Kirsi Tirri

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
260 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Kirsi Tirri is a scholar working on Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kirsi Tirri has authored 260 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Education, 60 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 58 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kirsi Tirri's work include Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (51 papers), Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (33 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (31 papers). Kirsi Tirri is often cited by papers focused on Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (51 papers), Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (33 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (31 papers). Kirsi Tirri collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United States and Netherlands. Kirsi Tirri's co-authors include Petri Myllymäki, Elina Kuusisto, Teemu Roos, Petri Nokelainen, Jukka Husu, Inkeri Rissanen, Tomi Silander, Sonja Laine, Pertti Kansanen and Petri Kontkanen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Kirsi Tirri

237 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Probabilistic Approach to WLAN User Location Estimation

2002 659 citations Petri Myllymäki, Kirsi Tirri et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kirsi Tirri Finland	35	2.0k	942	935	725	560	260	5.0k
Vassilis Kostakos Finland	42	213 0.1×	359 0.4×	716 0.8×	527 0.7×	687 1.2×	272	6.4k
Sunny Consolvo United States	39	284 0.1×	330 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	431 0.6×	589 1.1×	86	7.3k
Anastasios A. Economides Greece	35	1.5k 0.7×	289 0.3×	172 0.2×	214 0.3×	634 1.1×	238	5.0k
John McDermott United States	32	755 0.4×	249 0.3×	114 0.1×	499 0.7×	2.6k 4.7×	111	5.8k
Anna L. Cox United Kingdom	41	242 0.1×	706 0.7×	313 0.3×	527 0.7×	517 0.9×	301	7.9k
Kori Inkpen Canada	42	528 0.3×	759 0.8×	82 0.1×	323 0.4×	778 1.4×	158	6.1k
Kenton O’Hara United Kingdom	38	440 0.2×	561 0.6×	93 0.1×	233 0.3×	514 0.9×	114	6.0k
Bruno Lepri Italy	35	103 0.1×	465 0.5×	285 0.3×	456 0.6×	848 1.5×	149	4.0k
Carman Neustaedter Canada	38	381 0.2×	712 0.8×	106 0.1×	114 0.2×	271 0.5×	203	4.4k
Alan Dix United Kingdom	36	168 0.1×	452 0.5×	172 0.2×	278 0.4×	881 1.6×	303	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kirsi Tirri

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Billington, M. J., Sonja Laine, & Kirsi Tirri. (2025). Validating the language mindset inventory in Finland: a study of higher education students’ language-learning mindsets. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1655086–1655086.

Laine, Sonja, et al.. (2025). Finnish teachers’ mindsets and conceptions of neuroplasticity. Social Psychology of Education. 28(1). 1 indexed citations

Tirri, Kirsi. (2022). Editorial to the special issue on contributions of religions and worldviews to conceptions of giftedness. Gifted Education International. 39(1). 3–4.

Tirri, Kirsi. (2022). Spirituality and giftedness. Gifted Education International. 39(1). 73–79. 6 indexed citations

Tirri, Kirsi, Eve Eisenschmidt, Katrin Poom‐Valickis, & Elina Kuusisto. (2021). Current Challenges in School Leadership in Estonia and Finland: A Multiple-Case Study among Exemplary Principals. Education Research International. 2021. 1–11. 16 indexed citations

Kuusisto, Elina & Kirsi Tirri. (2021). The Challenge of Educating Purposeful Teachers in Finland. Education Sciences. 11(1). 29–29. 16 indexed citations

Tirri, Kirsi. (2021). Contemporary Teacher Education: A Global Perspective-Introduction to a Special Collection of Research. Education Sciences. 11(7). 340–340. 2 indexed citations

Eisenschmidt, Eve, Elina Kuusisto, Katrin Poom‐Valickis, & Kirsi Tirri. (2019). Virtues that create purpose for ethical leadership: Exemplary principals from Estonia and Finland. Journal of Beliefs and Values. 40(4). 433–446. 23 indexed citations

Yan, Wang, Jari Lavonen, & Kirsi Tirri. (2019). An assessment of how scientific literacy-related aims are actualised in the National Primary Science curricula in China and Finland. International Journal of Science Education. 41(11). 1435–1456. 22 indexed citations

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Kuusisto, Elina & Kirsi Tirri. (2015). Disagreements in working as a team: A case study of gifted science students = Desacuerdos al trabajar en equipo: Un estudio de caso con estudiantes de ciencias con altas capacidades. Revista de educación. 2015(368). 279–303. 2 indexed citations

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Nokelainen, Petri, et al.. (2005). Teknisen ammattikorkeakoulun opiskelijan matemaattinen lahjakkuus itsearvioinnin ja vanhempien vaikutuksen valossa. 7(3). 32–46. 1 indexed citations

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Nokelainen, Petri, et al.. (2005). EDUFORM – A Tool for Creating Adaptive Questionnaires. International journal on e-learning. 4(3). 365–373. 5 indexed citations

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Mononen, Tommi, Kirsi Tirri, Jaakko Erkinaro, et al.. (2002). A Study of Electroshing Bias in Terms of Habitat and Abundance Using Information-Theoretic Tools. Anaesthesia. 40(2). 191–2.

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Nokelainen, Petri, et al.. (2002). Use of Social Navigation Features in Collaborative E-Learning. E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. 2002(1). 1738–1741. 8 indexed citations

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Nokelainen, Petri, Kirsi Tirri, & James Reed Campbell. (2002). Cross-Cultural Findings of Computer Literacy Among the Academic Olympians. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. 2002(1). 2 indexed citations

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Nokelainen, Petri, Tomi Silander, Kirsi Tirri, Anne Nevgi, & Kirsi Tirri. (2001). Modeling Students' Views on the Advantages of Web-Based Learning with Bayesian Networks. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 7(6). 571–81. 7 indexed citations

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Husu, Jukka & Kirsi Tirri. (2001). Constructing Moral Reference Points in Teachers' Practical Reflection: The Case of Smoking.. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1712(2). 128–36. 2 indexed citations

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Kontkanen, Petri, Petri Myllymäki, & Kirsi Tirri. (2001). Comparing Prequential Model Selection Criteria in Supervised Learning of Mixture Models. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 156–161. 7 indexed citations

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Kontkanen, Petri, Petri Myllymäki, Tomi Silander, & Kirsi Tirri. (1999). Exploring the robustness of Bayesian and information-theoretic methods for predictive inference.. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 2 indexed citations

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Kontkanen, Petri, Petri Myllymäki, Tomi Silander, & Kirsi Tirri. (1998). BAYDA: software for Bayesian classification and feature selection. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 254–258. 10 indexed citations

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