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Researcher · University of Zambia · Zambia

Robert Serpell

Robert Serpell publishes mostly in Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Linguistics and Language, on topics such as Reading and Literacy Development, Early Childhood Education and Development and Parental Involvement in Education.

World rank
#1,005,582
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Zambia
#40
of 89
Works
43
Citations
64
Citations per work
1.5

What does Robert Serpell research?

Education: 39.2%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 15.7%Linguistics and Language: 5.9%Language and Linguistics: 5.9%other fields: 33.3%39%top field
Education39.2%Developmental and Educational Psychology15.7%Linguistics and Language5.9%Language and Linguistics5.9%other fields33.3%

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

  1. 1Education39% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology16% of their works
  3. 3Linguistics and Language6% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics6% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Serpell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Child Development, Dyslexia, Reading Acquisition, School Engagement, Student-Teacher Relationships, Language Policy, Multilingualism and Parental Involvement.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Child Development92 topics
  2. Dyslexia61 topic
  3. Reading Acquisition61 topic
  4. School Engagement61 topic
  5. Student-Teacher Relationships61 topic
  6. Language Policy52 topics
  7. Multilingualism52 topics
  8. Parental Involvement51 topic
  9. Student Achievement51 topic
  10. Globalization42 topics
  11. Higher Education42 topics
  12. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy31 topic
  13. Digital Technology31 topic
  14. Parental Mediation31 topic
  15. Translanguaging31 topic
  16. African Philosophy21 topic
  17. CLIL21 topic
  18. Content and Language Integrated Learning21 topic
  19. Cultural Psychology21 topic
  20. Decolonization21 topic
  21. Values21 topic

Where does Robert Serpell work?

Robert Serpell's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Zambia, Zambia.

How many publications and citations does Robert Serpell have?

Science Explorer counts 43 works and 64 citations for Robert Serpell, ranking #1,005,582 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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