Richard Light

1.9k total citations
67 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Richard Light is a scholar working on Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Light has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, 29 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 26 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard Light's work include Physical Education and Pedagogy (53 papers), Sport Psychology and Performance (22 papers) and Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (21 papers). Richard Light is often cited by papers focused on Physical Education and Pedagogy (53 papers), Sport Psychology and Performance (22 papers) and Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (21 papers). Richard Light collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Richard Light's co-authors include David Kirk, Stephen Harvey, Marlene A. Dixon, Steven Kwang San Tan, Joy Butler, John R. Evans, Daniel Memmert, Christina Curry, Kendall Jarrett and Amanda Mooney and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Sport Management Review and Quest.

In The Last Decade

Richard Light

64 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Light Australia 20 927 618 617 577 238 67 1.3k
Paul G. Schempp United States 20 1.1k 1.2× 675 1.1× 419 0.7× 844 1.5× 121 0.5× 68 1.7k
Dean Barker Sweden 20 750 0.8× 384 0.6× 339 0.5× 600 1.0× 102 0.4× 86 1.2k
Shirley Gray United Kingdom 19 530 0.6× 364 0.6× 286 0.5× 343 0.6× 90 0.4× 75 1000
Rachel Sandford United Kingdom 16 739 0.8× 525 0.8× 368 0.6× 596 1.0× 109 0.5× 46 1.4k
Larissa Rafaela Galatti Brazil 16 388 0.4× 256 0.4× 318 0.5× 383 0.7× 94 0.4× 144 865
Shane Pill Australia 20 902 1.0× 502 0.8× 596 1.0× 503 0.9× 30 0.1× 132 1.3k
Natalie Barker‐Ruchti Sweden 20 276 0.3× 306 0.5× 417 0.7× 422 0.7× 331 1.4× 70 1.0k
Anne Flintoff United Kingdom 19 883 1.0× 280 0.5× 122 0.2× 875 1.5× 580 2.4× 39 1.4k
Harold A. Riemer Canada 13 167 0.2× 554 0.9× 490 0.8× 238 0.4× 382 1.6× 17 946
Karin Redelius Sweden 15 591 0.6× 281 0.5× 114 0.2× 457 0.8× 192 0.8× 53 827

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Light

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Light

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Light, Richard, John R. Evans, & David Lavallee. (2020). The long road from local communities to professional sport and the culture of the global sport industry for indigenous Australians. Sport in Society. 24(5). 760–772. 1 indexed citations
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Light, Richard & John R. Evans. (2018). Learning as Transformation in the Development of Expertise by Elite Indigenous Australian Athletes. Sport Mont. 16(2). 93–96. 1 indexed citations
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Light, Richard. (2016). Implementing a game sense approach in youth sport coaching: Challenges, change and resistance. Waikato journal of education. 10(1). 2 indexed citations
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Harvey, Stephen & Richard Light. (2015). Questioning for learning in game-based approaches to teaching and coaching. University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury). 6(2). 175–190. 55 indexed citations
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Jarrett, Kendall, et al.. (2014). Using elicitation interview within a phenomenographic framework: Developing the breadth of research designs associated with game based approaches. Bournemouth University Research Online (Bournemouth University). 4 indexed citations
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Light, Richard, Christina Curry, & Amanda Mooney. (2014). Game Sense as a model for delivering quality teaching in physical education. University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury). 5(1). 67–81. 25 indexed citations
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Light, Richard. (2012). Game Sense: Pedagogy for Performance, Participation and Enjoyment. Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport.. 20 indexed citations
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Light, Richard, et al.. (2012). The Athens of the South: Sport in Australian Society. 13.
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Gonçalves, Carlos E., Humberto M. Carvalho, & Richard Light. (2011). Keeping Women in Sport: Positive Experiences of Six Women’s Experiences Growing Up and Staying with Sport in Portugal. Estudo Geral (Universidade de Coimbra). 8(1). 7 indexed citations
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Light, Richard, et al.. (2010). A CASE STUDY ON CHILDRENS REASONS FOR JOINING AND REMAINING IN A FRENCH SWIMMING CLUB. 7(1). 4 indexed citations
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Light, Richard & John R. Evans. (2010). The impact of Game Sense pedagogy on Australian rugby coaches' practice: a question of pedagogy. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. 16(1). 101–101. 1 indexed citations
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Light, Richard, et al.. (2009). Visual Data Collection Methods for Research on the Affective Dimensions of Children's Personal Experiences of PE.. FedUni ResearchOnline (Federation University Australia). 56. 23–27. 14 indexed citations
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Light, Richard & Christina Curry. (2009). Children's Reasons for Joining Sport Clubs and Staying in Them: A Case Study of a Sydney Soccer Club.. 56(1). 23–27. 10 indexed citations
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Light, Richard, et al.. (2007). The effect of Game Sense pedagogy on primary school pre-service teachers' attitudes to teaching physical education. 54(1). 24–28. 16 indexed citations
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Chen, Sunny & Richard Light. (2006). 'I thought I'd hate cricket but I love it!': Year six students' responses to Game Sense pedagogy. [Paper in: Youth Sport in Australia and New Zealand. Light, Richard and Pope, Clive (eds).]. 9(1). 49. 6 indexed citations
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Light, Richard & Steven Kwang San Tan. (2006). Culture, embodied experience and teachers’ development of TGfU in Australia and Singapore. European Physical Education Review. 12(1). 99–117. 35 indexed citations
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Light, Richard, et al.. (2005). Integrating theory and practice in teacher education: The impact of a Game Sense unit on female pre-service primary teachers' attitudes towards teaching physical education. 38(1). 67. 23 indexed citations
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Light, Richard, et al.. (2004). Competing discourses of school sport and media-sport: primary school students' responses to media representations of Australian football.. 51. 23–27. 3 indexed citations
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Light, Richard. (1999). Regimes of training, seishin and the construction of embodied masculinity in Japanese university rugby. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 21(12). 39–54. 13 indexed citations
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Light, Richard, T. J. L. Chandler, & John Nauright. (1999). High school rugby and the construction of masculinity in Japan.. 105–127. 7 indexed citations

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