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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Shared problems, diverging solutions: experts on the Dutch field of education	42
Assessment in practice: achieving joint decisions in oral examination grading conversations	41
Studies on Literacy Skills in Social Studies Education: A Systematic Literature Review (1996-2020)	41
Optimism trap? Educational aspirations and outcomes among students with immigrant backgrounds in Norway and Spain	38
Digital competence and digital technology: a curriculum analysis of Norwegian early childhood teacher education	28
Sustaining the ethos of togetherness in multicultural schools in Denmark: student teachers’ reflections and experiences	21
Investigating the Measurement of OTL in PISA 2012 and its Relationship with Self-efficacy and Mathematics Achievement: Doubly Latent Multilevel Analyses	20
Harnessing machine learning to explore the role of socio-demographic and attitudinal factors in shaping students’ environmental sustainability beliefs and behaviors	18
Examining the Role of Perceived Classroom Goal Structures and Parents’ Goals in ESL/EFL Learners’ Achievement Goals, Engagement and Achievement	17
Sustainably on the seas of academia: comparing metaphors of social and independent academic writing	16
The Campbellian construct validity: some comments	16
Do lectures matter? Exploring students’ situational interest in two learning arenas in teacher education	15
A bibliometric study of Swedish educational research: mapping key themes, 2000–2020	15
Associations Between Social-Emotional and Language Development in Preschool Children. Results from a Study Testing the Rationale for an Intervention	14
Lesson openings in Norwegian language arts: a study of how teachers start reading lessons in 8th grade classrooms	13
Translanguaging strategies in multilingual newly arrived students’ writing	13
Doing “more with less”: the entrepreneurialization of Finnish higher education and innovation policy discourses in 2015–2019	13
Finnish students’ conceptions of giftedness and intelligence in basic education	13
The control of time in teachers’ work. How teachers co-construct narratives about their profession in social media groups	12
Measuring the study environment of university students through a Study Demands-Resources lens: a scoping study of existing instruments	12
A longitudinal investigation of letter-name knowledge in a semi-transparent orthography	12
Exploring student participation practices in vocational education: an insider action research project	12
“I am maybe half-and-half Swedish. 50-50.” – Young adolescents’ national identity negotiation in a diverse school setting	11
Students’ Self-reported Background SES Measures in TIMSS in Relation to Register SES Measures When Analysing Students’ Achievements in Sweden	11
Depicting death for children – analysing how death is portrayed in stylistic different ways in children’s picture books	11

Conflicts of interest in environmental and sustainability education	11
Gifted students’ experiences with participation in enrichment programs at talent centers in Norway	10
Comparing school attendance problems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: listening to school personnel in Sweden and Germany	10
Depoliticising political violence: state-centric and individualised discourses in the Norwegian counterterrorism policy field	10
Teachers’ ethical responsibility in teaching; to guide the children about right and wrong	10
Danish school pupils’ perception of their learning outcomes from participating in computer-based adaptive tests: a pressure for just clicking something?	10
Enhancing Teachers’ Emotional Awareness Through Continuing Professional Development: Mission Possible?	10
Health education in Swedish schools – what’s on offer?	10
Inclusion of students with special education needs in Nordic countries: a systematic scoping review	10
The associations between mathematical skills, cognitive performance, and language background in elementary school children. a two-year follow-up study	9
Parental and child factors in children with special education	9
A phenomenological research of democracy education in a Finnish primary-school	9
Victim, perpetrator, or witness of peer sexual harassment? Middle-school students’ movements between roles across time	9
What’s in it? – schoolbags in the lives of pupils and classrooms	9
Blurred boundaries and the hierarchization of incidents: Swedish schoolteachers’ struggles with distinguishing degrading treatment, harassment, and school bullying	9
Teacher profiles concerning upper secondary school teachers' views on and use of digital learning resources for teaching – a cluster analysis	8
Pedagogical practices used by early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers to promote participation	8
Digital systems for special educational needs documentation in Swedish preschools: new organisational maps for municipalities and professionals	8
Shaping inclusive approaches in the classroom: an analysis of teachers’ and students’ accounts on valued qualities in teacher-student interactions	8
The development of exhaustion, cynicism, and inadequacy in general upper secondary education: perceived and received support, student engagement, and gender as predictors	8
Teachers’ Perceived Self-Efficacy and Sense of Inadequacy across Grade 1: Bidirectional Associations and Related Factors	7
Beyond Reporting Grades in Grade Talk: Narratives About Students’ Paths in Year Four	7
‘Charging their batteries’. Preschool teachers’ perspectives on children’s touch in early childhood education	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
