Edna Tan

4.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
53 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Edna Tan is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Edna Tan has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Education, 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Edna Tan's work include Diverse Educational Innovations Studies (11 papers), Innovative Education and Learning Practices (10 papers) and Science Education and Pedagogy (9 papers). Edna Tan is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Educational Innovations Studies (11 papers), Innovative Education and Learning Practices (10 papers) and Science Education and Pedagogy (9 papers). Edna Tan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Edna Tan's co-authors include Angela Calabrese Barton, Hosun Kang, Tara O’Neill, Ann Rivet, Day Greenberg, Caitlin I. Brecklin, Erin E. Turner, Sandra D. Simpkins, Isobel R. Contento and Pamela Koch and has published in prestigious journals such as American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher and Journal of Research in Science Teaching.

In The Last Decade

Edna Tan

51 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

We Be Burnin'!Agency, Identity, and Science Learning

2010 385 citations Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan profile →
Funds of knowledge and discourses and hybrid space

2008 329 citations Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan Journal of Research in Science Teaching profile →
Crafting a Future in Science

2012 301 citations Angela Calabrese Barton, Hosun Kang et al. American Educational Research Journal profile →
Beyond Equity as Inclusion: A Framework of “Rightful Presence” for Guiding Justice-Oriented Studies in Teaching and Learning

2020 166 citations Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan profile →
A Longitudinal Study of Equity-Oriented STEM-Rich Making Among Youth From Historically Marginalized Communities

2018 141 citations Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan American Educational Research Journal profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Edna Tan United States	20	1.8k	819	696	530	343	53	2.8k
Billy Wong United Kingdom	24	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	669 1.0×	556 1.0×	193 0.6×	52	3.0k
Heidi B. Carlone United States	17	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 1.9×	808 1.2×	455 0.9×	142 0.4×	45	3.3k
Na’ilah Suad Nasir United States	28	2.3k 1.3×	408 0.5×	549 0.8×	1.0k 2.0×	213 0.6×	55	3.1k
Jennifer DeWitt United Kingdom	29	2.4k 1.4×	1.7k 2.1×	1.1k 1.5×	781 1.5×	182 0.5×	63	4.3k
Philip Bell United States	13	1.3k 0.7×	181 0.2×	1.0k 1.5×	292 0.6×	214 0.6×	20	2.3k
Adam V. Maltese United States	20	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	656 0.9×	181 0.3×	302 0.9×	74	3.0k
Léonie J. Rennie Australia	35	2.3k 1.3×	298 0.4×	879 1.3×	710 1.3×	89 0.3×	124	3.6k
Zahra Hazari United States	31	2.2k 1.3×	2.3k 2.8×	729 1.0×	330 0.6×	351 1.0×	90	4.1k
Nancy W. Brickhouse United States	19	2.0k 1.1×	455 0.6×	1.0k 1.5×	267 0.5×	61 0.2×	37	2.4k
Lucy Avraamidou Netherlands	26	1.2k 0.7×	254 0.3×	561 0.8×	388 0.7×	103 0.3×	94	1.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edna Tan

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Duncan, Ravit Golan, et al.. (2025). “That's Just Gonna Make Them Upset”: Youth Authoring Emerging Epistemic Ideals Through Rightful Presence. Science Education. 110(1). 33–52. 3 indexed citations

Tan, Edna, et al.. (2024). I'm not giving up on you: Exploring the roles of politicized trust and critical agency in the Scratch coding trajectory of two Black boys. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 62(4). 1073–1102. 1 indexed citations

Duncan, Ravit Golan, et al.. (2023). Designing Science Curricula That Disrupt Disciplinary Boundaries Towards Sociopolitical Change: A Middle School Life Science Unit. Proceedings.. 1138–1141. 1 indexed citations

Duncan, Ravit Golan, et al.. (2023). De/settling Powered Differentials and Disciplinary Practices Through Rightful Presence: Examining How Power, Emotions, and Resistance Shaped Emerging Epistemic Ideals in Middle School Science. Proceedings.. 274–281.

Heredia, Sara C. & Edna Tan. (2021). Teaching & learning in makerspaces: equipping teachers to become justice-oriented maker-educators. The Journal of Educational Research. 114(2). 171–182. 10 indexed citations

Barton, Angela Calabrese, et al.. (2020). Co-Designing for Rightful Presence in Informal Science Learning Environments. 6(2). 285–318. 8 indexed citations

Barton, Angela Calabrese, et al.. (2020). Teacher’s Toolkit: Community Ethnography. Science Scope. 43(7). 56–64. 1 indexed citations

Barton, Angela Calabrese & Edna Tan. (2019). Twinning iterative design with community cultural wealth. 168–171. 2 indexed citations

Barton, Angela Calabrese & Edna Tan. (2018). A Longitudinal Study of Equity-Oriented STEM-Rich Making Among Youth From Historically Marginalized Communities. American Educational Research Journal. 55(4). 761–800. 141 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tan, Edna & Angela Calabrese Barton. (2018). Towards Critical Justice: Exploring Intersectionality in Community-based STEM-rich Making with Youth from Non-dominant Communities. Equity & Excellence in Education. 51(1). 48–61. 40 indexed citations

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Barton, Angela Calabrese, et al.. (2016). Mobilities of Criticality: Space-Making, Identity and Agency in a Youth-Centered Makerspace.. International Conference of Learning Sciences. 290–297. 7 indexed citations

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Tan, Edna & Angela Calabrese Barton. (2016). Hacking a Path In and Through STEM: Unpacking the STEM Identity Work of Historically Underrepresented Youth in STEM.. International Conference of Learning Sciences. 6 indexed citations

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Tan, Edna. (2016). Who's Asking? Native Science, Western Science and Science Education, by Douglas. L.Medin, & MeganBang. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2014. 304 pp. ISBN 9780262026628.. Science Education. 100(4). 779–781. 2 indexed citations

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Tan, Edna, Angela Calabrese Barton, Hosun Kang, & Tara O’Neill. (2013). Desiring a career in STEM‐related fields: How middle school girls articulate and negotiate identities‐in‐practice in science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 50(10). 1143–1179. 191 indexed citations

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Barton, Angela Calabrese, et al.. (2013). Youth As Community Science Experts in Green Energy Technology.. 8 indexed citations

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Tan, Edna. (2013). Just like my nanny: troubling teacher’s social identities in the classroom. Cultural Studies of Science Education. 8(2). 361–365. 2 indexed citations

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Tan, Edna & Angela Calabrese Barton. (2010). Transforming Science Learning and Student Participation in Sixth Grade Science: A Case Study of a Low-Income, Urban, Racial Minority Classroom. Equity & Excellence in Education. 43(1). 38–55. 56 indexed citations

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Barton, Angela Calabrese & Edna Tan. (2010). “It Changed Our Lives”: Activism, Science, and Greening the Community. Canadian Journal of Science Mathematics and Technology Education. 10(3). 207–222. 31 indexed citations

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Tan, Edna. (2009). Swimming against the tide: African American girls and science education. Science Education. 94(1). 198–200. 14 indexed citations

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Barton, Angela Calabrese & Edna Tan. (2008). Funds of knowledge and discourses and hybrid space. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 46(1). 50–73. 329 indexed citations breakdown →

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