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2026

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D-Index
98
Citations
60817
World Ranking
104
National Ranking
7

David Boud 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 David Boud sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 381 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Boud 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 David Boud sits on this spectrum.

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

99% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award

Overview

David Boud is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and conducts research primarily within the social sciences, with a specialized focus on education. Their research output notably spans various subfields including education, information systems, management science and operations research, developmental and educational psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health. The predominant topics in David Boud's body of work center on student assessment and feedback, reflective practices in education, evaluation of teaching practices, higher education learning practices, higher education practices and engagement, evaluation and performance assessment, as well as innovations in medical education.

David Boud has contributed extensively to academic journals, with a frequent presence in publication venues such as:

  • Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
  • Studies in Higher Education
  • Teaching in Higher Education
  • Higher Education
  • Higher Education Research & Development

Among the most recent papers authored by or involving David Boud are:

  • What feedback literate teachers do: an empirically-derived competency framework (2021), published in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
  • The need to disentangle assessment and feedback in higher education (2020), published in Studies in Higher Education
  • Eliciting, processing and enacting feedback: mechanisms for embedding student feedback literacy within the curriculum (2020), published in Teaching in Higher Education
  • The post-COVID-19 future of digital learning in higher education: Views from educators, students, and other professionals in six countries (2022), published in British Journal of Educational Technology
  • Understanding feedback in online learning - A critical review and metaphor analysis (2021), published in Computers & Education

David Boud has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Margaret Bearman
  • Joanna Tai
  • Phillip Dawson
  • Rola Ajjawi
  • Zi Yan

Their book publications include a title released by Springer Nature (Netherlands):

  • Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World (2020)

David Boud's research contributions reflect a broad and detailed examination of educational practices, with a significant emphasis on feedback and assessment processes in higher education contexts.

Best Publications

  • Reflection, turning experience into learning

    David Boud;Rosemary Keogh;David Walker

  • The Challenge of Problem Based Learning

    David Boud;Grahame Feletti

  • Sustainable Assessment: Rethinking Assessment for the Learning Society.

    David Boud

  • Enhancing learning through self assessment

    David Boud

  • The development of student feedback literacy: enabling uptake of feedback

    David Carless;David Boud

  • Rethinking models of feedback for learning: the challenge of design

    David Boud;Elizabeth Katherine Molloy

  • Aligning assessment with long‐term learning

    David Boud;Nancy Falchikov

  • Peer Learning and Assessment

    David Boud;Ruth Cohen;Jane Sampson

  • Developing Student Autonomy in Learning

    David Boud

  • Promoting reflection in professional courses: The challenge of context

    David Boud;David Walker

  • Using Experience For Learning

    David Boud

  • Using Journal Writing to Enhance Reflective Practice

    David Boud

  • Student Self-Assessment in Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis

    Nancy Falchikov;David Boud

  • Rethinking assessment in higher education : learning for the longer term

    David Boud;Nancy Falchikov

  • Quantitative Studies of Student Self-Assessment in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Findings.

    David Boud;Nancy Falchikov

  • Learning from others at work: communities of practice and informal learning

    David Boud;Heather Middleton

  • Assessment and learning: contradictory or complementary?

    David Boud

  • Peer Learning in Higher Education : Learning from and with Each Other

    David Boud;Ruth Cohen;Jane Sampson

  • Work-based learning: a new higher education?

    David Boud;Nicky Solomon

  • Understanding learning at work

    David Boud;John Garrick

  • Promoting reflection in learning: A model

    David Boud;Rosemary Keogh;David Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela Brew
Angela Brew Macquarie University
Elizabeth Molloy
Elizabeth Molloy University of Melbourne
Phillip Dawson
Phillip Dawson Deakin University
Sue Bennett
Sue Bennett University of Wollongong
Ernesto Panadero
Ernesto Panadero Dublin City University
Jaclyn Broadbent
Jaclyn Broadbent Deakin University
Catherine Manathunga
Catherine Manathunga University of the Sunshine Coast
Martine B. Powell
Martine B. Powell Griffith University
Michael Prosser
Michael Prosser University of Melbourne
Paul Hager
Paul Hager University of Technology Sydney

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