Nicholas Spaull

2.3k citations
21 papers · 1.0k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 13
Topics
School Choice and Performance (9 papers)Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 papers)Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers)
Journals
SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaPLoS ONEReading and Writing

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Spaull

21 papers receiving 932 citations

Hit Papers

South Africa's Education Crisis: The quality of education...2013202620172021201350100150200250

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Nicholas Spaull
Comparison fields: 5 of 88
  • Education 666
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 225
  • Safety Research 160
  • Sociology and Political Science 133
  • Statistics and Probability 118
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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicholas Spaull

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All Works

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Interactions between the family and the state in children's health, education and social development
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Laying Firm Foundations: Getting Reading Right
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About Nicholas Spaull

Nicholas Spaull is a scholar working on Safety Research, Statistics and Probability and Modeling and Simulation, having authored 21 papers that have together received 1.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include School Choice and Performance (9 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Education (666 citations), Safety Research (160 citations) and Developmental and Educational Psychology (225 citations). Nicholas Spaull has collaborated with scholars based in South Africa and United States. Frequent co-authors include Janeli Kotzé, Hamsa Venkat, Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Stephen Taylor, Servaas van der Berg, Martin Gustafsson, Gabrielle Wills, Brendan Maughan‐Brown, Dan J. Stein and Mark Tomlinson. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Reading and Writing.

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