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Researcher · Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences · Sweden

Göran Kenttä

Göran Kenttä publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology, on topics such as Sport Psychology and Performance, Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports and Sports injuries and prevention.

ORCID 0000-0002-9921-6586 OpenAlex
World rank
#395,314
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sweden
#4,710
of 71,437
Works
229
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
21.4
h-index
35
i10-index 64Top 5.7% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Göran Kenttä

What does Göran Kenttä research?

Göran Kenttä's work is mostly in Psychology (53%), Medicine (13%), Social Sciences (5%).

Social Sciences: 134 works · 58.5% of their workPsychology: 122 works · 53.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 50 works · 21.7% of their workSocial Psychology: 45 works · 19.7% of their workClinical Psychology: 27 works · 11.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 5.2% of their workEducation: 12 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 66 works · 28.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 29 works · 12.6% of their workMedicine: 29 works · 12.6% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 21 works · 9.1% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 8 works · 3.5% of their workTHEIR WORKGöran Kenttä229works
Health Sciences13%Social Sciences58%

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. Psychology12253.3%
    2. Social Sciences125.2%
  2. Everything else6628.9%
    1. Medicine2912.6%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology22% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology20% of their works
  3. 3Clinical Psychology12% of their works
  4. 4Orthopedics and Sports Medicine9% of their works
  5. 5Education5% of their works
  6. 6Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Göran Kenttä's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Qualitative Research, Expert Performance, Motor Imagery, Well-being, Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Determination Theory, Epidemiology and Sports Injury.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Qualitative Research1282 topics
  2. Expert Performance1091 topic
  3. Motor Imagery1091 topic
  4. Well-being1072 topics
  5. Intrinsic Motivation841 topic
  6. Self-Determination Theory841 topic
  7. Epidemiology361 topic
  8. Sports Injury361 topic
  9. Mindfulness231 topic
  10. Self-Compassion231 topic
  11. Education191 topic
  12. Methodology191 topic
  13. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy181 topic
  14. Sudden Death181 topic
  15. Performance Analysis131 topic
  16. Training Load131 topic
  17. Extracurricular Activities111 topic
  18. Youth Development Programs111 topic

Where does Göran Kenttä work?

Göran Kenttä's main affiliation in the publication record is Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Sweden.

How many publications and citations does Göran Kenttä have?

OpenAlex counts 229 works and 4,911 citations for Göran Kenttä, an h-index of 35, ranking #395,314 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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