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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessment in practice: achieving joint decisions in oral examination grading conversations	36
Shared problems, diverging solutions: experts on the Dutch field of education	34
Optimism trap? Educational aspirations and outcomes among students with immigrant backgrounds in Norway and Spain	31
Associations Between Social-Emotional and Language Development in Preschool Children. Results from a Study Testing the Rationale for an Intervention	24
Harnessing machine learning to explore the role of socio-demographic and attitudinal factors in shaping students’ environmental sustainability beliefs and behaviors	24
Examining the Role of Perceived Classroom Goal Structures and Parents’ Goals in ESL/EFL Learners’ Achievement Goals, Engagement and Achievement	23
Philosophical Paradigms in Qualitative Research Methods Education: What is their Pedagogical Role?	23
Translanguaging strategies in multilingual newly arrived students’ writing	22
Sustaining the ethos of togetherness in multicultural schools in Denmark: student teachers’ reflections and experiences	20
Studies on Literacy Skills in Social Studies Education: A Systematic Literature Review (1996-2020)	18
Sustainably on the seas of academia: comparing metaphors of social and independent academic writing	17
Investigating the Measurement of OTL in PISA 2012 and its Relationship with Self-efficacy and Mathematics Achievement: Doubly Latent Multilevel Analyses	17
Finnish students’ conceptions of giftedness and intelligence in basic education	17
The Campbellian construct validity: some comments	16
Do lectures matter? Exploring students’ situational interest in two learning arenas in teacher education	16
Adolescent Mental Health Disorders and Upper Secondary School Completion – The Role of Family Resources	15
The Predictors of Literacy Skills among Monolingual and Bilingual Finnish–Swedish Children During First Grade	15
Digital competence and digital technology: a curriculum analysis of Norwegian early childhood teacher education	15
“I am maybe half-and-half Swedish. 50-50.” – Young adolescents’ national identity negotiation in a diverse school setting	13
A bibliometric study of Swedish educational research: mapping key themes, 2000–2020	13
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
Students’ Self-reported Background SES Measures in TIMSS in Relation to Register SES Measures When Analysing Students’ Achievements in Sweden	12
Doing “more with less”: the entrepreneurialization of Finnish higher education and innovation policy discourses in 2015–2019	12
A longitudinal investigation of letter-name knowledge in a semi-transparent orthography	11

Measuring the study environment of university students through a Study Demands-Resources lens: a scoping study of existing instruments	11
Inclusion of students with special education needs in Nordic countries: a systematic scoping review	11
Exploring student participation practices in vocational education: an insider action research project	11
Enhancing Teachers’ Emotional Awareness Through Continuing Professional Development: Mission Possible?	10
Danish school pupils’ perception of their learning outcomes from participating in computer-based adaptive tests: a pressure for just clicking something?	10
Health education in Swedish schools – what’s on offer?	10
Do Children, Parents, and Teachers Agree in Reports on Victimization and Internalizing Symptoms? Cross-Sectional Triangulation and a Two-Year Prediction	10
Teachers’ ethical responsibility in teaching; to guide the children about right and wrong	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
Blurred boundaries and the hierarchization of incidents: Swedish schoolteachers’ struggles with distinguishing degrading treatment, harassment, and school bullying	9
The associations between mathematical skills, cognitive performance, and language background in elementary school children. a two-year follow-up study	9
The Winding Road to Accessing the Voices of One Thousand Schoolchildren: A Nexus Analysis of Collecting Data for a Survey	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
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
Renegotiation of subject content – interpretations of new art education policy	8
Learning-Environment Uncertainty and Students’ Approaches to Learning: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	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	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
Linearity, delay, and lost language learning opportunities. Newly arrived adolescent students’ experiences with school segregation in Norway	7
Home economics teachers’ endeavours to engage students in sustainability thinking through clothing and fashion: a transformational teaching approach	7
Sustainability of Cooperation in the International Development of African Higher Education*	7
Teachers’ Perceived Self-Efficacy and Sense of Inadequacy across Grade 1: Bidirectional Associations and Related Factors	7
Teacher profiles concerning upper secondary school teachers' views on and use of digital learning resources for teaching – a cluster analysis	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
Simple, Yet Complex: Pre-Service Teachers’ Conceptions of Plagiarism at a Norwegian University	7
Civic engagement in early adolescence: a contextual view on the civic-oriented activities among Finnish 6th graders	6
Correction	6
Systematic review of empirical studies on international large-scale assessments of civic and citizenship education	6
Understanding Teachers’ Uncertainty in Encounters with Pupils with Experiences of Domestic Violence	6
Turbulence throughout teacher education: a case study of negotiating teacher identity	6
Building Social and Emotional Competencies for Coping with Academic Stress among Students in Lower Secondary School	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	6
The Dirty Process of Creating Clean Absence Data: An Ethnographic Study	6
Beyond Reporting Grades in Grade Talk: Narratives About Students’ Paths in Year Four	6
Growth mindset and academic achievement: a multilevel analysis of upper secondary school completion	6
The triggering of communicative discourses in Sweden: technicalities in the PISA survey and social tensions in society	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
Teacher preparation for the digital age: Is it still an instrumental endeavor?	6
“The Text Comes First” – Principles Guiding EFL Materials Developers’ Vocabulary Content Decisions	5
From Symbolic Manipulations to Stepwise Instructions: A Curricular Comparison of Swedish School Algebra Content over the Past 40 Years	5
Sensory reflections: towards the development of cooking literacy in Swedish Home Economics	5
Relational expertise among Finnish educators working in extended hours ECEC	5

Tripartite collaboration in student research and development projects	5
Student Motivation and Parental Attitude as Mediators for SES Effects on Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from Norway in TIMSS 2015	5
A cluster-randomized controlled trial of a teacher-coaching intervention: a pilot study aimed at supporting classroom climate and student development	5
School Performance and Behaviour Profiles Among Finnish Adolescents, and Their Relations with Temperament Traits: A Person-centred Approach	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
School leadership and the realizing of a curriculum reform: supporting resources, external actors, and dilemmas	5
Measuring the sociability of virtual learning environments for interdisciplinary student teams – a validation study	5
The Changes in Lower Secondary School Students’ Interest During Collaborative Learning	5
Examining the structural validity of the teacher-rated SSIS-RS and SSIS SEL scales	5
Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings	5
The effect of educational intervention on hybrid teaching competence of health sciences and medical educators’ – a mixed methods study	5
Perceptions of inclusion among lower secondary level students in Finland	4
Approaches to studying: changes during a three-year undergraduate study program	4
Collaborative Writing in L1 School Contexts: A Scoping Review	4
Educational Approaches to Improve Communication Skills of Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Comorbid Intellectual Disability: An Integrative Systematic Review	4
Principals’ Enactment of Policy on Research-based Education: Interpreting and Facilitating Policy in Local School Settings in Sweden	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
“With a twinkle in my eye”: vocational teachers’ relational work in schools in disadvantaged areas	4
How do teacher educators from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden teach for active democratic participation?	4
A comparative analysis of master’s theses in STEM-related disciplines published in Türkiye and Finland	4
Adult education and teachers’ work under a market code	4
Correction	4
Exploring experiences and challenges in implementing youth participatory action research in Norwegian lower secondary schools	4
Supervisors supporting supervisors in the context of higher education	4
A scoping review on the psychometric properties of the teacher efficacy for inclusive practices (TEIP) scale	4
Teachers’ reflections on their practices in older adult non-formal education	4
Perceptions of Cultural Diversity among Pre-service Teachers	4