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Researcher · Universidade do Estado do Amazonas · Brazil

Rafaela Melo

Rafaela Melo publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology, on topics such as Education and Digital Technologies, Educational Games and Gamification and Science and Education Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-7922-7264 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,336,743
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#23,033
of 253,246
Works
42
Citations
161
Citations per work
3.8
h-index
8
i10-index 5Top 32% in Sociology and Political Science
Rafaela Melo

What does Rafaela Melo research?

Rafaela Melo's work is mostly in Social Sciences (52%), Computer Science (14%), Psychology (12%).

Social Sciences: 29 works · 68.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 51.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 13 works · 31.1% of their workEducation: 9 works · 20.8% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 12.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 works · 12.3% of their workDecision Sciences: 2 works · 4.7% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 2 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 17.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 14.1% of their workComputer Science: 6 works · 14.1% of their workComputer Science Applications: 3 works · 7.5% of their workInformation Systems: 3 works · 6.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRafaela Melo42works
Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences69%

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 Sciences2251.9%
    2. Psychology512.3%
    3. Decision Sciences24.7%
  2. Everything else717.0%
    1. Computer Science614.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science31% of their works
  2. 2Education21% of their works
  3. 3Developmental and Educational Psychology12% of their works
  4. 4Computer Science Applications8% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems7% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rafaela Melo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Teacher Training, Social Network Analysis, WebQuests, Educational Games, Curriculum Development, Game-Based Learning, Gamification and Qualitative Research.

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. Teacher Training453 topics
  2. Social Network Analysis281 topic
  3. WebQuests281 topic
  4. Educational Games222 topics
  5. Curriculum Development172 topics
  6. Game-Based Learning121 topic
  7. Gamification121 topic
  8. Qualitative Research122 topics
  9. Science Education101 topic
  10. Teaching Methodologies101 topic
  11. Computational Thinking71 topic
  12. Educational Policies71 topic
  13. Inclusive Education71 topic
  14. Programming Education71 topic
  15. Organizational Management51 topic
  16. Research Methods51 topic
  17. Cultural Identity41 topic
  18. Discourse Analysis41 topic
  19. Literacy41 topic
  20. Post-Modernity41 topic

Where does Rafaela Melo work?

Rafaela Melo's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Rafaela Melo have?

OpenAlex counts 42 works and 161 citations for Rafaela Melo, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,336,743 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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