Arja Piirainen

860 total citations
49 papers, 553 citations indexed

About

Arja Piirainen is a scholar working on Education, Occupational Therapy and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Arja Piirainen has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 553 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Education, 13 papers in Occupational Therapy and 12 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Arja Piirainen's work include Occupational Therapy Practice and Research (13 papers), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (12 papers) and Innovations in Medical Education (6 papers). Arja Piirainen is often cited by papers focused on Occupational Therapy Practice and Research (13 papers), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (12 papers) and Innovations in Medical Education (6 papers). Arja Piirainen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Australia and Norway. Arja Piirainen's co-authors include Jaro Karppinen, Riikka Holopainen, Peter O’Sullivan, Kirsi Sipilä, Timo Suutama, Arja Häkkinen, Robert Schütze, Päivi Tynjälä, Anne Smith and Peter Kent and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Pain and Journal of Medical Internet Research.

In The Last Decade

Arja Piirainen

43 papers receiving 523 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Arja Piirainen Finland 14 199 154 116 114 102 49 553
Begoña Espejo Spain 19 259 1.3× 130 0.8× 55 0.5× 81 0.7× 44 0.4× 59 955
Alberto De Vitta Brazil 14 387 1.9× 111 0.7× 151 1.3× 72 0.6× 61 0.6× 59 753
Cathy Bulley United Kingdom 14 59 0.3× 133 0.9× 133 1.1× 139 1.2× 165 1.6× 35 718
Haitze J. de Vries Netherlands 9 337 1.7× 262 1.7× 90 0.8× 107 0.9× 23 0.2× 17 581
Jennifer Bullington Sweden 13 93 0.5× 109 0.7× 49 0.4× 134 1.2× 20 0.2× 21 534
Érika de Cássia Lopes Chaves Brazil 18 80 0.4× 238 1.5× 225 1.9× 34 0.3× 82 0.8× 96 937
Birgitte Ahlsen Norway 12 121 0.6× 174 1.1× 38 0.3× 139 1.2× 17 0.2× 23 417
Mana Rezai Canada 12 161 0.8× 65 0.4× 60 0.5× 45 0.4× 13 0.1× 18 462
Aurelio Olmedilla Zafra Spain 19 60 0.3× 120 0.8× 102 0.9× 45 0.4× 34 0.3× 160 1.3k
Susanne Kvarnström Sweden 11 160 0.8× 254 1.6× 113 1.0× 28 0.2× 31 0.3× 15 539

Countries citing papers authored by Arja Piirainen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arja Piirainen

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All Works

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Piirainen, Arja, et al.. (2023). Perceptions of learning and teaching human movement in physiotherapy: A systematic review and metasynthesis of qualitative studies. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being. 18(1). 2225943–2225943. 1 indexed citations
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Piirainen, Arja, et al.. (2023). Towards the Essence of Andragogy – A Hermeneutical Reading of Grundtvig, Knowles, Lindeman and Savićević. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 29(2). 19–37. 1 indexed citations
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Tynjälä, Päivi, et al.. (2021). Stories of professional development in physiotherapy education. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. 38(11). 1742–1755. 6 indexed citations
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Kettunen, Tarja, et al.. (2020). Patients' narratives of patient education in physiotherapy after total hip arthroplasty. Physiotherapy Research International. 25(4). e1862–e1862. 2 indexed citations
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Holopainen, Riikka, Arja Piirainen, Jaro Karppinen, Steven J. Linton, & Peter O’Sullivan. (2020). An adventurous learning journey. Physiotherapists’ conceptions of learning and integrating cognitive functional therapy into clinical practice. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. 38(2). 309–326. 20 indexed citations
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Kröger, Teppo, et al.. (2018). Rehabilitees perspective on goal setting in rehabilitation – a phenomenological approach. Disability and Rehabilitation. 41(19). 2280–2288. 16 indexed citations
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Kettunen, Tarja, et al.. (2018). Patient education in physiotherapy in total hip arthroplasty (THA) - The perspective of physiotherapists. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. 36(8). 946–955. 3 indexed citations
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Mikkonen, Kristina, Tuulikki Sjögren, Arja Piirainen, et al.. (2018). Competence areas of health science teachers – A systematic review of quantitative studies. Nurse Education Today. 70. 77–86. 61 indexed citations
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Tynjälä, Päivi, et al.. (2017). Graduating Physiotherapy Students’ Conceptions of their own Competence. Vocations and Learning. 11(1). 1–18. 13 indexed citations
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Tynjälä, Päivi, et al.. (2016). Graduating physiotherapy students’ conceptions of their own competence. Physiotherapy. 102. e38–e39. 1 indexed citations
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Häkkinen, Arja, et al.. (2016). Revising the negative meaning of chronic pain – a phenomenological study. Physiotherapy. 102. e95–e96. 1 indexed citations
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Piirainen, Arja, et al.. (2015). Students’ experiences of reflective writing in physiotherapy education. Physiotherapy. 101. e803–e804. 1 indexed citations
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Piirainen, Arja, et al.. (2015). Physiotherapy students’ conceptions of skill at the beginning of their Bachelor studies. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. 31(4). 260–269. 5 indexed citations
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Häkkinen, Arja, et al.. (2014). Although unseen, chronic pain is real–A phenomenological study. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 6(1). 33–40. 18 indexed citations
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Piirainen, Arja, et al.. (2012). Reliability and validity study of the Finnish version of the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ). Disability and Rehabilitation. 35(4). 306–314. 12 indexed citations
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Piirainen, Arja, et al.. (2010). Transforming expertise from individual to regional community expertise: a four‐year study of an education intervention. International Journal of Lifelong Education. 29(5). 581–596. 7 indexed citations
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Piirainen, Arja, et al.. (2001). Multiple sclerosis patients as counsellors and evaluators of rehabilitation. International Journal of Consumer Studies. 25(2). 132–139. 3 indexed citations

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