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Researcher · McMaster University · Canada

John Cairney

John Cairney publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, on topics such as Children's Physical and Motor Development, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet and Infant Development and Preterm Care.

ORCID 0000-0003-2856-3967 OpenAlex
World rank
#38,085
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#1,005
of 183,316
Works
575
Citations
33k
Citations per work
57.8
h-index
74
i10-index 306Top 0.5% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
John Cairney

What does John Cairney research?

John Cairney's work is mostly in Psychology (22%), Medicine (22%), Social Sciences (5%).

Everything else: 288 works · 50.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 159 works · 27.6% of their workPsychology: 129 works · 22.5% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 95 works · 16.5% of their workClinical Psychology: 34 works · 6.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 29 works · 5.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 29 works · 5.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 129 works · 22.4% of their workMedicine: 129 works · 22.4% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 52 works · 9.0% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 44 works · 7.6% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 33 works · 5.8% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Cairney575works
Health Sciences22%Social Sciences28%

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 else28850.0%
    1. Psychology12922.5%
    2. Social Sciences295.1%
    1. Medicine12922.4%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology16% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health9% of their works
  3. 3Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health8% of their works
  4. 4Clinical Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Psychiatry and Mental health6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Cairney's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Physical Activity, Developmental Coordination Disorder, Motor Skill Competence, Epidemiology, Public Health, Prevalence, Obesity and Overweight.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Physical Activity3743 topics
  2. Developmental Coordination Disorder2281 topic
  3. Motor Skill Competence2281 topic
  4. Epidemiology1823 topics
  5. Public Health1462 topics
  6. Prevalence1442 topics
  7. Obesity1101 topic
  8. Overweight1101 topic
  9. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes991 topic
  10. Preterm Birth991 topic
  11. Physical Education912 topics
  12. Attitudes471 topic
  13. Disabilities471 topic
  14. Sport Education441 topic
  15. Teaching Games for Understanding441 topic
  16. Cerebral Palsy381 topic
  17. ICF Model381 topic
  18. Exercise361 topic
  19. Sedentary Behavior361 topic
  20. Mental Disorders341 topic
  21. Stigma341 topic

Where does John Cairney work?

John Cairney's main affiliation in the publication record is McMaster University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does John Cairney have?

OpenAlex counts 575 works and 33,241 citations for John Cairney, an h-index of 74, ranking #38,085 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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