Reinhard Pekrun

51.6k total citations · 21 hit papers
260 papers, 30.5k citations indexed

About

Reinhard Pekrun is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Reinhard Pekrun has authored 260 papers receiving a total of 30.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 118 papers in Social Psychology and 95 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Reinhard Pekrun's work include Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (95 papers), Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation (41 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (36 papers). Reinhard Pekrun is often cited by papers focused on Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (95 papers), Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation (41 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (36 papers). Reinhard Pekrun collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United Kingdom. Reinhard Pekrun's co-authors include Thomas Goetz, Raymond P. Perry, Anne C. Frenzel, Andrew J. Elliot, Kou Murayama, Wolfram Titz, Markus Maier, Nathan C. Hall, Lisa Linnenbrink‐Garcia and Herbert W. Marsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Reinhard Pekrun

250 papers receiving 28.6k citations

Hit Papers

The Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions: Assumpt... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2006 2002 2010 2014 2009 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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.

  1. The Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions: Assumptions, Corollaries, and Implications for Educational Research and Practice
    2006 3.2k citations Reinhard Pekrun Educational Psychology Review profile →
  2. Academic Emotions in Students' Self-Regulated Learning and Achievement: A Program of Qualitative and Quantitative Research
    2002 2.6k citations Reinhard Pekrun, Thomas Goetz et al. profile →
  3. Measuring emotions in students’ learning and performance: The Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ)
    2010 1.5k citations Reinhard Pekrun, Thomas Goetz et al. Contemporary Educational Psychology profile →
  4. International Handbook of Emotions in Education
    2014 997 citations Reinhard Pekrun et al. profile →
  5. Achievement goals and achievement emotions: Testing a model of their joint relations with academic performance.
    2009 883 citations Reinhard Pekrun, Andrew J. Elliot et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  6. Boredom in achievement settings: Exploring control–value antecedents and performance outcomes of a neglected emotion.
    2010 781 citations Reinhard Pekrun, Thomas Goetz et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  7. Achievement Emotions and Academic Performance: Longitudinal Models of Reciprocal Effects
    2017 659 citations Reinhard Pekrun, Stephanie Lichtenfeld et al. profile →
  8. Achievement goals and discrete achievement emotions: A theoretical model and prospective test.
    2006 645 citations Reinhard Pekrun, Andrew J. Elliot et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  9. A 3 × 2 achievement goal model.
    2011 583 citations Andrew J. Elliot, Kou Murayama et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  10. Emotional transmission in the classroom: Exploring the relationship between teacher and student enjoyment.
    2009 552 citations Anne C. Frenzel, Thomas Goetz et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  11. Confusion can be beneficial for learning
    2012 469 citations Reinhard Pekrun et al. Learning and Instruction profile →
  12. The murky distinction between self-concept and self-efficacy: Beware of lurking jingle-jangle fallacies.
    2018 297 citations Herbert W. Marsh, Reinhard Pekrun et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  13. Measuring Teachers’ enjoyment, anger, and anxiety: The Teacher Emotions Scales (TES)
    2016 274 citations Anne C. Frenzel, Reinhard Pekrun et al. Contemporary Educational Psychology profile →
  14. Activity Achievement Emotions and Academic Performance: A Meta-analysis
    2021 253 citations Reinhard Pekrun et al. Educational Psychology Review profile →
  15. Beyond cold technology: A systematic review and meta-analysis on emotions in technology-based learning environments
    2018 247 citations Reinhard Pekrun et al. Learning and Instruction profile →
  16. Emotion Regulation in Achievement Situations: An Integrated Model
    2019 183 citations Reinhard Pekrun et al. profile →
  17. Emotions in classroom language learning: What can we learn from achievement emotion research?
    2019 179 citations Reinhard Pekrun et al. profile →
  18. Surprised–curious–confused: Epistemic emotions and knowledge exploration.
    2019 149 citations Elisabeth Vogl, Reinhard Pekrun et al. profile →
  19. A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions.
    2022 136 citations Reinhard Pekrun, Herbert W. Marsh et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  20. Control-Value Theory: From Achievement Emotion to a General Theory of Human Emotions
    2024 61 citations Reinhard Pekrun Educational Psychology Review profile →
  21. Emotions and motivation in mathematics education: Where we are today and where we need to go
    2023 49 citations Stanislaw Schukajlow, Reinhard Pekrun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Reinhard Pekrun Germany 83 14.2k 13.2k 12.4k 6.9k 4.0k 260 30.5k
Allan Wigfield United States 67 12.8k 0.9× 14.8k 1.1× 19.9k 1.6× 10.3k 1.5× 4.1k 1.0× 142 37.4k
Thomas Goetz Germany 62 8.0k 0.6× 7.0k 0.5× 6.7k 0.5× 3.2k 0.5× 2.5k 0.6× 147 16.8k
Andrew J. Elliot United States 97 30.5k 2.1× 23.7k 1.8× 10.4k 0.8× 7.3k 1.1× 7.2k 1.8× 269 50.8k
Carol S. Dweck United States 101 28.8k 2.0× 25.5k 1.9× 18.5k 1.5× 11.0k 1.6× 9.2k 2.3× 248 59.8k
Dale H. Schunk United States 63 7.7k 0.5× 7.4k 0.6× 17.0k 1.4× 12.8k 1.9× 2.3k 0.6× 161 31.3k
Paul R. Pintrich United States 58 11.8k 0.8× 11.8k 0.9× 25.0k 2.0× 20.2k 2.9× 2.9k 0.7× 96 43.0k
