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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Psychology D-index 60 Citations 14,666 221 World Ranking 2098 National Ranking 128

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Social psychology
  • Social science

Joseph Baker focuses on Athletes, Applied psychology, Relative age effect, Sport psychology and Demography. The Athletes study combines topics in areas such as Social psychology, Clinical psychology and Child development. His work deals with themes such as Dreyfus model of skill acquisition and Training, which intersect with Social psychology.

His Applied psychology research integrates issues from Test, Creative thinking, Divergent thinking, Coaching and Skill development. He has included themes like Developmental psychology, Age differences and Consistency in his Relative age effect study. His research integrates issues of Selection, Sports medicine, Simulation, Educational attainment and Attendance in his study of Demography.

His most cited work include:

  • Annual age-grouping and athlete development: a meta-analytical review of relative age effects in sport. (389 citations)
  • Sport-Specific Practice and the Development of Expert Decision-Making in Team Ball Sports (386 citations)
  • Practice and play in the development of sport expertise. (330 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary scientific interests are in Athletes, Social psychology, Demography, Applied psychology and Gerontology. His Athletes research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Developmental psychology, Dreyfus model of skill acquisition and Clinical psychology. Joseph Baker works mostly in the field of Social psychology, limiting it down to topics relating to Perception and, in certain cases, Cognitive psychology, Cognition and Task, as a part of the same area of interest.

His Relative age effect research extends to the thematically linked field of Demography. His research in Applied psychology is mostly concerned with Sport psychology. His studies deal with areas such as Mental health and Community health as well as Gerontology.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Athletes (34.72%)
  • Social psychology (17.10%)
  • Demography (15.03%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Athletes (34.72%)
  • Applied psychology (14.25%)
  • Elite (11.14%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Joseph Baker mostly deals with Athletes, Applied psychology, Elite, Developmental psychology and Demography. His study in Athletes is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Public relations, Gerontology, Clinical psychology and Identification. His work on Sport psychology as part of general Applied psychology research is frequently linked to Term, thereby connecting diverse disciplines of science.

Joseph Baker carries out multidisciplinary research, doing studies in Elite and Wheelchair basketball. His Developmental psychology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Competitive sport and Cohort. His Demography research incorporates elements of Elite athletes and Population size.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Talent Identification in Sport: A Systematic Review (92 citations)
  • Compromising Talent: Issues in Identifying and Selecting Talent in Sport (45 citations)
  • "You Can Sit in the Middle or Be One of the Outliers": Older Male Athletes and the Complexities of Social Comparison. (38 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Social psychology
  • Social science

Joseph Baker mainly focuses on Athletes, Applied psychology, Developmental psychology, Demography and Elite. His specific area of interest is Athletes, where he studies Team sport. His primary area of study in Applied psychology is in the field of Sport psychology.

His research in Sport psychology intersects with topics in Coaching, Variety, Foundation and Conceptualization. His Developmental psychology research includes themes of Psychosocial, Birth date, Health promotion, Multitude and Older person. His Demography research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Elite athletes, Population density, Football and Population size.

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Best Publications

Practice and play in the development of sport expertise.

Jean Côté;Joseph Baker;Bruce Abernethy.
(2007)

1006 Citations

Sport-Specific Practice and the Development of Expert Decision-Making in Team Ball Sports

Joseph Baker;Jeane Cote;Bruce Abernethy.
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology (2003)

904 Citations

From play to practice: A developmental framework for the acquisition of expertise in team sports

J. Cote;J. Baker;A.B. Abernethy.
(2003)

678 Citations

Annual age-grouping and athlete development: a meta-analytical review of relative age effects in sport.

Stephen Cobley;Joseph Baker;Nick Wattie;Jim McKenna.
Sports Medicine (2009)

588 Citations

Early Specialization in Youth Sport: A Requirement for Adult Expertise?.

Joseph Baker.
High Ability Studies (2003)

504 Citations

When “where” is more important than “when”: Birthplace and birthdate effects on the achievement of sporting expertise

Jean Côté;Dany J. Macdonald;Joseph Baker;Bruce Abernethy.
Journal of Sports Sciences (2006)

489 Citations

A review of primary and secondary influences on sport expertise

Joseph Baker;Sean Horton.
High Ability Studies (2004)

458 Citations

NURTURING SPORT EXPERTISE: FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELITE ATHLETE

Joseph Baker;Sean Horton;Jennifer Robertson-Wilson;Michael Wall.
Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2003)

432 Citations

Learning from the experts: practice activities of expert decision makers in sport.

Joseph Baker;Jean Côté;Bruce Abernethy.
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (2003)

376 Citations

What do we know about early sport specialization? Not much!

Joseph Baker;Stephen Cobley;Jessica Fraser‐Thomas.
High Ability Studies (2009)

337 Citations

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