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Researcher · Institute for Christian Studies · Canada

Nancy Torrance

Nancy Torrance publishes mostly in Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Reading and Literacy Development, Education Systems and Policy and Education and Critical Thinking Development.

OpenAlex
World rank
#741,501
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#25,635
of 183,316
Works
29
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
67.0
h-index
13
i10-index 14Top 11% in Education
Nancy Torrance

What does Nancy Torrance research?

Nancy Torrance's work is mostly in Social Sciences (36%), Psychology (21%), Arts and Humanities (21%).

Social Sciences: 23 works · 77.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 36.5% of their workEducation: 11 works · 36.5% of their workPsychology: 6 works · 20.7% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 works · 17.5% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 works · 3.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 6 works · 20.6% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 works · 11.1% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 works · 9.5% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 14.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 7.9% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 7.9% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 2 works · 7.9% of their workTHEIR WORKNancy Torrance29works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences78%

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 Sciences1136.5%
    2. Psychology620.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities620.6%
  2. Everything else414.3%
    1. Computer Science27.9%
  1. 1Education36% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology18% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics11% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory10% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nancy Torrance's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Teaching, Critical Thinking Skills, Dyslexia, Instructional Interventions, Literacy Education, Reading Acquisition, Reading Habits 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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Teaching62 topics
  2. Critical Thinking Skills41 topic
  3. Dyslexia41 topic
  4. Instructional Interventions41 topic
  5. Literacy Education41 topic
  6. Reading Acquisition41 topic
  7. Reading Habits41 topic
  8. Training Pathways41 topic
  9. Vocational Education41 topic
  10. Corpora31 topic
  11. Corrective Feedback31 topic
  12. Epistemological Beliefs31 topic
  13. Metacognition31 topic
  14. Multimodal Literacy31 topic
  15. New Literacies31 topic
  16. Second Language Acquisition31 topic
  17. Spoken Language31 topic

Where does Nancy Torrance work?

Nancy Torrance's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute for Christian Studies, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Nancy Torrance have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 1,944 citations for Nancy Torrance, an h-index of 13, ranking #741,501 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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