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Researcher · Open University of the Netherlands · Netherlands

Wim Westera

Wim Westera publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Applications, on topics such as Educational Games and Gamification, Artificial Intelligence in Games and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning.

ORCID 0000-0003-2389-3107 OpenAlex
World rank
#94,327
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#2,091
of 23,481
Works
45
Citations
198
Citations per work
4.4

What does Wim Westera research?

Developmental and Educational Psychology: 25.6%Artificial Intelligence: 23.3%Computer Science Applications: 11.6%Education: 7.0%other fields: 32.5%26%top field
Developmental and Educational Psychology25.6%Artificial Intelligence23.3%Computer Science Applications11.6%Education7.0%other fields32.5%

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

  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology26% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence23% of their works
  3. 3Computer Science Applications12% of their works
  4. 4Education7% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems and Management5% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wim Westera's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Motivation, Student Engagement, Game-Based Learning, Gamification, Monte Carlo Tree Search, Procedural Content Generation, Affective States and Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Motivation102 topics
  2. Student Engagement92 topics
  3. Game-Based Learning71 topic
  4. Gamification71 topic
  5. Monte Carlo Tree Search51 topic
  6. Procedural Content Generation51 topic
  7. Affective States41 topic
  8. Intelligent Tutoring Systems41 topic
  9. Online Learning42 topics
  10. Metacognition31 topic
  11. Self-Regulation31 topic
  12. Educational Data Mining21 topic
  13. Learning Analytics21 topic
  14. Learning Object Repositories21 topic
  15. Open Educational Resources21 topic
  16. Autonomic Computing11 topic
  17. Distributed Systems11 topic
  18. Grid Computing11 topic
  19. Self-Adaptive Systems11 topic

Where does Wim Westera work?

Wim Westera's main affiliation in the publication record is Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Wim Westera have?

Science Explorer counts 45 works and 198 citations for Wim Westera, ranking #94,327 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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