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A.E.J. Wals

A.E.J. Wals publishes mostly in Education, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Human Factors and Ergonomics, on topics such as Environmental Education and Sustainability, Sustainability in Higher Education and Innovative Education and Learning Practices.

World rank
#33,435
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#681
of 23,481
Works
105
Citations
765
Citations per work
7.3

What does A.E.J. Wals research?

Education: 26.7%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 20.6%Human Factors and Ergonomics: 6.1%Sociology and Political Science: 6.1%other fields: 40.5%27%top field
Education26.7%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law20.6%Human Factors and Ergonomics6.1%Sociology and Political Science6.1%other fields40.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Education27% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law21% of their works
  3. 3Human Factors and Ergonomics6% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  5. 5General Agricultural and Biological Sciences4% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe A.E.J. Wals's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Environmental Attitudes, Pro-environmental Behavior, Higher Education, Transformative Learning, Competencies, Sustainability Education, Informal Learning and Activity Theory.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Attitudes211 topic
  2. Pro-environmental Behavior211 topic
  3. Higher Education162 topics
  4. Transformative Learning162 topics
  5. Competencies131 topic
  6. Sustainability Education131 topic
  7. Informal Learning112 topics
  8. Activity Theory81 topic
  9. Education82 topics
  10. Workplace Learning81 topic
  11. Adult Education62 topics
  12. Critical Thinking Skills41 topic
  13. Instructional Interventions41 topic
  14. Research Methods41 topic
  15. Social Work41 topic
  16. Conservation31 topic
  17. Critical Theory31 topic
  18. Emotion31 topic
  19. Prior Learning31 topic
  20. Recognition31 topic
  21. Rewilding31 topic

Where does A.E.J. Wals work?

A.E.J. Wals's main affiliation in the publication record is Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does A.E.J. Wals have?

Science Explorer counts 105 works and 765 citations for A.E.J. Wals, ranking #33,435 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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