Cynthia Waters

707 total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 451 citations indexed

About

Cynthia Waters is a scholar working on Education, Automotive Engineering and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cynthia Waters has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 451 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Education, 3 papers in Automotive Engineering and 3 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Cynthia Waters's work include Innovative Teaching Methods (6 papers), Evaluation of Teaching Practices (4 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (3 papers). Cynthia Waters is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Teaching Methods (6 papers), Evaluation of Teaching Practices (4 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (3 papers). Cynthia Waters collaborates with scholars based in United States. Cynthia Waters's co-authors include Prateek Shekhar, Cynthia Finelli, Maura Borrego, Michael J. Prince, Kevin Nguyen, Sneha Tharayil, Matt DeMonbrun, Charles Henderson, Adam Carberry and Stephen Krause and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of STEM Education, European Journal of Engineering Education and International journal of engineering education.

In The Last Decade

Cynthia Waters

13 papers receiving 423 citations

Hit Papers

Strategies to mitigate student resistance to active learning 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2021 50 100 150
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. Strategies to mitigate student resistance to active learning
    2018 165 citations Sneha Tharayil, Maura Borrego et al. International Journal of STEM Education profile →
  2. Instructor strategies to aid implementation of active learning: a systematic literature review
    2021 87 citations Kevin Nguyen, Maura Borrego et al. International Journal of STEM Education profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cynthia Waters United States 8 323 115 71 58 46 13 451
Matt DeMonbrun United States 7 267 0.8× 96 0.8× 55 0.8× 36 0.6× 31 0.7× 12 341
Sudhir Mehta United States 6 238 0.7× 109 0.9× 58 0.8× 29 0.5× 21 0.5× 22 383
Jane S. Vogler United States 8 206 0.6× 48 0.4× 75 1.1× 47 0.8× 27 0.6× 13 292
Christine Schnittka United States 10 247 0.8× 74 0.6× 79 1.1× 49 0.8× 38 0.8× 31 370
Stephanie Cutler United States 10 310 1.0× 228 2.0× 63 0.9× 30 0.5× 81 1.8× 54 500
Oenardi Lawanto United States 10 169 0.5× 70 0.6× 155 2.2× 68 1.2× 24 0.5× 66 354
Nadia Jaramillo Cherrez United States 7 409 1.3× 137 1.2× 80 1.1× 123 2.1× 23 0.5× 17 547
Wen‐Ting Chung United States 8 147 0.5× 80 0.7× 86 1.2× 29 0.5× 23 0.5× 16 324
John Larmer 5 274 0.8× 70 0.6× 74 1.0× 65 1.1× 32 0.7× 9 380
Marisa Exter United States 10 180 0.6× 46 0.4× 72 1.0× 90 1.6× 27 0.6× 50 361

Countries citing papers authored by Cynthia Waters

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cynthia Waters

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cynthia Waters

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cynthia Waters. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cynthia Waters based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cynthia Waters. Cynthia Waters is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Nguyen, Kevin, Maura Borrego, Cynthia Finelli, et al.. (2021). Instructor strategies to aid implementation of active learning: a systematic literature review. International Journal of STEM Education. 8(1). 87 indexed citations breakdown →
2.
Elliott, Amy & Cynthia Waters. (2019). Additive Manufacturing for Designers - a Primer. SAE International eBooks. 2 indexed citations
3.
Yuan, Xiaohong, et al.. (2019). Teaching Cybersecurity Using Guided Inquiry Collaborative Learning. 2. 1–6. 4 indexed citations
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Borrego, Maura, Kevin Nguyen, Matt DeMonbrun, et al.. (2018). Systematic Literature Review of Students’ Affective Responses to Active Learning: Overview of Results. The Physics Video Demonstration Database (Cornell University). 1–7. 12 indexed citations
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Tharayil, Sneha, Maura Borrego, Michael J. Prince, et al.. (2018). Strategies to mitigate student resistance to active learning. International Journal of STEM Education. 5(1). 7–7. 165 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shekhar, Prateek, Michael J. Prince, Cynthia Finelli, Matt DeMonbrun, & Cynthia Waters. (2018). Integrating quantitative and qualitative research methods to examine student resistance to active learning. European Journal of Engineering Education. 44(1-2). 6–18. 40 indexed citations
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Waters, Cynthia. (2018). Formation of Gradient Micro-Porous Titanium-Aluminides Through Elemental Powder Metallurgy. International Journal of Materials Science and Applications. 7(2). 33–33. 2 indexed citations
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Finelli, Cynthia, Kevin Nguyen, Maura Borrego, et al.. (2018). Reducing Student Resistance to Active Learning: Strategies for Instructors. Journal of College Science Teaching. 47(5). 80–91. 25 indexed citations
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Yuan, Xiaohong, et al.. (2017). Enhancing Cybersecurity Education Using POGIL (Abstract Only). 719–719. 3 indexed citations
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Waters, Cynthia, et al.. (2016). Dissolution Sintering Technique to Create Porous Copper with Sodium Chloride Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Solution through Powder Metallurgy. American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 9(1). 155–165. 35 indexed citations
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Shekhar, Prateek, Matt DeMonbrun, Maura Borrego, et al.. (2015). Development of an observation protocol to study undergraduate engineering student resistance to active learning. International journal of engineering education. 31(2). 597–609. 56 indexed citations
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Carberry, Adam, et al.. (2013). “Unmuddying” course content using muddiest point reflections. 937–942. 17 indexed citations

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