| Analytic approach to the problem of convergence of truncated Lévy flights towards the Gaussian stochastic process I Koponen Physical Review E 52 (1), 1197, 1995 | 827 | 1995 |
| Models and modelling in physics education: A critical re-analysis of philosophical underpinnings and suggestions for revisions IT Koponen Science & Education 16, 751-773, 2007 | 243 | 2007 |
| Generative role of experiments in physics and in teaching physics: A suggestion for epistemological reconstruction IT Koponen, T Mäntylä Science & Education 15, 31-54, 2006 | 183 | 2006 |
| Simulations of ripple formation on ion-bombarded solid surfaces I Koponen, M Hautala, OP Sievänen Physical review letters 78 (13), 2612, 1997 | 123 | 1997 |
| Coherent knowledge structures of physics represented as concept networks in teacher education IT Koponen, M Pehkonen Science & Education 19, 259-282, 2010 | 112 | 2010 |
| Effect of a long‐term in‐service training program on teachers' beliefs about the role of experiments in physics education J Lavonen, J Jauhiainen, IT Koponen, K Kurki‐Suonio International Journal of Science Education 26 (3), 309-328, 2004 | 105 | 2004 |
| Building a picture of students' conceptions of wave-and particle-like properties of quantum entities K Mannila, IT Koponen, JA Niskanen European journal of physics 23 (1), 45, 2001 | 99 | 2001 |
| Island diffusion on metal fcc (100) surfaces J Heinonen, I Koponen, J Merikoski, T Ala-Nissila Physical review letters 82 (13), 2733, 1999 | 95 | 1999 |
| Thermalization of an electron-phonon system in a nonequilibrium state characterizedby fractal distribution of phonon excitations I Koponen Physical Review E 55 (6), 7759, 1997 | 71 | 1997 |
| Understanding the role of measurements in creating physical quantities: A case study of learning to quantify temperature in physics teacher education T Mäntylä, IT Koponen Science & Education 16, 291-311, 2007 | 55 | 2007 |
| Instability and wavelength selection during step flow growth of metal surfaces vicinal to fcc (001) M Rusanen, IT Koponen, J Heinonen, T Ala-Nissila Physical Review Letters 86 (23), 5317, 2001 | 51 | 2001 |
| Modeling the ion energy dependence of the sp3/sp2 bonding ratio in amorphous diamondlike films produced with a mass‐separated ion beam I Koponen, M Hakovirta, R Lappalainen Journal of applied physics 78 (9), 5837-5839, 1995 | 50 | 1995 |
| Concept development in learning physics: The case of electric current and voltage revisited IT Koponen, L Huttunen Science & Education 22, 2227-2254, 2013 | 49 | 2013 |
| Energy transfer between electrons and ions in dense displacement cascades I Koponen Physical Review B 47 (21), 14011, 1993 | 43 | 1993 |
| PRE-SERVICE PHYSICS TEACHERS’UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONAL STRUCTURE OF PHYSICS CONCEPTS: ORGANISING SUBJECT CONTENTS FOR PURPOSES OF TEACHING I Koponen, M Nousiainen International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education 11, 325-357, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| Concept networks in learning: Finding key concepts in learners' representations of the interlinked structure of scientific knowledge IT Koponen, M Nousiainen Journal of Complex Networks 2 (2), 187-202, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Concept networks of students’ knowledge of relationships between physics concepts: Finding key concepts and their epistemic support IT Koponen, M Nousiainen Applied network science 3 (1), 1-21, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| Random transition rate model of stretched exponential relaxation I Koponen Journal of non-crystalline solids 189 (1-2), 154-160, 1995 | 34 | 1995 |
| Experiences from long-term in-service training for physics teachers in Finland J Jauhiainen, J Lavonen, I Koponen, K Kurki-Suonio Physics Education 37 (2), 128, 2002 | 33 | 2002 |
| Atomic mixing in ion‐bombardment‐induced temperature spikes in metals I Koponen Journal of applied physics 72 (3), 1194-1196, 1992 | 33 | 1992 |
