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D-Index
52
Citations
22421
World Ranking
2359
National Ranking
30

Roger Säljö publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roger Säljö sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 279 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Roger Säljö D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roger Säljö sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Roger Säljö is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and works primarily within the social sciences and psychology fields. Their research output spans several subfields, including education, developmental and educational psychology, human factors and ergonomics, sociology and political science, as well as language and linguistics.

Their body of work focuses notably on topics related to innovative education and learning practices, EFL/ESL teaching and learning, child development and digital technology, child and animal learning development, education and critical thinking development, early childhood education and development, and educational and psychological assessments.

Recent research contributions include the following papers:

  • Development, ageing and hybrid minds: Growth and decline, and ecologies of human functioning in a sociocultural perspective, 2020, Learning Culture and Social Interaction
  • Conceptual change in the development of visual expertise, 2020, International Journal of Educational Research
  • Mastering the artful practice of navigation: The situated endorsement of professional competence in post-simulation evaluations, 2021, Studies In Educational Evaluation
  • Assessment in the zone of proximal development: simulator-based competence tests and the dynamic evaluation of knowledge-in-action, 2021, Classroom Discourse
  • Exploring the development of executive functions in children in a digital world, 2021, European Journal of Psychology of Education

Frequently appearing publication venues in their work include:

  • Learning Culture and Social Interaction
  • European Journal of Special Needs Education
  • Frontline Learning Research
  • International Journal of Educational Research
  • Studies In Educational Evaluation

Collaborations in research have been established with several frequent co-authors, with whom multiple publications have been produced. These co-authors include Shien Chue, Charlott Sellberg, Yew-Jin Lee, Thyge Tegtmejer, and Eva Hjörne.

Best Publications

  • ON QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES IN LEARNING: I—OUTCOME AND PROCESS*

    Ference Marton;Roger Säljö

  • Lärande & kulturella redskap. Om lärprocesser och det kollektiva minnet.

    Roger Säljö

  • Lärande i praktiken : ett sociokulturellt perspektiv

    Roger Säljö

  • Den lärande människan - teoretiska traditioner

    Roger Säljö

  • Expertise Differences in the Comprehension of Visualizations: a Meta-Analysis of Eye-Tracking Research in Professional Domains

    Andreas Gegenfurtner;Erno Lehtinen;Roger Säljö;Roger Säljö

  • Digital Tools and Challenges to Institutional Traditions of Learning: Technologies, Social Memory and the Performative Nature of Learning.

    Roger Säljö

  • Learning about learning

    Roger Säljö

  • Att platsa i en skola för alla - Elevhälsa och förhandling om normalitet i den svenska skolan

    Eva Hjörne;Roger Säljö

  • Lärande - en introduktion till perspektiv och metaforer

    Roger Säljö

  • Talk as Data and Practice — a critical look at phenomenographic inquiry and the appeal to experience

    Roger Säljö

  • Lärande, skola, bildning : grundbok för lärare

    Ulf P Lundgren;Roger Säljö;Caroline Liberg

  • Heavenly talk : Discourse, artifacts, and children's understanding of elementary astronomy

    Jan Schoultz;Roger Säljö;Jan Wyndhamn

  • Reasons for adherence with antihypertensive medication.

    Staffan Svensson;Karin I Kjellgren;Johan Ahlner;Roger Säljö

  • "Discourse, Tools and Reasoning": Essays On Situated Cognition

    Lauren B. Resnick;Clotilde Pontecorvo;Roger Säljö

  • Talk in institutional context and institutional context in talk: Categories as situated practices

    Åsa Mäkitalo;Roger Säljö

  • Discourse, Tools and Reasoning

    Lauren B. Resnick;Roger Säljö;Clotilde Pontecorvo;Barbara Burge

  • Learning, theories of learning, and units of analysis in research

    Roger Säljö

  • Map Reading Versus Mind Reading

    Jonas Ivarsson;Jan Schoultz;Roger Säljö

  • Learning Across Sites : New Tools, Infrastructures and Practices

    Sten R. Ludvigsen;Andreas Lund;Ingvill Rasmussen;Roger Säljö

  • Word problems and mathematical reasoning—A study of children's mastery of reference and meaning in textual realities

    Jan Wyndhamn;Roger Säljö

  • Qualitative Differences in Learning

    Ference Marton;Shirley Booth

Frequent Co-Authors

Erno Lehtinen
Erno Lehtinen University of Turku
Ference Marton
Ference Marton University of Gothenburg
Karin Aronsson
Karin Aronsson Stockholm University
Sam Dupont
Sam Dupont University of Gothenburg
Björn Dahlöf
Björn Dahlöf Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Lauren B. Resnick
Lauren B. Resnick University of Pittsburgh
Peter Gärdenfors
Peter Gärdenfors Lund University
Kai Hakkarainen
Kai Hakkarainen University of Helsinki
Stella Vosniadou
Stella Vosniadou Flinders University
Erica Frydenberg
Erica Frydenberg University of Melbourne

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