Rick L. Shearer

1.3k citations
15 papers · 332 indexed · h-index 8
Topics
Online and Blended Learning (10 papers)Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (6 papers)Online Learning and Analytics (3 papers)

In The Last Decade

Rick L. Shearer

15 papers receiving 278 citations

Peers

Rick L. Shearer
Comparison fields: 5 of 52
  • Education 265
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 117
  • Computer Science Applications 72
  • Social Psychology 55
  • Information Systems 54
Replace Baruch Offir with:
Baruch Offir Israel
Gary Motteram United Kingdom
Andria Young United States
Eva Mary Bures Canada
Meryem Yılmaz Soylu United States
C. Candace Chou United States
Constance E. Wanstreet United States
Adrie A. Koehler United States
Evelyn McLellan United Kingdom
Meng-Fen Grace Lin United States
Rick L. Shearer relative to Baruch Offir Israel Baruch Offir's profile →
Citations per field
00.5×1.5×
Baruch Offir · 1×
Citations per year

Countries citing papers authored by Rick L. Shearer

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Rick L. Shearer's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Rick L. Shearer with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Rick L. Shearer more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Rick L. Shearer

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Rick L. Shearer. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Rick L. Shearer. The network helps show where Rick L. Shearer may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rick L. Shearer

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

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
1 2
2 3
3 82
4 6
5
Transactional Distance and Adaptive Learning: Planning for the Future of Higher Education
7
6 13
7 15
8
Transactional Distance in MOOCs: A Critical Analysis of Dialogue, Structure, and Learner Autonomy
12
9
The Landscape of Quality Assurance in Distance Education
8
10
Transactional Distance and Dialogue: An Exploratory Study to Refine the Theoretical Construct of Dialogue in Online Learning
14
11
Project Management for Web-Based Course Development.
2
12
Accreditation of Distance Education (Part 1).
1
13
CMC Environments Designed To Facilitate Multiple Levels of Interaction.
1
14 1
15 165

About Rick L. Shearer

Rick L. Shearer is a scholar working on Computer Science Applications, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Education, having authored 15 papers that have together received 332 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Online and Blended Learning (10 papers), Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (6 papers) and Online Learning and Analytics (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Science Applications (72 citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (117 citations) and Education (265 citations). Rick L. Shearer has collaborated with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include Farhad Saba, Tugce Aldemir, David C. Kendrick and Dong Li. Their work appears in journals such as The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, American Journal of Distance Education and Learning Research and Practice.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Rankless by CCL
2026