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Researcher · École des hautes études en sciences sociales · France

Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Urban Studies, on topics such as French Urban and Social Studies, Social Sciences and Governance and Education, sociology, and vocational training.

ORCID 0000-0001-7330-2163 OpenAlex
World rank
#206,824
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#13,239
of 324,115
Works
556
Citations
8.5k
Citations per work
15.2
h-index
42
i10-index 100Top 0.8% in Sociology and Political Science
Alain Touraine

What does Alain Touraine research?

Alain Touraine's work is mostly in Social Sciences (67%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Social Sciences: 387 works · 69.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 371 works · 66.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 206 works · 37.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 85 works · 15.2% of their workUrban Studies: 42 works · 7.5% of their workGeneral Social Sciences: 23 works · 4.2% of their workEducation: 16 works · 2.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 16 works · 2.9% of their workHistory: 16 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 169 works · 30.4% of their workTHEIR WORKAlain Touraine556works
Social Sciences70%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences37166.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities162.9%
  2. Everything else16930.4%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science37% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations15% of their works
  3. 3Urban Studies8% of their works
  4. 4General Social Sciences4% of their works
  5. 5History3% of their works
  6. 6Education3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alain Touraine's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Community Engagement, Territorial Governance, Environmental Participation, Sustainable Development, Economic Development, Social Innovation, Welfare State and Professional Practices.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Community Engagement1852 topics
  2. Territorial Governance1852 topics
  3. Environmental Participation1161 topic
  4. Sustainable Development1161 topic
  5. Economic Development691 topic
  6. Social Innovation691 topic
  7. Welfare State602 topics
  8. Professional Practices431 topic
  9. Public Action431 topic
  10. Community Intervention401 topic
  11. Social Work401 topic
  12. Globalization392 topics
  13. Family Law261 topic
  14. Reform261 topic
  15. Global Development Goals221 topic
  16. Tunisian Revolution221 topic
  17. Labor Market201 topic
  18. Social Policy201 topic
  19. Capitalism191 topic
  20. Marxism191 topic

Where does Alain Touraine work?

Alain Touraine's main affiliation in the publication record is École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France.

How many publications and citations does Alain Touraine have?

OpenAlex counts 556 works and 8,463 citations for Alain Touraine, an h-index of 42, ranking #206,824 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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