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Researcher · University of California, Santa Barbara · United States

Mary Hegarty

Mary Hegarty publishes mostly in Automotive Engineering, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Geography, Planning and Development, on topics such as Spatial Cognition and Navigation, Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes and Geography Education and Pedagogy.

ORCID 0000-0002-7777-8844 OpenAlex
World rank
#15,935
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,688
of 1,627,098
Works
288
Citations
23k
Citations per work
79.4
h-index
76
i10-index 158Top 0.1% in Automotive Engineering
Mary Hegarty

What does Mary Hegarty research?

Mary Hegarty's work is mostly in Psychology (22%), Engineering (20%), Social Sciences (18%).

Social Sciences: 115 works · 40.0% of their workPsychology: 64 works · 22.2% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 43 works · 14.9% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 21 works · 7.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 51 works · 17.8% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 31 works · 10.8% of their workEducation: 20 works · 7.0% of their workEverything else: 90 works · 31.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 82 works · 28.6% of their workEngineering: 57 works · 19.7% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 57 works · 19.7% of their workComputer Science: 26 works · 8.9% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 26 works · 8.9% of their workTHEIR WORKMary Hegarty288works
Physical Sciences29%Social Sciences40%

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. Psychology6422.2%
    2. Social Sciences5117.8%
  2. Everything else9031.4%
    1. Engineering5719.7%
    2. Computer Science268.9%
  1. 1Automotive Engineering20% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology15% of their works
  3. 3Geography, Planning and Development11% of their works
  4. 4Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition9% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Education7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mary Hegarty's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: STEM Education, Mental Rotation, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Load Theory, Multimedia Learning, Geography Education, Spatial Thinking and 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. 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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. STEM Education1652 topics
  2. Mental Rotation1351 topic
  3. Spatial Ability1351 topic
  4. Cognitive Load Theory671 topic
  5. Multimedia Learning671 topic
  6. Geography Education441 topic
  7. Spatial Thinking441 topic
  8. Education311 topic
  9. Technology311 topic
  10. Geospatial Crowdsourcing301 topic
  11. Inquiry-Based Teaching301 topic
  12. Scientific Literacy301 topic
  13. Volunteered Geographic Information301 topic
  14. Child Development271 topic
  15. Theory of Mind271 topic
  16. Information Visualization241 topic
  17. Visual Analytics241 topic

Where does Mary Hegarty work?

Mary Hegarty's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.

How many publications and citations does Mary Hegarty have?

OpenAlex counts 288 works and 22,872 citations for Mary Hegarty, an h-index of 76, ranking #15,935 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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