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Marilyn Cochran-Smith

Marilyn Cochran-Smith

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
78
Citations
48599
World Ranking
421
National Ranking
200

Marilyn Cochran-Smith 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 Marilyn Cochran-Smith sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 237 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Marilyn Cochran-Smith 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 Marilyn Cochran-Smith sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Marilyn Cochran-Smith is affiliated with Boston College in the United States, where their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a strong emphasis on education. The majority of their publications relate to education, particularly in areas such as teacher education, leadership studies, and educator training. Their work also engages with aspects of sociology, political science, information systems, and management science.

Key research topics include teacher education and leadership studies, educator training and historical pedagogy, global education and multiculturalism, educational assessment and improvement, evaluation and performance assessment, collaborative teaching and inclusion, and global educational policies and reforms.

Marilyn Cochran-Smith has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent venues for their work are:

  • Journal of Teacher Education
  • Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education
  • The New Educator
  • Education Policy Analysis Archives
  • Oxford Review of Education

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Rethinking teacher education: The trouble with accountability," 2021, Oxford Review of Education
  • "Strong Equity: Repositioning Teacher Education for Social Change," 2022, Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education
  • "Exploring teacher quality: international perspectives," 2021, European Journal of Teacher Education
  • "Learning to Teach for Equity, Social Justice, and/or Diversity: Do the Measures Measure Up?" 2022, Journal of Teacher Education
  • "Agents, Agency, and Teacher Education," 2022, Journal of Teacher Education

Collaboration with other researchers is a significant aspect of Cochran-Smith's work. Frequent co-authors include Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Emilie Mitescu Reagan, Reid Jewett Smith, Wen-Chia Chang, and Cheryl J. Craig.

Marilyn Cochran-Smith was recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Chapter 8: Relationships of Knowledge and Practice: Teacher Learning in Communities:

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith;Susan L. Lytle

  • Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith;Susan L. Lytle

  • Inquiry as Stance: Practitioner Research for the Next Generation

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith;Susan L. Lytle

  • Relationships of Knowledge and Practice: Teacher Learning in Communities

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith;Susan L. Lytle

  • Studying Teacher Education : The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith;Kenneth M. Zeichner

  • The Teacher Research Movement: A Decade Later

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith;Susan L. Lytle

  • Walking the Road: Race, Diversity, and Social Justice in Teacher Education

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith

  • Research on Teaching and Teacher Research: The Issues That Divide

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith;Susan L. Lytle

  • Learning to Teach against the Grain

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith

  • Learning and unlearning: the education of teacher educators

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith

  • Color Blindness and Basket Making Are Not the Answers: Confronting the Dilemmas of Race, Culture, and Language Diversity in Teacher Education

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith

  • The New Teacher Education: For Better or for Worse?

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith

  • Sticks, Stones, and Ideology: The Discourse of Reform in Teacher Education

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith;Mary Kim Fries

  • Teacher capacity and social justice in teacher education

    Carl A. Grant;Vonzell Agosto

  • Good and Just Teaching: The Case for Social Justice in Teacher Education

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith;Karen Shakman;Cindy Jong;Dianna G. Terrell

  • Critiquing Teacher Preparation Research: An Overview of the Field, Part II

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith;Ana Maria Villegas;Linda Abrams;Laura Chavez-Moreno

  • The making of a reader

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith

  • Blind Vision: Unlearning Racism in Teacher Education

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith

  • Teaching and Teacher Education: Absence and Presence in AERA Presidential Addresses

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith

  • Studying Teacher Education What We Know and Need to Know

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith

  • The New Teacher Education: For Better or For Worse? 2005 Presidential Address.

    Marilyn Cochran-Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth M. Zeichner
Kenneth M. Zeichner University of Washington
Maureen E. Kenny
Maureen E. Kenny Boston College
Michael A. Smyer
Michael A. Smyer Bucknell University
D. Jean Clandinin
D. Jean Clandinin University of Alberta
Hilda Borko
Hilda Borko Stanford University
Sandra Waddock
Sandra Waddock Boston College

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