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Researcher · Bishop's University · Canada

Avril Aitken

Avril Aitken publishes mostly in Education, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy, Literacy, Media, and Education and Digital Storytelling and Education.

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World rank
#1,939,986
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#64,459
of 183,316
Works
27
Citations
132
Citations per work
4.9
h-index
5
i10-index 3Top 53% in Education
Avril Aitken

What does Avril Aitken research?

Avril Aitken's work is mostly in Social Sciences (49%), Arts and Humanities (15%), Health Professions (6%).

Social Sciences: 17 works · 64.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 49.4% of their workEducation: 7 works · 24.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 24.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 15.1% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 works · 9.6% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 27.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 5.5% of their workHealth Professions: 1 works · 5.5% of their workSpeech and Hearing: 1 works · 5.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 2.7% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 2.7% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 1 works · 2.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAvril Aitken27works
Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences64%

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 Sciences1349.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities415.1%
  2. Everything else727.3%
    1. Health Professions15.5%
    1. Engineering12.7%
  1. 1Education25% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science25% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory10% of their works
  4. 4Speech and Hearing6% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics6% of their works
  6. 6Automotive Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Avril Aitken's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Technology Integration, Citizenship Education, Historical Thinking, Reflective Practice, Education, Multimodal Literacy, New Literacies and Digital Storytelling.

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. Technology Integration133 topics
  2. Citizenship Education81 topic
  3. Historical Thinking81 topic
  4. Reflective Practice82 topics
  5. Education62 topics
  6. Multimodal Literacy51 topic
  7. New Literacies51 topic
  8. Digital Storytelling41 topic
  9. Health Promotion41 topic
  10. Inclusive Education42 topics
  11. Qualitative Research Methods41 topic
  12. Teacher Professional Development41 topic
  13. Language Learning31 topic
  14. Subtitling31 topic
  15. Co-Teaching21 topic
  16. Professional Identity21 topic
  17. Professional Practices21 topic
  18. Public Action21 topic
  19. Social Pedagogy21 topic
  20. Special Education21 topic

Where does Avril Aitken work?

Avril Aitken's main affiliation in the publication record is Bishop's University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Avril Aitken have?

OpenAlex counts 27 works and 132 citations for Avril Aitken, an h-index of 5, ranking #1,939,986 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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