Robert Serpell

3.4k citations
84 papers · 1.5k indexed · h-index 22

Impact in

    • Reading and Literacy Development
    • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Education top 1%
    • Early Childhood Education and Development
    • Child Development and Digital Technology
    • Parental Involvement in Education

Papers in

Robert Serpell

83 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers

Robert Serpell
Comparison fields: 5 of 103
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 566
  • Education 873
  • Safety Research 187
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 221
  • Linguistics and Language 65
Replace Helenrose Fives with:
Helenrose Fives United States
Teresa Duncan United States
Siegfried Engelmann United States
Pablo Chavajay United States
Brendan John Bartlett Australia
Maribeth Gettinger United States
C. E. van Kraayenoord Australia
Lynn Okagaki United States
Ron Oostdam Netherlands
Reuven Feuerstein Israel
Robert Serpell relative to Helenrose Fives United States Helenrose Fives's profile →
Citations per field
00.5×2.9×
Helenrose Fives · 1×
Citations per year

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Serpell

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Robert Serpell'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 Robert Serpell with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Robert Serpell more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Serpell

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Robert Serpell. 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 Robert Serpell. The network helps show where Robert Serpell may publish in the future.

Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Robert Serpell, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with Robert Serpell Line = papers co-authored together Robert Serpell links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown

Showing the 20 most-cited of 84 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.

#Work
1 1979151
2 2001141
3 199775
4 195872
5 201170
6 201465
7
The Significance of Schooling: Life-Journeys in an African Society
201055
8 200253
9 201546
10 197145
11 198042
12 199442
13
Culture's influence on behaviour
197639
14 201627
15 197126
16 199825
17 199725
18 200724
19 201122
20 200822

About Robert Serpell

Robert Serpell is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Safety Research, Education, Human Factors and Ergonomics and Linguistics and Language, having authored 84 papers that have together received 1.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Early Childhood Education and Development (25 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (19 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (15 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (11 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (10 papers), Education Systems and Policy (9 papers), Educational and Psychological Assessments (8 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (566 citations), Education (873 citations), Safety Research (187 citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (221 citations) and Linguistics and Language (65 citations). Robert Serpell has collaborated with scholars based in Zambia, United States and Finland. Frequent co-authors include Susan Sonnenschein, Linda Baker, Jan B. Deręgowski, Tamara Chansa-Kabali, Heikki Lyytinen, Jari Westerholm, Ulla Richardson, Kofi Marfo, Günther Fink and Dana Charles McCoy. Their work appears in journals such as International Journal of Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Human Development and Child Development Perspectives.

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