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Researcher · National College · United States

Paul R. Trafton

Paul R. Trafton publishes mostly in Education, Statistics and Probability and Applied Mathematics, on topics such as Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques, Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills and Mathematics Education and Pedagogy.

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World rank
#4,920,904
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,282,361
of 1,627,098
Works
38
Citations
230
Citations per work
6.1
h-index
7
i10-index 7Top 35% in Education
Paul R. Trafton

What does Paul R. Trafton research?

Paul R. Trafton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (47%), Mathematics (32%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Social Sciences: 18 works · 47.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 18 works · 47.3% of their workEducation: 18 works · 47.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 14 works · 36.6% of their workMathematics: 12 works · 32.5% of their workStatistics and Probability: 8 works · 21.6% of their workApplied Mathematics: 3 works · 6.8% of their workModeling and Simulation: 2 works · 4.1% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 4.1% of their workComputer Science Applications: 2 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 12.0% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 4.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 4.1% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 4.1% of their workTHEIR WORKPaul R. Trafton38works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences37%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. Social Sciences1847.3%
    1. Mathematics1232.5%
    2. Computer Science24.1%
  3. Everything else512.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences24.1%
  1. 1Education47% of their works
  2. 2Statistics and Probability22% of their works
  3. 3Applied Mathematics7% of their works
  4. 4Modeling and Simulation4% of their works
  5. 5Computer Science Applications4% of their works
  6. 6General Agricultural and Biological Sciences4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul R. Trafton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Educational Technology, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Knowledge, Mathematical Achievement, Numerical Cognition, Gender Differences, Mathematical Literacy and Student Engagement.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Educational Technology242 topics
  2. Pedagogical Content Knowledge201 topic
  3. Teacher Knowledge201 topic
  4. Mathematical Achievement111 topic
  5. Numerical Cognition111 topic
  6. Gender Differences82 topics
  7. Mathematical Literacy82 topics
  8. Student Engagement72 topics
  9. STEM Education62 topics
  10. PISA Assessment51 topic
  11. Problem-Solving51 topic
  12. Interactive Whiteboards41 topic
  13. Pedagogy41 topic
  14. Agricultural Education31 topic
  15. Computational Thinking31 topic
  16. Engineering Students31 topic
  17. Mathematics Support31 topic
  18. Programming Education31 topic
  19. School Gardens31 topic
  20. Multicollinearity21 topic
  21. Regression Analysis21 topic

Where does Paul R. Trafton work?

Paul R. Trafton's main affiliation in the publication record is National College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Paul R. Trafton have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 230 citations for Paul R. Trafton, an h-index of 7, ranking #4,920,904 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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