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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Willy Lens

Willy Lens publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Education and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Education, Achievement, and Giftedness and Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-6214-354X OpenAlex
World rank
#317,155
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#2,535
of 67,186
Works
274
Citations
21k
Citations per work
76.2
h-index
53
i10-index 104Top 1.7% in Social Psychology
Willy Lens

What does Willy Lens research?

Willy Lens's work is mostly in Psychology (58%), Social Sciences (18%).

Social Sciences: 208 works · 75.8% of their workPsychology: 159 works · 58.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 58 works · 21.3% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 44 works · 16.1% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 22 works · 8.0% of their workApplied Psychology: 21 works · 7.7% of their workClinical Psychology: 13 works · 4.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 49 works · 17.8% of their workEducation: 49 works · 17.8% of their workEverything else: 66 works · 24.2% of their workTHEIR WORKWilly Lens274works
Social Sciences76%

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. Psychology15958.0%
    2. Social Sciences4917.8%
  2. Everything else6624.2%
  1. 1Social Psychology21% of their works
  2. 2Education18% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology16% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Applied Psychology8% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Willy Lens's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Well-being, Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Determination Theory, Motivation, Achievement Motivation, Self-Efficacy, Self-Regulation and Future Orientation.

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. Well-being1553 topics
  2. Intrinsic Motivation821 topic
  3. Self-Determination Theory821 topic
  4. Motivation592 topics
  5. Achievement Motivation481 topic
  6. Self-Efficacy481 topic
  7. Self-Regulation482 topics
  8. Future Orientation441 topic
  9. Mental Health442 topics
  10. Time Perspective441 topic
  11. Behavior Change Techniques331 topic
  12. Theory of Planned Behaviour331 topic
  13. Positive Emotions291 topic
  14. Positive Psychology291 topic
  15. Research Methods191 topic
  16. Social Work191 topic
  17. Dynamic Assessment161 topic
  18. Educational Psychology161 topic
  19. Perfectionism151 topic
  20. Procrastination151 topic

Where does Willy Lens work?

Willy Lens's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Willy Lens have?

OpenAlex counts 274 works and 20,866 citations for Willy Lens, an h-index of 53, ranking #317,155 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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