John Seely Brown

240 total papers · 55.4k total citations
131 papers, 31.3k citations indexed

About

John Seely Brown is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John Seely Brown has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 31.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 11 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in John Seely Brown's work include Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning (11 papers), AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (6 papers) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (6 papers). John Seely Brown is often cited by papers focused on Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning (11 papers), AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (6 papers) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (6 papers). John Seely Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Colombia. John Seely Brown's co-authors include Paul Duguid, Allan Collins, S. D. Noam Cook, Richard R. Burton, Johan de Kleer, Alan Collins, Richard Adler, Douglas Thomas, Kurt VanLehn and John Hagel and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Psychological Bulletin and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

John Seely Brown

120 papers receiving 25.5k citations

Hit Papers

Situated Cognition and th... 1978 2026 1994 2010 1989 1991 2001 1999 2000 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
    1989 8.3k citations John Seely Brown, Allan Collins et al. Educational Researcher profile →
  2. Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation
    1991 5.3k citations John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid Organization Science profile →
  3. Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
    2001 2.2k citations John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid Organization Science profile →
  4. Bridging Epistemologies: The Generative Dance Between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing
    1999 1.8k citations S. D. Noam Cook, John Seely Brown Organization Science profile →
  5. The Social Life of Information
    2000 1.7k citations John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid et al. Work Study profile →
  6. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
    1989 1.2k citations John Seely Brown, Alan Collins et al. Educational Researcher profile →
  7. A qualitative physics based on confluences
    1984 945 citations Johan de Kleer, John Seely Brown Artificial Intelligence profile →
  8. COGNITIVE APPRENTICESHIP: MAKING THINKING VISIBLE
    1991 940 citations Allan Collins, John Seely Brown et al. profile →
  9. Cognitive Apprenticeship
    1988 901 citations Allan Collins, John Seely Brown et al. Thinking The Journal of Philosophy for Children profile →
  10. Outcomes of Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Primary Care Providers
    2011 784 citations Sanjeev Arora, Karla Thornton et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  11. Diagnostic Models for Procedural Bugs in Basic Mathematical Skills*
    1978 751 citations John Seely Brown, Richard R. Burton Cognitive Science profile →
  12. Organizing Knowledge
    1998 645 citations John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid California Management Review profile →
  13. Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
    2008 530 citations John Seely Brown, Richard Adler profile →
  14. A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
    2011 392 citations Douglas Thomas, John Seely Brown profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
John Seely Brown 9.8k 6.9k 5.4k 4.4k 4.1k 131 31.3k
Paul Duguid 7.0k 0.7× 4.6k 0.7× 4.4k 0.8× 3.5k 0.8× 3.1k 0.8× 59 20.9k
Donald A. Schön 20.9k 2.1× 5.0k 0.7× 3.9k 0.7× 1.7k 0.4× 7.4k 1.8× 103 50.0k
Jean Lave 24.7k 2.5× 11.3k 1.6× 2.4k 0.4× 4.2k 1.0× 9.5k 2.3× 42 52.0k
Lee J. Cronbach 9.2k 0.9× 6.8k 1.0× 3.5k 0.7× 1.3k 0.3× 9.3k 2.3× 118 62.9k
Donald T. Campbell 8.1k 0.8× 5.7k 0.8× 3.1k 0.6× 1.7k 0.4× 13.8k 3.3× 175 57.8k
Eduardo Salas 3.3k 0.3× 3.7k 0.5× 3.5k 0.6× 5.2k 1.2× 5.1k 1.2× 514 41.0k
Robert K. Yin 13.3k 1.4× 3.4k 0.5× 17.1k 3.1× 3.8k 0.9× 14.4k 3.5× 95 74.2k
David Kolb 13.2k 1.3× 6.1k 0.9× 1.0k 0.2× 1.4k 0.3× 2.6k 0.6× 113 28.9k
Klaus Krippendorff 4.4k 0.4× 1.5k 0.2× 3.1k 0.6× 3.7k 0.8× 7.6k 1.8× 115 30.4k
Edwin A. Locke 5.6k 0.6× 4.5k 0.7× 5.8k 1.1× 3.0k 0.7× 8.9k 2.2× 265 58.1k

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