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Researcher · University of Pennsylvania · United States

Yasmin B. Kafai

Yasmin B. Kafai publishes mostly in Computer Science Applications, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Teaching and Learning Programming, Digital Games and Media and Educational Games and Gamification.

ORCID 0000-0003-4018-0491 OpenAlex
World rank
#56,229
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#25,672
of 358,040
Works
98
Citations
480
Citations per work
4.9

What does Yasmin B. Kafai research?

Computer Science Applications: 21.9%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 13.2%Sociology and Political Science: 12.3%Human-Computer Interaction: 9.6%other fields: 43.0%22%top field
Computer Science Applications21.9%Developmental and Educational Psychology13.2%Sociology and Political Science12.3%Human-Computer Interaction9.6%other fields43.0%

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

  1. 1Computer Science Applications22% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  4. 4Human-Computer Interaction10% of their works
  5. 5Education7% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yasmin B. Kafai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Computational Thinking, Programming Education, Motivation, Online Gaming, Video Games, Game-Based Learning, Gamification and Design Research.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Computational Thinking211 topic
  2. Programming Education211 topic
  3. Motivation152 topics
  4. Online Gaming101 topic
  5. Video Games101 topic
  6. Game-Based Learning81 topic
  7. Gamification81 topic
  8. Design Research71 topic
  9. Metacognition71 topic
  10. Self-Regulation71 topic
  11. User Experience71 topic
  12. Digital Technology51 topic
  13. Parental Mediation51 topic
  14. Addiction41 topic
  15. Multimodal Literacy41 topic
  16. New Literacies41 topic
  17. Social Media41 topic

Where does Yasmin B. Kafai work?

Yasmin B. Kafai's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pennsylvania, United States.

How many publications and citations does Yasmin B. Kafai have?

Science Explorer counts 98 works and 480 citations for Yasmin B. Kafai, ranking #56,229 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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