Marcy H. Towns

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Marcy H. Towns is a scholar working on Education, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcy H. Towns has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Education, 57 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 39 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Marcy H. Towns's work include Science Education and Pedagogy (60 papers), Various Chemistry Research Topics (56 papers) and Innovative Teaching Methods (32 papers). Marcy H. Towns is often cited by papers focused on Science Education and Pedagogy (60 papers), Various Chemistry Research Topics (56 papers) and Innovative Teaching Methods (32 papers). Marcy H. Towns collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Marcy H. Towns's co-authors include Kinsey Bain, Stacey Lowery Bretz, Jon-Marc G. Rodriguez, Brittland K. DeKorver, Alena Moon, Renée S. Cole, Nicole Becker, Courtney Stanford, Pratibha Varma‐Nelson and Sandra L. Laursen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Physical Chemistry and Pure and Applied Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Marcy H. Towns

103 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Assessment of Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences: A Meeting Report

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marcy H. Towns United States	34	2.9k	1.3k	1.0k	460	446	107	4.0k
Melanie M. Cooper United States	44	3.7k 1.3×	1.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.7×	140 0.3×	527 1.2×	128	5.1k
Stacey Lowery Bretz United States	35	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	870 0.8×	92 0.2×	398 0.9×	81	3.2k
Jennifer E. Lewis United States	28	1.5k 0.5×	531 0.4×	665 0.6×	191 0.4×	136 0.3×	72	2.3k
Gillian Roehrig United States	37	3.9k 1.4×	209 0.2×	1.4k 1.3×	367 0.8×	370 0.8×	159	5.1k
Avi Hofstein Israel	36	6.2k 2.1×	1.2k 0.9×	2.3k 2.2×	255 0.6×	865 1.9×	120	7.8k
Rachel Mamlok‐Naaman Israel	23	2.5k 0.8×	491 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	99 0.2×	270 0.6×	63	3.1k
John K. Gilbert United Kingdom	37	5.1k 1.7×	770 0.6×	2.7k 2.7×	169 0.4×	229 0.5×	86	6.5k
David Hammer United States	38	4.8k 1.7×	233 0.2×	3.4k 3.3×	166 0.4×	365 0.8×	70	5.8k
Erin L. Dolan United States	24	1.6k 0.5×	201 0.2×	367 0.4×	1.3k 2.9×	224 0.5×	63	3.0k
Vincent N. Lunetta United States	14	2.4k 0.8×	503 0.4×	845 0.8×	97 0.2×	588 1.3×	55	2.9k

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Towns, Marcy H., et al.. (2025). The Intersection of Chemistry and Calculus: a Mutually Beneficial Crossroad. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. 11(4). 709–728.

Towns, Marcy H., et al.. (2021). Location-thinking, value-thinking, and graphical forms: combining analytical frameworks to analyze inferences made by students when interpreting the points and trends on a reaction coordinate diagram. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 22(3). 697–714. 11 indexed citations

Rodriguez, Jon-Marc G. & Marcy H. Towns. (2019). Analysis of student reasoning about Michaelis–Menten enzyme kinetics: mixed conceptions of enzyme inhibition. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 20(2). 428–442. 21 indexed citations

Bain, Kinsey, Jon-Marc G. Rodriguez, Alena Moon, & Marcy H. Towns. (2018). The characterization of cognitive processes involved in chemical kinetics using a blended processing framework. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 19(2). 617–628. 31 indexed citations

Rodriguez, Jon-Marc G., et al.. (2018). Using Symbolic and Graphical Forms To Analyze Students’ Mathematical Reasoning in Chemical Kinetics. Journal of Chemical Education. 95(12). 2114–2125. 38 indexed citations

Moon, Alena, Courtney Stanford, Renée S. Cole, & Marcy H. Towns. (2017). Analysis of inquiry materials to explain complexity of chemical reasoning in physical chemistry students’ argumentation. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 54(10). 1322–1346. 35 indexed citations

Marquardt, Roberto, Juris Meija, Zoltán Mester, et al.. (2017). A critical review of the proposed definitions of fundamental chemical quantities and their impact on chemical communities (IUPAC Technical Report). Pure and Applied Chemistry. 89(7). 951–981. 20 indexed citations

Mahaffy, Peter G., Thomas A. Holme, Leah A. Martin‐Visscher, et al.. (2017). Beyond “Inert” Ideas to Teaching General Chemistry from Rich Contexts: Visualizing the Chemistry of Climate Change (VC3). Journal of Chemical Education. 94(8). 1027–1035. 80 indexed citations

Holme, Thomas A., et al.. (2017). Assessing Student Knowledge of Chemistry and Climate Science Concepts Associated with Climate Change: Resources To Inform Teaching and Learning. Journal of Chemical Education. 94(4). 407–417. 33 indexed citations

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Towns, Marcy H.. (2017). Faculty and student goals for undergraduate laboratory. Química Nova.

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Bain, Kinsey & Marcy H. Towns. (2016). A review of research on the teaching and learning of chemical kinetics. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 17(2). 246–262. 102 indexed citations

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DeKorver, Brittland K., Mark Choi, & Marcy H. Towns. (2016). Exploration of a Method To Assess Children’s Understandings of a Phenomenon after Viewing a Demonstration Show. Journal of Chemical Education. 94(2). 149–156. 17 indexed citations

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Bain, Kinsey, Alena Moon, Michael R. Mack, & Marcy H. Towns. (2014). A review of research on the teaching and learning of thermodynamics at the university level. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 15(3). 320–335. 89 indexed citations

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Towns, Marcy H., et al.. (2012). Students' understanding of external representations of the potassium ion channel protein, part I: Affordances and limitations of ribbon diagrams, vines, and hydrophobic/polar representations. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 40(6). 349–356. 23 indexed citations

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Towns, Marcy H.. (2010). Where Are the Women of Color? Data on African American, Hispanic, and Native American Faculty in STEM. The journal of college science teaching. 39(4). 8. 24 indexed citations

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Bodner, George M. & Marcy H. Towns. (2010). The Division of Chemical Education Revisited, 25 Years Later. The journal of college science teaching. 39(6). 38–43. 3 indexed citations

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Towns, Marcy H.. (2010). Crossing the Chasm with Classroom Response Systems. Journal of Chemical Education. 87(12). 1317–1319. 14 indexed citations

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Bretz, Stacey Lowery, et al.. (2008). Characterizing the Level of Inquiry in the Undergraduate Laboratory.. The journal of college science teaching. 38(1). 52–58. 190 indexed citations

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Towns, Marcy H., Deborah G. Sauder, George R. Long, et al.. (2001). Interinstitutional Peer Review on the Internet: Crossing Boundaries Electronically in a Student-Refereed Assignment.. The journal of college science teaching. 30(4). 9 indexed citations

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Towns, Marcy H., et al.. (1998). An Assessment of a Physical Chemistry Online Activity. Journal of Chemical Education. 75(12). 1653–1653. 6 indexed citations

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