Alexandra Aster

956 total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 501 citations indexed

About

Alexandra Aster is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Family Practice and Health Informatics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandra Aster has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 501 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 4 papers in Family Practice and 4 papers in Health Informatics. Recurrent topics in Alexandra Aster's work include Educational Games and Gamification (4 papers), Innovations in Medical Education (4 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (4 papers). Alexandra Aster is often cited by papers focused on Educational Games and Gamification (4 papers), Innovations in Medical Education (4 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (4 papers). Alexandra Aster collaborates with scholars based in Germany and Norway. Alexandra Aster's co-authors include Matthias Carl Laupichler, Tobias Raupach, Caroline E Morton, Simone Scheithauer and Nikolai Schuelper and has published in prestigious journals such as BMC Medical Education, Frontiers in Medicine and Advances in Health Sciences Education.

In The Last Decade

Alexandra Aster

13 papers receiving 466 citations

Hit Papers

Artificial intelligence literacy in higher and adult educ... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2023 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Artificial intelligence literacy in higher and adult education: A scoping literature review
    2022 244 citations Matthias Carl Laupichler, Alexandra Aster et al. Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence profile →
  2. Development of the “Scale for the assessment of non-experts’ AI literacy” – An exploratory factor analysis
    2023 90 citations Matthias Carl Laupichler, Alexandra Aster et al. Computers in Human Behavior Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexandra Aster Germany 8 239 159 155 94 93 14 501
Matthias Carl Laupichler Germany 11 284 1.2× 226 1.4× 191 1.2× 116 1.2× 110 1.2× 16 631
Belle Dang Finland 7 239 1.0× 134 0.8× 191 1.2× 80 0.9× 124 1.3× 19 579
Yvonne Hong New Zealand 6 236 1.0× 133 0.8× 188 1.2× 80 0.9× 115 1.2× 14 579
Bich‐Phuong Thi Nguyen Vietnam 6 180 0.8× 103 0.6× 142 0.9× 67 0.7× 96 1.0× 12 470
Yueqiao Jin Australia 7 161 0.7× 118 0.7× 195 1.3× 53 0.6× 56 0.6× 15 472
Mehmet Haldun Kaya Türkiye 4 181 0.8× 193 1.2× 198 1.3× 45 0.5× 63 0.7× 9 471
Ha Ngan Ngo New Zealand 3 178 0.7× 99 0.6× 138 0.9× 66 0.7× 93 1.0× 4 418
Ken Holstein United States 3 182 0.8× 114 0.7× 154 1.0× 133 1.4× 80 0.9× 4 460
Maya Bialik 2 236 1.0× 74 0.5× 156 1.0× 43 0.5× 104 1.1× 3 474
Charles Fadel 3 246 1.0× 75 0.5× 158 1.0× 45 0.5× 115 1.2× 4 545

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexandra Aster

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandra Aster

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All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Aster, Alexandra, et al.. (2025). Study Habits in Medical Education: Examining How German Medical Students Study Using a Cross-sectional Mixed-Methods Survey. Medical Science Educator. 35(3). 1441–1449. 1 indexed citations
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Aster, Alexandra, et al.. (2025). Theoretical background of the game design element “chatbot” in serious games for medical education. Advances in Simulation. 10(1). 10–10. 2 indexed citations
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Laupichler, Matthias Carl, et al.. (2025). Influence of Active Production Versus Passive Consumption of Podcasts on Medical Students' Learning Outcomes. The Clinical Teacher. 22(1). e70029–e70029. 1 indexed citations
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Aster, Alexandra, et al.. (2025). ChatGPT as a Virtual Patient: Written Empathic Expressions During Medical History Taking. Medical Science Educator. 35(3). 1513–1522. 8 indexed citations
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Aster, Alexandra, et al.. (2025). Impact of providing a customized guideline on virtual medical history taking in two serious games for medical education. Medical Education Online. 30(1). 2527175–2527175.
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Aster, Alexandra, et al.. (2024). ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models in Medical Education — Scoping Literature Review. Medical Science Educator. 35(1). 555–567. 12 indexed citations
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Aster, Alexandra, et al.. (2024). Development and evaluation of an emergency department serious game for undergraduate medical students. BMC Medical Education. 24(1). 1061–1061. 7 indexed citations
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Laupichler, Matthias Carl, et al.. (2024). Medical students’ AI literacy and attitudes towards AI: a cross-sectional two-center study using pre-validated assessment instruments. BMC Medical Education. 24(1). 401–401. 42 indexed citations
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Laupichler, Matthias Carl, Alexandra Aster, & Tobias Raupach. (2023). Delphi study for the development and preliminary validation of an item set for the assessment of non-experts' AI literacy. Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence. 4. 100126–100126. 59 indexed citations
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Laupichler, Matthias Carl, et al.. (2023). Evaluating AI Courses: A Valid and Reliable Instrument for Assessing Artificial-Intelligence Learning through Comparative Self-Assessment. Education Sciences. 13(10). 978–978. 20 indexed citations
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Laupichler, Matthias Carl, et al.. (2023). Development of the “Scale for the assessment of non-experts’ AI literacy” – An exploratory factor analysis. Computers in Human Behavior Reports. 12. 100338–100338. 90 indexed citations breakdown →
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Laupichler, Matthias Carl, et al.. (2022). Artificial intelligence literacy in higher and adult education: A scoping literature review. Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence. 3. 100101–100101. 244 indexed citations breakdown →
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