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Joan Middendorƒ

Social Sciences · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1989Rising activity
Evaluation of Teaching PracticesEducator Training and Historical PedagogyInnovative Teaching Methodologies in Social SciencesInnovative Teaching and Learning MethodsEducation and Critical Thinking Development

Publications

54

Citations

675

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

37

Publishing since 1989

Research summary
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Joan Middendorf studies how students learn in college classrooms, with a particular focus on the "Decoding the Disciplines" approach he points where students get stuck (called "bottlenecks") and how instructors can identify and teach through them. The work also examines teaching strategies such as Just-in-Time Teaching and connects classroom research (the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) to educational theory.

Decoding the Disciplines and learning bottlenecksScholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)Faculty mentoring and instructor developmentInnovative teaching strategies (e.g., Just-in-Time Teaching)Discipline-specific pedagogy (chemistry, statistics, history)

Publication activity has been uneven over the past decade, with quiet years around 2020 80132022 followed by a large spike in 2023 and continued output in 2025.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

In context
Among 1,197 established Social Sciences PIs within our index
Citations: 675cohort median 1,128
h-index: 10cohort median 16
Publications / year (recent): 4.0cohort median 2.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~2 · 84% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 5 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.0/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 1 publication182019: 3 publications192021222023: 13 publications13232024: 1 publication242025: 6 publications2526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 1 collaborator at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 0 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Transformative Dialogues Teaching and Learning Journal×4
  • New Directions for Teaching and Learning×3
  • To improve the academy×2
  • Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality×1
  • International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning×1
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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