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D-Index
55
Citations
39397
World Ranking
1940
National Ranking
926

Alan H. Schoenfeld publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan H. Schoenfeld sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 186 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Alan H. Schoenfeld D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan H. Schoenfeld sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alan H. Schoenfeld is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans social sciences and mathematics, with a significant focus on education and related subfields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Mathematics

Schoenfeld's work engages several subfields, notably:

  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Modeling and Simulation

The primary research topics covered by Schoenfeld include:

  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Teaching and Learning Programming
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Mathematics Education and Programs
  • Student Assessment and Feedback
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Schoenfeld are:

  • Mathematical practices, in theory and practice (2020), published in ZDM
  • Mathematical Modeling, Sense Making, and the Common Core State Standards (2025), published in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

In addition to these, Schoenfeld frequently collaborates with other researchers such as:

  • Hugh Burkhardt
  • Yeping Li
  • Andrea A. diSessa
  • Arthur C. Graesser
  • Lisa Benson

The venues in which Schoenfeld commonly publishes include:

  • ZDM
  • Journal for STEM Education Research
  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • The Curriculum Journal
  • International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education

Awards received by Schoenfeld include:

  • Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (2008)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2001)

Best Publications

  • Mathematical Problem Solving

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Learning to Think Mathematically: Problem Solving, Metacognition, and Sense Making in Mathematics (Reprint):

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Learning to think mathematically: problem solving, metacognition, and sense-making in mathematics

    Alan Schoenfeld

  • When Good Teaching Leads to Bad Results: The Disasters of 'Well-Taught' Mathematics Courses

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Explorations of Students' Mathematical Beliefs and Behavior.

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Toward a theory of teaching-in-context

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Improving Educational Research:Toward a More Useful, More Influential, and Better-Funded Enterprise

    Hugh Burkhardt;Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Beyond the purely cognitive: Belief systems, social cognitions, and metacognitions as driving forces in intellectual performance

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • How We Think : A Theory of Goal-Oriented Decision Making and its Educational Applications

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Problem perception and knowledge structure in expert and novice mathematical problem solvers.

    Alan H. Schoenfeld;Douglas J. Herrmann

  • Making Mathematics Work for All Children: Issues of Standards, Testing, and Equity:

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • The Math Wars.

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Looking Toward the 21st Century: Challenges of Educational Theory and Practice

    Alan H. Schoenfeld

  • Learning: The Microgenetic Analysis of One Student’s Evolving Understanding of a Complex Subject Matter Domain

    Alan H. Schoenfeld;John P. Smith;Abraham Arcavi

  • Reflections on Doing and Teaching Mathematics

    Alan H. Schoenfeld;Alan H. Sloane

  • Mathematical thinking and problem solving

    Alan H. Schoenfeld;Alan H. Sloane

  • Aspects of Understanding: On Multiple Perspectives and Representations of Linear Relations and Connections Among Them

    Judit Moschkovich;Alan H. Schoenfeld;Abraham Arcavi

  • Toward a Theory of Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics

    Alan H. Schoenfeld;Jeremy Kilpatrick

  • Models of the Teaching Process

    Alan H Schoenfeld

  • On Mathematics as Sense-Making: An Informal Attack on the Unfortunate Divorce of Formal and Informal Mathematics

    James F. Voss;David N. Perkins;Judith W. Segal

Frequent Co-Authors

Kurt VanLehn
Kurt VanLehn Arizona State University
Andrea A. diSessa
Andrea A. diSessa University of California, Berkeley
Arthur C. Graesser
Arthur C. Graesser University of Memphis
Lyn D. English
Lyn D. English Queensland University of Technology
Ed Dubinsky
Ed Dubinsky Kent State University
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver Indiana University
Clark A. Chinn
Clark A. Chinn Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
P. David Pearson
P. David Pearson University of California, Berkeley
Paul Cobb
Paul Cobb Vanderbilt University
Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson University of California, Berkeley

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