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Researcher · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · United States

Neil Thomas Heffernan

Neil Thomas Heffernan publishes mostly in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications and Developmental and Educational Psychology, on topics such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning, Online Learning and Analytics and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods.

ORCID 0000-0002-3280-288X OpenAlex
World rank
#211,274
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#78,318
of 1,627,098
Works
403
Citations
8.7k
Citations per work
21.6
h-index
45
i10-index 161Top 1.4% in Artificial Intelligence
Neil Thomas Heffernan

What does Neil Thomas Heffernan research?

Neil Thomas Heffernan's work is mostly in Computer Science (62%), Psychology (16%), Social Sciences (8%).

Physical Sciences: 248 works · 61.6% of their workComputer Science: 248 works · 61.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 151 works · 37.4% of their workComputer Science Applications: 82 works · 20.4% of their workInformation Systems: 15 works · 3.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 98 works · 24.2% of their workPsychology: 64 works · 16.0% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 57 works · 14.2% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 7 works · 1.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 33 works · 8.2% of their workEducation: 33 works · 8.2% of their workEverything else: 57 works · 14.2% of their workTHEIR WORKNeil ThomasHeffernan403works
Physical Sciences62%Social Sciences24%

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. Computer Science24861.6%
    1. Psychology6416.0%
    2. Social Sciences338.2%
  3. Everything else5714.2%
  1. 1Artificial Intelligence37% of their works
  2. 2Computer Science Applications20% of their works
  3. 3Developmental and Educational Psychology14% of their works
  4. 4Education8% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems4% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Neil Thomas Heffernan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Affective States, Cognitive-Affective Interaction, Learning Analytics, Student Engagement, Educational Data Mining, Massive Open Online Courses and Motivation.

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. Intelligent Tutoring Systems2592 topics
  2. Affective States2401 topic
  3. Cognitive-Affective Interaction2401 topic
  4. Learning Analytics2132 topics
  5. Student Engagement1982 topics
  6. Educational Data Mining1791 topic
  7. Massive Open Online Courses1791 topic
  8. Motivation1272 topics
  9. Metacognition1081 topic
  10. Self-Regulation1081 topic
  11. Heuristic Search481 topic
  12. Planning Systems481 topic
  13. Computational Thinking341 topic
  14. Neural Networks341 topic
  15. Programming Education341 topic
  16. Word Representation341 topic
  17. Educational Assessment191 topic
  18. Fuzzy Logic191 topic
  19. Game-Based Learning191 topic
  20. Gamification191 topic

Where does Neil Thomas Heffernan work?

Neil Thomas Heffernan's main affiliation in the publication record is Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Neil Thomas Heffernan have?

OpenAlex counts 403 works and 8,701 citations for Neil Thomas Heffernan, an h-index of 45, ranking #211,274 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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