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Researcher · UNSW Sydney · Australia

John Sweller

John Sweller publishes mostly in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Education, on topics such as Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning.

ORCID 0000-0001-7855-9160 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,302
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#120
of 140,210
Works
310
Citations
81k
Citations per work
262.0
h-index
100
i10-index 230Top 0.2% in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
John Sweller

What does John Sweller research?

John Sweller's work is mostly in Psychology (54%), Social Sciences (16%), Computer Science (14%).

Social Sciences: 218 works · 70.4% of their workPsychology: 168 works · 54.3% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 95 works · 30.5% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 67 works · 21.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 7 works · 2.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 50 works · 16.1% of their workEducation: 50 works · 16.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 43 works · 14.0% of their workComputer Science: 43 works · 14.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 43 works · 14.0% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 11.9% of their workLife Sciences: 11 works · 3.7% of their workNeuroscience: 11 works · 3.7% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 11 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Sweller310works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences70%

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. Psychology16854.3%
    2. Social Sciences5016.1%
    1. Computer Science4314.0%
  3. Everything else3711.9%
    1. Neuroscience113.7%
  1. 1Experimental and Cognitive Psychology30% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology22% of their works
  3. 3Education16% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence14% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience4% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Sweller's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Cognitive Load Theory, Multimedia Learning, Metacognition, Self-Regulation, Affective States and Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Educational Technology3203 topics
  2. Instructional Design2412 topics
  3. Cognitive Load Theory2191 topic
  4. Multimedia Learning2191 topic
  5. Metacognition791 topic
  6. Self-Regulation791 topic
  7. Affective States761 topic
  8. Intelligent Tutoring Systems761 topic
  9. Inquiry-Based Teaching461 topic
  10. Scientific Literacy461 topic
  11. Experiential Learning431 topic
  12. Learning Styles431 topic
  13. Automatic271 topic
  14. Extraction271 topic
  15. Blended Learning221 topic
  16. Online Learning221 topic
  17. Pedagogical Content Knowledge221 topic
  18. Teacher Knowledge221 topic

Where does John Sweller work?

John Sweller's main affiliation in the publication record is UNSW Sydney, Australia.

How many publications and citations does John Sweller have?

OpenAlex counts 310 works and 81,232 citations for John Sweller, an h-index of 100, ranking #4,302 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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