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Researcher · Colorado School of Mines · United States

Barbara Olds

Barbara Olds publishes mostly in Media Technology, Education and Architecture, on topics such as Engineering Education and Pedagogy, Engineering Education and Curriculum Development and Experimental Learning in Engineering.

OpenAlex
World rank
#339,080
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#121,963
of 1,627,098
Works
112
Citations
2.9k
Citations per work
25.5
h-index
25
i10-index 47Top 5% in Media Technology
Barbara Olds

What does Barbara Olds research?

Barbara Olds's work is mostly in Engineering (50%), Social Sciences (20%), Psychology (4%).

Physical Sciences: 57 works · 50.5% of their workEngineering: 57 works · 50.5% of their workMedia Technology: 29 works · 26.0% of their workArchitecture: 20 works · 18.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 7 works · 6.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 23.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 19.6% of their workEducation: 22 works · 19.6% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 4.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 23.1% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 2.5% of their workNeuroscience: 3 works · 2.5% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKBarbara Olds112works
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences50%Social Sciences24%

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. Engineering5750.5%
    1. Social Sciences2219.6%
    2. Psychology54.3%
  3. Everything else2623.1%
    1. Neuroscience32.5%
  1. 1Media Technology26% of their works
  2. 2Education20% of their works
  3. 3Architecture18% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Barbara Olds's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Engineering Education, Curriculum Development, Entrepreneurship, Hands-On Learning, Assessment Methods, Outcome-Based Education, STEM Education and Remote Laboratories.

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. Engineering Education1233 topics
  2. Curriculum Development962 topics
  3. Entrepreneurship511 topic
  4. Hands-On Learning511 topic
  5. Assessment Methods451 topic
  6. Outcome-Based Education451 topic
  7. STEM Education382 topics
  8. Remote Laboratories271 topic
  9. Virtual Labs271 topic
  10. Biomedical Engineering181 topic
  11. Hackathons181 topic
  12. Educational Technology152 topics
  13. Inquiry-Based Teaching111 topic
  14. Scientific Literacy111 topic
  15. Metacognition81 topic
  16. Self-Regulation81 topic
  17. Active Learning71 topic
  18. Cognition71 topic
  19. Flipped Classroom71 topic
  20. Physics of Mind71 topic

Where does Barbara Olds work?

Barbara Olds's main affiliation in the publication record is Colorado School of Mines, United States.

How many publications and citations does Barbara Olds have?

OpenAlex counts 112 works and 2,854 citations for Barbara Olds, an h-index of 25, ranking #339,080 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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