Table 3.

Highly co-cited authors in the intellectual structure of scientific literacy between the years 1980 to 2019 with a threshold of 600.

Frequency	Author	Research focus	Affiliation
1,058	Jonathan Osborne	Curriculum, classroom, argumentation, and women’s participation in science	Stanford University, United States
958	Rosalind Driver	Conceptual Change, Argumentation	Kings College London, United Kingdom
725	Norman G. Lederman	Nature of Science, Scientific Inquiry	Illinois Institute of Technology, United States
683	Rodger Bybee	Secondary School Science, Curriculum	Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, United States
668	Derek Hodson	Curriculum and Pedagogy	Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada
628	Miller Jon D	Citizen science, policy, public attitude, biomedical communication	University of Michigan, United States
614	Robin Millar	Socio-scientific issues, Moral reasoning	University of York, United Kingdom
605	Rick Bonney	Scientific Curriculum, Physicists	New York University, United States