Kate Pahl

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Kate Pahl is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Kate Pahl has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 33 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 23 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Kate Pahl's work include Literacy, Media, and Education (27 papers), Children's Rights and Participation (16 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (13 papers). Kate Pahl is often cited by papers focused on Literacy, Media, and Education (27 papers), Children's Rights and Participation (16 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (13 papers). Kate Pahl collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Kate Pahl's co-authors include Jennifer Rowsell, Sally Kelly, Abigail Hackett, Guy Merchant, Cathy Burnett, Michael Grenfell, Rosie Flewitt, Bella Dicks, Brian Street and David Bloome and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Kate Pahl

76 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy St... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 50 100 150
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.

  1. Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies in the Classroom
    2012 172 citations Kate Pahl, Jennifer Rowsell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kate Pahl United Kingdom 22 707 706 510 215 192 82 1.6k
Gemma Moss United Kingdom 20 248 0.4× 621 0.9× 270 0.5× 35 0.2× 59 0.3× 63 1.0k
Julian Henriques United Kingdom 8 123 0.2× 291 0.4× 607 1.2× 13 0.1× 35 0.2× 19 1.5k
Kevin K. Kumashiro United States 17 127 0.2× 1.2k 1.8× 1.2k 2.3× 28 0.1× 84 0.4× 42 2.1k
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana United States 27 681 1.0× 1.2k 1.7× 1.3k 2.5× 34 0.2× 1.1k 6.0× 70 3.0k
Tony Brown United Kingdom 19 64 0.1× 881 1.2× 310 0.6× 19 0.1× 18 0.1× 124 1.3k
José Sanders Netherlands 18 777 1.1× 75 0.1× 431 0.8× 53 0.2× 23 0.1× 63 1.4k
Mark B. Tappan United States 21 62 0.1× 528 0.7× 391 0.8× 41 0.2× 24 0.1× 37 1.3k
Cathy Urwin United Kingdom 7 129 0.2× 340 0.5× 599 1.2× 7 0.0× 37 0.2× 19 1.4k
Collette Tayler Australia 23 42 0.1× 1.7k 2.4× 467 0.9× 39 0.2× 25 0.1× 79 2.1k
Renée DePalma Spain 19 67 0.1× 274 0.4× 441 0.9× 14 0.1× 68 0.4× 60 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kate Pahl

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kate Pahl

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pahl, Kate, Simon Carr, David Cooper, et al.. (2025). How many ways are there to measure a tree? – An experiment in cross-disciplinarity. Aberdeen University Research Archive (Aberdeen University). 9(1).
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Pahl, Kate, et al.. (2025). Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research. Environmental Education Research. 31(8). 1691–1705. 1 indexed citations
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Nunn, Caitlin, et al.. (2024). Working with/beyond ‘language’: insights from a listening walk with young men from asylum-seeking backgrounds in a rural treescape. Language and Intercultural Communication. 24(5). 497–510. 2 indexed citations
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Kraftl, Peter, et al.. (2024). Starting with trees: Between and beyond environmental education. British Educational Research Journal. 51(2). 782–801. 1 indexed citations
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Pahl, Kate, et al.. (2024). Multilingual literacies: Romanian Roma children learning to read and write in an English primary school. Language and Education. 38(6). 1061–1079.
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Pahl, Kate, et al.. (2022). Collaborative Research in Theory and Practice. Policy Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Pahl, Kate, et al.. (2022). Collaborative Research in Theory and Practice. Bristol University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Grenfell, Michael & Kate Pahl. (2018). Bourdieu, Language-Based Ethnographies and Reflexivity. 2 indexed citations
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MacLure, Maggie, et al.. (2018). Call for Abstract Submissions to a Special Issue of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 550293132–550293132. 3 indexed citations
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Hackett, Abigail, et al.. (2017). In amongst the glitter and the squashed blueberries: crafting a collaborative lens for children’s literacy pedagogy in a community setting. Pedagogies An International Journal. 12(1). 58–73. 24 indexed citations
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Burnett, Cathy, Guy Merchant, Kate Pahl, & Jennifer Rowsell. (2012). The (im)materiality of literacy: the significance of subjectivity to new literacies research. Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 35(1). 90–103. 89 indexed citations
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Grenfell, Michael, David Bloome, Cheryl Hardy, et al.. (2011). Language, ethnography, and education: bridging new literacy studies and Bourdieu. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 75 indexed citations
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Odenweller, M., Arno Vredenborg, Kathryn Cole, et al.. (2011). Strong Field Electron Emission from Fixed in SpaceH2+Ions. Physical Review Letters. 107(14). 143004–143004. 74 indexed citations
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Pahl, Kate, J S Brook, Jonathan Koppel, & Jung Yeon Lee. (2011). Unexpected Benefits: Pathways From Smoking Restrictions in the Home to Psychological Well-Being and Distress Among Urban Black and Puerto Rican Americans. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 13(8). 706–713. 21 indexed citations
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Pahl, Kate, J S Brook, & Jonathan Koppel. (2010). Trajectories of marijuana use and psychological adjustment among urban African American and Puerto Rican women. Psychological Medicine. 41(8). 1775–1783. 15 indexed citations
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Pahl, Kate, et al.. (2010). Changing Identities, Changing spaces : the Ferham families exhibition in Rotherham. 5 indexed citations
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