David Walker

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

David Walker is a scholar working on Education, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Walker has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Education, 14 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in David Walker's work include Reflective Practices in Education (7 papers), Australian History and Society (7 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 papers). David Walker is often cited by papers focused on Reflective Practices in Education (7 papers), Australian History and Society (7 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 papers). David Walker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. David Walker's co-authors include David Boud, Rosemary J. Keogh, E. H. Willis, H. Godwin, Gary Thomas, Julie Webb, Douglas L. Young, Susan Smith, Stephen Harris and Keith J. Topping and has published in prestigious journals such as New Phytologist, Optics Letters and American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

In The Last Decade

David Walker

80 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Promoting reflection in professional courses: The challenge of context

1998 588 citations David Boud, David Walker profile →
Promoting reflection in learning: A model

2013 231 citations David Boud, Rosemary J. Keogh et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Walker United Kingdom	18	999	221	150	148	125	91	1.9k
Wales United Kingdom	22	493 0.5×	97 0.4×	58 0.4×	159 1.1×	189 1.5×	119	1.9k
Peter Knight United Kingdom	29	1.7k 1.7×	147 0.7×	186 1.2×	409 2.8×	101 0.8×	108	3.3k
Gary W. Peterson United States	33	1.2k 1.2×	163 0.7×	189 1.3×	661 4.5×	272 2.2×	149	3.8k
David B. Knight United States	22	833 0.8×	86 0.4×	82 0.5×	251 1.7×	161 1.3×	223	2.3k
Richard Walker United States	24	862 0.9×	49 0.2×	310 2.1×	315 2.1×	63 0.5×	93	2.0k
Rachel Spronken‐Smith New Zealand	26	836 0.8×	141 0.6×	134 0.9×	136 0.9×	225 1.8×	72	2.6k
David Stewart United Kingdom	22	455 0.5×	135 0.6×	152 1.0×	292 2.0×	251 2.0×	75	2.4k
Tom O’Donoghue Australia	20	821 0.8×	30 0.1×	109 0.7×	303 2.0×	61 0.5×	156	1.5k
Ian Stronach United Kingdom	22	814 0.8×	33 0.1×	85 0.6×	476 3.2×	119 1.0×	81	1.7k
Sandra McNally United Kingdom	27	1.1k 1.1×	32 0.1×	102 0.7×	578 3.9×	126 1.0×	110	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by David Walker

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Walker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Walker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Walker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Walker 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 David Walker. David Walker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Walker, David. (2025). Debate: Innovation in governance— why are we so profligate?. Public Money & Management. 46(3). 248–249.

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Smith, Susan & David Walker. (2024). The instrumental academic: Collegiality and the value of academic citizenship in contemporary higher education. Higher Education Quarterly. 78(4). 3 indexed citations

3.

Walker, David. (2018). Debate: Fulton at 50—Whitehall still doesn't get it. Public Money & Management. 38(6). 461–462. 1 indexed citations

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Walker, David. (2016). Challenging the culture of caring of 100 years: the evidence behind single-room provision in hospitals. PubMed. 3(1). 30–32. 6 indexed citations

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Walker, David. (2015). Christian discipleship and consecrated life. 92(2). 131.

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Walker, David, et al.. (2014). The Effect of Instructional Methodology on Preservice Educators' Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge. 20(3). 13–25. 1 indexed citations

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Boud, David, Rosemary J. Keogh, & David Walker. (2013). The Role of Reflection in a Co-operative Inquiry. 128–138. 2 indexed citations

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Sloan, David & David Walker. (2008). Evaluating the accessibility to disabled people of e-assessment tools. Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University). 3 indexed citations

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Wilson, Cynthia, et al.. (2006). The Need to Reestablish Schools as Dynamic Positive Human Energy Systems that are Non-Linear and Self-Organizing: The Learning Partnership Tree. The International Journal of Learning Annual Review. 12(10). 255–268. 4 indexed citations

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Walker, David. (2006). General Cariappa encounters ‘White Australia’: Australia, India and the commonwealth in the 1950s. The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History. 34(3). 389–406. 4 indexed citations

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Walker, David, et al.. (2005). Lifelong Learning: The Challenges for Educators, Governments, Firms and Individuals. 5. 1 indexed citations

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Toynbee, Polly & David Walker. (2005). Better or Worse? Has Labour Delivered?. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 19 indexed citations

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Caldwell, W. A., M. Kunz, Richard Celestre, et al.. (2004). Laser Heated Diamond Anvil Cell at the Advanced Light Source. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004.

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Walker, David. (2002). Landscape complexity and vegetation dynamics in Riding Mountain National Park, Canada. Mspace (University of Manitoba). 3 indexed citations

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Walker, David, et al.. (2001). Productivity Growth and its Components in Chinese Agriculture after Reforms. Review of Development Economics. 5(3). 375–391. 30 indexed citations

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Walker, David. (1990). The Evaluation of SATIS.. School science review. 72(259). 31–39. 2 indexed citations

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Walker, David. (1986). Universities in Britain Agree to Tenure Changes to Get Bigger Grants.. The chronicle of higher education. 33(13). 1 indexed citations

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Walker, David & Douglas L. Young. (1986). The Effect of Technical Progress on Erosion Damage and Economic Incentives for Soil Conservation. Land Economics. 62(1). 83–83. 41 indexed citations

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Walker, David. (1978). American Indian Policy in Crisis: Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865-1900. The Annals of Iowa. 44(5). 402–403.

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Godwin, H., David Walker, & E. H. Willis. (1957). Radiocarbon dating and post-glacial vegetational history: Scaleby Moss. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 147(928). 352–366. 95 indexed citations

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