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Researcher · North Carolina State University · United States

James C. Lester

James C. Lester publishes mostly in Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Computer Science Applications, on topics such as Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning and Educational Games and Gamification.

ORCID 0000-0003-1481-6601 OpenAlex
World rank
#78,492
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#35,038
of 358,040
Works
103
Citations
702
Citations per work
6.8

What does James C. Lester research?

Artificial Intelligence: 36.8%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 25.8%Computer Science Applications: 11.0%Social Psychology: 5.8%other fields: 20.6%37%top field
Artificial Intelligence36.8%Developmental and Educational Psychology25.8%Computer Science Applications11.0%Social Psychology5.8%other fields20.6%

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

  1. 1Artificial Intelligence37% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology26% of their works
  3. 3Computer Science Applications11% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition3% of their works
  6. 6Speech and Hearing3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James C. Lester's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Motivation, Metacognition, Self-Regulation, Student Engagement, Affective States, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Learning Analytics and Game-Based Learning.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Motivation392 topics
  2. Metacognition231 topic
  3. Self-Regulation231 topic
  4. Student Engagement232 topics
  5. Affective States181 topic
  6. Intelligent Tutoring Systems181 topic
  7. Learning Analytics172 topics
  8. Game-Based Learning161 topic
  9. Gamification161 topic
  10. Computational Thinking101 topic
  11. Programming Education101 topic
  12. Markov Decision Processes81 topic
  13. Neural Networks81 topic
  14. Spoken Dialogue Systems81 topic
  15. Word Representation81 topic
  16. Educational Data Mining71 topic
  17. Massive Open Online Courses71 topic
  18. Monte Carlo Tree Search71 topic
  19. Procedural Content Generation71 topic

Where does James C. Lester work?

James C. Lester's main affiliation in the publication record is North Carolina State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does James C. Lester have?

Science Explorer counts 103 works and 702 citations for James C. Lester, ranking #78,492 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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