This study analyses 3237 publications from 76 Nordic authors and provides data on the percentage of these that are educationally focused and how this in turn impacts the authors’h-index. We also calculated how early in their career they published their first educational paper.

The results provide insights into the comparative evolution of engineering education research (EER) in these countries and identify both points in common and differences in the research publication trends in the four countries. Authors from Denmark, Sweden and Finland published more educational publications than noneducational throughout their careers. Apart from Denmark, the h-index of these Nordic researchers tended to be driven by non-EER publications. Researchers in our sample, apart from those in Norway, began publishing in engineering education (EE) early in their publishing careers.