OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessment in practice: achieving joint decisions in oral examination grading conversations	37
Shared problems, diverging solutions: experts on the Dutch field of education	36
Optimism trap? Educational aspirations and outcomes among students with immigrant backgrounds in Norway and Spain	33
Adolescent Mental Health Disorders and Upper Secondary School Completion – The Role of Family Resources	24
Digital competence and digital technology: a curriculum analysis of Norwegian early childhood teacher education	24
Sustaining the ethos of togetherness in multicultural schools in Denmark: student teachers’ reflections and experiences	23
Harnessing machine learning to explore the role of socio-demographic and attitudinal factors in shaping students’ environmental sustainability beliefs and behaviors	22
Associations Between Social-Emotional and Language Development in Preschool Children. Results from a Study Testing the Rationale for an Intervention	20
Translanguaging strategies in multilingual newly arrived students’ writing	18
Philosophical Paradigms in Qualitative Research Methods Education: What is their Pedagogical Role?	18
Studies on Literacy Skills in Social Studies Education: A Systematic Literature Review (1996-2020)	18
Finnish students’ conceptions of giftedness and intelligence in basic education	17
Investigating the Measurement of OTL in PISA 2012 and its Relationship with Self-efficacy and Mathematics Achievement: Doubly Latent Multilevel Analyses	17
Sustainably on the seas of academia: comparing metaphors of social and independent academic writing	16
The Campbellian construct validity: some comments	15
A bibliometric study of Swedish educational research: mapping key themes, 2000–2020	15
The Predictors of Literacy Skills among Monolingual and Bilingual Finnish–Swedish Children During First Grade	15
Examining the Role of Perceived Classroom Goal Structures and Parents’ Goals in ESL/EFL Learners’ Achievement Goals, Engagement and Achievement	14
Do lectures matter? Exploring students’ situational interest in two learning arenas in teacher education	14
“I am maybe half-and-half Swedish. 50-50.” – Young adolescents’ national identity negotiation in a diverse school setting	13
Doing “more with less”: the entrepreneurialization of Finnish higher education and innovation policy discourses in 2015–2019	12
Conflicts of interest in environmental and sustainability education	12
Lesson openings in Norwegian language arts: a study of how teachers start reading lessons in 8th grade classrooms	12
Measuring the study environment of university students through a Study Demands-Resources lens: a scoping study of existing instruments	11
A longitudinal investigation of letter-name knowledge in a semi-transparent orthography	11

Depicting death for children – analysing how death is portrayed in stylistic different ways in children’s picture books	11
Gifted students’ experiences with participation in enrichment programs at talent centers in Norway	10
Danish school pupils’ perception of their learning outcomes from participating in computer-based adaptive tests: a pressure for just clicking something?	10
Inclusion of students with special education needs in Nordic countries: a systematic scoping review	10
Health education in Swedish schools – what’s on offer?	10
Students’ Self-reported Background SES Measures in TIMSS in Relation to Register SES Measures When Analysing Students’ Achievements in Sweden	10
Enhancing Teachers’ Emotional Awareness Through Continuing Professional Development: Mission Possible?	10
Teachers’ ethical responsibility in teaching; to guide the children about right and wrong	10
Exploring student participation practices in vocational education: an insider action research project	10
Word Reading, Letter Knowledge, and Memory Skills in Danish Children (6-Year-Olds)	9
Victim, perpetrator, or witness of peer sexual harassment? Middle-school students’ movements between roles across time	9
Blurred boundaries and the hierarchization of incidents: Swedish schoolteachers’ struggles with distinguishing degrading treatment, harassment, and school bullying	9
A phenomenological research of democracy education in a Finnish primary-school	9
Depoliticising political violence: state-centric and individualised discourses in the Norwegian counterterrorism policy field	9
Pedagogical practices used by early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers to promote participation	8
Home economics teachers’ endeavours to engage students in sustainability thinking through clothing and fashion: a transformational teaching approach	8
What’s in it? – schoolbags in the lives of pupils and classrooms	8
Learning-Environment Uncertainty and Students’ Approaches to Learning: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	8
The associations between mathematical skills, cognitive performance, and language background in elementary school children. a two-year follow-up study	8
Association between Intention to Quit School and Youth Depression: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of a Group CBT Course	7
Teacher profiles concerning upper secondary school teachers' views on and use of digital learning resources for teaching – a cluster analysis	7
Learning from errors: co-clustering students’ answer types in a digital learning environment to verify task design on linear equations	7
Linearity, delay, and lost language learning opportunities. Newly arrived adolescent students’ experiences with school segregation in Norway	7
Sustainability of Cooperation in the International Development of African Higher Education*	7
