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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Shared problems, diverging solutions: experts on the Dutch field of education	47
Optimism trap? Educational aspirations and outcomes among students with immigrant backgrounds in Norway and Spain	27
The Campbellian construct validity: some comments	25
Harnessing machine learning to explore the role of socio-demographic and attitudinal factors in shaping students’ environmental sustainability beliefs and behaviors	20
Do lectures matter? Exploring students’ situational interest in two learning arenas in teacher education	19
A bibliometric study of Swedish educational research: mapping key themes, 2000–2020	18
Assessment in practice: achieving joint decisions in oral examination grading conversations	18
Sustainably on the seas of academia: comparing metaphors of social and independent academic writing	17
Implementation of individual behavioral support in finnish and Greek schools: matched pairs results	16
Lesson openings in Norwegian language arts: a study of how teachers start reading lessons in 8th grade classrooms	16
Digital competence and digital technology: a curriculum analysis of Norwegian early childhood teacher education	16
Sustaining the ethos of togetherness in multicultural schools in Denmark: student teachers’ reflections and experiences	16
Translanguaging strategies in multilingual newly arrived students’ writing	16
Finnish students’ conceptions of giftedness and intelligence in basic education	16
The shaping of preschool care in textbooks: tensions between ethics of care, system criticism, learning and neoliberal governing	16
A longitudinal investigation of letter-name knowledge in a semi-transparent orthography	15
A history of the present absences	15
The Scandinavian concept of aesthetic learning processes	14
Promoting safety, language and integration: Scoping review of teaching practices targeted for newly arrived migrant students in the Nordic Countries	14
Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and children's social competence in the early years (0–3 years)	14
Depicting death for children – analysing how death is portrayed in stylistic different ways in children’s picture books	13
The control of time in teachers’ work. How teachers co-construct narratives about their profession in social media groups	13
Exploring student participation practices in vocational education: an insider action research project	13
Measuring the study environment of university students through a Study Demands-Resources lens: a scoping study of existing instruments	12
Conflicts of interest in environmental and sustainability education	12

“I am maybe half-and-half Swedish. 50-50.” – Young adolescents’ national identity negotiation in a diverse school setting	12
Comparing the difficulty of elective subjects in high school using a population-based Norwegian registry	12
Danish school pupils’ perception of their learning outcomes from participating in computer-based adaptive tests: a pressure for just clicking something?	11
Comparing school attendance problems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: listening to school personnel in Sweden and Germany	11
Inclusion of students with special education needs in Nordic countries: a systematic scoping review	11
Teachers’ ethical responsibility in teaching; to guide the children about right and wrong	11
Doing “more with less”: the entrepreneurialization of Finnish higher education and innovation policy discourses in 2015–2019	11
International uptake of partnering for change (P4C): a Dutch and Swedish adapted version	10
Enhancing Teachers’ Emotional Awareness Through Continuing Professional Development: Mission Possible?	10
Social inclusion in school for students with visual impairments – A systematic review	10
A phenomenological research of democracy education in a Finnish primary-school	10
Health education in Swedish schools – what’s on offer?	10
Gifted students’ experiences with participation in enrichment programs at talent centers in Norway	10
What’s in it? – schoolbags in the lives of pupils and classrooms	9
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
Blurred boundaries and the hierarchization of incidents: Swedish schoolteachers’ struggles with distinguishing degrading treatment, harassment, and school bullying	9
Navigating change: the effects of competence-oriented curriculum reforms for science teachers	9
Victim, perpetrator, or witness of peer sexual harassment? Middle-school students’ movements between roles across time	9
Teacher profiles concerning upper secondary school teachers' views on and use of digital learning resources for teaching – a cluster analysis	8
Renegotiation of subject content – interpretations of new art education policy	8
“You fuel the car with gas, you fuel the body with food” – educational functions of food for health in home and consumer studies	8
Educational leadership students’ understandings of leadership from a distributed perspective	8
The will to collaboration – shaping leaders for schools of the future	8
Learning from errors: co-clustering students’ answer types in a digital learning environment to verify task design on linear equations	8
Pedagogical practices used by early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers to promote participation	8
Ties that help carry on: family and school friendships in supporting Ukrainian refugees	8
Depoliticising political violence: state-centric and individualised discourses in the Norwegian counterterrorism policy field	8
Induction programmes and mentoring practices to reduce burnout among novice teachers	8
Home economics teachers’ endeavours to engage students in sustainability thinking through clothing and fashion: a transformational teaching approach	8
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
Turbulence throughout teacher education: a case study of negotiating teacher identity	7
‘Charging their batteries’. Preschool teachers’ perspectives on children’s touch in early childhood education	7
Linearity, delay, and lost language learning opportunities. Newly arrived adolescent students’ experiences with school segregation in Norway	7
Blended learning for early numeracy is no panacea: a quasi-experimental study	7
