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Researcher · Universidade do Estado do Amazonas · Brazil

Marcela Pessoa

Marcela Pessoa publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Computer Science Applications, on topics such as Education and Digital Technologies, Educational Games and Gamification and Teaching and Learning Programming.

ORCID 0000-0002-3064-5585 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,780,771
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#30,883
of 253,246
Works
135
Citations
530
Citations per work
3.9
h-index
9
i10-index 8Top 27% in Sociology and Political Science
Marcela Pessoa

What does Marcela Pessoa research?

Marcela Pessoa's work is mostly in Social Sciences (35%), Computer Science (20%), Psychology (17%).

Social Sciences: 75 works · 55.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 47 works · 34.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 29 works · 21.8% of their workEducation: 17 works · 12.9% of their workPsychology: 23 works · 17.0% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 23 works · 17.0% of their workDecision Sciences: 5 works · 3.8% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 5 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 33 works · 24.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 27 works · 20.2% of their workComputer Science: 27 works · 20.2% of their workComputer Science Applications: 21 works · 15.8% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 6 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMarcela Pessoa135works
Physical Sciences20%Social Sciences56%

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 Sciences4734.7%
    2. Psychology2317.0%
    3. Decision Sciences53.8%
  2. Everything else3324.3%
    1. Computer Science2720.2%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology17% of their works
  3. 3Computer Science Applications16% of their works
  4. 4Education13% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Marcela Pessoa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Teacher Training, Online Learning, Student Engagement, Educational Games, Social Network Analysis, WebQuests, Game-Based Learning and Gamification.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Teacher Training923 topics
  2. Online Learning772 topics
  3. Student Engagement682 topics
  4. Educational Games632 topics
  5. Social Network Analysis601 topic
  6. WebQuests601 topic
  7. Game-Based Learning511 topic
  8. Gamification511 topic
  9. Learning Analytics472 topics
  10. Curriculum Development322 topics
  11. Qualitative Research322 topics
  12. Computational Thinking301 topic
  13. Programming Education301 topic
  14. Educational Policies201 topic
  15. Inclusive Education201 topic
  16. Educational Data Mining171 topic
  17. Massive Open Online Courses171 topic
  18. Organizational Management121 topic
  19. Research Methods121 topic
  20. Science Education121 topic
  21. Teaching Methodologies121 topic
  22. Discourse Analysis101 topic
  23. Literacy101 topic

Where does Marcela Pessoa work?

Marcela Pessoa's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Marcela Pessoa have?

OpenAlex counts 135 works and 530 citations for Marcela Pessoa, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,780,771 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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