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D-Index
59
Citations
101276
World Ranking
1494
National Ranking
712

Overview

Allan Collins is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their academic profile includes a focus on research conducted within this institutional setting.

Their work does not currently list any recent papers or documented publications. There are no specified frequent co-authors or preferred publication venues associated with their research output.

Information about Allan Collins's main fields of study, subfields, and primary research topics is not available, which limits an analysis of their specific academic focus areas or specialization trends.

There is no data regarding book publications or awards linked to their academic career, which indicates either a concentration on other forms of scholarly dissemination or a lack of publicly recorded recognitions and authored books.

The lack of detailed bibliometric or topical data prevents an assessment of citation impact, collaborative networks, and thematic contributions typically used to characterize scientific influence.

Best Publications

  • Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning

    John Seely Brown;Allan Collins;Paul Duguid

  • A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing

    Allan M. Collins;Elizabeth F. Loftus

  • The Cognitive Structure of Emotions

    Andrew Ortony;Gerald L. Clore;Allan Collins

  • Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching the Craft of Reading, Writing and Mathematics

    Allan Collins;John Seely Brown;Susan E. Newman

  • Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching the Crafts of Reading, Writing, and Mathematics

    Allan Collins;John Seely Brown;Susan E. Newman

  • Retrieval time from semantic memory

    Allan M. Collins;M. Ross Quillian

  • Design Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

    Allan Collins;Diana Joseph;Katerine Bielaczyc

  • Cognitive apprenticeship: Making thinking visible

    Allan Collins;John Seely Brown;Ann Holum

  • Toward a Design Science of Education

    Allan Collins

  • Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America

    Allan Collins;Richard Halverson

  • Cognition and learning.

    James G. Greeno;Allan M. Collins;Lauren B. Resnick

  • Representation and Understanding: Studies in Cognitive Science

    Daniel G. Bobrow;Allan Collins

  • A Systems Approach to Educational Testing

    John R. Frederiksen;Allan Collins

  • Cognitive Apprenticeship and Instructional Technology

    Allan Collins

  • Representation and understanding

    Daniel G. Bobrow;Allan Collins

  • A schema-theoretic view of reading

    Marilyn J. Adams;Allan Collins

  • The Second Educational Revolution: Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology.

    Allan Collins;Richard Halverson

  • The logic of plausible reasoning: A core theory.

    Allan M. Collins;Ryszard S. Michalski

  • Learning Communities In Classrooms: A Reconceptualization of Educational Practice

    Allan Collins

  • Cognitive apprenticeship : Teaching the craft of reading, writing, and mathematics

    A. Collins

  • The Cognitive Structure of Emotions: References

    Andrew Ortony;Gerald L. Clore;Allan Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown Palo Alto Research Center
Gerald L. Clore
Gerald L. Clore University of Virginia
Andrew Ortony
Andrew Ortony Northwestern University
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
James G. Greeno
James G. Greeno University of Pittsburgh
Bertram C. Bruce
Bertram C. Bruce University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lauren B. Resnick
Lauren B. Resnick University of Pittsburgh
John R. Anderson
John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine

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