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Researcher · Emirates College for Advanced Education · United Arab Emirates

Dean Cairns

Dean Cairns publishes mostly in Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Science Education and Pedagogy, Educational Strategies and Epistemologies and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors.

ORCID 0000-0002-5262-868X OpenAlex
World rank
#717,295
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Arab Emirates
#862
of 6,273
Works
33
Citations
995
Citations per work
30.2
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 13% in Education
Dean Cairns

What does Dean Cairns research?

Dean Cairns's work is mostly in Social Sciences (26%), Psychology (23%), Materials Science (9%).

Social Sciences: 16 works · 48.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 25.6% of their workEducation: 8 works · 25.6% of their workPsychology: 8 works · 23.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 works · 11.6% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 works · 7.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 2 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 14 works · 41.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 9.4% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 9.4% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 4.7% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 2 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKDean Cairns33works
Physical Sciences9%Social Sciences49%

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 Sciences825.6%
    2. Psychology823.3%
  2. Everything else1441.7%
    1. Materials Science39.4%
  1. 1Education26% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology12% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology7% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Polymers and Plastics5% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dean Cairns's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inquiry-Based Teaching, Scientific Literacy, Epistemological Beliefs, Metacognition, Conducting Polymers, Ion-Selective Electrodes, Optical Sensors and Polyaniline.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Inquiry-Based Teaching101 topic
  2. Scientific Literacy101 topic
  3. Epistemological Beliefs51 topic
  4. Metacognition51 topic
  5. Conducting Polymers41 topic
  6. Ion-Selective Electrodes41 topic
  7. Optical Sensors41 topic
  8. Polyaniline41 topic
  9. Achievement Motivation31 topic
  10. School Engagement31 topic
  11. Self-Efficacy31 topic
  12. Student-Teacher Relationships31 topic
  13. Click Chemistry21 topic
  14. Living Radical Polymerization21 topic
  15. Olefin Metathesis21 topic
  16. Ruthenium Catalysts21 topic

Where does Dean Cairns work?

Dean Cairns's main affiliation in the publication record is Emirates College for Advanced Education, United Arab Emirates.

How many publications and citations does Dean Cairns have?

OpenAlex counts 33 works and 995 citations for Dean Cairns, an h-index of 12, ranking #717,295 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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