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D-Index
54
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12121
World Ranking
2153
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1039

Peter Smagorinsky 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 Peter Smagorinsky sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 190 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Smagorinsky 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 Peter Smagorinsky sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% 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

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 1999 - Early Career Award, American Educational Research Association

Overview

Peter Smagorinsky is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a significant focus on education and related subfields including cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, as well as language and linguistics.

Their work covers several main topics, such as education and critical thinking development, neuroscience, education and cognitive function, teacher education and leadership studies, educator training and historical pedagogy, reading and literacy development, and early childhood education and development, as well as EFL/ESL teaching and learning.

Peter Smagorinsky has published in a variety of venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ought The Journal of Autistic Culture
  • Reading Research Quarterly
  • International Journal of Multicultural Education
  • Language and Sociocultural Theory
  • English Teaching Practice & Critique

Recent papers by Peter Smagorinsky include:

  • The Creation of National Cultures through Education, the Inequities They Produce, and the Challenges for Multicultural Education (2022, International Journal of Multicultural Education)
  • Neurodiversity and the Deep Structure of Schools (2020, Ought The Journal of Autistic Culture)
  • Empathic Framing during Concept Development in Book Club Discussions in a Service-Learning Teacher Education Class (2022, Language and Sociocultural Theory)
  • Emotions, empathy and social justice education (2024, English Teaching Practice & Critique)

Other notable publications where Smagorinsky is not the primary author but which relate to their research interests include "The Trouble With Binaries: A Perspective on the Science of Reading" (2021, Reading Research Quarterly).

Peter Smagorinsky co-authors frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Allison Skerrett
  • Stacia L. Long
  • Robert Rozema
  • Pernille Fraser
  • James F. McGrath

In addition to articles, Smagorinsky has authored books published by Bloomsbury Academic eBooks and Corwin eBooks. These include "Learning to Teach English and the Language Arts" (2020) and "Teaching Literacy in Troubled Times: Teaching Literacy in Troubled" (2023).

Throughout their career, Peter Smagorinsky has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2012 and the Early Career Award from the same association in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Appropriating Tools for Teaching English: A Theoretical Framework for Research on Learning to Teach

    Pamela L. Grossman;Peter Smagorinsky;Sheila Valencia

  • THE METHOD SECTION AS CONCEPTUAL EPICENTER IN CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH REPORTS

    Peter Smagorinsky

  • Tensions in Learning to Teach Accommodation and the Development of a Teaching Identity

    Peter Smagorinsky;Leslie Susan Cook;Cynthia Moore;Alecia Y. Jackson

  • If Meaning Is Constructed, What Is It Made From? Toward a Cultural Theory of Reading

    Peter Smagorinsky

  • Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research: Constructing Meaning through Collaborative Inquiry

    Carol D. Lee;Peter Smagorinsky;Sarah Warshauer Freedman;Elizabeth Radin Simons

  • Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research: Constructing Meaning through Collaborative Inquiry. Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives.

    Carol D. Lee;Peter Smagorinsky

  • The Twisting Path of Concept Development in Learning to Teach

    Peter Smagorinsky;Leslie Susan Cook;Tara Star Johnson

  • The Social Construction of Data: Methodological Problems of Investigating Learning in the Zone of Proximal Development

    Peter Smagorinsky

  • Acquiescence, Accommodation, and Resistance in Learning to Teach within a Prescribed Curriculum

    Peter Smagorinsky;Andrea Lakly;Tara Star Johnson

  • How English Teachers Get Taught: Methods of Teaching the Methods Class

    Peter Smagorinsky;Melissa E. Whiting

  • Thinking and speech and protocol analysis

    Peter Smagorinsky

  • Speaking about writing : reflections on research methodology

    Peter Smagorinsky

  • The Reliability and Validity of Protocol Analysis

    Peter Smagorinsky

  • Teaching English by Design: How to Create and Carry Out Instructional Units

    Peter Smagorinsky

  • Learning to Teach the Five-Paragraph Theme.

    Tara Star Johnson;Peter Smagorinsky;Leigh Thompson;Pamela G. Fry

  • Vygotsky's Stage Theory 1 : The Psychology of Art and the Actor under the Direction of Perezhivanie

    Peter Smagorinsky

  • Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development: Learning Teaching

    Viv Ellis;Anne Edwards;Peter Smagorinsky

  • Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research.

    Leila Christenbury;Randy Bomer;Peter Smagorinsky

  • Reading as Mediated and Mediating Action: Composing Meaning for Literature through Multimedia Interpretive Texts.

    Peter Smagorinsky;Cindy O'Donnell-Allen

  • Vygotsky and the Social Dynamics of Classrooms.

    Peter Smagorinsky

  • Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research

    C.D. Lee;P. Smagorinsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Edwards
Anne Edwards University of Oxford
Pam Grossman
Pam Grossman University of Pennsylvania
Susan B. Neuman
Susan B. Neuman New York University

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