Sally M. Thomas
Impact in
- Education top 0.1%
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- School Choice and Performance
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- School Leadership and Teacher Performance
- Information Systems and Management top 0.5%
- Educational Assessment and Improvement
Papers in
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- Educational Assessment and Improvement 19
- Education 38
- School Choice and Performance 23
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies 9
- Educational Research and Methods 2
- Citizenship Education and Democracy 2
- School Leadership and Teacher Performance 1
- Co-authors
- Louise Stoll (9 shared papers)Agnes McMahon (4 shared papers)Ray Bolam (6 shared papers)Mike Wallace (3 shared papers)Peter Mortimore (24 shared papers)Pam Sammons (24 shared papers)Harvey Goldstein (8 shared papers)Rebecca Smees (14 shared papers)
- Journals
- Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice (8 papers)School Effectiveness and School Improvement (5 papers)Oxford Review of Education (4 papers)British Educational Research Journal (3 papers)Improving Schools (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomChinaUnited States
In The Last Decade
Sally M. Thomas
103 papers receiving 3.4k citations
Sally M. Thomas's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 69
- Education 2.1k
- Information Systems and Management 321
- Safety Research 157
- Computer Science Applications 28
- Statistics and Probability 54
Countries citing papers authored by Sally M. Thomas
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Sally M. Thomas, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 112 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 1617 |
| 2 | Creating and Sustaining Effective Professional Learning Communities | 2005 | 375 |
| 3 | Forging Links: Effective Schools and Effective Departments | 1997 | 215 |
| 4 | 1993 | 141 | |
| 5 | The Educational Progress of Looked After Children in England:Linking Care and Educational Data | 2015 | 141 |
| 6 | 1996 | 121 | |
| 7 | 1996 | 94 | |
| 8 | 2013 | 92 | |
| 9 | Educational Evaluation, Assessment and Monitoring: A Systematic Approach | 2003 | 70 |
| 10 | 1997 | 69 | |
| 11 | 1997 | 67 | |
| 12 | 2001 | 67 | |
| 13 | 2001 | 57 | |
| 14 | Assessing School Effectiveness: Developing Measures to put School Performance in Context | 1994 | 53 |
| 15 | 2007 | 53 | |
| 16 | 1994 | 50 | |
| 17 | 1995 | 47 | |
| 18 | 2006 | 40 | |
| 19 | 2010 | 39 | |
| 20 | Do Schools Perform Consistently across Outcomes and Areas | 1996 | 35 |
About Sally M. Thomas
Sally M. Thomas is a scholar working on Information Systems and Management, Education, Safety Research, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 112 papers that have together received 4.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include School Choice and Performance (23 papers), Educational Assessment and Improvement (19 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (9 papers), Global Educational Policies and Reforms (6 papers), Child Welfare and Adoption (5 papers), Educational Research and Methods (2 papers), Citizenship Education and Democracy (2 papers) and School Leadership and Teacher Performance (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Education (2.1k citations), Information Systems and Management (321 citations), Safety Research (157 citations), Computer Science Applications (28 citations) and Statistics and Probability (54 citations). Sally M. Thomas has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Frequent co-authors include Louise Stoll, Agnes McMahon, Ray Bolam, Mike Wallace, Peter Mortimore, Pam Sammons, Harvey Goldstein, Rebecca Smees, John M Gray and Jaap Scheerens. Their work appears in journals such as Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Oxford Review of Education, British Educational Research Journal and Improving Schools.
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