Home economics teachers’ endeavours to engage students in sustainability thinking through clothing and fashion: a transformational teaching approach	7
Learning from errors: co-clustering students’ answer types in a digital learning environment to verify task design on linear equations	7
Sustainability of Cooperation in the International Development of African Higher Education*	7
Civic engagement in early adolescence: a contextual view on the civic-oriented activities among Finnish 6th graders	7
Renegotiation of subject content – interpretations of new art education policy	7
Learning-Environment Uncertainty and Students’ Approaches to Learning: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	7
The Dirty Process of Creating Clean Absence Data: An Ethnographic Study	7
Turbulence throughout teacher education: a case study of negotiating teacher identity	7
Association between Intention to Quit School and Youth Depression: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of a Group CBT Course	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?	6
Correction	6
The triggering of communicative discourses in Sweden: technicalities in the PISA survey and social tensions in society	6
Systematic review of empirical studies on international large-scale assessments of civic and citizenship education	6
Linearity, delay, and lost language learning opportunities. Newly arrived adolescent students’ experiences with school segregation in Norway	6
How educational leaders in Sweden address interculturalism: a systematic literature review and an illustrative case	6
The impact of reading medium on text comprehension among vocational students	6
University rankings in the Nordic countries: impacts on policy and practice	6
Growth mindset and academic achievement: a multilevel analysis of upper secondary school completion	6
Supporting In-service Teachers’ Collective Learning of Ambitious Teaching Practices Through Teacher Time Outs	6
When fairness is an abstraction: equity and AI in Swedish compulsory education	6
Institutionalizing international internships in business education: an action research approach to overcoming barriers and driving systemic change in Norwegian business schools	5
A cluster-randomized controlled trial of a teacher-coaching intervention: a pilot study aimed at supporting classroom climate and student development	5
How do teacher educators from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden teach for active democratic participation?	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

School Performance and Behaviour Profiles Among Finnish Adolescents, and Their Relations with Temperament Traits: A Person-centred Approach	5
Role of teacher culture in the implementation of co-teaching between special and class teachers in Finnish schools – a multiple case study	5
Understanding Teachers’ Uncertainty in Encounters with Pupils with Experiences of Domestic Violence	5
Measuring the sociability of virtual learning environments for interdisciplinary student teams – a validation study	5
School leadership and the realizing of a curriculum reform: supporting resources, external actors, and dilemmas	5
From Symbolic Manipulations to Stepwise Instructions: A Curricular Comparison of Swedish School Algebra Content over the Past 40 Years	5
Scaffolding children’s participation during teacher–child interaction in second language classrooms	4
Using hybrid teaching to develop health sciences students’ competence in social and health sectors within higher education – a scoping review	4
Supervisors supporting supervisors in the context of higher education	4
Relational expertise among Finnish educators working in extended hours ECEC	4
The effect of educational intervention on hybrid teaching competence of health sciences and medical educators’ – a mixed methods study	4
Tripartite collaboration in student research and development projects	4
Principals’ Enactment of Policy on Research-based Education: Interpreting and Facilitating Policy in Local School Settings in Sweden	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
Productive online interactions for developing the impact of continuous learning	4
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	4
How early childhood inclusion can be achieved: literature reviews which address the perceived challenges of preschool staff	4
A scoping review on the psychometric properties of the teacher efficacy for inclusive practices (TEIP) scale	4
Longitudinal relations between mathematics self-efficacy, test anxiety, and performance in co- and solo-taught classrooms	4
How can early childhood education and care support families and prevent parental burnout during the COVID-19 crisis in Finland?	4
Stressors from and well-being after COVID-19 among Danish primary and lower secondary school students	4
Back-stage configuring: a textual analysis of formalisation and professional judgement in two systematic reviews	4
Correction	4
“With a twinkle in my eye”: vocational teachers’ relational work in schools in disadvantaged areas	4
Collaborative Writing in L1 School Contexts: A Scoping Review	4
Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings	4
Sensory reflections: towards the development of cooking literacy in Swedish Home Economics	4
A comparative analysis of master’s theses in STEM-related disciplines published in Türkiye and Finland	4
Are schools with a better work environment better at retaining teachers? A repeated cross-sectional study examining schools’ organisational and social risk factors and teacher retention	4