Sarah Birkeland

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Sarah Birkeland is a scholar working on Education, Information Systems and Management and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Birkeland has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Education, 2 papers in Information Systems and Management and 2 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Sarah Birkeland's work include Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (2 papers) and Evaluation and Performance Assessment (2 papers). Sarah Birkeland is often cited by papers focused on Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (2 papers) and Evaluation and Performance Assessment (2 papers). Sarah Birkeland collaborates with scholars based in United States and Norway. Sarah Birkeland's co-authors include Susan M. Johnson, Carol H. Weiss, Erin Murphy‐Graham, Sharon Feiman‐Nemser, Heather G. Peske, Jan Svennevig, B Bugge-Asperheim and Eran Tamir and has published in prestigious journals such as American Educational Research Journal, Educational leadership and Evaluation and Program Planning.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Birkeland

12 papers receiving 819 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.

Pursuing a “Sense of Success”: New Teachers Explain Their Career Decisions

2003 638 citations Susan M. Johnson, Sarah Birkeland American Educational Research Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Birkeland United States	8	748	131	108	99	94	12	1.0k
Martha M. McCarthy United States	13	606 0.8×	53 0.4×	89 0.8×	89 0.9×	138 1.5×	98	846
Laurie Stevahn United States	16	300 0.4×	400 3.1×	111 1.0×	126 1.3×	162 1.7×	30	765
Gail C. Furman United States	10	811 1.1×	28 0.2×	71 0.7×	87 0.9×	164 1.7×	15	941
Susan E. Noffke United States	10	751 1.0×	72 0.5×	57 0.5×	35 0.4×	298 3.2×	24	977
Joan Poliner Shapiro United States	13	372 0.5×	27 0.2×	101 0.9×	81 0.8×	132 1.4×	38	558
Anjalé D. Welton United States	20	868 1.2×	46 0.4×	71 0.7×	161 1.6×	525 5.6×	41	1.1k
Stephen Dinham Australia	17	826 1.1×	20 0.2×	78 0.7×	94 0.9×	84 0.9×	50	1.0k
Amy Driscoll United States	16	602 0.8×	29 0.2×	14 0.1×	56 0.6×	116 1.2×	42	910
Harold L. Hodgkinson United States	15	629 0.8×	28 0.2×	32 0.3×	72 0.7×	177 1.9×	79	968
Georges Vernez United States	17	444 0.6×	35 0.3×	71 0.7×	30 0.3×	339 3.6×	94	948

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Birkeland

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Birkeland. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Birkeland 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 Sarah Birkeland. Sarah Birkeland is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Birkeland, Sarah & Eran Tamir. (2013). What does it mean for a school administrator to be supportive. Brandeis Institutional Repository. 2 indexed citations

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Birkeland, Sarah & Sharon Feiman‐Nemser. (2012). Helping School Leaders Help New Teachers: A Tool for Transforming School-Based Induction. The New Educator. 8(2). 109–138. 20 indexed citations

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Birkeland, Sarah. (2011). Induction: It’s Not Just for New Teachers. Brandeis Institutional Repository. 2 indexed citations

4.

Birkeland, Sarah & Sharon Feiman‐Nemser. (2009). Developing Comprehensive Induction in Jewish Day Schools: Lessons from the Field. Journal of Jewish Education. 75(3). 240–257. 9 indexed citations

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Birkeland, Sarah & Sharon Feiman‐Nemser. (2007). Building Professional Learning Communities Through Beginning Teacher Induction. Brandeis Institutional Repository. 2 indexed citations

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Johnson, Susan M., Sarah Birkeland, & Heather G. Peske. (2005). Life in the Fast Track: How States Seek to Balance Incentives and Quality in Alternative Teacher Certification Programs. Educational Policy. 19(1). 63–89. 30 indexed citations

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Weiss, Carol H., Erin Murphy‐Graham, & Sarah Birkeland. (2005). An Alternate Route to Policy Influence. American Journal of Evaluation. 26(1). 12–30. 157 indexed citations

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Birkeland, Sarah, Erin Murphy‐Graham, & Carol H. Weiss. (2005). Good reasons for ignoring good evaluation: The case of the drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.) program. Evaluation and Program Planning. 28(3). 247–256. 58 indexed citations

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Johnson, Susan M. & Sarah Birkeland. (2003). The Schools That Teachers Choose.. Educational leadership. 60(8). 20–24. 80 indexed citations

10.

Johnson, Susan M. & Sarah Birkeland. (2003). Pursuing a “Sense of Success”: New Teachers Explain Their Career Decisions. American Educational Research Journal. 40(3). 581–617. 638 indexed citations breakdown →

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Birkeland, Sarah & Susan M. Johnson. (2002). Q: What Keeps New Teachers in the Swim? A: Schools That Support Their Work.. The Journal of staff development. 23(4). 18–21. 5 indexed citations

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Bugge-Asperheim, B, Jan Svennevig, & Sarah Birkeland. (1980). Haemodynamic and Metabolic Consequences of Lung Contusion Following Blunt Chest Trauma. Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 14(3). 295–299. 12 indexed citations

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