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Researcher · American College Testing · United States

Richard L. Ferguson

Richard L. Ferguson publishes mostly in Education, Information Systems and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, on topics such as Higher Education Learning Practices, Cardiovascular and exercise physiology and Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0001-8795-3733 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,509,581
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,387,498
of 1,627,098
Works
39
Citations
159
Citations per work
4.1
h-index
7
i10-index 6Top 35% in Education
Richard L. Ferguson

What does Richard L. Ferguson research?

Richard L. Ferguson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (14%), Medicine (13%), Computer Science (6%).

Everything else: 25 works · 63.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 17.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 13.8% of their workEducation: 5 works · 13.8% of their workDecision Sciences: 1 works · 3.8% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 works · 3.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 12.6% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 12.6% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 works · 5.0% of their workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 works · 3.8% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 works · 3.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 6.3% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 6.3% of their workInformation Systems: 2 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard L.Ferguson39works
Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences18%

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. Everything else2563.5%
    1. Social Sciences513.8%
    2. Decision Sciences13.8%
    1. Medicine512.6%
    1. Computer Science26.3%
  1. 1Education14% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems6% of their works
  3. 3Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine5% of their works
  4. 4Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4% of their works
  5. 5Management Science and Operations Research4% of their works
  6. 6Complementary and alternative medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard L. Ferguson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Prior Learning, Recognition, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Exercise Capacity, Adaptive Transport Networks, Biological Soil Crusts, Cell Mechanics and Cyanobacteria.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Prior Learning41 topic
  2. Recognition41 topic
  3. Cardiorespiratory Fitness31 topic
  4. Exercise Capacity31 topic
  5. Adaptive Transport Networks21 topic
  6. Biological Soil Crusts21 topic
  7. Cell Mechanics21 topic
  8. Cyanobacteria21 topic
  9. Educational Assessment21 topic
  10. Extracellular Matrix21 topic
  11. Fuzzy Logic21 topic
  12. Medical School Selection21 topic
  13. Physarum Polycephalum21 topic
  14. Predictive Validity21 topic
  15. Sickle-cell Disease21 topic
  16. Thalassemia21 topic

Where does Richard L. Ferguson work?

Richard L. Ferguson's main affiliation in the publication record is American College Testing, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard L. Ferguson have?

OpenAlex counts 39 works and 159 citations for Richard L. Ferguson, an h-index of 7, ranking #5,509,581 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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