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Sanne Akkerman 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 Sanne Akkerman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 101 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sanne Akkerman 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 Sanne Akkerman sits on this spectrum.

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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.

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

  • A dialogical approach to conceptualizing teacher identity

    Sanne F. Akkerman;Paulien C. Meijer

  • 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

  • The concept of flow in collaborative game-based learning

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

  • Auditing Quality of Research in Social Sciences

    Sanne Akkerman;Wilfried Admiraal;Mieke Brekelmans;Heinze Oost

  • Multilevel Boundary Crossing in a Professional Development School Partnership

    Sanne Akkerman;Ton Bruining

  • Crossing Boundaries Between School and Work During Apprenticeships

    Sanne F. Akkerman;Arthur Bakker

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

    Sanne Akkerman;Wilfried Admiraal;Jantina Huizenga

  • 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

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

    Larike H. Bronkhorst;Sanne F. Akkerman

  • Learning at the boundary: An introduction

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

  • Considering diversity: multivoicedness in international academic collaboration

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

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

    Sanne Floor Akkerman;Michiel Van Eijck

  • Organising communities‐of‐practice: facilitating emergence

    Sanne Akkerman;Christian Petter;Maarten de Laat

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

    Arthur Bakker;Sanne F. Akkerman

  • Challenging high-ability students

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

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

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

  • The complexity of educational design research

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Patterns of interactive media use among contemporary youth

    van den Aaj Antoine Beemt;SF Akkerman;Prj Simons

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur Bakker
Arthur Bakker Utrecht University
Theo Wubbels
Theo Wubbels Utrecht University
Jan D. Vermunt
Jan D. Vermunt Eindhoven University of Technology
Nico Verloop
Nico Verloop Leiden University
Jan van Tartwijk
Jan van Tartwijk Utrecht University
Mieke Brekelmans
Mieke Brekelmans Utrecht University
Paulien C. Meijer
Paulien C. Meijer Radboud University
Paul A. Kirschner
Paul A. Kirschner Open University in the Netherlands
Jan-Willem Strijbos
Jan-Willem Strijbos University of Groningen
Antonius H. N. Cillessen
Antonius H. N. Cillessen Radboud University

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