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Researcher · Future Foundation · United States

Marc Prensky

Marc Prensky publishes mostly in Education, Sociology and Political Science and Developmental and Educational Psychology, on topics such as Educational Games and Gamification, Education Systems and Policy and Online and Blended Learning.

OpenAlex
World rank
#717,050
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#241,859
of 1,627,098
Works
106
Citations
23k
Citations per work
216.0
h-index
24
i10-index 28Top 2.5% in Education
Marc Prensky

What does Marc Prensky research?

Marc Prensky's work is mostly in Social Sciences (34%), Computer Science (9%), Psychology (5%).

Everything else: 52 works · 48.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 42 works · 39.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 37 works · 34.5% of their workEducation: 23 works · 21.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 13 works · 12.7% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 4.8% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 works · 4.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 10 works · 9.2% of their workComputer Science: 10 works · 9.2% of their workComputer Science Applications: 5 works · 4.8% of their workInformation Systems: 5 works · 4.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 2.6% of their workHealth Professions: 3 works · 2.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 3 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKMarc Prensky106works
Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences39%

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 else5248.9%
    1. Social Sciences3734.5%
    2. Psychology54.8%
    1. Computer Science109.2%
    1. Health Professions32.6%
  1. 1Education22% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Developmental and Educational Psychology5% of their works
  4. 4Computer Science Applications5% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems4% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Marc Prensky's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Student Engagement, Vocational Education, Online Learning, Game-Based Learning, Gamification, Learning Analytics, Student Retention and Training Pathways.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Student Engagement122 topics
  2. Vocational Education122 topics
  3. Online Learning112 topics
  4. Game-Based Learning81 topic
  5. Gamification81 topic
  6. Learning Analytics82 topics
  7. Student Retention81 topic
  8. Training Pathways81 topic
  9. Blended Learning71 topic
  10. Distance Education71 topic
  11. Online Gaming71 topic
  12. Video Games71 topic
  13. Addiction41 topic
  14. Computational Thinking41 topic
  15. Educational Data Mining41 topic
  16. Massive Open Online Courses41 topic
  17. Programming Education41 topic
  18. Research Methodology41 topic
  19. Social Media41 topic
  20. Social Science41 topic

Where does Marc Prensky work?

Marc Prensky's main affiliation in the publication record is Future Foundation, United States.

How many publications and citations does Marc Prensky have?

OpenAlex counts 106 works and 22,901 citations for Marc Prensky, an h-index of 24, ranking #717,050 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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