Barbara Comber publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Barbara Comber between 1983 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Barbara Comber published across 43 years, from 1983 to 2025, averaging 5.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 20 publications in 2001. 4 of the 255 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15 20

1983 2025

255 publications in total across all disciplines

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Barbara Comber: publications per year, 1983 to 2025
Year	Publications
1983	1
1984	1
1985	1
1986	0
1987	1
1988	2
1989	0
1990	1
1991	0
1992	5
1993	0
1994	2
1995	1
1996	1
1997	4
1998	4
1999	3
2000	5
2001	20
2002	5
2003	6
2004	8
2005	7
2006	12
2007	15
2008	6
2009	9
2010	5
2011	7
2012	4
2013	18
2014	11
2015	15
2016	8
2017	13
2018	8
2019	11
2020	9
2021	10
2022	7
2023	5
2024	1
2025	3
Total	255

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Barbara Comber 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 Barbara Comber sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 242 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
44–53	28
54–63	61
64–73	161
74–83	225
84–93	301
94–103	390
104–113	406
114–123	474
124–133	453
134–143	434
144–153	407
154–163	411
164–173	391
174–183	313
184–193	319
194–203	304
204–213	285
214–223	246
224–233	213
234–243	170	242
244–253	167
254–263	162
264–273	138
274–283	138
284–293	113
294–303	106
304–313	95
314–323	101
324–333	81
334–343	69
344–353	56
354–363	36
364–373	42
374–383	41
384–393	44
394–403	27
404–413	30
414–423	20
424–433	29
434–443	29
444–453	25
454–463	19
464–473	21
474–483	11
484–493	17
494–503	7
504–513	6
514–523	12
524–533	10
534–543	7
544–553	6
554–563	12
564–569	8
570+	100

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Barbara Comber 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 Barbara Comber sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	177
31	210
32	222
33	188
34	181
35	243
36	261
37	272	37
38	278
39	300
40	297
41	308
42	313
43	300
44	269
45	260
46	228
47	251
48	203
49	186
50	187
51	166
52	138
53	141
54	131
55	137
56	109
57	129
58	95
59	105
60	106
61	86
62	94
63	77
64	79
65	59
66	68
67	51
68	49
69	40
70	43
71	40
72	50
73	46
74	43
75	45
76	45
77	30
78	25
79	31
80	29
81	18
82	21
83	26
84	15
85	15
86	19
87	19
88	12
89	7
90	19
91	20
92	13
93	9
94	13
95	8
96	7
97	6
98	6
99	6
100+	97

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Overview

Barbara Comber is affiliated with the University of South Australia in Australia. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and arts and humanities, with a focus on education, literacy, and sociocultural factors influencing learning.

The main fields of study in Barbara Comber's work include:

Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities

Within these broad fields, the subfields extensively addressed are:

Education
Literature and Literary Theory
Sociology and Political Science
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Social Psychology

The research topics that appear most frequently in their publications cover:

Literacy, Media, and Education
Global Education and Multiculturalism
Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
Indigenous and Place-Based Education
Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
Education Systems and Policy

Barbara Comber has authored or co-authored papers published in various reputable academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

British Educational Research Journal
Research Papers in Education
International Journal of Science Education
Australian Geographer
Journal of Curriculum Studies

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Barbara Comber include:

"Disrupting the 'boys don't read' discourse: Primary school boys who love reading fiction" (2020, British Educational Research Journal)
"Boys, science and literacy: place-based masculinities, reading practices and the 'science literate boy'" (2021, Research Papers in Education)
"How do rural Australian students' ethnogeographies related to people and place influence their STEM career aspirations?" (2021, International Journal of Science Education)
"Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle-school student approaches to sources of information on the internet" (2023, British Educational Research Journal)
"Thinking spatially: a springboard to new possibilities" (2021, Australian Geographer)

Frequent collaborators in Barbara Comber's research include:

Sarah McDonald
Laura Scholes
Garth Stahl
Reece Mills
Joanne Brownlee

Best Publications

Getting Out of Deficit: Pedagogies of reconnection

Barbara Comber;Barbara Kamler

449
Citations
Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms.

Barbara Comber;Anne Simpson

439
Citations
Critical Literacy as a Way of Being and Doing

Vivian Maria Vasquez;Hilary Janks;Barbara Comber

350
Citations
Literacy, Place, and Pedagogies of Possibility

Barbara Comber

327
Citations
Teachers' Work and Pedagogy in an Era of Accountability.

Barbara Comber;Helen Nixon

264
Citations
Critical Literacy Finds a "Place": Writing and Social Action in a Low-Income Australian Grade 2/3 Classroom

Barbara Comber;Patricia Thomson;Margaret Wells

254
Citations
Mandated literacy assessment and the reorganisation of teachers’ work: federal policy, local effects

Barbara Comber

209
Citations
Turn-around pedagogies : literacy interventions for at-risk students

Barbara Comber;Barbara Kamler

190
Citations
Interventions Early in School as a Means to Improve Higher Education Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students

Trevor Gale;Robert Hattam;Barbara Comber;Deborah Tranter

178
Citations
Critical Literacy and Social Justice

Barbara Comber

166
Citations
Making community texts objects of study

Allan Luke;Jennifer O'Brien;Barbara Comber

155
Citations
Critical literacies and cultural studies

A. Luke;B. Comber;H. Grant

122
Citations
Critical Literacy: What Does it Look like in the Early Years?

Barbara Comber

122
Citations
Critical Literacy: Power and Pleasure with Language in the Early Years

Barbara Comber

119
Citations
Literacies in place : teaching environmental communications

Barbara Comber;Helen Nixon;Jo-Anne Reid

119
Citations
Researching for social justice: contextual, conceptual and methodological challenges

Robert Hattam;Marie Brennan;Lew Zipin;Barbara Comber

112
Citations
Urban Renewal from the inside out: Spatial and Critical Literacies in a Low Socioeconomic School Community.

Barbara Comber;Helen Nixon;Louise Ashmore;Stephen Loo

94
Citations
Socio-economic disadvantage, literacy and social justice: Learning from longitudinal case study research

Barbara Comber;Sue Hill

91
Citations
Critical literacy across continents

Hilary Janks;Barbara Comber

82
Citations
Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students

Trevor Gale;Sam Sellar;Stephen Parker;Robert Hattam

56
Citations
International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning, and Culture

Kathy Hall;Kathy Hall;Teresa Cremin;Teresa Cremin;Barbara Comber;Luis C. Moll

35
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pat Thomson University of Nottingham

Allan Luke Queensland University of Technology

Konstantin Matchev University of Alabama

P. Wittich Cornell University

Guenakh Mitselmakher University of Florida

Jacobo Konigsberg University of Florida

External Links

Personal website of Barbara Comber

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