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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Some alternative views of energy	Physics Education	1983	204
2	Archimedes revisited: a faster, better, cheaper method of accurately measuring the volume of small objects	Physics Education	2005	197
3	Advanced tools for smartphone-based experiments: phyphox	Physics Education	2018	175
4	Misconceptions and the Certainty of Response Index (CRI)	Physics Education	1999	169
5	A technique for exploring students' views of the world	Physics Education	1980	162
6	Formal and informal learning in science: the role of the interactive science centres	Physics Education	1990	132
7	Cool?	Physics Education	1969	130
8	Why aren't secondary students interested in physics?	Physics Education	2003	124
9	A survey of some children's ideas about force	Physics Education	1981	123
10	Physics of the microwave oven	Physics Education	2004	121
11	Preparing teachers to teach physics and physical science by inquiry	Physics Education	2000	110
12	Students' difficulties with energy and related concepts	Physics Education	1994	104
13	Real-life contexts for learning physics: meanings, issues and practice	Physics Education	1999	103
14	Learning the energy concept in school - empirical results from The Philippines and West Germany	Physics Education	1984	102
15	Do boys and girls understand physics differently?	Physics Education	2000	101
16	Misconceptions in physics amongst South African students	Physics Education	1980	96
17	The Force Concept Inventory: a tool for monitoring student learning	Physics Education	2002	92
18	Secondary students' conceptions of the conduction of heat: bringing together scientific and personal views	Physics Education	1985	90
19	Students' use of the principle of energy conservation in problem situations	Physics Education	1985	87
20	Students' concept of force: the importance of understanding Newton's third law	Physics Education	1989	87
21	Students' conceptions of ideas in mechanics	Physics Education	1982	81
22	The quantum understanding of pre-university physics students	Physics Education	2000	77
23	Using the Force Concept Inventory to monitor student learning and to plan teaching	Physics Education	2002	75
24	University students' conceptions of basic astronomy concepts	Physics Education	2000	73
25	Teaching the conservation of energy	Physics Education	1985	72
26	How do wings work?	Physics Education	2003	72
27	Tools for scientific thinking-microcomputer-based laboratories for physics teaching	Physics Education	1987	66
28	Classical experiments revisited: smartphones and tablet PCs as experimental tools in acoustics and optics	Physics Education	2014	65
29	Proposal for quantum physics in secondary school	Physics Education	2000	63
30	Sexist bias in physics textbooks	Physics Education	1979	61
31	The molecular mechanism of surface tension	Physics Education	1971	60
32	Why students choose physics, or reject it	Physics Education	1994	60
33	How does a Mach-Zehnder interferometer work?	Physics Education	2000	60
34	Rule-governed approaches to physics - Newton's third law	Physics Education	1984	59
35	When the analogy breaks down: modelling the atom on the solar system	Physics Education	2001	58
36	Teaching about heat and temperature	Physics Education	2000	56
37	Misconceptions in school thermodynamics	Physics Education	1977	55
38	Some primary teachers' ideas about energy	Physics Education	1990	55
39	Differences in students' perceptions of learning physics	Physics Education	1996	53
40	On the demonstration of the Young-Laplace equation in introductory physics courses	Physics Education	2000	53
41	Using concept cartoons to support progression in students' understanding of light	Physics Education	2002	53
42	Relativity, quantum physics and philosophy in the upper secondary curriculum: challenges, opportunities and proposed approaches	Physics Education	2014	53
43	X ray Compton scattering	Physics Education	1972	52
44	Gravity - don't take it for granted!	Physics Education	1982	52
45	Pupils' understanding of simple electrical circuits. Some implications for instruction	Physics Education	1988	52
46	An attempt to overcome alternative conceptions related to heat and temperature	Physics Education	1995	51
47	Concept cartoons: a new perspective on physics education	Physics Education	1998	51
48	Using Tracker as a pedagogical tool for understanding projectile motion	Physics Education	2012	51
49	Ownership and transformation: teachers using curriculum innovations	Physics Education	2002	50
50	The gender balance of physics textbooks: Caribbean and British books, 1985-91	Physics Education	1996	49

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