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Researcher · Vanderbilt University · United States

Donald L. Compton

Donald L. Compton publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability and Education, on topics such as Reading and Literacy Development, Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills and Language Development and Disorders.

ORCID 0000-0003-3855-3746 OpenAlex
World rank
#39,306
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#15,052
of 1,627,098
Works
160
Citations
11k
Citations per work
69.7
h-index
54
i10-index 107Top 1.6% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Donald L. Compton

What does Donald L. Compton research?

Donald L. Compton's work is mostly in Psychology (53%), Mathematics (15%), Social Sciences (15%).

Social Sciences: 109 works · 67.9% of their workPsychology: 85 works · 53.0% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 82 works · 51.4% of their workClinical Psychology: 3 works · 1.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 14.9% of their workEducation: 24 works · 14.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 30 works · 18.6% of their workMathematics: 24 works · 15.3% of their workStatistics and Probability: 24 works · 15.3% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 3.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 5 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 9.5% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 4.0% of their workNeuroscience: 6 works · 4.0% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 6 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKDonald L. Compton160works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences19%Social Sciences68%

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. Psychology8553.0%
    2. Social Sciences2414.9%
    1. Mathematics2415.3%
    2. Computer Science53.3%
  3. Everything else159.5%
    1. Neuroscience64.0%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology51% of their works
  2. 2Statistics and Probability15% of their works
  3. 3Education15% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience4% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence3% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald L. Compton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Development, Dyslexia, Reading Acquisition, Cognitive Development, Mathematical Achievement, Numerical Cognition, Bilingualism and Speech and Language Disorder.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Development1953 topics
  2. Dyslexia1241 topic
  3. Reading Acquisition1241 topic
  4. Cognitive Development822 topics
  5. Mathematical Achievement691 topic
  6. Numerical Cognition691 topic
  7. Bilingualism663 topics
  8. Speech and Language Disorder391 topic
  9. Statistical Learning391 topic
  10. Dynamic Assessment321 topic
  11. Educational Psychology321 topic
  12. Handwriting Development181 topic
  13. Writing Instruction181 topic
  14. Language Processing141 topic
  15. Semantic Memory141 topic
  16. Gesture131 topic
  17. Sign Language131 topic
  18. Readability Assessment111 topic
  19. Text Simplification111 topic

Where does Donald L. Compton work?

Donald L. Compton's main affiliation in the publication record is Vanderbilt University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Donald L. Compton have?

OpenAlex counts 160 works and 11,153 citations for Donald L. Compton, an h-index of 54, ranking #39,306 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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