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Researcher · McGill University · Canada

Richard Koestner

Richard Koestner publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Applied Psychology, on topics such as Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Behavioral Health and Interventions and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction.

ORCID 0000-0002-8416-0057 OpenAlex
World rank
#19,582
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#419
of 183,316
Works
326
Citations
35k
Citations per work
107.6
h-index
80
i10-index 203Top 0.4% in Social Psychology
Richard Koestner

What does Richard Koestner research?

Richard Koestner's work is mostly in Psychology (70%), Social Sciences (7%), Business, Management and Accounting (3%).

Social Sciences: 262 works · 80.5% of their workPsychology: 230 works · 70.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 95 works · 29.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 57 works · 17.5% of their workApplied Psychology: 43 works · 13.2% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 35 works · 10.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 7.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 23 works · 7.0% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10 works · 3.0% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 10 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 64 works · 19.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard Koestner326works
Social Sciences80%

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. Psychology23070.5%
    2. Social Sciences237.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting103.0%
  2. Everything else6419.5%
  1. 1Social Psychology29% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology18% of their works
  3. 3Applied Psychology13% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology11% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  6. 6Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Koestner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Well-being, Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Determination Theory, Self-Regulation, Mental Health, Behavior Change Techniques, Theory of Planned Behaviour and Positive Emotions.

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. Well-being1462 topics
  2. Intrinsic Motivation1111 topic
  3. Self-Determination Theory1111 topic
  4. Self-Regulation1052 topics
  5. Mental Health903 topics
  6. Behavior Change Techniques821 topic
  7. Theory of Planned Behaviour821 topic
  8. Positive Emotions351 topic
  9. Positive Psychology351 topic
  10. Emotion Regulation321 topic
  11. Psychopathology321 topic
  12. Achievement Motivation301 topic
  13. Self-Efficacy301 topic
  14. Intergroup Contact251 topic
  15. Social Identity251 topic
  16. Organizational Behavior231 topic
  17. Perfectionism231 topic
  18. Procrastination231 topic
  19. Work Engagement231 topic

Where does Richard Koestner work?

Richard Koestner's main affiliation in the publication record is McGill University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Richard Koestner have?

OpenAlex counts 326 works and 35,069 citations for Richard Koestner, an h-index of 80, ranking #19,582 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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