Francesca Ferrara

866 total citations
36 papers, 493 citations indexed

About

Francesca Ferrara is a scholar working on Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Ferrara has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 493 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Education, 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 5 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Francesca Ferrara's work include Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (11 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (5 papers) and Education and Technology Integration (5 papers). Francesca Ferrara is often cited by papers focused on Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (11 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (5 papers) and Education and Technology Integration (5 papers). Francesca Ferrara collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Canada. Francesca Ferrara's co-authors include Ricardo Nemirovsky, Ornella Robutti, Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair, Giulia Ferrari, Ferdinando Arzarello, Deborah Moore‐Russo, Laurie D. Edwards, Oi‐Lam Ng and David Pratt and has published in prestigious journals such as Behavior Research Methods, Cognition and Instruction and Educational Studies in Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Ferrara

32 papers receiving 449 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Francesca Ferrara Italy 14 276 162 103 99 55 36 493
Cristina Sabena Italy 14 445 1.6× 223 1.4× 167 1.6× 132 1.3× 50 0.9× 58 677
Erin Ottmar United States 14 281 1.0× 250 1.5× 102 1.0× 161 1.6× 68 1.2× 49 572
Meng-Lung Lai Taiwan 7 197 0.7× 129 0.8× 159 1.5× 125 1.3× 23 0.4× 12 431
Katherine L. McEldoon United States 8 414 1.5× 315 1.9× 107 1.0× 223 2.3× 35 0.6× 12 633
Cathy Newman Thomas United States 14 314 1.1× 204 1.3× 64 0.6× 30 0.3× 30 0.5× 44 549
Lennart Schalk Switzerland 12 277 1.0× 329 2.0× 206 2.0× 58 0.6× 41 0.7× 30 578
Adam K. Dubé Canada 16 335 1.2× 181 1.1× 64 0.6× 235 2.4× 21 0.4× 42 546
Marlit Annalena Lindner Germany 19 350 1.3× 266 1.6× 297 2.9× 42 0.4× 77 1.4× 42 752
Arla Westenskow United States 14 407 1.5× 178 1.1× 48 0.5× 169 1.7× 25 0.5× 37 537
Laura J. Massa United States 4 155 0.6× 240 1.5× 204 2.0× 20 0.2× 57 1.0× 5 475

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesca Ferrara

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ferrara, Francesca & Giulia Ferrari. (2025). Telling the story of a diagram: affective and aesthetic mathematical experiences. Educational Studies in Mathematics. 119(2). 269–285.
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Hughes, Janette, et al.. (2021). Teaching STEM online at the tertiary level during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 54(3). 365–381. 15 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Francesca, Giulia Ferrari, Ornella Robutti, Dalit Contini, & Maria Laura Di Tommaso. (2021). When gender matters: A study of gender differences in mathematics. Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin). 2. 255–263. 2 indexed citations
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Tommaso, Maria Laura Di, et al.. (2021). Tackling the Gender Gap in Mathematics with Active Learning Methodologies. SSRN Electronic Journal. 9 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Francesca, et al.. (2017). Innovation and Technology Enhancing Mathematics Education. CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro). 11 indexed citations
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Edwards, Laurie D., Francesca Ferrara, & Deborah Moore‐Russo. (2014). Emerging Perspectives on Gesture and Embodiment in Mathematics. 41 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Francesca, et al.. (2014). Seeing in Space Is Difficult: An Approach to 3D Geometry through a DGE.. Proceedings of the ... PME Conference. 3. 57–64. 4 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Francesca, et al.. (2014). Special issue: Papers from the 11th International Conference for Technology in Mathematics Teaching (ICTMT11). Teaching Mathematics and its Applications An International Journal of the IMA. 33(1). 1–2. 2 indexed citations
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Freitas, Elizabeth de & Francesca Ferrara. (2014). Movement, Memory and Mathematics: Henri Bergson and the Ontology of Learning. Studies in Philosophy and Education. 34(6). 565–585. 14 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Francesca & Mariarosaria De Simone. (2014). Using Habermas in the study of mathematics teaching: The need for a wider perspective. 1. 223–228. 1 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Francesca & Michela Maschietto. (2013). Are mathematics students thinking as Kepler? Conics and mathematical machines. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 635–644. 1 indexed citations
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Sinclair, Nathalie, Elizabeth de Freitas, & Francesca Ferrara. (2012). Virtual encounters: the murky and furtive world of mathematical inventiveness. ZDM. 45(2). 239–252. 44 indexed citations
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Holmqvist, Kenneth, et al.. (2011). A method for quantifying focused versus overview behavior in AOI sequences. Behavior Research Methods. 43(4). 987–998. 16 indexed citations
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Arzarello, Ferdinando, et al.. (2009). How students read mathematical representations: An eye tracking study. 2. 49–56. 27 indexed citations
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Nemirovsky, Ricardo & Francesca Ferrara. (2008). Mathematical imagination and embodied cognition. Educational Studies in Mathematics. 70(2). 159–174. 117 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Francesca. (2006). Remembering and imagining: Moving back and forth between motion and its representation. 3. 65–72. 8 indexed citations
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Arzarello, Ferdinando, et al.. (2006). Will Penelope choose another bridegroom? Looking for an answer through signs. 2. 73–80. 6 indexed citations
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Robutti, Ornella, Francesca Ferrara, & Cristina Sabena. (2005). Da dove viene la matematica. Come la mente embodied dà origine alla matematica.
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Ferrara, Francesca. (2004). Why doesn’t it start from the origin?”: Hearing the cognitive voice of signs.
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Ferrara, Francesca. (2003). Metaphors as Vehicles of Knowledge: An Exploratory Analysis.. Proceedings of the ... PME Conference. 2. 373–380. 4 indexed citations

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