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Alastair Irons

Alastair Irons publishes mostly in Education, Political Science and International Relations and Information Systems, on topics such as Higher Education Learning Practices, Higher Education and Employability and Education Systems and Policy.

World rank
#680,357
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#52,664
of 90,785
Works
29
Citations
18
Citations per work
0.6

What does Alastair Irons research?

Education: 55.6%Political Science and International Relations: 11.1%Information Systems: 7.4%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3.7%other fields: 22.2%56%top field
Education55.6%Political Science and International Relations11.1%Information Systems7.4%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences3.7%other fields22.2%

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

  1. 1Education56% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations11% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems7% of their works
  4. 4General Agricultural and Biological Sciences4% of their works
  5. 5Computer Science Applications4% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alastair Irons's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Prior Learning, Recognition, Soft Skills, Employability, Graduate Attributes, Feedback, Formative Assessment and Training Pathways.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Prior Learning41 topic
  2. Recognition41 topic
  3. Soft Skills42 topics
  4. Employability31 topic
  5. Graduate Attributes31 topic
  6. Feedback21 topic
  7. Formative Assessment21 topic
  8. Training Pathways21 topic
  9. Vocational Education21 topic
  10. Agricultural Change11 topic
  11. Computational Thinking11 topic
  12. IT skills11 topic
  13. Postdigital Education11 topic
  14. Programming Education11 topic
  15. Rural Development11 topic
  16. Technology-Enhanced Learning11 topic
  17. curriculum guidelines11 topic

Where does Alastair Irons work?

Alastair Irons's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Sunderland, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alastair Irons have?

Science Explorer counts 29 works and 18 citations for Alastair Irons, ranking #680,357 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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