Janet Ouston

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Janet Ouston is a scholar working on Education, Information Systems and Management and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Janet Ouston has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Education, 6 papers in Information Systems and Management and 4 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Janet Ouston's work include Educational Assessment and Improvement (6 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (3 papers). Janet Ouston is often cited by papers focused on Educational Assessment and Improvement (6 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (3 papers). Janet Ouston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. Janet Ouston's co-authors include Michael Rutter, Barbara Maughan, Peter Mortimore, Beverly Jeanne Armento, R. Peter Hobson, Amanda Lee, Brian Fidler, Peter Earley, Neil Ferguson and Andrew Pickles and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Medicine, Educational Researcher and British Journal of Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Janet Ouston

18 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and Their Effec... 1980 2026 1995 2010 1980 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and Their Effects on Children
    1980 1.6k citations Beverly Jeanne Armento, Michael Rutter et al. Educational Researcher profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Janet Ouston United Kingdom 13 1.4k 670 559 518 236 20 2.5k
Lucy Barnard‐Brak United States 24 1.4k 1.0× 671 1.0× 593 1.1× 1.2k 2.2× 277 1.2× 149 3.0k
Charles C. Helwig Canada 26 510 0.4× 653 1.0× 409 0.7× 478 0.9× 843 3.6× 46 1.8k
Elisa S. Shernoff United States 21 902 0.6× 343 0.5× 703 1.3× 918 1.8× 490 2.1× 46 2.2k
Jacob L. Gewirtz United States 27 484 0.3× 913 1.4× 945 1.7× 1.2k 2.4× 1.1k 4.6× 66 3.1k
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale Canada 25 820 0.6× 657 1.0× 759 1.4× 1.6k 3.0× 931 3.9× 72 2.7k
Linda A. Reddy United States 28 1.3k 0.9× 224 0.3× 837 1.5× 765 1.5× 724 3.1× 135 2.6k
Maribeth Gettinger United States 24 1.1k 0.8× 186 0.3× 543 1.0× 969 1.9× 291 1.2× 78 2.0k
Larry Nucci United States 30 1.3k 0.9× 949 1.4× 1.0k 1.8× 798 1.5× 1.7k 7.4× 87 3.7k
Marie S. Tisak United States 25 511 0.4× 357 0.5× 863 1.5× 404 0.8× 1.2k 5.2× 65 2.1k
Zora Raboteg-Šarić Croatia 7 405 0.3× 370 0.6× 712 1.3× 206 0.4× 1.0k 4.3× 49 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Janet Ouston

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Janet Ouston

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ferguson, Neil, Peter Earley, Brian Fidler, & Janet Ouston. (2000). Improving Schools and Inspection: The Self-Inspecting School. 30 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Neil, Peter Earley, Janet Ouston, & Brian Fidler. (1999). New heads, OFSTED inspections and the prospects for school improvement. Educational Research. 41(3). 241–249. 12 indexed citations
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Ouston, Janet. (1998). Introduction. School Leadership and Management. 18(3). 317–320. 1 indexed citations
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Fidler, Brian, et al.. (1998). Teacher Gradings and OfSTED Inspections: Help or hindrance as a management tool?. School Leadership and Management. 18(2). 257–270. 13 indexed citations
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Ouston, Janet, Brian Fidler, & Peter Earley. (1998). The Educational Accountability of Schools in England and Wales. Educational Policy. 12(1). 111–123. 6 indexed citations
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Ouston, Janet, Brian Fidler, & Peter Earley. (1997). What Do Schools Do after OFSTED School Inspections-or before?. School Leadership and Management. 17(1). 95–104. 36 indexed citations
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Ouston, Janet. (1995). Saving a Baby from the Bath Water. Management in Education. 9(2). 33–34.
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Ouston, Janet. (1993). Women in Education Management. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 32 indexed citations
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Ouston, Janet. (1993). Management Competences, School Effectiveness and Education Management. Educational Management & Administration. 21(4). 212–221. 7 indexed citations
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Ouston, Janet, et al.. (1992). Schools and Honeypot Management: The Impact of Project Funding Mechanisms on the Implementation of Educational Innovation. Educational Management & Administration. 20(3). 170–178.
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Ouston, Janet, Barbara Maughan, & Michael Rutter. (1991). Can Schools Change? II: Practice in Six London Secondary Schools. School Effectiveness and School Improvement. 2(1). 3–13. 14 indexed citations
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Maughan, Barbara, Andrew Pickles, Michael Rutter, & Janet Ouston. (1990). Can Schools Change? I. Outcomes at Six London Secondary Schools. School Effectiveness and School Improvement. 1(3). 188–210. 19 indexed citations
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Ouston, Janet, et al.. (1989). Recognition of emotion by mentally retarded adolescents and young adults.. PubMed. 93(4). 434–43. 23 indexed citations
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Hobson, R. Peter, Janet Ouston, & Amanda Lee. (1989). Naming emotion in faces and voices: Abilities and disabilities in autism and mental retardation. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 7(3). 237–250. 143 indexed citations
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Hobson, R. Peter, Janet Ouston, & Amanda Lee. (1988). What's in a face? The case of autism. British Journal of Psychology. 79(4). 441–453. 351 indexed citations
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Hobson, R. Peter, et al.. (1988). Emotion recognition in autism: coordinating faces and voices. Psychological Medicine. 18(4). 911–923. 201 indexed citations
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Ouston, Janet. (1984). DELINQUENCY, FAMILY BACKGROUND AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT. The British Journal of Criminology. 24(1). 2–26. 34 indexed citations
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Maughan, Barbara, Peter Mortimore, Janet Ouston, & Michael Rutter. (1980). Fifteen Thousand Hours: a reply to Heath & Clifford. Oxford Review of Education. 6(3). 289–303. 11 indexed citations
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Armento, Beverly Jeanne, Michael Rutter, Barbara Maughan, Peter Mortimore, & Janet Ouston. (1980). Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and Their Effects on Children. Educational Researcher. 9(8). 27–27. 1606 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rutter, Michael, Barbara Maughan, Peter Mortimore, & Janet Ouston. (1980). Educational Criteria of Success: A Reply to Acton. Educational Research. 22(3). 170–174. 4 indexed citations

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