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Researcher · Université Laval · Canada

Gaston Godin

Gaston Godin publishes mostly in Applied Psychology, General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Behavioral Health and Interventions, Physical Activity and Health and Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports.

ORCID 0000-0003-3436-6783 OpenAlex
World rank
#131,936
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#4,269
of 183,316
Works
332
Citations
25k
Citations per work
76.3
h-index
65
i10-index 217Top 1.7% in Applied Psychology
Gaston Godin

What does Gaston Godin research?

Gaston Godin's work is mostly in Psychology (21%), Medicine (17%), Health Professions (13%).

Everything else: 146 works · 43.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 97 works · 29.3% of their workMedicine: 55 works · 16.7% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 34 works · 10.2% of their workPhysiology: 22 works · 6.5% of their workHealth Professions: 42 works · 12.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 42 works · 12.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 89 works · 26.8% of their workPsychology: 68 works · 20.6% of their workApplied Psychology: 43 works · 12.9% of their workSocial Psychology: 26 works · 7.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 6.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 21 works · 6.2% of their workTHEIR WORKGaston Godin332works
Health Sciences29%Social Sciences27%

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. Everything else14643.9%
    1. Medicine5516.7%
    2. Health Professions4212.6%
    1. Psychology6820.6%
    2. Social Sciences216.2%
  1. 1Applied Psychology13% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions13% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Physiology6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gaston Godin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Self-Regulation, Theory of Planned Behaviour, Public Health, Physical Activity, Risk Factors, Epidemiology, Exercise and Sedentary Behavior.

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. Self-Regulation1071 topic
  2. Theory of Planned Behaviour1071 topic
  3. Public Health883 topics
  4. Physical Activity712 topics
  5. Risk Factors512 topics
  6. Epidemiology442 topics
  7. Exercise441 topic
  8. Sedentary Behavior441 topic
  9. Intrinsic Motivation321 topic
  10. Self-Determination Theory321 topic
  11. Adolescent Health311 topic
  12. Antiretroviral Therapy311 topic
  13. HIV Transmission311 topic
  14. Sexual Behavior311 topic
  15. Obesity271 topic
  16. Overweight271 topic
  17. Blood Donation201 topic
  18. Supply Chain Management201 topic
  19. HIV171 topic
  20. drug use171 topic

Where does Gaston Godin work?

Gaston Godin's main affiliation in the publication record is Université Laval, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Gaston Godin have?

OpenAlex counts 332 works and 25,324 citations for Gaston Godin, an h-index of 65, ranking #131,936 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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