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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Shared problems, diverging solutions: experts on the Dutch field of education	39
Optimism trap? Educational aspirations and outcomes among students with immigrant backgrounds in Norway and Spain	24
The Campbellian construct validity: some comments	22
Harnessing machine learning to explore the role of socio-demographic and attitudinal factors in shaping students’ environmental sustainability beliefs and behaviors	18
Do lectures matter? Exploring students’ situational interest in two learning arenas in teacher education	17
Examining the Role of Perceived Classroom Goal Structures and Parents’ Goals in ESL/EFL Learners’ Achievement Goals, Engagement and Achievement	16
Assessment in practice: achieving joint decisions in oral examination grading conversations	16
Translanguaging strategies in multilingual newly arrived students’ writing	15
A bibliometric study of Swedish educational research: mapping key themes, 2000–2020	15
Sustainably on the seas of academia: comparing metaphors of social and independent academic writing	15
Associations Between Social-Emotional and Language Development in Preschool Children. Results from a Study Testing the Rationale for an Intervention	14
Sustaining the ethos of togetherness in multicultural schools in Denmark: student teachers’ reflections and experiences	14
Implementation of individual behavioral support in finnish and Greek schools: matched pairs results	14
Digital competence and digital technology: a curriculum analysis of Norwegian early childhood teacher education	14
Exploring student participation practices in vocational education: an insider action research project	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
The shaping of preschool care in textbooks: tensions between ethics of care, system criticism, learning and neoliberal governing	12
A history of the present absences	12
A longitudinal investigation of letter-name knowledge in a semi-transparent orthography	12
Lesson openings in Norwegian language arts: a study of how teachers start reading lessons in 8th grade classrooms	12
Depicting death for children – analysing how death is portrayed in stylistic different ways in children’s picture books	11
Measuring the study environment of university students through a Study Demands-Resources lens: a scoping study of existing instruments	11
“I am maybe half-and-half Swedish. 50-50.” – Young adolescents’ national identity negotiation in a diverse school setting	11
Inclusion of students with special education needs in Nordic countries: a systematic scoping review	11

Doing “more with less”: the entrepreneurialization of Finnish higher education and innovation policy discourses in 2015–2019	11
Comparing the difficulty of elective subjects in high school using a population-based Norwegian registry	11
The Scandinavian concept of aesthetic learning processes	10
Conflicts of interest in environmental and sustainability education	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?	9
Teachers’ ethical responsibility in teaching; to guide the children about right and wrong	9
Comparing school attendance problems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: listening to school personnel in Sweden and Germany	9
International uptake of partnering for change (P4C): a Dutch and Swedish adapted version	9
Gifted students’ experiences with participation in enrichment programs at talent centers in Norway	9
Health education in Swedish schools – what’s on offer?	9
What’s in it? – schoolbags in the lives of pupils and classrooms	8
Shaping inclusive approaches in the classroom: an analysis of teachers’ and students’ accounts on valued qualities in teacher-student interactions	8
Parental and child factors in children with special education	8
Navigating change: the effects of competence-oriented curriculum reforms for science teachers	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
Depoliticising political violence: state-centric and individualised discourses in the Norwegian counterterrorism policy field	8
Victim, perpetrator, or witness of peer sexual harassment? Middle-school students’ movements between roles across time	8
The associations between mathematical skills, cognitive performance, and language background in elementary school children. a two-year follow-up study	8
Digital systems for special educational needs documentation in Swedish preschools: new organisational maps for municipalities and professionals	8
A phenomenological research of democracy education in a Finnish primary-school	8
Blurred boundaries and the hierarchization of incidents: Swedish schoolteachers’ struggles with distinguishing degrading treatment, harassment, and school bullying	8
Teacher profiles concerning upper secondary school teachers' views on and use of digital learning resources for teaching – a cluster analysis	7
The will to collaboration – shaping leaders for schools of the future	7
Pedagogical practices used by early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers to promote participation	7
Renegotiation of subject content – interpretations of new art education policy	7
Learning from errors: co-clustering students’ answer types in a digital learning environment to verify task design on linear equations	7
The development of exhaustion, cynicism, and inadequacy in general upper secondary education: perceived and received support, student engagement, and gender as predictors	7
Home economics teachers’ endeavours to engage students in sustainability thinking through clothing and fashion: a transformational teaching approach	7
Ties that help carry on: family and school friendships in supporting Ukrainian refugees	7
