Barbara E. Lovitts

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Barbara E. Lovitts is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Education and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara E. Lovitts has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in General Health Professions, 4 papers in Education and 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Barbara E. Lovitts's work include Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions (5 papers), Health and Medical Research Impacts (3 papers) and Higher Education and Employability (2 papers). Barbara E. Lovitts is often cited by papers focused on Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions (5 papers), Health and Medical Research Impacts (3 papers) and Higher Education and Employability (2 papers). Barbara E. Lovitts collaborates with scholars based in United States. Barbara E. Lovitts's co-authors include Cary Nelson, William Epstein, Richard Lesh, Jennifer Rodriguez and David M. Lowenstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance and The Journal of Higher Education.

In The Last Decade

Barbara E. Lovitts

17 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Leaving the Ivory Tower: The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study

2003 703 citations Barbara E. Lovitts et al. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barbara E. Lovitts United States	11	1.1k	913	340	299	249	18	1.7k
Chris M. Golde United States	14	1.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.5×	567 1.7×	397 1.3×	334 1.3×	27	2.5k
Michelle Maher United States	21	492 0.5×	666 0.7×	252 0.7×	210 0.7×	130 0.5×	62	1.4k
Mariane Frenay Belgium	22	336 0.3×	798 0.9×	334 1.0×	145 0.5×	211 0.8×	111	1.4k
Erika Löfstrôm Finland	23	331 0.3×	807 0.9×	164 0.5×	219 0.7×	106 0.4×	92	1.5k
Montserrat Castelló Spain	24	495 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	118 0.3×	113 0.4×	165 0.7×	140	1.7k
Matthew R. Wawrzynski United States	13	252 0.2×	1.1k 1.3×	332 1.0×	101 0.3×	102 0.4×	27	1.5k
Alexander C. McCormick United States	19	221 0.2×	959 1.1×	210 0.6×	86 0.3×	123 0.5×	43	1.3k
Cheryl Amundsen Canada	17	430 0.4×	852 0.9×	105 0.3×	157 0.5×	79 0.3×	33	1.2k
Carol A. Mullen United States	22	208 0.2×	1.2k 1.3×	551 1.6×	54 0.2×	186 0.7×	148	1.8k
Margaret Kiley Australia	17	740 0.7×	723 0.8×	72 0.2×	317 1.1×	57 0.2×	56	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara E. Lovitts

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All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

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Lovitts, Barbara E.. (2023). Making the Implicit Explicit.

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Lovitts, Barbara E., et al.. (2020). Documenting The Research Base Underlying Educational Practices. Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education). 11.496.1–11.496.29. 1 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E., et al.. (2016). Leveraging transmedia content to reach and support underserved children. Journal of Children and Media. 10(2). 267–275. 7 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E.. (2008). The Transition to Independent Research: Who Makes It, Who Doesn't, and Why. The Journal of Higher Education. 79(3). 296–325. 99 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E.. (2008). The Transition to Independent Research: Who Makes It, Who Doesn't, and Why. The Journal of Higher Education. 79(3). 296–325. 125 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E., et al.. (2008). Developing Quality Dissertations in the Humanities: A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E.. (2007). Making the implicit explicit : creating performance expectations for the dissertation. 101 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E., et al.. (2006). An Analysis of the Engineering Education Research Base on Interventions. 17. 15–21. 1 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E.. (2005). How to Grade a Dissertation. Academe. 91(6). 18–18. 23 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E.. (2005). Being a good course‐taker is not enough: a theoretical perspective on the transition to independent research. Studies in Higher Education. 30(2). 137–154. 263 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E., et al.. (2003). Leaving the Ivory Tower: The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 32(2). 247–247. 703 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lovitts, Barbara E.. (2002). Leaving the Ivory Tower. 44 indexed citations

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Lesh, Richard & Barbara E. Lovitts. (2000). Research Agendas: Identifying Priority Problems and Developing Useful Theoretical Perspectives. 5 indexed citations

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Lesh, Richard, et al.. (2000). Purposes and Assumptions of This Book. 8 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E. & Cary Nelson. (2000). The Hidden Crisis in Graduate Education: Attrition from Ph.D. Programs. Academe. 86(6). 44–44. 225 indexed citations

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Lovitts, Barbara E.. (1996). Who Is Responsible for Graduate Student Attrition--The Individual or the Institution? Toward an Explanation of the High and Persistent Rate of Attrition.. 37 indexed citations

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Epstein, William & Barbara E. Lovitts. (1985). Automatic and attentional components in perception of shape-at-a-slant.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 11(3). 355–366. 20 indexed citations

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Epstein, William & Barbara E. Lovitts. (1985). Automatic and attentional components in perception of shape-at-a-slant.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 11(3). 355–366. 23 indexed citations

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