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Researcher · Coventry University · United Kingdom

Sara de Freitas

Sara de Freitas publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Computer Science Applications, on topics such as Educational Games and Gamification, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods and Online and Blended Learning.

ORCID 0000-0002-3551-3792 OpenAlex
World rank
#173,114
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#15,656
of 367,258
Works
212
Citations
7k
Citations per work
33.1
h-index
40
i10-index 90Top 4.1% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Sara de Freitas

What does Sara de Freitas research?

Sara de Freitas's work is mostly in Psychology (26%), Computer Science (22%), Social Sciences (21%).

Social Sciences: 99 works · 46.5% of their workPsychology: 54 works · 25.5% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 54 works · 25.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 45 works · 21.0% of their workEducation: 28 works · 13.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 67 works · 31.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 46 works · 21.8% of their workComputer Science: 46 works · 21.8% of their workComputer Science Applications: 18 works · 8.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 16 works · 7.7% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 11 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKSara de Freitas212works
Physical Sciences22%Social Sciences46%

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. Psychology5425.5%
    2. Social Sciences4521.0%
  2. Everything else6731.7%
    1. Computer Science4621.8%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology26% of their works
  2. 2Education13% of their works
  3. 3Computer Science Applications9% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  6. 6Human-Computer Interaction5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sara de Freitas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Motivation, Learning Outcomes, Student Engagement, Game-Based Learning, Gamification, Online Learning, Instructional Design and Social Interaction.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Motivation1132 topics
  2. Learning Outcomes1042 topics
  3. Student Engagement1032 topics
  4. Game-Based Learning851 topic
  5. Gamification851 topic
  6. Online Learning603 topics
  7. Instructional Design422 topics
  8. Social Interaction362 topics
  9. Metacognition281 topic
  10. Self-Regulation281 topic
  11. Blended Learning271 topic
  12. Distance Education271 topic
  13. Embodiment191 topic
  14. Presence191 topic
  15. Educational Data Mining181 topic
  16. Learning Analytics181 topic
  17. Online Gaming171 topic
  18. Video Games171 topic
  19. Affective States161 topic
  20. Intelligent Tutoring Systems161 topic
  21. Learning Object Repositories151 topic
  22. Open Educational Resources151 topic

Where does Sara de Freitas work?

Sara de Freitas's main affiliation in the publication record is Coventry University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Sara de Freitas have?

OpenAlex counts 212 works and 7,023 citations for Sara de Freitas, an h-index of 40, ranking #173,114 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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