Patrick Ainley

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Patrick Ainley is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Ainley has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Education, 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Patrick Ainley's work include Education Systems and Policy (17 papers), Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (11 papers) and Global Educational Policies and Reforms (8 papers). Patrick Ainley is often cited by papers focused on Education Systems and Policy (17 papers), Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (11 papers) and Global Educational Policies and Reforms (8 papers). Patrick Ainley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Taiwan. Patrick Ainley's co-authors include Martin G. Allen, Bill Bailey, Helen Rainbird, Joyce E. Canaan, Abdul Momen, David Purdy, Pat Devine, Andrew R. Green and Ken Roberts and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Circulation Research and Studies in Higher Education.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Ainley

52 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Ainley United Kingdom	16	646	534	461	312	124	58	1.5k
Tom Schuller United Kingdom	19	520 0.8×	622 1.2×	336 0.7×	160 0.5×	76 0.6×	91	1.5k
Michaela Brockmann United Kingdom	16	495 0.8×	414 0.8×	252 0.5×	125 0.4×	121 1.0×	34	1.0k
Mary Henkel United Kingdom	20	273 0.4×	1.1k 2.1×	1.1k 2.5×	366 1.2×	78 0.6×	43	2.2k
Anthony Hesketh United Kingdom	13	309 0.5×	780 1.5×	241 0.5×	102 0.3×	86 0.7×	25	1.3k
Sandra Taylor Australia	20	778 1.2×	1.3k 2.3×	691 1.5×	116 0.4×	31 0.3×	83	2.0k
Eugene McLaughlin United Kingdom	24	1.4k 2.1×	369 0.7×	838 1.8×	362 1.2×	22 0.2×	65	2.2k
Ken Roberts United Kingdom	23	1.2k 1.8×	260 0.5×	316 0.7×	249 0.8×	24 0.2×	123	1.7k
Alessia Contu United Kingdom	15	526 0.8×	191 0.4×	124 0.3×	82 0.3×	145 1.2×	31	1.6k
Ulf Himmelstrand Sweden	10	637 1.0×	223 0.4×	248 0.5×	103 0.3×	90 0.7×	37	1.2k
Christopher T. Husbands United Kingdom	21	648 1.0×	383 0.7×	645 1.4×	85 0.3×	29 0.2×	66	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Ainley

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All Works

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Ainley, Patrick. (2016). Betraying a Generation. Bristol University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (2016). Betraying a generation. Bristol University Press eBooks. 12 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (2015). The Business Studies University. 7(11).

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Ainley, Patrick. (2015). Reversal reversed? The new consensus on education and training. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13(2). 1 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick & Helen Rainbird. (2014). Apprenticeship: Towards a New Paradigm of Learning. 15 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (2013). Education Is Never For Its Own Sake, It’s Much More Important Than That. 4(7). 1 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (2012). Higher than what?. 1(1). 1 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (2012). For A Really Open University. 3(4).

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Ainley, Patrick. (2012). To the Dissertation and Beyond: Independent Study in the New Undergraduate Curriculum. 1(2). 1 indexed citations

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Devine, Pat, et al.. (2009). Feelbad Britain : how to make it better. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 6 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (2009). The knowledge is out there. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 30(2). 251–258. 1 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (2008). Education and climate change – some systemic connections. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 29(2). 213–223. 5 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick, et al.. (2007). Education make you fick, innit?: what's gone wrong in England's schools, colleges and universities and how to start putting it right. Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich). 33 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick, et al.. (2007). BOOK REVIEWS. Journal of Education Policy. 22(6). 709–720. 1 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (2000). Educational Research: A Reply to Professor Pring. British Journal of Educational Studies. 48(3). 309–314. 3 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (1999). Learning Policy: Towards the Certified Society. Circulation Research. 39(6). 797–800. 31 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (1998). The End of Expansion and the Consolidation of Differentiation in English Higher Education. Teaching in Higher Education. 3(2). 143–156. 6 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick, et al.. (1996). Beyond Competence : The National Council for Vocational Qualifications Framework and the Challenge to Higher Education in the New Millennium. Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich). 3 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick. (1994). Degrees of difference : higher education in the 1990s. 90 indexed citations

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Ainley, Patrick, et al.. (1990). Training for the future: the rise and fall of the Manpower Services Commission. Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich). 60 indexed citations

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