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Robert J. Vallerand

Robert J. Vallerand publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Mind wandering and attention and Behavioral Health and Interventions.

World rank
#12,555
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#332
of 38,960
Works
52
Citations
946
Citations per work
18.2

What does Robert J. Vallerand research?

Social Psychology: 31.6%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 10.5%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10.5%Cognitive Neuroscience: 7.0%other fields: 40.4%32%top field
Social Psychology31.6%Developmental and Educational Psychology10.5%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10.5%Cognitive Neuroscience7.0%other fields40.4%

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

  1. 1Social Psychology32% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology10% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience7% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  6. 6Transportation5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert J. Vallerand's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Determination Theory, Attention Lapses, Mind Wandering, Dialogical Self, Expert Performance, GPS Data and Human Mobility.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Intrinsic Motivation91 topic
  2. Self-Determination Theory91 topic
  3. Attention Lapses41 topic
  4. Mind Wandering41 topic
  5. Dialogical Self31 topic
  6. Expert Performance31 topic
  7. GPS Data31 topic
  8. Human Mobility31 topic
  9. Motor Imagery31 topic
  10. Self-Regulation31 topic
  11. Social Representations Theory31 topic
  12. Theory of Planned Behaviour31 topic
  13. Activity Recognition21 topic
  14. Creativity21 topic
  15. Innovation21 topic
  16. Pervasive Computing21 topic

Where does Robert J. Vallerand work?

Robert J. Vallerand's main affiliation in the publication record is Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Robert J. Vallerand have?

Science Explorer counts 52 works and 946 citations for Robert J. Vallerand, ranking #12,555 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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