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Researcher · University of Wollongong · Australia

Stewart Anthony Vella

Stewart Anthony Vella publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Safety Research, on topics such as Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Sport Psychology and Performance and Youth Development and Social Support.

ORCID 0000-0003-0537-9366 OpenAlex
World rank
#19,463
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#509
of 140,210
Works
230
Citations
9.3k
Citations per work
40.3
h-index
58
i10-index 134Top 1.3% in Social Psychology
Stewart Anthony Vella

What does Stewart Anthony Vella research?

Stewart Anthony Vella's work is mostly in Psychology (50%), Social Sciences (10%), Medicine (8%).

Social Sciences: 136 works · 59.3% of their workPsychology: 114 works · 49.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 44 works · 19.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 39 works · 17.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 18 works · 7.8% of their workApplied Psychology: 12 works · 5.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 9.8% of their workSafety Research: 23 works · 9.8% of their workEverything else: 76 works · 33.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 17 works · 7.5% of their workMedicine: 17 works · 7.5% of their workPhysiology: 17 works · 7.5% of their workTHEIR WORKStewart AnthonyVella230works
Health Sciences8%Social Sciences59%

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. Psychology11449.5%
    2. Social Sciences239.8%
  2. Everything else7633.2%
    1. Medicine177.5%
  1. 1Social Psychology19% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology17% of their works
  3. 3Safety Research10% of their works
  4. 4Clinical Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Physiology8% of their works
  6. 6Applied Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stewart Anthony Vella's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Physical Activity, Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Determination Theory, Expert Performance, Motor Imagery, Public Health, Extracurricular Activities and Youth Development Programs.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Physical Activity993 topics
  2. Intrinsic Motivation881 topic
  3. Self-Determination Theory881 topic
  4. Expert Performance741 topic
  5. Motor Imagery741 topic
  6. Public Health742 topics
  7. Extracurricular Activities641 topic
  8. Youth Development Programs641 topic
  9. Exercise491 topic
  10. Sedentary Behavior491 topic
  11. Epidemiology472 topics
  12. Prevalence472 topics
  13. Self-Regulation261 topic
  14. Theory of Planned Behaviour261 topic
  15. Developmental Coordination Disorder251 topic
  16. Motor Skill Competence251 topic
  17. Obesity251 topic
  18. Overweight251 topic
  19. Mental Disorders221 topic
  20. Stigma221 topic

Where does Stewart Anthony Vella work?

Stewart Anthony Vella's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Wollongong, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Stewart Anthony Vella have?

OpenAlex counts 230 works and 9,260 citations for Stewart Anthony Vella, an h-index of 58, ranking #19,463 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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