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Robert Thornberg

Robert Thornberg

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
11577
World Ranking
4786
National Ranking
40

Robert Thornberg publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert Thornberg sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 252 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Robert Thornberg D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert Thornberg sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Robert Thornberg is affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a strong focus on Social Psychology and Education as key subfields. Thornberg's work engages with topics such as bullying, victimization, and aggression, youth development and social support, and education discipline and inequality.

Thornberg has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Teacher-Student Relationship Quality and Student Engagement: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed-Methods Study, 2020, Research Papers in Education
  • Standing up for the victim or supporting the bully? Bystander responses and their associations with moral disengagement, defender self-efficacy, and collective efficacy, 2020, Social Psychology of Education

Collaborations feature prominently in Thornberg's body of work. Frequent coauthors include Jun Sung Hong, Camilla Forsberg, Björn Sjögren, Linda Wänström, and Gianluca Gini.

Thornberg's studies are often published in venues such as:

  • Social Psychology of Education
  • Educational Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

These journals reflect the focus on education, psychology, and social behavior that characterize Thornberg's scholarship. The research topics covered include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, teacher education and leadership studies, and behavioral and psychological studies.

Thornberg's work contributes insights into practices surrounding peer victimization, bystander behavior, and teacher-student relationships within educational contexts. The research often combines qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the dynamics of social interactions in youth and school settings.

Best Publications

  • Handbok i kvalitativ analys

    Andreas Fejes;Robert Thornberg

  • Kvalitativ forskning och kvalitativ analys

    Andreas Fejes;Robert Thornberg

  • Informed grounded theory

    Robert Thornberg

  • Grounded Theory and Theoretical Coding

    Robert Thornberg;Kathy Charmaz

  • The pursuit of quality in grounded theory

    Kathy Charmaz;Robert Thornberg

  • Bystander behavior in bullying situations: Basic moral sensitivity, moral disengagement and defender self-efficacy

    Robert Thornberg;Tomas Jungert

  • Kvalitet och generaliserbarhet i kvalitativa studier

    Robert Thornberg;Andreas Fejes

  • Det sociala livet i skolan: Socialpsykologi för lärare

    Robert Thornberg

  • The lack of professional knowledge in values education

    Robert Thornberg

  • Bystander motivation in bullying incidents: to intervene or not to intervene?

    Robert Thornberg;Laura Tenenbaum;Kristen Varjas;Joel Meyers

  • Schoolchildren's social representations on bullying causes

    Robert Thornberg

  • Shes Weird! - The Social Construction of Bullying in School: A Review of Qualitative Research

    Robert Thornberg

  • School bullying and the mechanisms of moral disengagement

    Robert Thornberg;Tomas Jungert

  • Teachers' Views on Values Education: A Qualitative Study in Sweden and Turkey.

    Robert Thornberg;Ebru Oğ uz

  • Teenagers’ Explanations of Bullying

    Robert Thornberg;Sven Knutsen

  • School Bullying as a Collective Action: Stigma Processes and Identity Struggling

    Robert Thornberg

  • Children's experiences of democracy, participation, and trust in school

    Robert Thornberg;Helene Elvstrand

  • Bystanders to bullying: fourth- to seventh-grade students’ perspectives on their reactions

    Camilla Forsberg;Robert Thornberg;Marcus Samuelsson

  • Classroom relationship qualities and social-cognitive correlates of defending and passive bystanding in school bullying in Sweden: A multilevel analysis.

    Robert Thornberg;Linda Wänström;Jun Sung Hong;Dorothy L. Espelage

  • A classmate in distress: schoolchildren as bystanders and their reasons for how they act

    Robert Thornberg

  • Motives for becoming a teacher and their relations to academic engagement and dropout among student teachers

    Tomas Jungert;Fredrik Alm;Robert Thornberg

  • Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement and Their Associations With Indirect Bullying, Direct Bullying, and Pro-Aggressive Bystander Behavior:

    Marlene Bjärehed;Robert Thornberg;Linda Wänström;Gianluca Gini

  • Early adolescents' motivations to defend victims in school bullying and their perceptions of student–teacher relationships: A self-determination theory approach

    Tomas Jungert;Barbara Piroddi;Robert Thornberg

  • Evolving grounded theory and social justice inquiry

    Kathy Charmaz;Robert Thornberg;Elaine Keane

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianluca Gini
Gianluca Gini University of Padua
Tiziana Pozzoli
Tiziana Pozzoli University of Padua
Joel Meyers
Joel Meyers Georgia State University
Jun Sung Hong
Jun Sung Hong Wayne State University
Claudio Longobardi
Claudio Longobardi University of Turin
Kathy Charmaz
Kathy Charmaz Sonoma State University
Eva Johansson
Eva Johansson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Michele Settanni
Michele Settanni University of Turin
Dorothy L. Espelage
Dorothy L. Espelage University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Andreas Fejes
Andreas Fejes Linköping University

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