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Researcher · Queen's University · Canada

Stephen J. Ball

Stephen J. Ball publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Biomedical Engineering and Education, on topics such as Muscle activation and electromyography studies, Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery and Educational Assessment and Improvement.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,689,656
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#87,553
of 183,316
Works
29
Citations
687
Citations per work
23.7
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 22% in Political Science and International Relations
Stephen J. Ball

What does Stephen J. Ball research?

Stephen J. Ball's work is mostly in Social Sciences (33%), Engineering (10%), Medicine (9%).

Everything else: 12 works · 42.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 38.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 33.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 works · 15.8% of their workEducation: 3 works · 10.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 7.0% of their workDecision Sciences: 2 works · 5.3% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 2 works · 5.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 10.5% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 10.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 3 works · 10.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 8.8% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 8.8% of their workRehabilitation: 3 works · 8.8% of their workTHEIR WORKStephen J. Ball29works
Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences39%

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 else1242.1%
    1. Social Sciences1033.3%
    2. Decision Sciences25.3%
    1. Engineering310.5%
    1. Medicine38.8%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations16% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering10% of their works
  3. 3Education10% of their works
  4. 4Rehabilitation9% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen J. Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Electromyography, Globalization, Motor Recovery, Muscle Fatigue, Neural Plasticity, British Politics, Concept Mapping and Data Use.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Electromyography51 topic
  2. Globalization52 topics
  3. Motor Recovery51 topic
  4. Muscle Fatigue51 topic
  5. Neural Plasticity51 topic
  6. British Politics31 topic
  7. Concept Mapping31 topic
  8. Data Use31 topic
  9. Depoliticisation31 topic
  10. Education Policy31 topic
  11. Educational Improvement31 topic
  12. Neoliberalism31 topic
  13. Theory-Based Evaluation31 topic
  14. Training Pathways31 topic
  15. Vocational Education31 topic
  16. Diversity21 topic
  17. Global Citizenship Education21 topic

Where does Stephen J. Ball work?

Stephen J. Ball's main affiliation in the publication record is Queen's University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Stephen J. Ball have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 687 citations for Stephen J. Ball, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,689,656 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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