Jacquelynne S. Eccles United States 119 23.7k 1.7× 21.8k 1.7× 34.0k 2.7× 9.6k 1.4× 12.2k 3.1× 359 67.8k
Howard Gardner United States 59 5.0k 0.3× 5.7k 0.4× 6.9k 0.6× 5.2k 0.7× 1.2k 0.3× 339 21.8k
Judith M. Harackiewicz United States 65 10.0k 0.7× 10.6k 0.8× 7.1k 0.6× 4.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.3× 134 19.9k
Johnmarshall Reeve South Korea 58 10.7k 0.8× 4.2k 0.3× 6.3k 0.5× 4.3k 0.6× 2.1k 0.5× 121 17.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stockinger, Kristina, Markus Dresel, Herbert W. Marsh, & Reinhard Pekrun. (2025). Strategies for regulating achievement emotions: Conceptualization and relations with university students’ emotions, well-being, and health. Learning and Instruction. 98. 102089–102089. 3 indexed citations
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Muis, Krista R., et al.. (2025). Confusion and confusion regulation: An empirical investigation of the emotion regulation in achievement situations model. Contemporary Educational Psychology. 80. 102350–102350.
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Wu, Jinran, Herbert W. Marsh, Jiesi Guo, et al.. (2025). Mapping the intellectual landscape of educational psychology: Citation rankings and network structures of 60 journals, scholars, and institutions. Learning and Individual Differences. 125. 102816–102816.
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Pekrun, Reinhard, et al.. (2024). Sex differences of school grades in childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal analysis. Intelligence. 107. 101857–101857. 2 indexed citations
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Pekrun, Reinhard. (2024). Overcoming Fragmentation in Motivation Science: Why, When, and How Should We Integrate Theories?. Educational Psychology Review. 36(1). 14 indexed citations
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Marsh, Herbert W., Oliver Lüdtke, Reinhard Pekrun, et al.. (2023). School leaders’ self-efficacy and job satisfaction over nine annual waves: A substantive-methodological synergy juxtaposing competing models of directional ordering. Contemporary Educational Psychology. 73. 102170–102170. 10 indexed citations
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Goetz, Thomas, Katarzyna Gogol, Reinhard Pekrun, et al.. (2023). Our individual order of things directs how we think we feel. Cognition & Emotion. 37(5). 990–996. 1 indexed citations
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Pekrun, Reinhard. (2023). Mind and body in students' and teachers' engagement: New evidence, challenges, and guidelines for future research. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 93(S1). 227–238. 15 indexed citations
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Pekrun, Reinhard, Herbert W. Marsh, Andrew J. Elliot, et al.. (2022). A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 124(1). 145–178. 136 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dicke, Theresa, et al.. (2018). Effects of school-average achievement on individual self-concept and achievement: Unmasking phantom effects masquerading as true compositional effects.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 110(8). 1112–1126. 45 indexed citations
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Marsh, Herbert W., Reinhard Pekrun, Philip D. Parker, et al.. (2016). Long-term positive effects of repeating a year in school: Six-year longitudinal study of self-beliefs, anxiety, social relations, school grades, and test scores.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 109(3). 425–438. 41 indexed citations
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Marsh, Herbert W., Reinhard Pekrun, Stephanie Lichtenfeld, et al.. (2016). Breaking the double-edged sword of effort/trying hard: Developmental equilibrium and longitudinal relations among effort, achievement, and academic self-concept.. Developmental Psychology. 52(8). 1273–1290. 105 indexed citations
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Stupnisky, Robert H., Reinhard Pekrun, & Stephanie Lichtenfeld. (2014). New faculty members' emotions: a mixed-method study. Studies in Higher Education. 41(7). 1167–1188. 32 indexed citations
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Schukajlow, Stanislaw, Dominik Leiß, Reinhard Pekrun, et al.. (2011). Teaching methods for modelling problems and students’ task-specific enjoyment, value, interest and self-efficacy expectations. Educational Studies in Mathematics. 79(2). 215–237. 147 indexed citations
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Schukajlow, Stanislaw, Werner Blum, Rudolf Messner, et al.. (2009). Unterrichtsformen, erlebte Selbständigkeit, Emotionen und Anstrengung als Prädiktoren von Schülerleistungen bei anspruchsvollen mathematischen Modellierungsaufgaben. Unterrichtswissenschaft. 37(2). 164–186. 7 indexed citations
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Prenzel, Manfred, Cordula Artelt, Jürgen Baumert, et al.. (2007). PISA 2006 : Die Ergebnisse der dritten internationalen Vergleichsstudie. 87 indexed citations
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Prenzel, Manfred, Jürgen Baumert, Werner Blum, et al.. (2006). PISA 2003 : Dokumentation der Erhebungsinstrumente. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 71 indexed citations
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Pekrun, Reinhard, Anne C. Frenzel, Thomas Götz, & Raymond P. Perry. (2006). Control-Value Theory of Academic Emotions : How Classroom and Individual Factors Shape Students Affect. 2 indexed citations
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Hall, Nathan C., Steve Hladkyj, Thomas Götz, Reinhard Pekrun, & Raymond P. Perry. (2005). Errors, Freezes, and Crashes : How College Students Deal With Computer Problems Through Primary and Secondary Control. 1 indexed citations
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Pekrun, Reinhard. (1988). Emotion, Motivation und Persönlichkeit. 9 indexed citations

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