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Researcher · University of Nottingham · United Kingdom

Volker Wedekind

Volker Wedekind publishes mostly in Education, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Education Systems and Policy, Innovative Education and Learning Practices and Youth Education and Societal Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-7620-3846 OpenAlex
World rank
#213,899
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#19,387
of 367,258
Works
58
Citations
485
Citations per work
8.4
h-index
11
i10-index 16Top 16% in Education
Volker Wedekind

What does Volker Wedekind research?

Volker Wedekind's work is mostly in Social Sciences (74%), Business, Management and Accounting (3%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (3%).

Social Sciences: 47 works · 80.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 43 works · 74.5% of their workEducation: 22 works · 37.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 19.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 works · 9.6% of their workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 4 works · 7.6% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 works · 3.2% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 works · 3.2% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 works · 3.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 19.1% of their workTHEIR WORKVolker Wedekind58works
Social Sciences81%

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. Social Sciences4374.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting23.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance23.2%
  2. Everything else1119.1%
  1. 1Education38% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science20% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations10% of their works
  4. 4Human Factors and Ergonomics8% of their works
  5. 5Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management3% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Volker Wedekind's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Informal Learning, Lifelong Learning, Globalization, Training Pathways, Vocational Education, Activity Theory, Workplace Learning and Social Exclusion.

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. Informal Learning222 topics
  2. Lifelong Learning202 topics
  3. Globalization162 topics
  4. Training Pathways131 topic
  5. Vocational Education131 topic
  6. Activity Theory121 topic
  7. Workplace Learning121 topic
  8. Social Exclusion111 topic
  9. Youth Transitions111 topic
  10. Education102 topics
  11. Education Policy101 topic
  12. Employability101 topic
  13. Graduate Attributes101 topic
  14. Neoliberalism101 topic
  15. Prior Learning101 topic
  16. Recognition101 topic
  17. Curriculum61 topic
  18. Sociology61 topic
  19. Labor Market41 topic
  20. Technological Change41 topic

Where does Volker Wedekind work?

Volker Wedekind's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Volker Wedekind have?

OpenAlex counts 58 works and 485 citations for Volker Wedekind, an h-index of 11, ranking #213,899 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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