Zehra Akyol

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Zehra Akyol is a scholar working on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, Zehra Akyol has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Education, 13 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 7 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in Zehra Akyol's work include Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (13 papers), Online and Blended Learning (12 papers) and Online Learning and Analytics (7 papers). Zehra Akyol is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (13 papers), Online and Blended Learning (12 papers) and Online Learning and Analytics (7 papers). Zehra Akyol collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Türkiye and United States. Zehra Akyol's co-authors include D. Randy Garrison, M. Yaşar Özden, Norman Vaughan, Phil Ice, Martha Cleveland‐Innes, Karen Swan, J. B. Arbaugh, Jennifer Richardson and Kürşat Çağıltay and has published in prestigious journals such as The Internet and Higher Education, British Journal of Educational Technology and The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning.

In The Last Decade

Zehra Akyol

15 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Understanding cognitive presence in an online and blended... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300
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. Understanding cognitive presence in an online and blended community of inquiry: Assessing outcomes and processes for deep approaches to learning
    2010 387 citations Zehra Akyol, D. Randy Garrison British Journal of Educational Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zehra Akyol Canada 14 1.7k 1.1k 646 194 185 16 1.9k
Alexandra Pickett United States 11 1.2k 0.7× 540 0.5× 370 0.6× 208 1.1× 120 0.6× 16 1.4k
Philip Ice United States 7 1.0k 0.6× 632 0.6× 433 0.7× 123 0.6× 126 0.7× 10 1.2k
Moon‐Heum Cho United States 20 1.2k 0.7× 623 0.6× 438 0.7× 214 1.1× 257 1.4× 43 1.7k
Piia Näykki Finland 21 918 0.5× 761 0.7× 261 0.4× 266 1.4× 156 0.8× 39 1.5k
Secil Caskurlu United States 11 829 0.5× 362 0.3× 349 0.5× 171 0.9× 187 1.0× 31 1.1k
Chris Phielix Netherlands 9 828 0.5× 583 0.5× 247 0.4× 119 0.6× 85 0.5× 15 1.2k
Charles B. Hodges United States 17 726 0.4× 315 0.3× 359 0.6× 134 0.7× 119 0.6× 74 1.2k
Curtis R. Henrie United States 5 790 0.5× 319 0.3× 403 0.6× 130 0.7× 121 0.7× 7 1.1k
Chin‐Hsi Lin Hong Kong 23 951 0.6× 466 0.4× 242 0.4× 126 0.6× 175 0.9× 52 1.5k
Valerie Osland Paton United States 8 886 0.5× 721 0.6× 397 0.6× 117 0.6× 217 1.2× 22 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Zehra Akyol

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zehra Akyol

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zehra Akyol

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

All Works

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Garrison, D. Randy & Zehra Akyol. (2014). Toward the development of a metacognition construct for communities of inquiry. The Internet and Higher Education. 24. 66–71. 121 indexed citations
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Garrison, D. Randy & Zehra Akyol. (2012). Toward the development of a metacognition construct for communities of inquiry. The Internet and Higher Education. 17. 84–89. 154 indexed citations
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Akyol, Zehra & D. Randy Garrison. (2012). Educational Communities of Inquiry: Theoretical Framework, Research and Practice. 48 indexed citations
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Akyol, Zehra & D. Randy Garrison. (2011). Assessing metacognition in an online community of inquiry. The Internet and Higher Education. 14(3). 183–190. 205 indexed citations
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Akyol, Zehra. (2011). Book review. The Internet and Higher Education. 14(4). 269–270. 2 indexed citations
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Akyol, Zehra & D. Randy Garrison. (2010). Understanding cognitive presence in an online and blended community of inquiry: Assessing outcomes and processes for deep approaches to learning. British Journal of Educational Technology. 42(2). 233–250. 387 indexed citations breakdown →
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Akyol, Zehra, J. B. Arbaugh, Martha Cleveland‐Innes, et al.. (2009). A Response to the Review of the Community of Inquiry Framework. International journal of e-learning & distance education. 23(2). 123–136. 92 indexed citations
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Garrison, D. Randy & Zehra Akyol. (2009). Role of instructional technology in the transformation of higher education. Journal of Computing in Higher Education. 21(1). 19–30. 86 indexed citations
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Akyol, Zehra, Norman Vaughan, & D. Randy Garrison. (2009). The impact of course duration on the development of a community of inquiry. Interactive Learning Environments. 19(3). 231–246. 75 indexed citations
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Akyol, Zehra, D. Randy Garrison, & M. Yaşar Özden. (2009). Online and blended communities of inquiry: Exploring the developmental and perceptional differences. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning. 10(6). 65–65. 137 indexed citations
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Akyol, Zehra, D. Randy Garrison, & M. Yaşar Özden. (2009). Development of a community of inquiry in online and blended learning contexts. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 1(1). 1834–1838. 49 indexed citations
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Akyol, Zehra, et al.. (2009). The relationship between course socio-epistemological orientations and student perceptions of community of inquiry. The Internet and Higher Education. 13(1-2). 66–68. 31 indexed citations
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Akyol, Zehra & Kürşat Çağıltay. (2007). The Media-Method Debate Revisited. EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology. 2007(1). 4576–4583. 1 indexed citations

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