2026 Sanne Akkerman: 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	32	7193	6681	281	267	101	9994

Overview

Sanne Akkerman is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily within the social sciences and psychology, with particular emphasis on education and cognitive psychology subfields. Their work spans topics related to creativity in education and neuroscience, career development and diversity, and various areas of educational research including achievement, giftedness, and early childhood development.

Their recent publications include:

Relevance of Educational Research: An Ontological Conceptualization, 2021, Educational Researcher
Social Psychology of and for World-Making, 2023, Personality and Social Psychology Review
'Undisciplining' higher education without losing disciplines: furthering transformative potential for students, 2022, Higher Education Research & Development
The Multidimensional Structure of Interest, 2020, Frontline Learning Research
The role of school in adolescents' interest in daily life, 2020, International Journal of Educational Research

Sanne Akkerman frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most frequent co-authors include:

Larike H. Bronkhorst
Gregorius Johannes Beek
Arthur Bakker
Jael Draijer
Bjorn Wansink

Their research has been published in various academic journals, notably:

International Journal of Educational Research
Frontline Learning Research
SSRN Electronic Journal
Educational Researcher
Personality and Social Psychology Review

The main fields of study that their work contributes to are:

Social Sciences
Psychology

Specific subfields represented in their research include:

Education
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Social Psychology
Safety Research

The main topics covered in their publications are:

Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
Career Development and Diversity
Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
Psychological and Educational Research Studies
Early Childhood Education and Development
Higher Education Research Studies
Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy

Best Publications

Boundary Crossing and Boundary Objects

Sanne F. Akkerman;Arthur Bakker

3017
Citations
A dialogical approach to conceptualizing teacher identity

Sanne F. Akkerman;Paulien C. Meijer

1527
Citations
Mobile Game-Based Learning in Secondary Education: Engagement, Motivation and Learning in a Mobile City Game

J. Huizenga;W. Admiraal;S. Akkerman;G. ten Dam

825
Citations
The concept of flow in collaborative game-based learning

Wilfried Admiraal;Jantina Huizenga;Sanne Akkerman;Geert ten Dam

531
Citations
Auditing Quality of Research in Social Sciences

Sanne Akkerman;Wilfried Admiraal;Mieke Brekelmans;Heinze Oost

406
Citations
Multilevel Boundary Crossing in a Professional Development School Partnership

Sanne Akkerman;Ton Bruining

262
Citations
Crossing Boundaries Between School and Work During Apprenticeships

Sanne F. Akkerman;Arthur Bakker

260
Citations
Storification in History education: A mobile game in and about medieval Amsterdam

Sanne Akkerman;Wilfried Admiraal;Jantina Huizenga

230
Citations
Reconsidering group cognition: From conceptual confusion to a boundary area between cognitive and socio-cultural perspectives?

Sanne Akkerman;Piet Van den Bossche;Wilfried Admiraal;Wim Gijselaers

209
Citations
At the boundary of school : Continuity and discontinuity in learning across contexts

Larike H. Bronkhorst;Sanne F. Akkerman

201
Citations
Learning at the boundary: An introduction

Sanne F. Akkerman;Sanne F. Akkerman;Arthur Bakker

184
Citations
Considering diversity: multivoicedness in international academic collaboration

Sanne Akkerman;Wilfried Admiraal;Robert Jan Simons;Theo Niessen

135
Citations
Re-theorising the student dialogically across and between boundaries of multiple communities

Sanne Floor Akkerman;Michiel Van Eijck

126
Citations
Organising communities‐of‐practice: facilitating emergence

Sanne Akkerman;Christian Petter;Maarten de Laat

118
Citations
A boundary-crossing approach to support students’ integration of statistical and work-related knowledge

Arthur Bakker;Sanne F. Akkerman

98
Citations
Challenging high-ability students

Karin Scager;Sanne F. Akkerman;Albert Pilot;Theo Wubbels

90
Citations
Student Teachers' Collaborative Research: Small-Scale Research Projects during Teacher Education.

Marjolein Dobber;Sanne F. Akkerman;Nico Verloop;Jan D. Vermunt

88
Citations
The complexity of educational design research

Sanne F. Akkerman;Larike H. Bronkhorst;Ilya Zitter

85
Citations
Where Does Teaching Multiperspectivity in History Education Begin and End? An Analysis of the Uses of Temporality

Bjorn Wansink;Sanne Akkerman;Itzél Zuiker;Theo Wubbels

83
Citations
Do Honors Students Have More Potential for Excellence in Their Professional Lives

Karin Scager;Sanne F. Akkerman;Fried Keesen;M. Tim Mainhard

75
Citations
Patterns of interactive media use among contemporary youth

van den Aaj Antoine Beemt;SF Akkerman;Prj Simons

75
Citations
Professional identity in clinician-scientists: brokers between care and science.

Manon Kluijtmans;Else de Haan;Else de Haan;Sanne Akkerman;Jan van Tartwijk

72
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur Bakker Utrecht University

Theo Wubbels Utrecht University

Jan D. Vermunt Eindhoven University of Technology

Nico Verloop Leiden University

Mieke Brekelmans Utrecht University

Paulien C. Meijer Radboud University

Jan-Willem Strijbos University of Groningen

Antonius H. N. Cillessen Radboud University

Paul A. Kirschner Open University in the Netherlands

Guy Widdershoven University of Amsterdam

External Links

Personal website of Sanne Akkerman

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