Educational leadership students’ understandings of leadership from a distributed perspective	7
Induction programmes and mentoring practices to reduce burnout among novice teachers	7
Blended learning for early numeracy is no panacea: a quasi-experimental study	7
Association between Intention to Quit School and Youth Depression: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of a Group CBT Course	6
‘Charging their batteries’. Preschool teachers’ perspectives on children’s touch in early childhood education	6
Academic wellbeing among Danish upper secondary school students – defining, validating, and exploring academic wellbeing in relation to school environment factors	6
Teachers’ Perceived Self-Efficacy and Sense of Inadequacy across Grade 1: Bidirectional Associations and Related Factors	6
What goes on in science, Danish and mathematics teaching? A quantitative Q-method-inspired study of teachers’ and students’ experiences of subject-specific practices	6
Teacher preparation for the digital age: Is it still an instrumental endeavor?	6
Turbulence throughout teacher education: a case study of negotiating teacher identity	6
The Dirty Process of Creating Clean Absence Data: An Ethnographic Study	6
Civic engagement in early adolescence: a contextual view on the civic-oriented activities among Finnish 6th graders	6
Linearity, delay, and lost language learning opportunities. Newly arrived adolescent students’ experiences with school segregation in Norway	6
Tripartite collaboration in student research and development projects	5
How early childhood inclusion can be achieved: literature reviews which address the perceived challenges of preschool staff	5
Correction	5
Growth mindset and academic achievement: a multilevel analysis of upper secondary school completion	5
How educational leaders in Sweden address interculturalism: a systematic literature review and an illustrative case	5
Systematic review of empirical studies on international large-scale assessments of civic and citizenship education	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
Principals’ proactive and reactive leadership strategies in utilizing newly qualified teachers as assets	5
When fairness is an abstraction: equity and AI in Swedish compulsory education	5
The triggering of communicative discourses in Sweden: technicalities in the PISA survey and social tensions in society	5
Powerful and particular: mapping the policy capacity of professional organizations in the Norwegian education sector	5
Institutionalizing international internships in business education: an action research approach to overcoming barriers and driving systemic change in Norwegian business schools	5
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
Examining the structural validity of the teacher-rated SSIS-RS and SSIS SEL scales	5
University rankings in the Nordic countries: impacts on policy and practice	5
The impact of reading medium on text comprehension among vocational students	5
A cluster-randomized controlled trial of a teacher-coaching intervention: a pilot study aimed at supporting classroom climate and student development	5
Policies, conditions and student experiences in Arabic and Sámi heritage language education	5
Instructional practices in two similar-performing Norwegian primary schools with contrasting social compositions	4
Longitudinal relations between mathematics self-efficacy, test anxiety, and performance in co- and solo-taught classrooms	4
“With a twinkle in my eye”: vocational teachers’ relational work in schools in disadvantaged areas	4
Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings	4
Role of teacher culture in the implementation of co-teaching between special and class teachers in Finnish schools – a multiple case study	4
Using hybrid teaching to develop health sciences students’ competence in social and health sectors within higher education – a scoping review	4
Read-aloud and writing practices in Nordic preschools	4
Rethinking integration – preparatory education teachers imagining “dream schools” for newly arrived students in Finland	4
Back-stage configuring: a textual analysis of formalisation and professional judgement in two systematic reviews	4
School Performance and Behaviour Profiles Among Finnish Adolescents, and Their Relations with Temperament Traits: A Person-centred Approach	4
Relational expertise among Finnish educators working in extended hours ECEC	4
A scoping review on the psychometric properties of the teacher efficacy for inclusive practices (TEIP) scale	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
A comparative analysis of master’s theses in STEM-related disciplines published in Türkiye and Finland	4
Stressors from and well-being after COVID-19 among Danish primary and lower secondary school students	4
Principals’ Enactment of Policy on Research-based Education: Interpreting and Facilitating Policy in Local School Settings in Sweden	4
Approaches to studying: changes during a three-year undergraduate study program	4
Supervisors supporting supervisors in the context of higher education	4
The effect of educational intervention on hybrid teaching competence of health sciences and medical educators’ – a mixed methods study	4
Reframing critical aspects as a didactic tool for instruction oriented toward theoretical thinking	4
Collaborative Writing in L1 School Contexts: A Scoping Review	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
“It is like we don’t exist” – schooling experiences of Jewish children and adolescents in Malmö, Sweden	4
Examining trends in school segregation in compulsory and upper secondary education in Sweden: the showcase of an urban school market	4
Teachers’ reflections on their practices in older adult non-formal education	4