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Researcher · Queen's University · Canada

John R. Kirby

John R. Kirby publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Statistics and Probability, on topics such as Reading and Literacy Development, Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills and Writing and Handwriting Education.

ORCID 0000-0002-8874-1641 OpenAlex
World rank
#84,322
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#2,599
of 183,316
Works
195
Citations
11k
Citations per work
55.9
h-index
48
i10-index 110Top 2.4% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
John R. Kirby

What does John R. Kirby research?

John R. Kirby's work is mostly in Psychology (43%), Social Sciences (16%), Mathematics (11%).

Social Sciences: 116 works · 59.3% of their workPsychology: 84 works · 43.2% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 75 works · 38.3% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10 works · 4.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 31 works · 16.1% of their workEducation: 31 works · 16.1% of their workEverything else: 41 works · 20.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 28 works · 14.2% of their workMathematics: 22 works · 11.2% of their workStatistics and Probability: 22 works · 11.2% of their workComputer Science: 6 works · 3.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 6 works · 3.0% of their workLife Sciences: 11 works · 5.7% of their workNeuroscience: 11 works · 5.7% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 11 works · 5.7% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn R. Kirby195works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences59%

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. Psychology8443.2%
    2. Social Sciences3116.1%
  2. Everything else4120.8%
    1. Mathematics2211.2%
    2. Computer Science63.0%
    1. Neuroscience115.7%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology38% of their works
  2. 2Education16% of their works
  3. 3Statistics and Probability11% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience6% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John R. Kirby's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Development, Dyslexia, Reading Acquisition, Mathematical Achievement, Numerical Cognition, Handwriting Development, Writing Instruction and Bilingualism.

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. Language Development1363 topics
  2. Dyslexia1071 topic
  3. Reading Acquisition1071 topic
  4. Mathematical Achievement521 topic
  5. Numerical Cognition521 topic
  6. Handwriting Development341 topic
  7. Writing Instruction341 topic
  8. Bilingualism332 topics
  9. Speech and Language Disorder181 topic
  10. Statistical Learning181 topic
  11. Language Processing151 topic
  12. Semantic Memory151 topic
  13. Metacognition131 topic
  14. Self-Regulation131 topic
  15. Digital Technology111 topic
  16. Dynamic Assessment111 topic
  17. Educational Psychology111 topic
  18. Parental Mediation111 topic

Where does John R. Kirby work?

John R. Kirby's main affiliation in the publication record is Queen's University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does John R. Kirby have?

OpenAlex counts 195 works and 10,909 citations for John R. Kirby, an h-index of 48, ranking #84,322 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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