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Researcher · University of Jyväskylä · Finland

Pekka Mertala

Pekka Mertala publishes mostly in Education, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Child Development and Digital Technology, Literacy, Media, and Education and Research in Social Sciences.

ORCID 0000-0002-3835-0220 OpenAlex
World rank
#243,357
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#1,345
of 37,370
Works
120
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
11.0
h-index
19
i10-index 28Top 4.6% in Education
Pekka Mertala

What does Pekka Mertala research?

Pekka Mertala's work is mostly in Social Sciences (47%), Computer Science (16%), Arts and Humanities (9%).

Social Sciences: 68 works · 56.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 57 works · 47.2% of their workEducation: 37 works · 30.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 13 works · 10.5% of their workGender Studies: 7 works · 5.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 9.4% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 11 works · 9.4% of their workEverything else: 32 works · 27.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 20 works · 16.4% of their workComputer Science: 20 works · 16.4% of their workComputer Science Applications: 10 works · 8.4% of their workInformation Systems: 10 works · 8.0% of their workTHEIR WORKPekka Mertala120works
Physical Sciences16%Social Sciences57%

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 Sciences5747.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities119.4%
  2. Everything else3227.0%
    1. Computer Science2016.4%
  1. 1Education31% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory9% of their works
  4. 4Computer Science Applications8% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems8% of their works
  6. 6Gender Studies6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pekka Mertala's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Internet Use, Digital Technology, Parental Mediation, Digital Literacy, Education, Media Literacy, Multimodal Literacy and New Literacies.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Internet Use532 topics
  2. Digital Technology391 topic
  3. Parental Mediation391 topic
  4. Digital Literacy362 topics
  5. Education362 topics
  6. Media Literacy362 topics
  7. Multimodal Literacy251 topic
  8. New Literacies251 topic
  9. Qualitative Research221 topic
  10. Social Sciences221 topic
  11. Learning Analytics212 topics
  12. Gender141 topic
  13. ICT141 topic
  14. Computational Thinking121 topic
  15. Programming Education121 topic
  16. 21st-century Skills111 topic
  17. Digital Skills111 topic
  18. Addiction91 topic
  19. Educational Data Mining91 topic
  20. Massive Open Online Courses91 topic
  21. Social Media91 topic

Where does Pekka Mertala work?

Pekka Mertala's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Pekka Mertala have?

OpenAlex counts 120 works and 1,323 citations for Pekka Mertala, an h-index of 19, ranking #243,357 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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