Katja Vähäsantanen

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Katja Vähäsantanen is a scholar working on Education, Human Factors and Ergonomics and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Katja Vähäsantanen has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Education, 16 papers in Human Factors and Ergonomics and 12 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Katja Vähäsantanen's work include Innovative Education and Learning Practices (16 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (14 papers) and Research in Social Sciences (9 papers). Katja Vähäsantanen is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Education and Learning Practices (16 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (14 papers) and Research in Social Sciences (9 papers). Katja Vähäsantanen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United Kingdom and Sweden. Katja Vähäsantanen's co-authors include Päivi Hökkä, Anneli Eteläpelto, Susanna Paloniemi, Raija Hämäläinen, Jani Ursin, Eija Räikkönen, Karen Littleton, Helena Rasku‐Puttonen, Dagmar Festner and Kaija Collin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Teaching and Teacher Education and Educational Research Review.

In The Last Decade

Katja Vähäsantanen

49 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

What is agency? Conceptualizing professional agency at work

2013 546 citations Anneli Eteläpelto, Katja Vähäsantanen et al. profile →
Professional agency in the stream of change: Understanding educational change and teachers' professional identities

2014 258 citations Katja Vähäsantanen Teaching and Teacher Education profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katja Vähäsantanen Finland	21	1.3k	356	343	280	232	54	1.9k
Anneli Eteläpelto Finland	23	1.3k 1.0×	302 0.8×	400 1.2×	372 1.3×	209 0.9×	53	1.9k
Päivi Hökkä Finland	18	966 0.7×	287 0.8×	236 0.7×	164 0.6×	159 0.7×	37	1.4k
Christine Edwards‐Groves Australia	21	1.4k 1.0×	228 0.6×	332 1.0×	322 1.1×	123 0.5×	79	1.8k
Auli Toom Finland	29	2.0k 1.5×	316 0.9×	189 0.6×	437 1.6×	288 1.2×	138	2.5k
Alison Kington United Kingdom	16	1.6k 1.2×	346 1.0×	157 0.5×	263 0.9×	259 1.1×	56	2.1k
Klaas van Veen Netherlands	29	2.1k 1.6×	275 0.8×	161 0.5×	544 1.9×	429 1.8×	102	2.7k
Anna Stetsenko United States	22	796 0.6×	468 1.3×	517 1.5×	421 1.5×	270 1.2×	50	1.7k
Mariane Hedegaard Denmark	23	1.2k 0.9×	683 1.9×	425 1.2×	455 1.6×	235 1.0×	45	2.2k
Bob Jeffrey United Kingdom	24	1.3k 1.0×	522 1.5×	158 0.5×	233 0.8×	172 0.7×	43	2.2k
David Pedder United Kingdom	22	2.3k 1.7×	366 1.0×	233 0.7×	627 2.2×	133 0.6×	38	2.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katja Vähäsantanen

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Hökkä, Päivi, et al.. (2025). School staff members’ professional agency in Finland, Scotland and Sweden – A comparative study. Teaching and Teacher Education. 159. 104998–104998.

Rikala, Jenni, et al.. (2025). Emotions in nursing students’ simulations: A qualitative case study. Clinical Simulation in Nursing. 101. 101701–101701. 1 indexed citations

Vähäsantanen, Katja, et al.. (2025). Opetukseen kytketty TKI-toiminta: Pilviä horisontissa, ratkaisuehdotuksia näkyvissä. 50(1).

Vähäsantanen, Katja, et al.. (2023). Esihenkilöiden tarinoita ammatillisen osaamisen johtamisesta hajautetuissa organisaatioissa. Aikuiskasvatus. 43(1-2). 26–41. 2 indexed citations

Lämsä, Joni, et al.. (2022). Teacher Trainees' Experiences of the Components of ICT Competencies and Key Factors in ICT Competence Development in Work-Based Vocational Teacher Training in Finland. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(2). 146–166. 6 indexed citations

Hökkä, Päivi, Katja Vähäsantanen, & Heini Ikävalko. (2022). An Integrative Approach to Emotional Agency at Work. Vocations and Learning. 16(1). 23–46. 9 indexed citations

Hökkä, Päivi, Eija Räikkönen, Heini Ikävalko, Susanna Paloniemi, & Katja Vähäsantanen. (2022). Emotional Agency at Work: The Development and Validation of a Measure. Frontiers in Education. 7. 2 indexed citations

Ikävalko, Heini, Päivi Hökkä, Susanna Paloniemi, & Katja Vähäsantanen. (2020). Emotional competence at work. Journal of Organizational Change Management. 33(7). 1485–1498. 17 indexed citations

Hökkä, Päivi, et al.. (2019). Emotions in leaders’ enactment of professional agency. Journal of Workplace Learning. 31(2). 143–165. 9 indexed citations

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Hökkä, Päivi, et al.. (2019). Ikääntyneet aikuiset kuntoutustyöntekijöiden puheessa. Aikuiskasvatus. 39(3). 192–207.

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Hökkä, Päivi, Katja Vähäsantanen, & Susanna Paloniemi. (2019). Emotions in Learning at Work: a Literature Review. Vocations and Learning. 13(1). 1–25. 37 indexed citations

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Göller, Michael, Jani Ursin, Katja Vähäsantanen, Dagmar Festner, & Christian Harteis. (2019). Finnish and German student teachers’ motivations for choosing teaching as a career. The first application of the FIT-Choice scale in Finland. Teaching and Teacher Education. 85. 235–248. 45 indexed citations

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Vähäsantanen, Katja, et al.. (2019). Trust in the educational partnership narrated by parents of a child with challenging behaviour. Early Years Journal of International Research and Development. 41(4). 414–427. 10 indexed citations

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Vähäsantanen, Katja, et al.. (2018). Rehabilitation agency of older adults in group-based intervention. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. 26(6). 411–422. 4 indexed citations

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Eteläpelto, Anneli, Virpi‐Liisa Kykyri, Markku Penttonen, et al.. (2018). A multi-componential methodology for exploring emotions in learning. Frontline Learning Research. 6–36. 11 indexed citations

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Vähäsantanen, Katja. (2014). Professional agency in the stream of change: Understanding educational change and teachers' professional identities. Teaching and Teacher Education. 47. 1–12. 258 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vähäsantanen, Katja. (2013). Vocational teachers' professional agency in the stream of change. Jyväskylä University Digital Archive (University of Jyväskylä). 20 indexed citations

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Vähäsantanen, Katja, Päivi Hökkä, Anneli Eteläpelto, & Helena Rasku‐Puttonen. (2012). Opettajien ammatillinen identiteetti, toimijuus ja sitoutuminen väljä- ja tiukkakytkentäisessä koulutusorganisaatiossa. Aikuiskasvatus. 32(2). 96–106. 2 indexed citations

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Vähäsantanen, Katja & Anneli Eteläpelto. (2009). Vocational teachers in the face of a major educational reform: individual ways of negotiating professional identities. Journal of Education and Work. 22(1). 15–33. 61 indexed citations

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Vähäsantanen, Katja, Päivi Hökkä, Anneli Eteläpelto, Helena Rasku‐Puttonen, & Karen Littleton. (2008). Teachers’ Professional Identity Negotiations in Two Different Work Organisations. Vocations and Learning. 1(2). 131–148. 73 indexed citations

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