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D-Index
32
Citations
8158
World Ranking
7209
National Ranking
70

Sami Paavola 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 Sami Paavola sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 106 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sami Paavola 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 Sami Paavola sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Models of Innovative Knowledge Communities and Three Metaphors of Learning

    Sami Paavola;Lasse Lipponen;Kai Hakkarainen

  • The Knowledge Creation Metaphor--An Emergent Epistemological Approach to Learning.

    Sami Paavola;Kai Hakkarainen

  • Communities of Networked Expertise: Professional and Educational Perspectives

    Kai Hakkarainen;Tuire Palonen;Sami Paavola;Erno Lehtinen

  • Digital competence --- an emergent boundary concept for policy and educational research

    Liisa Ilomäki;Sami Paavola;Minna Lakkala;Anna Kantosalo

  • Beyond the BIM utopia: Approaches to the development and implementation of building information modeling

    Reijo Miettinen;Sami Paavola

  • Epistemological foundations for CSCL: a comparison of three models of innovative knowledge communities

    Sami Paavola;Lasse Lipponen;Kai Hakkarainen

  • Abduction as a Logic and Methodology of Discovery: the Importance of Strategies

    Sami Paavola

  • Practices and orientations of CSCL

    Lasse Lipponen;Kai Hakkarainen;Sami Paavola

  • Peircean abduction: instinct or inference?

    Sami Paavola

  • Kolme näkökulmaa asiantuntijuuden tutkimiseen

    Kai Hakkarainen;Tuire Palonen;Sami Paavola

  • Trialogical Approach for Knowledge Creation

    Sami Paavola;Kai Hakkarainen

  • The roles and uses of design principles in a project on trialogical learning

    Sami Paavola;Minna Lakkala;Hanni Muukkonen;Kari Kosonen

  • Toward a trialogical approach to learning

    Kai Hakkarainen;Sami Paavola

  • The Trialogical Approach as a New Form of Mediation

    Sami Paavola;Ritva Engeström;Kai Hakkarainen

  • Käytäntöyhteisöistä innovatiivisiin tietoyhteisöihin

    Kai Hakkarainen;Sami Paavola;Lasse Lipponen

  • Hansonian and Harmanian Abduction as Models of Discovery

    Sami Paavola

  • On the Origin of Ideas: An Abductivist Approach to Discovery

    Sami Paavola

  • Sociocultural perspectives on collaborative learning: Towards collaborative knowledge creation

    Kai Hakkarainen;Sami Paavola;Kaiju Kangas;Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen

  • The roles and uses of design principles for developing the trialogical approach on learning

    Sami Paavola;Minna Lakkala;Hanni Muukkonen;Kari Kosonen

  • From meaning making to joint construction of knowledge practices and artefacts

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Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Hakkarainen
Kai Hakkarainen University of Helsinki
Lasse Lipponen
Lasse Lipponen University of Helsinki
Kirsti Lonka
Kirsti Lonka University of Helsinki
Baruch B. Schwarz
Baruch B. Schwarz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Erno Lehtinen
Erno Lehtinen University of Turku
Yrjö Engeström
Yrjö Engeström University of Helsinki
Lauri Koskela
Lauri Koskela Tallinn University of Technology
Dov M. Gabbay
Dov M. Gabbay University of Luxembourg

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