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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

Kenneth A. Leithwood

Kenneth A. Leithwood publishes mostly in Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, on topics such as Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, Education Systems and Policy and Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion.

ORCID 0000-0002-8053-7347 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,867
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#116
of 183,316
Works
308
Citations
36k
Citations per work
115.3
h-index
83
i10-index 198Top 0.1% in Education
Kenneth A. Leithwood

What does Kenneth A. Leithwood research?

Kenneth A. Leithwood's work is mostly in Social Sciences (61%), Decision Sciences (9%), Psychology (9%).

Social Sciences: 262 works · 85.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 189 works · 61.4% of their workEducation: 189 works · 61.4% of their workDecision Sciences: 28 works · 9.2% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 15 works · 4.8% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 14 works · 4.4% of their workPsychology: 28 works · 9.2% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 19 works · 6.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 10 works · 3.1% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 16 works · 5.3% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 16 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 14.9% of their workTHEIR WORKKenneth A.Leithwood308works
Social Sciences85%

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. Social Sciences18961.4%
    2. Decision Sciences289.2%
    3. Psychology289.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting165.3%
  2. Everything else4614.9%
  1. 1Education61% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology6% of their works
  3. 3Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management5% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems and Management5% of their works
  5. 5Management Science and Operations Research4% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kenneth A. Leithwood's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Professional Learning Communities, Qualitative Research Methods, Teacher Professional Development, Student Achievement, Training Pathways, Vocational Education, Co-Teaching and Inclusive Education.

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. Professional Learning Communities1962 topics
  2. Qualitative Research Methods1611 topic
  3. Teacher Professional Development1611 topic
  4. Student Achievement652 topics
  5. Training Pathways511 topic
  6. Vocational Education511 topic
  7. Co-Teaching441 topic
  8. Inclusive Education441 topic
  9. Data Use351 topic
  10. Educational Improvement351 topic
  11. Dynamic Assessment331 topic
  12. Educational Psychology331 topic
  13. Family Engagement301 topic
  14. Parental Involvement301 topic
  15. Learning Organization281 topic
  16. Organizational Learning281 topic
  17. Concept Mapping271 topic
  18. Theory-Based Evaluation271 topic

Where does Kenneth A. Leithwood work?

Kenneth A. Leithwood's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Kenneth A. Leithwood have?

OpenAlex counts 308 works and 35,504 citations for Kenneth A. Leithwood, an h-index of 83, ranking #6,867 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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