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Vaughan Prain

Vaughan Prain publishes mostly in Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Social Psychology, on topics such as Science Education and Pedagogy, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods and Educational Strategies and Epistemologies.

World rank
#252,286
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#7,317
of 35,497
Works
63
Citations
259
Citations per work
4.1

What does Vaughan Prain research?

Education: 40.5%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 29.7%Social Psychology: 4.1%Language and Linguistics: 4.1%other fields: 21.6%40%top field
Education40.5%Developmental and Educational Psychology29.7%Social Psychology4.1%Language and Linguistics4.1%other fields21.6%

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

  1. 1Education40% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology30% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology4% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics4% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vaughan Prain's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metacognition, Inquiry-Based Teaching, Scientific Literacy, Educational Psychology, Collaborative Learning, Self-Regulation, Epistemological Beliefs and Information Literacy.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Metacognition192 topics
  2. Inquiry-Based Teaching131 topic
  3. Scientific Literacy131 topic
  4. Educational Psychology112 topics
  5. Collaborative Learning101 topic
  6. Self-Regulation101 topic
  7. Epistemological Beliefs91 topic
  8. Information Literacy91 topic
  9. Education42 topics
  10. Neuroscience42 topics
  11. Training Pathways41 topic
  12. Vocational Education41 topic
  13. Language Teaching31 topic
  14. Second Language Acquisition31 topic
  15. Cognitive Neuroscience21 topic
  16. Creativity21 topic
  17. Dynamic Assessment21 topic
  18. Innovation21 topic
  19. Neuromyths21 topic
  20. Vygotskian Praxis21 topic

Where does Vaughan Prain work?

Vaughan Prain's main affiliation in the publication record is La Trobe University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Vaughan Prain have?

Science Explorer counts 63 works and 259 citations for Vaughan Prain, ranking #252,286 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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