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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, Educational Games and Gamification and Digital Games and Media.

ORCID 0000-0003-4018-0491 OpenAlex
World rank
#43,482
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#16,721
of 1,627,098
Works
388
Citations
16k
Citations per work
40.4
h-index
54
i10-index 180Top 0.2% in Computer Science Applications
Yasmin B. Kafai

What does Yasmin B. Kafai research?

Yasmin B. Kafai's work is mostly in Computer Science (32%), Social Sciences (23%), Psychology (14%).

Social Sciences: 140 works · 36.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 88 works · 22.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 50 works · 13.0% of their workEducation: 37 works · 9.6% of their workPsychology: 52 works · 13.5% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 52 works · 13.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 126 works · 32.5% of their workComputer Science: 126 works · 32.5% of their workComputer Science Applications: 81 works · 21.0% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 25 works · 6.5% of their workInformation Systems: 19 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 122 works · 31.4% of their workTHEIR WORKYasmin B. Kafai388works
Physical Sciences32%Social Sciences36%

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 Sciences8822.6%
    2. Psychology5213.5%
    1. Computer Science12632.5%
  3. Everything else12231.4%
  1. 1Computer Science Applications21% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology14% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  4. 4Education10% of their works
  5. 5Human-Computer Interaction6% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems5% 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, Game-Based Learning, Gamification, Online Gaming, Video Games and Well-being.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Computational Thinking1661 topic
  2. Programming Education1661 topic
  3. Motivation1312 topics
  4. Game-Based Learning871 topic
  5. Gamification871 topic
  6. Online Gaming791 topic
  7. Video Games791 topic
  8. Well-being592 topics
  9. Digital Technology481 topic
  10. Parental Mediation481 topic
  11. Design Research441 topic
  12. Metacognition441 topic
  13. Self-Regulation441 topic
  14. User Experience441 topic
  15. Addiction311 topic
  16. Social Media311 topic
  17. Craftivism281 topic
  18. Handicraft281 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?

OpenAlex counts 388 works and 15,675 citations for Yasmin B. Kafai, an h-index of 54, ranking #43,482 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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