2026 Gordon Wells: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	46	3489	1680	155	19540

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

3489

1680

155

19540

Overview

Gordon Wells was affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research focused primarily on the field of Medicine, with notable work in several subfields including Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Sociology and Political Science, Genetics, and Social Psychology.

Their publication record shows a concentration on topics related to HIV/AIDS research and interventions, HIV, drug use, and sexual risk, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, sex work and related issues, genetic associations and epidemiology, as well as Mycobacterium research and diagnosis and tuberculosis research and epidemiology.

Wells published in various frequent venues such as Nature, The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, Sexual Health, F1000Research, and SSM - Qualitative Research in Health.

High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health, 2020, Nature
Public health morality, sex, and COVID-19: sexual minority men's HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) decision-making during Ontario's first COVID-19 lockdown, 2021, Critical Public Health
Ten simple rules for providing effective bioinformatics research support, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
"What other choices might I have made?": Sexual Minority Men, the PrEP Cascade and the Shifting Subjective Dimensions of HIV Risk, 2022, Qualitative Health Research
Spatial distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis mRNA and secreted antigens in acid-fast negative human antemortem and resected tissue, 2024, EBioMedicine

The list of frequent coauthors includes Nathan J. Lachowsky, Mark Hull, Judit Kumuthini, Darrell H. S. Tan, and Daniel Grace, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts in their research areas.

Best Publications

Dialogic Inquiry: Towards a Socio-cultural Practice and Theory of Education

Gordon Wells

5261
Citations
Language Development in the Pre-School Years

Gordon Wells

1266
Citations
Reevaluating the IRF sequence: A proposal for the articulation of theories of activity and discourse for the analysis of teaching and learning in the classroom

Gordon Wells

1122
Citations
What's the use of 'triadic dialogue'?: an investigation of teacher-student interaction

H Nassaji;G Wells

1018
Citations
Dialogue in the Classroom.

Gordon Wells;Rebeca Mejia Arauz

870
Citations
Constructing Knowledge Together: Classrooms as Centers of Inquiry and Literacy

Gen L Chang-Wells;Gordon Wells

839
Citations
Learning through Interaction. The Study of Language Development.

Gordon Wells;Allayne Bridges;Peter French;Margaret MacLure

763
Citations
Characteristics of adult speech which predict children's language development.

Sally Barnes;Mary Gutfreund;David Satterly;Gordon Wells

593
Citations
Learning for Life in the 21st Century: sociocultural perspectives on the future of education

Gordon Wells;Guy Claxton

504
Citations
Semiotic Mediation, Dialogue and the Construction of Knowledge

Gordon Wells

434
Citations
Action, Talk, and Text: Learning and Teaching Through Inquiry

Gordon Wells

412
Citations
Can the Linguistic Interdependence Theory Support A Bilingual-Bicultural Model of Literacy Education for Deaf Students?

Connie Mayer;Gordon Wells

380
Citations
The Complementary Contributions of Halliday and Vygotsky to a “Language-based Theory of Learning”

Gordon Wells

340
Citations
Dialogic Inquiry: Discourse, Learning, and Teaching

Unknown

338
Citations
Using the Tool-Kit of Discourse in the Activity of Learning and Teaching

Gordon Wells

308
Citations
The Role of Dialogue in Activity Theory

Gordon Wells

196
Citations
Using L1 to Master L2: A Response to Antón and DiCamilla's ‘Socio-Cognitive Functions of L1 Collaborative Interaction in the L2 Classroom’

Gordon Wells

181
Citations
Enabling Factors in Adult-Child Discourse

Rod Ellis;Gordon Wells

158
Citations
Talk about Text: Where Literacy is Learned and Taught

Gordon Wells

156
Citations
Apprenticeship in Literacy.

Gordon Wells

132
Citations
Learning an Additional Language through Dialogic Inquiry.

Mari Haneda;Gordon Wells

130
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Melanie Killen University of Maryland, College Park

Susan D. Holloway University of California, Berkeley

Richard Rende Brown University

Richard M. Lerner Tufts University

David R. Olson University of Toronto

Rod Ellis Curtin University

Neil Mercer University of Cambridge

Lewis D. Ashwal University of the Witwatersrand

Kevin Burke University of Houston

Anne Haas Dyson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

External Links

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