2026 Marlene Scardamalia: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	61	1309	1161	72	65	170	35370

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Marlene Scardamalia is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and specializes primarily in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Within these fields, their work focuses heavily on Developmental and Educational Psychology and Education, with additional involvement in Computer Science Applications, Information Systems, and Safety Research.

The main topics covered in Scardamalia's research include:

Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
Education and Critical Thinking Development
E-Learning and Knowledge Management
Online and Blended Learning
Education and Technology Integration
Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
Online Learning and Analytics

Among the scientist's recent publications are:

"Knowledge building: aligning education with needs for knowledge creation in the digital age," 2021, Educational Technology Research and Development
"Knowledge Building in Online Mode: Insights and Reflections," 2021, Education Sciences
"Knowledge building: idea-centered drawing and writing to advance community knowledge," 2021, Educational Technology Research and Development
"Metadiscourse, knowledge advancement, and emotions in primary school students' knowledge building," 2023, Instructional Science
"Will knowledge building remain uniquely human?", 2020, Qwerty

Scardamalia frequently collaborates with coauthors including Carl Bereiter, Leanne Ma, Dina Soliman, Gaoxia Zhu, and Raadiyah Nazeem. This collaborative work has appeared primarily in venues such as:

Computer-supported collaborative learning/The "Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference"
Educational Technology Research and Development
Education Sciences
Instructional Science
Qwerty

In addition to journal publications, Scardamalia has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Aeres Hogeschool eBooks in 2023 called "In gesprek met Frank."

Recognition of Scardamalia's academic contributions includes fellowships awarded by prominent organizations:

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2020, Academy of Social Sciences
Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, 2008

Best Publications

The psychology of written composition

Carl Bereiter;Marlene Scardamalia

7236
Citations
Computer Support for Knowledge-Building Communities

Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

4167
Citations
Knowledge Building: Theory, Pedagogy, and Technology

Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

2662
Citations
Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise

Carl Bereiter;Marlene Scardamalia

1740
Citations
Intentional Learning as a Goal of Instruction

Carl Bereiter;Marlene Scardamalia

1593
Citations
Higher Levels of Agency for Children in Knowledge Building: A Challenge for the Design of New Knowledge Media

Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

1526
Citations
Research on written composition

M. Scardamalia

1312
Citations
Computer-Supported Intentional Learning Environments

Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter;Robert S. McLean;Jonathan Swallow

1110
Citations
Knowledge telling and knowledge transforming in written composition

M. Scardamalia

876
Citations
The CSILE project: Trying to bring the classroom into World 3.

Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter;Mary Lamon

868
Citations
Dos modelos explicativos de los procesos de composición escrita

Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

802
Citations
Teachability of reflective processes in written composition

Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter;Rosanne Steinbach

751
Citations
One-to-one technology-enhanced learning: An opportunity for global research collaboration

Tak-Wai Chan;Jeremy Roschelle;Sherry Hsi;Kinshuk Kinshuk

728
Citations
Designs for Collective Cognitive Responsibility in Knowledge-Building Communities

Jianwei Zhang;Marlene Scardamalia;Richard Reeve;Richard Messina

682
Citations
Socio-cognitive dynamics of knowledge building in the work of 9- and 10-year-olds

Jianwei Zhang;Marlene Scardamalia;Mary Lamon;Richard Messina

431
Citations
Technologies for knowledge-building discourse

Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

357
Citations
Design Principles for Distributed Knowledge Building Processes

Jim Hewitt;Marlene Scardamalia

338
Citations
Text-Based and Knowledge Based Questioning by Children

Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

323
Citations
Sustaining knowledge building as a principle-based innovation at an elementary school

Jianwei Zhang;Huang-Yao Hong;Marlene Scardamalia;Chew Lee Teo

318
Citations
Collective cognitive responsibility for the advancement of knowledge

M. Scardamalia

143
Citations
Computer support for knowledge-building communities

M. Scardamalia

79
Citations
Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments

M. Scardamalia

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Bereiter University of Toronto

Kai Hakkarainen University of Helsinki

Susan R. Goldman University of Illinois at Chicago

Chee-Kit Looi Nanyang Technological University

Ching Sing Chai Chinese University of Hong Kong

R. Keith Sawyer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Allan Collins Northwestern University

Jeremy Roschelle Digital Promise

Ulrike Cress Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology

Charles E. Cunningham McMaster University

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