STUDENTS’ CONCEPTIONS OF AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS SCIENCE AND RELATED CAREERS BASED ON THEIR GENDER AND RELIGIOUS AFFILIATIONS. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. 14(S1). 145–167. 15 indexed citations

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Khishfe, Rola. (2014). A Reconstructed Vision of Environmental Science Literacy: The case of Qatar. International Journal of Science Education. 36(18). 3067–3100. 16 indexed citations

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Khishfe, Rola. (2013). Explicit Nature of Science and Argumentation Instruction in the Context of Socioscientific Issues: An effect on student learning and transfer. International Journal of Science Education. 36(6). 974–1016. 116 indexed citations

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Khishfe, Rola. (2012). Relationship between nature of science understandings and argumentation skills: A role for counterargument and contextual factors. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 49(4). 489–514. 97 indexed citations

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Khishfe, Rola. (2011). Nature of Science and Decision-Making. International Journal of Science Education. 34(1). 67–100. 106 indexed citations

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Khishfe, Rola. (2007). The development of seventh graders' views of nature of science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 45(4). 470–496. 105 indexed citations

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Khishfe, Rola & Norman G. Lederman. (2006). Teaching nature of science within a controversial topic: Integrated versus nonintegrated. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 43(4). 395–418. 209 indexed citations

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Khishfe, Rola. (2004). Relationship between students' understandings of nature of science and instructional context. PhDT. 3 indexed citations

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Lederman, Norman G., et al.. (2003). Project ICAN: A Multi-layered Model of Professional Development. 6 indexed citations

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Khishfe, Rola & Fouad Abd‐El‐Khalick. (2002). Influence of explicit and reflective versus implicit inquiry‐oriented instruction on sixth graders' views of nature of science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 39(7). 551–578. 584 indexed citations breakdown →

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