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Pekka Mertala

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

World rank
#262,121
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#1,623
of 8,199
Works
29
Citations
77
Citations per work
2.7

What does Pekka Mertala research?

Education: 32.0%Literature and Literary Theory: 16.0%Information Systems: 8.0%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 8.0%other fields: 36.0%32%top field
Education32.0%Literature and Literary Theory16.0%Information Systems8.0%Developmental and Educational Psychology8.0%other fields36.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Education32% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory16% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems8% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Gender Studies8% of their works
  6. 6Computer Science Applications8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pekka Mertala's research?

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

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. Internet Use62 topics
  2. Education52 topics
  3. Technology Integration52 topics
  4. Youth Engagement52 topics
  5. Digital Technology41 topic
  6. Multimodal Literacy41 topic
  7. New Literacies41 topic
  8. Parental Mediation41 topic
  9. Qualitative Research31 topic
  10. Social Sciences31 topic
  11. Digital Pedagogy22 topics
  12. Gender21 topic
  13. ICT21 topic
  14. Computational Thinking11 topic
  15. Digital Education11 topic
  16. Higher Education11 topic
  17. Mobile Learning11 topic
  18. Postdigital Education11 topic
  19. Programming Education11 topic
  20. Technological Literacy11 topic
  21. Technology-Enhanced Learning11 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?

Science Explorer counts 29 works and 77 citations for Pekka Mertala, ranking #262,121 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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