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William F. McComas

William F. McComas publishes mostly in Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, on topics such as Science Education and Pedagogy, Diverse Educational Innovations Studies and Science Education and Perceptions.

World rank
#11,189
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,384
of 358,040
Works
51
Citations
814
Citations per work
16.0

What does William F. McComas research?

Education: 28.1%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 12.3%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 8.8%History and Philosophy of Science: 7.0%other fields: 43.8%28%top field
Education28.1%Developmental and Educational Psychology12.3%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences8.8%History and Philosophy of Science7.0%other fields43.8%

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

  1. 1Education28% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology12% of their works
  3. 3General Agricultural and Biological Sciences9% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science7% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William F. McComas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Teacher Preparation, Inquiry-Based Teaching, Scientific Literacy, Agricultural Education, School Gardens, Children's Perceptions, Collaborative Learning and Educational Technology.

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. Teacher Preparation132 topics
  2. Inquiry-Based Teaching81 topic
  3. Scientific Literacy81 topic
  4. Agricultural Education51 topic
  5. School Gardens51 topic
  6. Children's Perceptions41 topic
  7. Collaborative Learning42 topics
  8. Educational Technology42 topics
  9. Higher Education42 topics
  10. Scientists41 topic
  11. Active Learning21 topic
  12. Flipped Classroom21 topic
  13. Global History21 topic
  14. Metacognition21 topic
  15. Mobile Learning21 topic
  16. Science Circulation21 topic
  17. Self-Regulation21 topic
  18. Technology Integration21 topic
  19. Grasses11 topic
  20. Phylogeny11 topic

Where does William F. McComas work?

William F. McComas's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, United States.

How many publications and citations does William F. McComas have?

Science Explorer counts 51 works and 814 citations for William F. McComas, ranking #11,189 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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