Sam Sims

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 835 citations indexed

About

Sam Sims is a scholar working on Education, Social Psychology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Sims has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 835 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Education, 9 papers in Social Psychology and 4 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Sam Sims's work include School Choice and Performance (11 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (7 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (6 papers). Sam Sims is often cited by papers focused on School Choice and Performance (11 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (7 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (6 papers). Sam Sims collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Korea. Sam Sims's co-authors include John Jerrim, Harry Fletcher-Wood, Mary Oliver, Rebecca Allen, Rebecca S. Allen, Jake Anders, Eddy Nahmias, Christian Bokhove, Hannah Taylor and Jo Van Herwegen and has published in prestigious journals such as Review of Educational Research, American Educational Research Journal and Educational Researcher.

In The Last Decade

Sam Sims

42 papers receiving 768 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.

Identifying the characteristics of effective teacher professional development: a critical review

2020 167 citations Sam Sims, Harry Fletcher-Wood School Effectiveness and School Improvement profile →
Effective Teacher Professional Development: New Theory and a Meta-Analytic Test

2023 37 citations Sam Sims, Harry Fletcher-Wood et al. Review of Educational Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam Sims United Kingdom	15	563	127	120	88	71	47	835
Stephen Dinham Australia	17	826 1.5×	120 0.9×	94 0.8×	84 1.0×	48 0.7×	50	1.0k
Eva Myrberg Sweden	12	588 1.0×	144 1.1×	190 1.6×	67 0.8×	78 1.1×	15	850
Anil Kanjee South Africa	13	403 0.7×	102 0.8×	105 0.9×	96 1.1×	72 1.0×	30	732
Douglas McDougall Canada	14	688 1.2×	184 1.4×	102 0.8×	85 1.0×	42 0.6×	33	905
Caroline Sharp United Kingdom	15	562 1.0×	166 1.3×	61 0.5×	130 1.5×	45 0.6×	55	838
Russell Waugh Australia	17	411 0.7×	98 0.8×	100 0.8×	80 0.9×	60 0.8×	54	756
Pu‐Shih Daniel Chen United States	10	568 1.0×	148 1.2×	114 0.9×	125 1.4×	49 0.7×	14	789
Marieke Meeuwisse Netherlands	13	479 0.9×	101 0.8×	116 1.0×	88 1.0×	72 1.0×	30	693
Sabine Wollscheid Norway	11	341 0.6×	105 0.8×	59 0.5×	81 0.9×	60 0.8×	46	581
Amanda Heffernan Australia	9	441 0.8×	78 0.6×	89 0.7×	88 1.0×	67 0.9×	32	616

Countries citing papers authored by Sam Sims

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sam Sims

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Sims

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sam Sims. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sam Sims based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sam Sims. Sam Sims is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Jerrim, John, et al.. (2025). Initial estimates of teacher value‐added in English primary schools. British Educational Research Journal. 51(6). 2942–2963.

McCarty, Dennis, et al.. (2025). Accessible water quality monitoring through hybrid human–machine colorimetric methods. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 197(5). 555–555.

Jerrim, John, Luis Alejandro López-Agudo, Sam Sims, & Óscar David Marcenaro Gutiérrez. (2024). Teaching for near transfer: Is maths instruction aimed at schema formation and abstraction associated with pupils' ability to answer unfamiliar maths questions?. Learning and Individual Differences. 118. 102609–102609.

Jerrim, John, Rebecca Allen, & Sam Sims. (2024). How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect the anxiety of teachers at work?. Educational Review. 76(5). 1134–1157. 2 indexed citations

Bokhove, Christian, John Jerrim, & Sam Sims. (2023). Are some school inspectors more lenient than others?. School Effectiveness and School Improvement. 34(4). 419–441. 8 indexed citations

Jerrim, John, et al.. (2023). Teacher autonomy: Good for pupils? Good for teachers?. British Educational Research Journal. 49(6). 1187–1209. 8 indexed citations

Jerrim, John, Sam Sims, & Mary Oliver. (2023). Teacher self-efficacy and pupil achievement: much ado about nothing? International evidence from TIMSS. Teachers and Teaching. 29(2). 220–240. 24 indexed citations

Sims, Sam, Harry Fletcher-Wood, Alison O’Mara-Eves, et al.. (2023). Effective Teacher Professional Development: New Theory and a Meta-Analytic Test. Review of Educational Research. 95(2). 213–254. 37 indexed citations breakdown →

Bokhove, Christian, John Jerrim, & Sam Sims. (2023). How Useful are Ofsted Inspection judgements for Informing Secondary School Choice?. Journal of School Choice. 17(1). 35–61. 6 indexed citations

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Jerrim, John & Sam Sims. (2021). When is high workload bad for teacher wellbeing? Accounting for the non-linear contribution of specific teaching tasks. Teaching and Teacher Education. 105. 103395–103395. 51 indexed citations

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Sims, Sam, et al.. (2020). The association between attending a grammar school and children's socio-emotional outcomes. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Allen, Rebecca, et al.. (2020). New evidence on teachers’ working hours in England. An empirical analysis of four datasets. Research Papers in Education. 36(6). 657–681. 33 indexed citations

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Sims, Sam, et al.. (2020). Context and Implications Document for: Habit formation limits growth in teacher effectiveness: A review of converging evidence from neuroscience and social science. Review of Education. 9(1). 24–26. 2 indexed citations

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Jerrim, John, Sam Sims, Hannah Taylor, & Rebecca Allen. (2020). How does the mental health and wellbeing of teachers compare to other professions? Evidence from eleven survey datasets. Review of Education. 8(3). 659–689. 13 indexed citations

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Jerrim, John & Sam Sims. (2019). Why do so few low‐ and middle‐income children attend a grammar school? New evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study. British Educational Research Journal. 45(3). 425–457. 9 indexed citations

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Sims, Sam, et al.. (2019). Comparing Teachers’ Job Satisfaction across Countries: A Multiple‐Pairwise Measurement Invariance Approach. Educational Measurement Issues and Practice. 38(3). 75–85. 19 indexed citations

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Jerrim, John & Sam Sims. (2018). THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ATTENDING A GRAMMAR SCHOOL AND CHILDREN’S SOCIO-EMOTIONAL OUTCOMES. NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE MILLENNIUM COHORT STUDY. British Journal of Educational Studies. 68(1). 25–42. 8 indexed citations

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Allen, Rebecca & Sam Sims. (2018). The Teacher Gap. 4 indexed citations

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Sims, Sam, et al.. (2016). Why Do Women Leave Philosophy? Surveying Students at the Introductory Level. Philosopher's Imprint. 16(6). 32 indexed citations

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Rutter, Jill, et al.. (2012). The 'S' Factors. 3 indexed citations

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