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Researcher · Aston University · United Kingdom

John Bessant

John Bessant publishes mostly in Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, on topics such as Educational Games and Gamification, Innovation, Technology, and Society and Educational Robotics and Engineering.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,229,834
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#310,390
of 367,258
Works
18
Citations
115
Citations per work
6.4
h-index
3
i10-index 3Top 87% in Management of Technology and Innovation
John Bessant

What does John Bessant research?

John Bessant's work is mostly in Business, Management and Accounting (29%), Social Sciences (10%), Engineering (6%).

Everything else: 9 works · 48.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 45.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 works · 29.1% of their workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 works · 12.9% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 works · 9.7% of their workStrategy and Management: 1 works · 6.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 9.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 9.7% of their workPsychology: 1 works · 6.5% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 works · 6.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 6.5% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 6.5% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 works · 6.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Bessant18works
Physical Sciences6%Social Sciences45%

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 else948.2%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting529.1%
    2. Social Sciences29.7%
    3. Psychology16.5%
    1. Engineering16.5%
  1. 1Management of Technology and Innovation13% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management10% of their works
  4. 4Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6Strategy and Management6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Bessant's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Game-Based Learning, Gamification, Interdisciplinary Research, Requirements Engineering, Social Innovation, Agile Software Development, Assembly Planning and Design for Manufacture.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Game-Based Learning21 topic
  2. Gamification21 topic
  3. Interdisciplinary Research21 topic
  4. Requirements Engineering22 topics
  5. Social Innovation21 topic
  6. Agile Software Development11 topic
  7. Assembly Planning11 topic
  8. Design for Manufacture11 topic
  9. Education11 topic
  10. Empirical Studies11 topic
  11. Heat Transfer11 topic
  12. Hypersonic Effect11 topic
  13. Numerical Methods11 topic
  14. Personas11 topic
  15. Robotics Programming11 topic
  16. Ultrasonic Perception11 topic
  17. User-Centered Design11 topic

Where does John Bessant work?

John Bessant's main affiliation in the publication record is Aston University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does John Bessant have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 115 citations for John Bessant, an h-index of 3, ranking #5,229,834 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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