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Researcher · James Madison University · United States

Richard F. West

Richard F. West publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, General Decision Sciences and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Reading and Literacy Development and Education and Critical Thinking Development.

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World rank
#60,563
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#23,321
of 1,627,098
Works
131
Citations
20k
Citations per work
152.5
h-index
50
i10-index 71Top 2.1% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Richard F. West

What does Richard F. West research?

Richard F. West's work is mostly in Psychology (32%), Decision Sciences (11%), Neuroscience (9%).

Social Sciences: 68 works · 52.0% of their workPsychology: 42 works · 32.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 31 works · 23.5% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 12 works · 8.8% of their workDecision Sciences: 14 works · 10.9% of their workGeneral Decision Sciences: 14 works · 10.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 8.8% of their workEducation: 12 works · 8.8% of their workEverything else: 39 works · 29.8% of their workLife Sciences: 12 works · 9.1% of their workNeuroscience: 12 works · 9.1% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 12 works · 9.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 12 works · 9.1% of their workComputer Science: 12 works · 9.1% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 12 works · 9.1% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard F. West131works
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences9%Social Sciences52%

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. Psychology4232.3%
    2. Decision Sciences1410.9%
    3. Social Sciences128.8%
  2. Everything else3929.8%
    1. Neuroscience129.1%
    1. Computer Science129.1%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology24% of their works
  2. 2General Decision Sciences11% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience9% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence9% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology9% of their works
  6. 6Education9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard F. West's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Development, Decision Making, Dyslexia, Reading Acquisition, Risk Aversion, Meta-Analysis, Working Memory and Critical Thinking Skills.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Development432 topics
  2. Decision Making311 topic
  3. Dyslexia311 topic
  4. Reading Acquisition311 topic
  5. Risk Aversion311 topic
  6. Meta-Analysis252 topics
  7. Working Memory212 topics
  8. Critical Thinking Skills141 topic
  9. Instructional Interventions141 topic
  10. Language Processing131 topic
  11. Semantic Memory131 topic
  12. Child Development121 topic
  13. Theory of Mind121 topic
  14. Intelligence111 topic
  15. Training111 topic
  16. Epistemological Beliefs101 topic
  17. Mathematical Achievement101 topic
  18. Metacognition101 topic
  19. Numerical Cognition101 topic

Where does Richard F. West work?

Richard F. West's main affiliation in the publication record is James Madison University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard F. West have?

OpenAlex counts 131 works and 19,982 citations for Richard F. West, an h-index of 50, ranking #60,563 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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