Gabrielle Wills

584 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 273 citations indexed

About

Gabrielle Wills is a scholar working on Education, Safety Research and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gabrielle Wills has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 273 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Education, 7 papers in Safety Research and 3 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Gabrielle Wills's work include School Choice and Performance (11 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (7 papers) and Education Systems and Policy (6 papers). Gabrielle Wills is often cited by papers focused on School Choice and Performance (11 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (7 papers) and Education Systems and Policy (6 papers). Gabrielle Wills collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Malaysia. Gabrielle Wills's co-authors include Janeli Kotzé, Cally Ardington, Servaas van der Berg, Philip Stevens, Nicholas Spaull, Martin Gustafsson, Neil McKerrow, Leila Patel, Elizabeth J. Pretorius and Alicia Menendez and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Maternal and Child Nutrition and International Journal of Educational Development.

In The Last Decade

Gabrielle Wills

22 papers receiving 250 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.

COVID-19 learning losses: Early grade reading in South Africa

2021 96 citations Cally Ardington, Gabrielle Wills et al. International Journal of Educational Development profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gabrielle Wills South Africa	8	137	45	40	37	37	24	273
F. Arends South Africa	11	211 1.5×	21 0.5×	16 0.4×	25 0.7×	50 1.4×	20	312
Sheldon Rothman Australia	10	208 1.5×	31 0.7×	31 0.8×	8 0.2×	25 0.7×	45	315
Gillian Considine Australia	8	181 1.3×	38 0.8×	28 0.7×	12 0.3×	11 0.3×	17	293
Elisabeth Grewenig Germany	7	142 1.0×	27 0.6×	94 2.4×	34 0.9×	17 0.5×	18	307
Larissa Zierow Germany	7	164 1.2×	22 0.5×	100 2.5×	35 0.9×	16 0.4×	27	294
Guilherme Lichand Switzerland	10	67 0.5×	21 0.5×	52 1.3×	17 0.5×	6 0.2×	40	237
Inge de Wolf Netherlands	7	143 1.0×	16 0.4×	41 1.0×	21 0.6×	14 0.4×	14	233
Suguru Mizunoya United States	10	142 1.0×	38 0.8×	84 2.1×	53 1.4×	15 0.4×	20	377
Michelle Kaffenberger United Kingdom	6	185 1.4×	14 0.3×	106 2.6×	68 1.8×	22 0.6×	9	334
Phyllis Cummins United States	8	59 0.4×	55 1.2×	13 0.3×	15 0.4×	8 0.2×	54	202

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gabrielle Wills

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wills, Gabrielle, et al.. (2025). COVID-19 and inequality in reading outcomes in South Africa: PIRLS 2016 and 2021. Large-scale Assessments in Education. 13(1). 1 indexed citations

Engelbrecht, Lambert, et al.. (2024). Mitigating the Impact of Intergenerational Risk Factors on Stunting: Insights From Seven of the Most Food Insecure Districts in South Africa. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 21(2). e13765–e13765.

Wills, Gabrielle. (2023). An Economic Perspective on School Leadership and Teachers’ Unions in South Africa. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Wills, Gabrielle, et al.. (2023). Compliance, Cost and User Fees in the Early Childhood Care and Education Sector in South Africa. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

Wills, Gabrielle, et al.. (2023). Investigating Grade 9 Mathematics Achievement in the Western Cape and Gauteng: An Analysis of TIMSS 2019. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Wills, Gabrielle & Servaas van der Berg. (2023). Covid-19 Disruptions and Education in South Africa: Two Years of Evidence. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Wills, Gabrielle. (2023). What Do You Mean by ‘Good’? the Search for Exceptional Primary Schools in South Africa's No-Fee School System. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Wills, Gabrielle, et al.. (2023). Supply-Side and Demand-Side Approaches to Financing Early Childhood Care and Education in South Africa. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

Wills, Gabrielle, et al.. (2023). Household Resource Flows and Food Poverty during South Africa’s Lockdown: Short-Term Policy Implications for Three Channels of Social Protection. SSRN Electronic Journal. 14 indexed citations

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Wills, Gabrielle, et al.. (2022). Early childhood care and education access in South Africa during COVID-19: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM. Development Southern Africa. 39(5). 781–799. 5 indexed citations

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Ardington, Cally, Gabrielle Wills, & Janeli Kotzé. (2021). COVID-19 learning losses: Early grade reading in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development. 86. 102480–102480. 96 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ardington, Cally, et al.. (2021). Benchmarking oral reading fluency in the early grades in Nguni languages. International Journal of Educational Development. 84. 102433–102433. 14 indexed citations

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Wills, Gabrielle & Servaas van der Berg. (2020). Measuring school leadership and management and linkages with literacy: Evidence from rural and township primary schools in South Africa. Educational Management Administration & Leadership. 49(5). 708–731. 2 indexed citations

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McKerrow, Neil, et al.. (2019). Acceptability and uptake of an electronic decision-making tool to support the implementation of IMCI in primary healthcare facilities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Paediatrics and International Child Health. 40(4). 215–226. 20 indexed citations

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Wills, Gabrielle. (2019). Teachers’ unions and industrial action in South African primary schools: Exploring their impacts on learning. Development Southern Africa. 37(2). 328–347. 6 indexed citations

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Berg, Servaas van der, et al.. (2019). The Cost of Repetition in South Africa. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Wills, Gabrielle. (2016). Principal leadership changes and their consequences for school performance in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development. 51. 108–124. 14 indexed citations

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Spaull, Nicholas, Servaas van der Berg, Gabrielle Wills, Martin Gustafsson, & Janeli Kotzé. (2016). Laying Firm Foundations: Getting Reading Right. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Wills, Gabrielle. (2015). Informing principal policy reforms in South Africa through data-based evidence. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 28–28. 10 indexed citations

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Stevens, Philip, et al.. (2013). Healthy Trade: The Relationship Between Open Trade and Health. Foreign Trade Review. 48(1). 125–135. 30 indexed citations

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