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Karen Littleton 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 Karen Littleton sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 204 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Karen Littleton 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 Karen Littleton sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Karen Littleton is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions primarily focus on social sciences, with particular engagement in education, developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, information systems, and language and linguistics.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics in education and technology, addressing innovative teaching methods, teacher education, education technology integration, and the impact of digital media and technology on child development and adolescents. These topics include:

  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Education and Technology Integration
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Digital Games and Media

Notable recent papers from Karen Littleton include:

  • "Dialogic spaces in divergent and convergent collaborative learning tasks" (2021), published in Information and Learning Sciences
  • "Combining sociocultural discourse analysis and multimodal analysis to explore teachers' and pupils' meaning making" (2021), published in Learning Culture and Social Interaction
  • "CHALLENGES IN PERSONALISATION: SUPPORTING MOBILE SCIENCE INQUIRY LEARNING ACROSS CONTEXTS" (2022), published in Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning
  • "The Distance Between the "Self" and the "Other" in Children's Digital Books" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Biografie w rozmowie. Narracyjno-dyskursywne podejście badawcze" (2022), published in Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

Frequent co-authors with whom Karen Littleton has collaborated include:

  • Alison Twiner
  • Laura Palmgren-Neuvonen
  • Noora Hirvonen
  • Denise Whitelock
  • Caroline Coffin

The venues where Karen Littleton's work has been published most frequently mirror the diversity of their research interests:

  • Information and Learning Sciences
  • Learning Culture and Social Interaction
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning
  • Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

Best Publications

  • Dialogue and the Development of Children's Thinking: A Sociocultural Approach

    Neil Mercer;Karen Littleton

  • Interthinking: Putting talk to work

    Karen Littleton;Neil Mercer

  • Biographies in talk: a narrative-discursive research approach

    Stephanie Taylor;Karen Littleton

  • Learning with computers: analysing productive interaction

    Karen Littleton;Paul Light

  • A "Learning Revolution"? Investigating Pedagogic Practice around Interactive Whiteboards in British Primary Classrooms.

    Julia Gillen;Judith Kleine Staarman;Karen Littleton;Neil Mercer

  • Educational dialogues : understanding and promoting productive interaction

    Karen Littleton;Christine Howe

  • Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work

    Stephanie Taylor;Karen Littleton

  • Epistemology, Assessment, Pedagogy: Where Learning Meets Analytics in the Middle Space

    Simon Knight;Simon Buckingham Shum;Karen Littleton

  • Collaborative Creativity: Contemporary Perspectives

    Dorothy Miell;Karen Littleton

  • Collaboration, creativity and the co-construction of oral and written texts

    S. M. Rojas-Drummond;C. D. Albarrán;Karen Littleton

  • Exploring meaning through interviews with children

    Helen Westcott;Karen Littleton

  • Teachers' Professional Identity Negotiations in Two Different Work Organisations.

    Katja Vähäsantanen;Päivi Hökkä;Anneli Eteläpelto;Helena Rasku-Puttonen

  • UNDERSTANDING COMPUTER GAME CULTURES A situated approach

    Simeon J. Yates;Karen Littleton

  • Social processes in children's learning

    Paul Light;Karen Littleton

  • The discourse of collaborative creative writing: Peer collaboration as a context for mutual inspiration

    Eva Vass;Karen Littleton;Dorothy Miell;Ann Jones

  • Art work or money: Conflicts in the construction of a creative identity

    Stephanie Taylor;Karen Littleton

  • Methods for Studying the Processes of Interaction and Collaborative Activity in Computer-Based Educational Activities

    Neil Mercer;Karen Littleton;Rupert Wegerif

  • Exploring Vygotskian perspectives in education: the cognitive value of peer interaction

    Dorothy Faulkner;Karen Littleton;Martin Woodhead

  • Using the interactive whiteboard to resource continuity and support multimodal teaching in a primary science classroom.

    Julia Gillen;Karen Littleton;Alison Twiner;Judith Kleine Staarman

  • Personal Inquiry: Orchestrating Science Investigations within and beyond the Classroom

    Mike Sharples;Eileen Scanlon;Shaaron E. Ainsworth;Stamatina Anastopoulou

  • Rethinking Collaborative Learning

    Richard Joiner;Karen Littleton;Dorothy Faulkner;Dorothy Miell

  • What is missing in the metaphor of scaffolding

    Dorothy Faulkner;Karen Littleton;Martin Woodhead

  • International Handbook of Psychology in Education

    Karen Littleton;Clare Patricia Wood;Judith Kleine Staarman

Frequent Co-Authors

Eileen Scanlon
Eileen Scanlon The Open University
Neil Mercer
Neil Mercer University of Cambridge
Clare Wood
Clare Wood Nottingham Trent University
Gráinne Conole
Gráinne Conole University of Leicester
David Messer
David Messer The Open University
Martin Woodhead
Martin Woodhead The Open University
Rupert Wegerif
Rupert Wegerif University of Cambridge
Mike Sharples
Mike Sharples The Open University
Natalia Kucirkova
Natalia Kucirkova University of Stavanger
Simon Buckingham Shum
Simon Buckingham Shum University of Technology Sydney

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