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Researcher · Pennsylvania State University · United States

Brian Smith

Brian Smith publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy, on topics such as Educational Games and Gamification, Teaching and Learning Programming and Indian and Buddhist Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-6523-2019 OpenAlex
World rank
#705,184
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#210,894
of 358,040
Works
33
Citations
50
Citations per work
1.5

What does Brian Smith research?

Developmental and Educational Psychology: 17.0%Sociology and Political Science: 12.8%Philosophy: 12.8%Computer Science Applications: 10.6%other fields: 46.8%17%top field
Developmental and Educational Psychology17.0%Sociology and Political Science12.8%Philosophy12.8%Computer Science Applications10.6%other fields46.8%

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

  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology17% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy13% of their works
  4. 4Computer Science Applications11% of their works
  5. 5Religious studies8% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Motivation, Game-Based Learning, Gamification, Computational Thinking, Programming Education, Buddhism, Metacognition and Online Gaming.

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. Motivation82 topics
  2. Game-Based Learning51 topic
  3. Gamification51 topic
  4. Computational Thinking41 topic
  5. Programming Education41 topic
  6. Buddhism31 topic
  7. Metacognition31 topic
  8. Online Gaming31 topic
  9. Self-Regulation31 topic
  10. South Asia31 topic
  11. Video Games31 topic
  12. Affective States21 topic
  13. Digital Religion21 topic
  14. Intelligent Tutoring Systems21 topic
  15. Internet21 topic
  16. Deep Learning11 topic
  17. Reinforcement Learning11 topic

Where does Brian Smith work?

Brian Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Pennsylvania State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brian Smith have?

Science Explorer counts 33 works and 50 citations for Brian Smith, ranking #705,184 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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