Kostas Kampourakis

Kostas Kampourakis

Université de Genève

H-index: 24

Europe-Switzerland

About Kostas Kampourakis

Kostas Kampourakis, With an exceptional h-index of 24 and a recent h-index of 20 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Université de Genève, specializes in the field of science education, public understanding of science, history and philosophy of science.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study

The sociopolitical in human genetics education

Darwin mythology: debunking myths, correcting falsehoods

“Genes for a role,”“genes as essences”: Secondary students' explicit and implicit intuitions about genetic essentialism and teleology

The Development of Darwin’s Theory: From Natural Theology to Natural Selection

Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities

A Justification of Legitimate Teleological Explanations in Physics Education: An Argument from Necessary Constraints

The racist origins, racialist connotations, and purity assumptions of the concept of “admixture” in human evolutionary genetics

Kostas Kampourakis Information

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Citations(all)

2252

Citations(since 2020)

1355

Cited By

1426

hIndex(all)

24

hIndex(since 2020)

20

i10Index(all)

45

i10Index(since 2020)

38

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Kostas Kampourakis Skills & Research Interests

science education

public understanding of science

history and philosophy of science

Top articles of Kostas Kampourakis

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study

Science & Education

Richard Brock

Nikos Tsourakis

Kostas Kampourakis

2024/3/16

The sociopolitical in human genetics education

Science

RG Duncan

R Krishnamoorthy

U Harms

M Haskel-Ittah

K Kampourakis

...

2024/2/23

Darwin mythology: debunking myths, correcting falsehoods

Kostas Kampourakis

2024

“Genes for a role,”“genes as essences”: Secondary students' explicit and implicit intuitions about genetic essentialism and teleology

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Florian Stern

Kostas Kampourakis

Andreas Müller

2023/2

The Development of Darwin’s Theory: From Natural Theology to Natural Selection

Kostas Kampourakis

2023/10/11

Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities

Kostas Kampourakis

2023

A Justification of Legitimate Teleological Explanations in Physics Education: An Argument from Necessary Constraints

Science & Education

Richard Brock

Kostas Kampourakis

2023/8

The racist origins, racialist connotations, and purity assumptions of the concept of “admixture” in human evolutionary genetics

Kostas Kampourakis

Erik L Peterson

2023/3/1

The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters: Dietrich, M. R., Borrello, M. E., & Harman, O. (Eds.). (2021). Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. Springer …

Kostas Kampourakis

2023/2/13

How we get Mendel wrong, and why it matters: challenging the narrative of Mendelian genetics

Kostas Kampourakis

2023/12/28

The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters

Science & Education

Kostas Kampourakis

2023/2

How Scientists Themselves May be Responsible for Science Distrust: Gary Smith (2023). Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science. Oxford: Oxford University …

Kostas Kampourakis

2023/12/12

How are High-School Students’ Teleological and Essentialist Conceptions Expressed in the Context of Genetics and What Can Teachers Do to Address Them?

Florian Stern

Kostas Kampourakis

Marine Delaval

Andreas Müller

2022/1/17

Should we give peas a chance? An argument for a Mendel-free biology curriculum

Kostas Kampourakis

2022/1/17

Reconsidering the goals of evolution education: defining evolution and evolutionary literacy

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Kostas Kampourakis

2022/12

Reconsidering the meaning of concepts in biology education

Atti del 5° Convegno sulle didattiche disciplinari

Kostas Kampourakis

2022/11/1

Michel Morange: The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020

Kostas Kampourakis

2022/3

GIVING THE FLOOR TO… KOSTAS KAMPOURAKIS IN A TRIBUTE TO NORMAN GEORGE LEDERMAN: A PASSIONATE PIONEER

APEduC Revista-Investigação e Práticas em Educação em Ciências, Matemática e Tecnologia

Kostas Kampourakis

2021/11/19

Understanding genes

Kostas Kampourakis

2021/11/4

Television and the genetic imaginary: by Sofia Bull, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2019, 239pp., 114, 39€(Hardcover), ISBN 978-1-137-54846-7

Kostas Kampourakis

2021/4/3

See List of Professors in Kostas Kampourakis University(Université de Genève)

Co-Authors

H-index: 74
Norman Lederman

Norman Lederman

Illinois Institute of Technology

H-index: 58
Tobias Uller

Tobias Uller

Lunds Universitet

H-index: 52
George P. Patrinos

George P. Patrinos

University of Patras

H-index: 51
Alessandro Minelli

Alessandro Minelli

Università degli Studi di Padova

H-index: 47
Charbel El-Hani

Charbel El-Hani

Universidade Federal da Bahia

H-index: 35
Ross H. Nehm

Ross H. Nehm

Stony Brook University

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