Peter Youngs

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
85 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Youngs is a scholar working on Education, Information Systems and Management and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Youngs has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Education, 18 papers in Information Systems and Management and 9 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Peter Youngs's work include Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (48 papers), School Choice and Performance (21 papers) and Educational Assessment and Improvement (18 papers). Peter Youngs is often cited by papers focused on Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (48 papers), School Choice and Performance (21 papers) and Educational Assessment and Improvement (18 papers). Peter Youngs collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Canada. Peter Youngs's co-authors include Andrew J. Wayne, Linda Darling‐Hammond, M. Bruce King, Kenneth A. Frank, Fred M. Newmann, Nathan Jones, Frank Perrone, Ben Pogodzinski, Min Sun and Daniel Player and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Review of Educational Research and Pattern Recognition.

In The Last Decade

Peter Youngs

78 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Teacher Characteristics and Student Achievement Gains: A ... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2003 2002 250 500 750
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. Teacher Characteristics and Student Achievement Gains: A Review
    2003 814 citations Andrew J. Wayne, Peter Youngs profile →
  2. Defining “Highly Qualified Teachers”: What Does “Scientifically-Based Research” Actually Tell Us?
    2002 566 citations Peter Youngs et al. Educational Researcher profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Youngs United States 26 2.9k 437 339 318 288 85 3.4k
Klaas van Veen Netherlands 29 2.1k 0.7× 264 0.6× 544 1.6× 275 0.9× 109 0.4× 102 2.7k
Matthew A. Kraft United States 27 3.4k 1.2× 659 1.5× 532 1.6× 312 1.0× 340 1.2× 78 4.3k
Gordon Stobart United Kingdom 23 2.6k 0.9× 404 0.9× 452 1.3× 426 1.3× 116 0.4× 59 3.2k
Ann Weaver Hart United States 16 2.1k 0.7× 258 0.6× 430 1.3× 314 1.0× 177 0.6× 45 2.7k
Laura S. Hamilton United States 36 3.4k 1.2× 1.2k 2.8× 680 2.0× 329 1.0× 308 1.1× 225 4.6k
Amanda Datnow United States 34 3.0k 1.0× 1.6k 3.6× 461 1.4× 540 1.7× 210 0.7× 99 4.1k
Pam Grossman United States 26 4.8k 1.6× 492 1.1× 1.0k 3.1× 900 2.8× 198 0.7× 47 5.5k
Bert Creemers Netherlands 39 4.5k 1.6× 848 1.9× 807 2.4× 391 1.2× 265 0.9× 147 5.3k
Michael G. Fullan Canada 13 2.2k 0.8× 269 0.6× 334 1.0× 335 1.1× 103 0.4× 22 2.7k
Nienke Moolenaar Netherlands 24 1.6k 0.5× 357 0.8× 383 1.1× 430 1.4× 142 0.5× 49 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Youngs

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Youngs

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mathews, Hannah Morris, et al.. (2025). Contrasting Opportunities to Learn Across Domains in Special Education Teacher Preparation: A Mixed Methods Study. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 127(3). 3–39. 1 indexed citations
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Youngs, Peter, et al.. (2025). A dynamic predictive transformer with temporal relevance regression for action detection. Pattern Recognition. 166. 111644–111644.
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Donaldson, Morgaen L., et al.. (2024). Principals’ Priorities, Teacher Evaluation, and Instructional Leadership. Educational Researcher. 53(9). 487–495. 2 indexed citations
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Youngs, Peter, et al.. (2023). A Multi-Modal Transformer network for action detection. Pattern Recognition. 142. 109713–109713. 12 indexed citations
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Youngs, Peter, et al.. (2023). Instructional Activity Detection Using Deep Neural Networks. 4. 1–4.
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Youngs, Peter, et al.. (2020). How Methods Instructors and Program Administrators Promote Teacher Education Program Coherence. Journal of Teacher Education. 72(1). 27–41. 13 indexed citations
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Youngs, Peter, et al.. (2020). How middle school special and general educators make sense of and respond to changes in teacher evaluation policy. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 28. 59–59.
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Youngs, Peter, et al.. (2019). Will China’s Free Teacher Education Policy address teacher shortages in rural schools or reproduce existing inequality?. Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education. 50(5). 713–725. 13 indexed citations
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Youngs, Peter, et al.. (2015). Person-Organization Fit and Research on Instruction. Educational Researcher. 44(1). 37–45. 28 indexed citations
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Youngs, Peter. (2013). Using Teacher Evaluation Reform and Professional Development to Support Common Core Assessments.. 13 indexed citations
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Youngs, Peter, et al.. (2011). How Beginning Special and General Education Elementary Teachers Negotiate Role Expectations and Access Professional Resources. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 113(7). 1506–1540. 46 indexed citations
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Scheurich, James Joseph, Roger D. Goddard, Linda Skrla, Kathryn Bell McKenzie, & Peter Youngs. (2010). The Most Important Research on Urban School Reform in the Past Decade?. Educational Researcher. 39(9). 665–667. 6 indexed citations
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Youngs, Peter, et al.. (2008). Does high-stakes testing increase cultural capital among low-income and racial minority students?. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 16. 6–6. 17 indexed citations
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Wayne, Andrew J., Peter Youngs, & Steve Fleischman. (2005). Improving Teacher Induction.. Educational leadership. 62(8). 76–78. 30 indexed citations
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King, M. Bruce, et al.. (2003). Secondary Classroom Teachers ’ Views on Inclusion1.
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King, M. Bruce & Peter Youngs. (2003). Classroom Teachers' Views on Inclusion. Research Institute on Secondary Education Reform for Youth with Disabilities (RISER) Brief.. 3 indexed citations
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Youngs, Peter, Allan Odden, & Andrew C. Porter. (2003). State Policy Related to Teacher Licensure. Educational Policy. 17(2). 217–236. 25 indexed citations
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Youngs, Peter. (1999). Challenges in Studying the Impact of Integrated Approaches to Preparing Teachers for Diversity.. 28(12). 1203–6. 1 indexed citations
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Milanowski, Anthony, Allan Odden, & Peter Youngs. (1998). . Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education. 12(2). 83–101. 9 indexed citations

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