The development of exhaustion, cynicism, and inadequacy in general upper secondary education: perceived and received support, student engagement, and gender as predictors	7
The will to collaboration – shaping leaders for schools of the future	7
Teacher preparation for the digital age: Is it still an instrumental endeavor?	7
Turbulence throughout teacher education: a case study of negotiating teacher identity	7
Renegotiation of subject content – interpretations of new art education policy	7
“You fuel the car with gas, you fuel the body with food” – educational functions of food for health in home and consumer studies	7
Digital systems for special educational needs documentation in Swedish preschools: new organisational maps for municipalities and professionals	7
Teachers’ Perceived Self-Efficacy and Sense of Inadequacy across Grade 1: Bidirectional Associations and Related Factors	7
The Dirty Process of Creating Clean Absence Data: An Ethnographic Study	6
Growth mindset and academic achievement: a multilevel analysis of upper secondary school completion	6
Correction	6
The triggering of communicative discourses in Sweden: technicalities in the PISA survey and social tensions in society	6
Beyond Reporting Grades in Grade Talk: Narratives About Students’ Paths in Year Four	6
When fairness is an abstraction: equity and AI in Swedish compulsory education	6
University rankings in the Nordic countries: impacts on policy and practice	6
How educational leaders in Sweden address interculturalism: a systematic literature review and an illustrative case	6
Civic engagement in early adolescence: a contextual view on the civic-oriented activities among Finnish 6th graders	6
Systematic review of empirical studies on international large-scale assessments of civic and citizenship education	6
Supporting In-service Teachers’ Collective Learning of Ambitious Teaching Practices Through Teacher Time Outs	6
Educational Approaches to Improve Communication Skills of Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Comorbid Intellectual Disability: An Integrative Systematic Review	5
The effect of educational intervention on hybrid teaching competence of health sciences and medical educators’ – a mixed methods study	5
Sensory reflections: towards the development of cooking literacy in Swedish Home Economics	5
Understanding Teachers’ Uncertainty in Encounters with Pupils with Experiences of Domestic Violence	5
A cluster-randomized controlled trial of a teacher-coaching intervention: a pilot study aimed at supporting classroom climate and student development	5
From Symbolic Manipulations to Stepwise Instructions: A Curricular Comparison of Swedish School Algebra Content over the Past 40 Years	5
Collaborative Writing in L1 School Contexts: A Scoping Review	5

A scoping review on the psychometric properties of the teacher efficacy for inclusive practices (TEIP) scale	5
Educational attainment in Swedish (L1) and English (L2) for students with reading difficulties: a longitudinal case study from primary to the end of secondary school	5
The impact of reading medium on text comprehension among vocational students	5
Student Motivation and Parental Attitude as Mediators for SES Effects on Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from Norway in TIMSS 2015	5
The Changes in Lower Secondary School Students’ Interest During Collaborative Learning	5
Measuring the sociability of virtual learning environments for interdisciplinary student teams – a validation study	5
Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings	5
Tripartite collaboration in student research and development projects	5
School Performance and Behaviour Profiles Among Finnish Adolescents, and Their Relations with Temperament Traits: A Person-centred Approach	5
Examining the structural validity of the teacher-rated SSIS-RS and SSIS SEL scales	5
“The Text Comes First” – Principles Guiding EFL Materials Developers’ Vocabulary Content Decisions	5
Institutionalizing international internships in business education: an action research approach to overcoming barriers and driving systemic change in Norwegian business schools	5
Supervisors supporting supervisors in the context of higher education	4
How do teacher educators from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden teach for active democratic participation?	4
Teachers’ reflections on their practices in older adult non-formal education	4
Approaches to studying: changes during a three-year undergraduate study program	4
Back-stage configuring: a textual analysis of formalisation and professional judgement in two systematic reviews	4
Perceptions of Cultural Diversity among Pre-service Teachers	4
School leadership and the realizing of a curriculum reform: supporting resources, external actors, and dilemmas	4
Relational expertise among Finnish educators working in extended hours ECEC	4
Using hybrid teaching to develop health sciences students’ competence in social and health sectors within higher education – a scoping review	4
A comparative analysis of master’s theses in STEM-related disciplines published in Türkiye and Finland	4
Correction	4
“With a twinkle in my eye”: vocational teachers’ relational work in schools in disadvantaged areas	4
How early childhood inclusion can be achieved: literature reviews which address the perceived challenges of preschool staff	4
How can early childhood education and care support families and prevent parental burnout during the COVID-19 crisis in Finland?	4
Principals’ Enactment of Policy on Research-based Education: Interpreting and Facilitating Policy in Local School Settings in Sweden	4
Exploring experiences and challenges in implementing youth participatory action research in Norwegian lower secondary schools	4