What are the typical research requirements for an application to lecturer position to be successful? When someone is applying for a position as a lecture at an average ranking university in Sweden (equivalent to associate professor elsewhere), what is the typical number of research papers and of what quality he is expected to have in order to have a realistic chance of getting the position?
The skills to teach are more important than a list of papers...

Having had to suffer "good" researchers who proved to be poor at explaining things, then the focus should be on the lecturing ...