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D-Index
47
Citations
10859
World Ranking
3355
National Ranking
140

Wim H. Gijselaers 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 Wim H. Gijselaers sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 221 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wim H. Gijselaers 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 Wim H. Gijselaers sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

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

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

Overview

Wim H. Gijselaers is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology, and Information Systems and Management.

Their work addresses several key topics, among them:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Team Dynamics and Performance
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Ethics in Business and Education

Gijselaers has published in a variety of academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Maandblad Voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie
  • Education + Training

Recent scholarly articles authored or co-authored by Gijselaers include:

  • Organizations, Learning, and Sustainability: A Cross-Disciplinary Review and Research Agenda, 2022, Journal of Business Ethics
  • Coaching to prepare students for their school-to-work transition: conceptualizing core coaching competences, 2022, Education + Training
  • Vertical or shared? When leadership supports team learning for educational change, 2020, Higher Education
  • Enhancing Team Learning through Leader Inclusiveness: A One-Year Ethnographic Case Study of an Interdisciplinary Teacher Team, 2021, Teaching and Learning in Medicine
  • Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students' learning process, 2024, Studies in Higher Education

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Therese Grohnert
  • Roger Meuwissen
  • Simon Beausaert
  • Melanie Feeney
  • Pim Martens

Best Publications

  • Social and cognitive factors driving teamwork in collaborative learning environments : team learning beliefs and behaviors

    Piet Van den Bossche;Wim H. Gijselaers;Mien Segers;Paul A. Kirschner

  • Connecting problem‐based practices with educational theory

    Wim H. Gijselaers

  • Team learning: Building shared mental models

    Piet Van den Bossche;Piet Van den Bossche;Wim Gijselaers;Mien Segers;Geert Woltjer

  • Bringing problem-based learning to higher education : theory and practice

    LuAnn Wilkerson;Wim H. Gijselaers

  • Trends in research on the tutor in problem-based learning: conclusions and implications for educational practice and research.

    Diana H.J.M. Dolmans;Wim H. Gijselaers;Jos H.C. Moust;Willem S. de Grave

  • Investigating the relations between motivation, tool use, participation, and performance in an e-learning course using web-videoconferencing

    Bas Giesbers;Bart Rienties;Dirk Tempelaar;Wim Gijselaers

  • A dynamic analysis of the interplay between asynchronous and synchronous communication in online learning: The impact of motivation

    Bas Giesbers;Bart Rienties;Dirk T. Tempelaar;Wim Gijselaers

  • The role of academic motivation in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

    Bart Rienties;Dirk Tempelaar;Piet Van den Bossche;Wim Gijselaers

  • Computer support for knowledge construction in collaborative learning environments

    Pieter J. Beers;Henny P. A. (Els) Boshuizen;Paul A. Kirschner;Wim H. Gijselaers

  • Influence of redesigning a learning environment on student perceptions and learning strategies

    Jan F. H. Nijhuis;Mien S. R. Segers;Mien S. R. Segers;Wim H. Gijselaers

  • Coercing shared knowledge in collaborative learning environments

    Paul A. Kirschner;Pieter J. Beers;Henny P. A. Boshuizen;Wim H. Gijselaers

  • 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

  • The role of scaffolding and motivation in CSCL

    Bart Rienties;Bas Giesbers;Dirk Tempelaar;Simon Lygo-Baker

  • Problem effectiveness in a course using problem-based learning

    Diana Dolmans;Wim Gijselaers;Henk Schmidt;S.B. van der Meer

  • Development and Evaluation of a Causal Model of Problem-Based Learning

    Wim H. Gijselaers;Henk G. Schmidt

  • How achievement emotions impact students' decisions for online learning, and what precedes those emotions

    Dirk T. Tempelaar;Alexandra Niculescu;Bart Rienties;Wim H. Gijselaers

  • Feedback, a powerful lever in teams: A review

    Catherine Gabelica;Piet Van den Bossche;Piet Van den Bossche;Mien Segers;Wim Gijselaers

  • Redesigning a learning and assessment environment: The influence on students' perceptions of assessment demands and their learning strategies

    M.S.R. Segers;J.F.H. Nijhuis;W.H. Gijselaers

  • A structural equation model analyzing the relationship of student achievement motivations and personality factors in a range of academic subject-matter areas

    Dirk T. Tempelaar;Wim H. Gijselaers;Sybrand Schim van der Loeff;Jan F.H. Nijhuis

  • Common Ground, Complex Problems and Decision Making

    Pieter J. Beers;Henny P. A. Boshuizen;Paul A. Kirschner;Wim H. Gijselaers

Frequent Co-Authors

Mien Segers
Mien Segers Maastricht University
Piet Van den Bossche
Piet Van den Bossche University of Antwerp
Bart Rienties
Bart Rienties The Open University
Paul A. Kirschner
Paul A. Kirschner Open University in the Netherlands
Henk G. Schmidt
Henk G. Schmidt Erasmus University Rotterdam
Henny P. A. Boshuizen
Henny P. A. Boshuizen The Open University
Diana H. J. M. Dolmans
Diana H. J. M. Dolmans Maastricht University
Ineke H. A. P. Wolfhagen
Ineke H. A. P. Wolfhagen Maastricht University
Cees P. M. van der Vleuten
Cees P. M. van der Vleuten Maastricht University
Erik W. Driessen
Erik W. Driessen Maastricht University

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