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Researcher · Griffith University · Australia

Pat Thomas

Pat Thomas publishes mostly in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology, on topics such as Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Sports Performance and Training and Sport Psychology and Performance.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,606,533
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#124,199
of 140,210
Works
37
Citations
25
Citations per work
0.7
h-index
3
i10-index 0Top 95% in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Pat Thomas

What does Pat Thomas research?

Pat Thomas's work is mostly in Psychology (38%), Medicine (18%), Social Sciences (8%).

Social Sciences: 17 works · 46.5% of their workPsychology: 14 works · 38.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 6 works · 16.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 6 works · 16.4% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 works · 5.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 8.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 4.1% of their workUrban Studies: 2 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 35.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 17.8% of their workMedicine: 7 works · 17.8% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 7 works · 17.8% of their workTHEIR WORKPat Thomas37works
Health Sciences18%Social Sciences47%

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. Psychology1438.3%
    2. Social Sciences38.2%
  2. Everything else1335.7%
    1. Medicine717.8%
  1. 1Orthopedics and Sports Medicine18% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology16% of their works
  3. 3Developmental and Educational Psychology16% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  6. 6Urban Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pat Thomas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Determination Theory, Performance Analysis, Training Load, Expert Performance, Motor Imagery, Athletic Training and Epidemiology.

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.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Intrinsic Motivation121 topic
  2. Self-Determination Theory121 topic
  3. Performance Analysis111 topic
  4. Training Load111 topic
  5. Expert Performance101 topic
  6. Motor Imagery101 topic
  7. Athletic Training42 topics
  8. Epidemiology42 topics
  9. Injury Prevention42 topics
  10. Competitive Balance21 topic
  11. Golf Biomechanics21 topic
  12. Infertility21 topic
  13. Muscle Injuries21 topic
  14. Physical Education21 topic
  15. Prediction Markets21 topic
  16. Reproductive Technologies21 topic
  17. Sports Injury21 topic
  18. Sports Science21 topic
  19. Swing Kinematics21 topic

Where does Pat Thomas work?

Pat Thomas's main affiliation in the publication record is Griffith University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Pat Thomas have?

OpenAlex counts 37 works and 25 citations for Pat Thomas, an h-index of 3, ranking #5,606,533 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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