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Researcher · Instituto Piaget · Portugal

Alcina Figueiroa

Alcina Figueiroa publishes mostly in Education, Sociology and Political Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Science and Education Research, Education Pedagogy and Practices and Science Education and Pedagogy.

ORCID 0000-0003-2574-8341 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,996,789
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Portugal
#32,133
of 41,760
Works
15
Citations
24
Citations per work
1.6
h-index
3
i10-index 0Top 79% in Education
Alcina Figueiroa

What does Alcina Figueiroa research?

Alcina Figueiroa's work is mostly in Social Sciences (76%), Environmental Science (8%), Psychology (8%).

Social Sciences: 13 works · 84.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 76.4% of their workEducation: 9 works · 63.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 13.2% of their workPsychology: 1 works · 7.9% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 works · 5.3% of their workSocial Psychology: 0 works · 2.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 10.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 7.9% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 works · 7.9% of their workComputer Science: 0 works · 2.6% of their workInformation Systems: 0 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKAlcina Figueiroa15works
Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences84%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1176.4%
    2. Psychology17.9%
    1. Environmental Science17.9%
    2. Computer Science02.6%
  3. Everything else15.2%
  1. 1Education63% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law8% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology5% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology3% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alcina Figueiroa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Teacher Training, Curriculum Development, Science Education, Didactic Models, Teaching Methodologies, Sustainability, Educational Policies and Environmentalism.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Teacher Training163 topics
  2. Curriculum Development132 topics
  3. Science Education132 topics
  4. Didactic Models91 topic
  5. Teaching Methodologies91 topic
  6. Sustainability72 topics
  7. Educational Policies41 topic
  8. Environmentalism41 topic
  9. Inquiry-Based Teaching41 topic
  10. Pedagogy41 topic
  11. Qualitative Research41 topic
  12. Scientific Literacy41 topic
  13. Environmental Education31 topic
  14. Social Network Analysis31 topic
  15. Waste Management31 topic
  16. WebQuests31 topic
  17. Higher Education11 topic
  18. Mobile Learning11 topic
  19. Physical Education11 topic
  20. Sport Education11 topic

Where does Alcina Figueiroa work?

Alcina Figueiroa's main affiliation in the publication record is Instituto Piaget, Portugal.

How many publications and citations does Alcina Figueiroa have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 24 citations for Alcina Figueiroa, an h-index of 3, ranking #5,996,789 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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