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63
Citations
22421
World Ranking
1155
National Ranking
535

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1976 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David N. Perkins is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans across health professions and social sciences, with a notable focus on health disparities and outcomes, global health workforce issues, and health, psychology, and well-being. The scientist's work also addresses suicide and self-harm studies, climate change and health impacts, mental health treatment and access, and intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving.

Their subfields of study include general health professions, health, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, and emergency medical services.

David N. Perkins has published numerous articles in a variety of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include the Australian Journal of Rural Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, International Journal of Integrated Care, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, and Nature Communications.

Recent notable papers by Perkins include:

  • "Escape from nonsense-mediated decay associates with anti-tumor immunogenicity" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Concerns about climate change among rural residents in Australia" (2020), Journal of Rural Studies
  • "DDI2 Is a Ubiquitin-Directed Endoprotease Responsible for Cleavage of Transcription Factor NRF1" (2020), Molecular Cell
  • "What Is Rural Adversity, How Does It Affect Wellbeing and What Are the Implications for Action?" (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Major Outcomes With Personalized Dialysate TEMPerature (MyTEMP): Rationale and Design of a Pragmatic, Registry-Based, Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial" (2020), Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease

Among their frequent collaborators are Hazel Dalton, Tonelle Handley, Luis Salvador-Carulla, Jane Farmer, and Donna Read.

In recognition of their contributions, David N. Perkins was awarded the fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1976.

Best Publications

  • Rocky Roads to Transfer: Rethinking Mechanism of a Neglected Phenomenon

    Gavriel Salomon;David N. Perkins

  • Are Cognitive Skills Context-Bound?:

    David N. Perkins;Gavriel Salomon

  • Partners in Cognition: Extending Human Intelligence with Intelligent Technologies:

    Gavriel Salomon;David N. Perkins;Tamar Globerson

  • Individual and Social Aspects of Learning

    Gavriel Salomon;David N. Perkins

  • The mind's best work

    David N. Perkins

  • The Many Faces of Constructivism.

    David Perkins

  • Beyond Abilities: A Dispositional Theory of Thinking.

    D. N. Perkins;Eileen Jay;Shari Tishman

  • Teaching for Transfer.

    D. N. Perkins;Gavriel Salomon

  • The Teaching of Thinking

    Raymond S. Nickerson;David N. Perkins;Edward E. Smith

  • Person plus: A distributed view of thinking and learning

    D. Perkins

  • Informal reasoning and education

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

  • Technology Meets Constructivism: Do They Make a Marriage?

    D. N. Perkins

  • Constructivism and troublesome knowledge

    David Perkins

  • Knowledge As Design

    David N. Perkins

  • Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence

    David N. Perkins

  • Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

    David N. Perkins

  • Teaching thinking dispositions: From transmission to enculturation

    Shari Tishman;Eileen Jay;David N. Perkins

  • Smart schools : better thinking and learning for every child

    D. N. Perkins

  • Conditions of Learning in Novice Programmers

    D. N. Perkins;Chris Hancock;Renee Hobbs;Fay Martin

  • Everyday reasoning and the roots of intelligence

    D. N. Perkins;Michael Farady;Barbara Bushey

  • 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

Gavriel Salomon
Gavriel Salomon University of Haifa
James F. Voss
James F. Voss University of Pittsburgh

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