Shaping inclusive approaches in the classroom: an analysis of teachers’ and students’ accounts on valued qualities in teacher-student interactions	7
Academic wellbeing among Danish upper secondary school students – defining, validating, and exploring academic wellbeing in relation to school environment factors	7
Teacher preparation for the digital age: Is it still an instrumental endeavor?	7
Correction	7
The development of exhaustion, cynicism, and inadequacy in general upper secondary education: perceived and received support, student engagement, and gender as predictors	7
Association between Intention to Quit School and Youth Depression: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of a Group CBT Course	7
What goes on in science, Danish and mathematics teaching? A quantitative Q-method-inspired study of teachers’ and students’ experiences of subject-specific practices	7
Civic engagement in early adolescence: a contextual view on the civic-oriented activities among Finnish 6th graders	7
The impact of reading medium on text comprehension among vocational students	7
When fairness is an abstraction: equity and AI in Swedish compulsory education	6
Examining the structural validity of the teacher-rated SSIS-RS and SSIS SEL scales	6
Institutionalizing international internships in business education: an action research approach to overcoming barriers and driving systemic change in Norwegian business schools	6
Powerful and particular: mapping the policy capacity of professional organizations in the Norwegian education sector	6
The triggering of communicative discourses in Sweden: technicalities in the PISA survey and social tensions in society	6

How educational leaders in Sweden address interculturalism: a systematic literature review and an illustrative case	6
Measuring the sociability of virtual learning environments for interdisciplinary student teams – a validation study	6
University rankings in the Nordic countries: impacts on policy and practice	6
Systematic review of empirical studies on international large-scale assessments of civic and citizenship education	6
Principals’ proactive and reactive leadership strategies in utilizing newly qualified teachers as assets	6
A cluster-randomized controlled trial of a teacher-coaching intervention: a pilot study aimed at supporting classroom climate and student development	6
Growth mindset and academic achievement: a multilevel analysis of upper secondary school completion	6
Sensory reflections: towards the development of cooking literacy in Swedish Home Economics	5
How do teacher educators from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden teach for active democratic participation?	5
Reframing critical aspects as a didactic tool for instruction oriented toward theoretical thinking	5
Relational expertise among Finnish educators working in extended hours ECEC	5
Role of teacher culture in the implementation of co-teaching between special and class teachers in Finnish schools – a multiple case study	5
How early childhood inclusion can be achieved: literature reviews which address the perceived challenges of preschool staff	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
A scoping review on the psychometric properties of the teacher efficacy for inclusive practices (TEIP) scale	5
Longitudinal relations between mathematics self-efficacy, test anxiety, and performance in co- and solo-taught classrooms	5
Collaborative Writing in L1 School Contexts: A Scoping Review	5
Policies, conditions and student experiences in Arabic and Sámi heritage language education	5
School leadership and the realizing of a curriculum reform: supporting resources, external actors, and dilemmas	5
The effect of educational intervention on hybrid teaching competence of health sciences and medical educators’ – a mixed methods study	5
Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings	5
“With a twinkle in my eye”: vocational teachers’ relational work in schools in disadvantaged areas	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
Perceptions of inclusion among lower secondary level students in Finland	4
Examining trends in school segregation in compulsory and upper secondary education in Sweden: the showcase of an urban school market	4
Effects of an early warning system on student absence and completion in Norwegian upper secondary schools: a cluster-randomised study	4
Adult education and teachers’ work under a market code	4
Correction	4
Approaches to studying: changes during a three-year undergraduate study program	4
Instructional practices in two similar-performing Norwegian primary schools with contrasting social compositions	4
Back-stage configuring: a textual analysis of formalisation and professional judgement in two systematic reviews	4
How can early childhood education and care support families and prevent parental burnout during the COVID-19 crisis in Finland?	4
Productive online interactions for developing the impact of continuous learning	4
Revealing student teachers’ sense of professional agency in their teaching practice	4
Teaching materials in visual arts education – policy and traditions	4
Read-aloud and writing practices in Nordic preschools	4
Factors affecting the behavioral climate in elementary school classrooms	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
Supervisors supporting supervisors in the context of higher education	4
Rethinking integration – preparatory education teachers imagining “dream schools” for newly arrived students in Finland	4
Principals’ Enactment of Policy on Research-based Education: Interpreting and Facilitating Policy in Local School Settings in Sweden	4
Correction	4
Stressors from and well-being after COVID-19 among Danish primary and lower secondary school students	4
Teacher agency and the use of mathematics curriculum materials across cultural contexts	4
Exploring experiences and challenges in implementing youth participatory action research in Norwegian lower secondary schools	4
Using hybrid teaching to develop health sciences students’ competence in social and health sectors within higher education – a scoping review	4
Teachers’ reflections on their practices in older adult non-formal education	4
“It is like we don’t exist” – schooling experiences of Jewish children and adolescents in Malmö, Sweden	4
A comparative analysis of master’s theses in STEM-related disciplines published in Türkiye and Finland	4