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Researcher · Middlebury College · United States

Barbara K. Hofer

Barbara K. Hofer publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, Education and Critical Thinking Development and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods.

ORCID 0000-0001-6361-7831 OpenAlex
World rank
#134,273
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#50,909
of 1,627,098
Works
89
Citations
10k
Citations per work
116.5
h-index
30
i10-index 38Top 8.2% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Barbara K. Hofer

What does Barbara K. Hofer research?

Barbara K. Hofer's work is mostly in Psychology (35%), Social Sciences (32%), Arts and Humanities (15%).

Social Sciences: 74 works · 82.6% of their workPsychology: 31 works · 35.1% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 31 works · 35.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 28 works · 32.0% of their workEducation: 21 works · 23.2% of their workLinguistics and Language: 5 works · 5.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 3.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 14 works · 15.5% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 8 works · 9.3% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 works · 6.2% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 17.4% of their workTHEIR WORKBarbara K. Hofer89works
Social Sciences83%

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. Psychology3135.1%
    2. Social Sciences2832.0%
    3. Arts and Humanities1415.5%
  2. Everything else1517.4%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology35% of their works
  2. 2Education23% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics9% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  5. 5Linguistics and Language6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Barbara K. Hofer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metacognition, Epistemological Beliefs, Information Literacy, Critical Thinking Skills, Instructional Interventions, Multilingualism, Bilingual Education and Language Policy.

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. Metacognition592 topics
  2. Epistemological Beliefs381 topic
  3. Information Literacy381 topic
  4. Critical Thinking Skills291 topic
  5. Instructional Interventions291 topic
  6. Multilingualism273 topics
  7. Bilingual Education222 topics
  8. Language Policy222 topics
  9. Collaborative Learning211 topic
  10. Self-Regulation211 topic
  11. CLIL121 topic
  12. Content and Language Integrated Learning121 topic
  13. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy101 topic
  14. Translanguaging101 topic
  15. Language Teaching61 topic
  16. Second Language Acquisition61 topic
  17. German as a Foreign Language51 topic
  18. Inquiry-Based Teaching51 topic
  19. Language Learning51 topic
  20. Scientific Literacy51 topic

Where does Barbara K. Hofer work?

Barbara K. Hofer's main affiliation in the publication record is Middlebury College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Barbara K. Hofer have?

OpenAlex counts 89 works and 10,369 citations for Barbara K. Hofer, an h-index of 30, ranking #134,273 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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