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Researcher · Vanderbilt University · United States

Paul Cobb

Paul Cobb publishes mostly in Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Statistics and Probability, on topics such as Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods and Teacher Education and Leadership Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-4014-2970 OpenAlex
World rank
#14,314
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,050
of 1,627,098
Works
231
Citations
25k
Citations per work
110.4
h-index
70
i10-index 148Top 0.1% in Education
Paul Cobb

What does Paul Cobb research?

Paul Cobb's work is mostly in Social Sciences (54%), Psychology (13%), Mathematics (9%).

Social Sciences: 166 works · 71.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 125 works · 54.3% of their workEducation: 120 works · 51.9% of their workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 6 works · 2.4% of their workPsychology: 29 works · 12.6% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 29 works · 12.6% of their workDecision Sciences: 11 works · 4.9% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 6 works · 2.7% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 works · 2.2% of their workEverything else: 43 works · 18.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 22 works · 9.4% of their workMathematics: 22 works · 9.4% of their workStatistics and Probability: 22 works · 9.4% of their workTHEIR WORKPaul Cobb231works
Physical Sciences9%Social Sciences72%

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 Sciences12554.3%
    2. Psychology2912.6%
    3. Decision Sciences114.9%
  2. Everything else4318.8%
    1. Mathematics229.4%
  1. 1Education52% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3Statistics and Probability9% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems and Management3% of their works
  5. 5Human Factors and Ergonomics2% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul Cobb's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Educational Technology, Teacher Professional Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Knowledge, Technology Integration, Metacognition, Professional Learning Communities and Self-Regulation.

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. Educational Technology2043 topics
  2. Teacher Professional Development1642 topics
  3. Pedagogical Content Knowledge1201 topic
  4. Teacher Knowledge1201 topic
  5. Technology Integration692 topics
  6. Metacognition591 topic
  7. Professional Learning Communities592 topics
  8. Self-Regulation591 topic
  9. Qualitative Research Methods441 topic
  10. Teacher Identity441 topic
  11. Mathematical Achievement351 topic
  12. Numerical Cognition351 topic
  13. Interactive Whiteboards251 topic
  14. Pedagogy251 topic
  15. Data Science201 topic
  16. Statistics Anxiety201 topic
  17. Data Use151 topic
  18. Educational Improvement151 topic
  19. Inquiry-Based Teaching141 topic
  20. Scientific Literacy141 topic

Where does Paul Cobb work?

Paul Cobb's main affiliation in the publication record is Vanderbilt University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Paul Cobb have?

OpenAlex counts 231 works and 25,491 citations for Paul Cobb, an h-index of 70, ranking #14,314 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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