{"id":"https://openalex.org/W38643591","doi":null,"title":"More Powerful than a Locomotive: Using Graphic Novels to Motivate Struggling Male Adolescent Readers","display_name":"More Powerful than a Locomotive: Using Graphic Novels to Motivate Struggling Male Adolescent Readers","publication_year":2011,"publication_date":"2011-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W38643591","mag":"38643591"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:libsci_facpub-1077","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/libsci_facpub/63","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4377196354","display_name":"Scholar Commons (University of South Carolina)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I155781252","host_organization_name":"University of South Carolina","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I155781252"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Faculty Publications","raw_type":"text"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5076932965","display_name":"Karen W. Gavigan","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Karen Gavigan","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5076932965"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":37.7864,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":18,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.9941915,"is_in_top_1_percent":true,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":97},"biblio":{"volume":"1","issue":"3","first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12390","display_name":"Comics and Graphic Narratives","score":0.6542999744415283,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12390","display_name":"Comics and Graphic Narratives","score":0.6542999744415283,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13061","display_name":"Literacy and Educational Practices","score":0.32350000739097595,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3304","display_name":"Education"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10103","display_name":"Reading and Literacy Development","score":0.006800000090152025,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3204","display_name":"Developmental and Educational Psychology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/32","display_name":"Psychology"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/graphic-novels","display_name":"graphic novels","score":1.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/struggling-readers","display_name":"struggling readers","score":0.949999988079071},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/reading-motivation","display_name":"reading motivation","score":0.8960000276565552},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/reading-engagement","display_name":"reading engagement","score":0.7440000176429749},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/book-clubs","display_name":"book clubs","score":0.7239999771118164},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/self-selected-reading","display_name":"self-selected reading","score":0.8970000147819519},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/eighth-grade-students","display_name":"eighth grade students","score":0.722000002861023}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C112698675","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37038","display_name":"Advertising","level":1,"score":0.5192858576774597},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C153349607","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36649","display_name":"Visual arts","level":1,"score":0.3726227283477783},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.3637826442718506},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.3600371479988098},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C15744967","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9418","display_name":"Psychology","level":0,"score":0.3382534384727478},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144133560","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4830453","display_name":"Business","level":0,"score":0.29701757431030273},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.16692990064620972}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"pmh:oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:libsci_facpub-1077","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/libsci_facpub/63","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4377196354","display_name":"Scholar Commons (University of South Carolina)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I155781252","host_organization_name":"University of South Carolina","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I155781252"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Faculty Publications","raw_type":"text"},{"id":"mag:38643591","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/libsci_facpub/63/","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":null}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"sustainable_development_goals_aurora":[{"display_name":"Gender equality","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/5","score":0.5099999904632568}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W1505262071","https://openalex.org/W1495902962","https://openalex.org/W2995792843","https://openalex.org/W7042527198","https://openalex.org/W6991337733","https://openalex.org/W2414810580","https://openalex.org/W7047465056","https://openalex.org/W2463575710","https://openalex.org/W2683213210","https://openalex.org/W7035962629"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Although":[0],"the":[1,34,41,61,66,80,83,95,106,121],"popularity":[2],"of":[3,28,36,85,109],"graphic":[4,52,56,70,86,125,130],"novels":[5,53,71,87,126,131],"is":[6,13,31],"growing":[7],"by":[8],"leaps":[9],"and":[10,72,111,136],"bounds,":[11],"there":[12],"currently":[14],"little":[15],"empirical":[16],"research":[17],"documenting":[18],"their":[19,76,115,133,142],"use":[20,84],"with":[21,75,88],"struggling":[22,46,89],"male":[23,48,90],"adolescent":[24,91],"readers.":[25,92],"The":[26],"purpose":[27],"this":[29],"article":[30],"to":[32,51,98,124],"present":[33],"results":[35],"a":[37,55,118,138],"study":[38,81],"that":[39,128],"examined":[40],"ways":[42],"in":[43,105,114],"which":[44],"four":[45],"eighth-grade":[47],"readers":[49],"responded":[50],"during":[54],"novel":[57],"book":[58,63],"club.":[59],"During":[60],"twelve":[62],"club":[64],"sessions,":[65],"students":[67],"read":[68],"self-selected":[69],"discussed":[73],"them":[74],"peers.":[77],"Findings":[78],"from":[79,94],"support":[82],"Results":[93],"Adolescent":[96],"Motivation":[97],"Read":[99],"Profile":[100],"(AMRP)":[101],"revealed":[102],"significant":[103],"improvement":[104,113],"students\u2019":[107],"value":[108],"reading":[110,129,134,143],"moderate":[112],"self-concept":[116],"as":[117],"reader.":[119],"Furthermore,":[120],"participants\u2019":[122],"responses":[123],"indicated":[127],"improved":[132],"engagement":[135],"had":[137],"positive":[139],"effect":[140],"on":[141],"motivation.":[144]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":3}],"updated_date":"2026-10-27T15:51:10.671819","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}