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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

Alan Dundes

Alan Dundes publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy, on topics such as Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies, Themes in Literature Analysis and Biblical Studies and Interpretation.

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World rank
#25,751
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,636
of 1,627,098
Works
252
Citations
5.5k
Citations per work
21.7
h-index
43
i10-index 104Top 0.1% in Literature and Literary Theory
Alan Dundes

What does Alan Dundes research?

Alan Dundes's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (44%), Social Sciences (15%).

Social Sciences: 146 works · 58.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 110 works · 43.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 82 works · 32.5% of their workHistory: 10 works · 4.0% of their workPhilosophy: 10 works · 4.0% of their workReligious studies: 8 works · 3.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 37 works · 14.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 28 works · 11.0% of their workGender Studies: 9 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 106 works · 41.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan Dundes252works
Social Sciences58%

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. Arts and Humanities11043.5%
    2. Social Sciences3714.6%
  2. Everything else10641.9%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory32% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy4% of their works
  4. 4History4% of their works
  5. 5Gender Studies4% of their works
  6. 6Religious studies3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan Dundes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Children's Literature, Gender Roles, Fairy Tales, Folklore, Fantasy, Young Adult, Biblical Monotheism and Jewish Society.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Children's Literature1302 topics
  2. Gender Roles1182 topics
  3. Fairy Tales1071 topic
  4. Folklore1071 topic
  5. Fantasy231 topic
  6. Young Adult231 topic
  7. Biblical Monotheism131 topic
  8. Jewish Society131 topic
  9. Advertising111 topic
  10. Media Representation111 topic
  11. Occultism91 topic
  12. Spiritualism91 topic
  13. Language Change81 topic
  14. Sociolinguistic Variation81 topic
  15. Israel71 topic
  16. Palestine71 topic
  17. Food Tourism61 topic
  18. Gastronomy61 topic

Where does Alan Dundes work?

Alan Dundes's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan Dundes have?

OpenAlex counts 252 works and 5,465 citations for Alan Dundes, an h-index of 43, ranking #25,751 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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