Malcolm Wells

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Malcolm Wells is a scholar working on Education, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and Health Information Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Malcolm Wells has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Education, 1 paper in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and 1 paper in Health Information Management. Recurrent topics in Malcolm Wells's work include Science Education and Pedagogy (4 papers), Gender and Technology in Education (1 paper) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (1 paper). Malcolm Wells is often cited by papers focused on Science Education and Pedagogy (4 papers), Gender and Technology in Education (1 paper) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (1 paper). Malcolm Wells collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Malcolm Wells's co-authors include David Hestenes, Gary G. Bitter, Gavin J. Becker, Ibrahim A. Halloun, Richard R. Hake, Peter E. Morris, Linda Denehy, Lisa Beach, Catherine L. Granger and Sze‐Ee Soh and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Physics, Annals of the American Thoracic Society and Australian Health Review.

In The Last Decade

Malcolm Wells

6 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Force concept inventory

1992 2.2k citations David Hestenes, Malcolm Wells et al. The Physics Teacher profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Malcolm Wells United States	4	2.2k	1.0k	678	262	247	7	2.7k
Ibrahim A. Halloun United States	11	1.9k 0.8×	948 0.9×	318 0.5×	181 0.7×	243 1.0×	20	2.2k
Ronald K. Thornton United States	18	1.6k 0.7×	630 0.6×	659 1.0×	236 0.9×	165 0.7×	30	2.1k
Wendy K. Adams United States	18	2.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	779 1.1×	100 0.4×	265 1.1×	41	3.2k
Eugenia Etkina United States	25	1.8k 0.8×	739 0.7×	478 0.7×	195 0.7×	212 0.9×	95	2.2k
Richard N. Steinberg United States	13	1.3k 0.6×	570 0.6×	391 0.6×	178 0.7×	130 0.5×	25	1.6k
José P. Mestre United States	24	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	420 0.6×	64 0.2×	434 1.8×	78	3.3k
Mel Sabella United States	18	1.3k 0.6×	573 0.6×	313 0.5×	127 0.5×	173 0.7×	212	1.7k
Patricia Heller United States	15	1.3k 0.6×	660 0.6×	323 0.5×	70 0.3×	135 0.5×	24	1.6k
Vincent N. Lunetta United States	14	2.4k 1.1×	845 0.8×	588 0.9×	47 0.2×	175 0.7×	55	2.9k
Bat‐Sheva Eylon Israel	24	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	281 0.4×	150 0.6×	363 1.5×	66	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Malcolm Wells

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Fields of papers citing papers by Malcolm Wells

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Malcolm Wells. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Malcolm Wells. The network helps show where Malcolm Wells may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Malcolm Wells

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

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Parry, Selina M., Sze‐Ee Soh, Peter E. Morris, et al.. (2025). “From the moment I started standing again, I was worried about falls”: fear of falling in intensive care unit survivors over 12 months. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 23(3). 397–408.

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Becker, Gavin J., et al.. (2012). Engaging medical staff in clinical governance: introducing new technologies and clinical practice into public hospitals. Australian Health Review. 36(1). 43–48. 5 indexed citations

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Hestenes, David, et al.. (1995). Cuestionario Sobre el Concepto de Fuerza. 3 indexed citations

4.

Wells, Malcolm, et al.. (1995). A modeling method for high school physics instruction. American Journal of Physics. 63(7). 606–619. 231 indexed citations

5.

Hestenes, David & Malcolm Wells. (1992). A mechanics baseline test. The Physics Teacher. 30(3). 159–166. 335 indexed citations

6.

Hestenes, David, et al.. (1992). Force concept inventory. The Physics Teacher. 30(3). 141–158. 2155 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wells, Malcolm & Gary G. Bitter. (1982). The First Step in Utilizing Computers in Education: Preparing Computer Literate Teachers.. 3 indexed citations

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