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D-Index
48
Citations
9381
World Ranking
3153
National Ranking
221

Jan Wright 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 Jan Wright sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 169 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jan Wright 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 Jan Wright sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jan Wright is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia and conducts research primarily within the Social Sciences. Their work encompasses main topics such as Second Language Learning and Teaching, Multilingual Education and Policy, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Community Development and Social Impact, Animal and Plant Science Education, and Diverse Educational Innovations Studies.

The scientist's notable recent papers include the following:

  • "Taking critical dialogic accountability into the field: Engaging contestation around microfinance and women's empowerment" (2021, Critical Perspectives on Accounting)
  • "Cultivating 'health' in the school garden" (2021, Sport Education and Society)
  • "Vietnamese EFL Novice Teachers' Pedagogical Decisions within a Mandated Communicative Language Curriculum" (2023, The Journal of AsiaTEFL)
  • "The ineffable allure of sugar - Hammer cake, That Sugar Film and contradictory pleasures" (2020, Food and Foodways)
  • "A pedagogical examination of the potential of Iyengar yoga for trauma" (2022, Sport Education and Society)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Jan Wright include:

  • Gabrielle O'Flynn
  • Farzana Aman Tanima
  • Judy Brown
  • Vera Mackie
  • Ken Cruickshank

The scientist has published work across several recurring academic venues such as:

  • Sport Education and Society
  • Critical Perspectives on Accounting
  • The Journal of AsiaTEFL
  • Food and Foodways
  • Інноватика у вихованні

Jan Wright has also contributed to book literature, having a publication with Bloomsbury Publishing plc titled "Language Education in the School Curriculum" released in 2020, which has been cited multiple times.

Their subfields of study include Literature and Literary Theory, Linguistics and Language, Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, and Business and International Management. This diversity reflects interdisciplinary research interests that span education, social sciences, and economics.

Best Publications

  • The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology

    Michael Gard;Janice E Wright

  • Biopolitics and the "obesity epidemic" : governing bodies

    Jan Wright;Valerie Harwood

  • Managing Uncertainty: Obesity Discourses and Physical Education in a Risk Society

    Michael Gard;Jan Wright

  • Biopower, Biopedagogies and the obesity epidemic

    Jan Wright

  • Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health

    John Evans;Brian Davies;Jan Wright

  • Being fit and looking healthy: Young women's and men's constructions of health and fitness

    Janice E Wright;Gabrielle H O'Flynn;Doune Macdonald

  • Sport, the media and the construction of compulsory heterosexuality. A case study of women's rugby union.

    Jan Wright;Gill Clarke

  • CRITICAL INQUIRY AND PROBLEM-SOLVING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

    Jan Wright

  • It's All Very Well, in Theory: Theoretical Perspectives and Their Applications in Contemporary Pedagogical Research

    Doune Macdonald;David Kirk;Michael Metzler;Lynda M. Nilges

  • Poststructural methodologies - The body, schooling and health

    Jan Wright

  • Framing the mother: childhood obesity, maternal responsibility and care

    JaneMaree Maher;Suzanne Fraser;Jan Wright

  • A Feminist Poststructuralist Methodology for the Study of Gender Construction in Physical Education: Description of a Study.

    Jan Wright

  • Becoming a physical education teacher: Contemporary and enduring issues

    Richard Tinning;Doune Macdonald;Jan Wright;Christopher Hickey

  • Physical Activity and Young People: Beyond Participation

    Jan Wright;Doune Macdonald;Lyndal Groom

  • Re-Conceiving Ability in Physical Education: A Social Analysis.

    Jan Wright;Lisette Burrows

  • Prescribing Practices: Shaping Healthy Children in Schools

    Lisette Burrows;Jan Wright

  • The Construction of Complementarity in Physical Education

    Jan Wright

  • The Construction of Gendered Contexts in Single Sex and Co‐educational Physical Education Lessons

    Jan Wright

  • Mastery of fundamental motor skills among New South Wales school students: Prevalence and sociodemographic distribution

    Michael L Booth;Tony Okely;Lyndall McLellan;Philayrath Phongsavan

  • Bodies, Meanings and Movement: A Comparison of the Language of a Physical Education Lesson and a Feldenkrais Movement Class

    Jan Wright

  • Critical Inquiry and Problem Solving in Physical Education : Working with Students in Schools

    Lisette Burrows;Doune Macdonald;Jan Wright

  • Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood

    Jan Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Doune Macdonald
Doune Macdonald University of Queensland
Dawn Penney
Dawn Penney Edith Cowan University
Richard Tinning
Richard Tinning University of Queensland
Christopher Hickey
Christopher Hickey National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Suzanne Fraser
Suzanne Fraser La Trobe University
Anthony D. Okely
Anthony D. Okely University of Wollongong
Jill Blackmore
Jill Blackmore Deakin University
Philip J. Morgan
Philip J. Morgan University of Newcastle Australia
Philayrath Phongsavan
Philayrath Phongsavan University of Sydney
Alan Petersen
Alan Petersen Monash University

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