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Researcher · Federation University · Australia

Alan Lawton

Alan Lawton publishes mostly in Public Administration, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Public Policy and Administration Research, Ethics in Business and Education and Management and Organizational Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-0067-0173 OpenAlex
World rank
#209,022
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#7,320
of 140,210
Works
65
Citations
2k
Citations per work
30.6
h-index
24
i10-index 31Top 8.2% in Public Administration
Alan Lawton

What does Alan Lawton research?

Alan Lawton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (42%), Business, Management and Accounting (19%), Decision Sciences (7%).

Social Sciences: 44 works · 68.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 42.0% of their workPublic Administration: 14 works · 22.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 works · 10.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 10.0% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 12 works · 18.7% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 8 works · 12.0% of their workStrategy and Management: 4 works · 6.7% of their workDecision Sciences: 5 works · 7.3% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 5 works · 7.3% of their workEverything else: 21 works · 32.0% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan Lawton65works
Social Sciences68%

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 Sciences2742.0%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting1218.7%
    3. Decision Sciences57.3%
  2. Everything else2132.0%
  1. 1Public Administration22% of their works
  2. 2Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management12% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations10% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems and Management7% of their works
  6. 6Strategy and Management7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan Lawton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Institutional Theory, Performance Measurement, Collaborative Governance, Public Management Reform, Ethical Decision Making, Moral Identity, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Organizational Change.

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. Institutional Theory392 topics
  2. Performance Measurement352 topics
  3. Collaborative Governance301 topic
  4. Public Management Reform301 topic
  5. Ethical Decision Making101 topic
  6. Moral Identity101 topic
  7. Institutional Entrepreneurship91 topic
  8. Organizational Change91 topic
  9. Prosocial Behavior61 topic
  10. Volunteering61 topic
  11. Management Control Systems51 topic
  12. Organizational Behavior51 topic
  13. Regulatory Capitalism51 topic
  14. Self-Regulation51 topic
  15. Strategic Management51 topic
  16. Work Engagement51 topic
  17. Direct Payments31 topic
  18. Personalisation31 topic

Where does Alan Lawton work?

Alan Lawton's main affiliation in the publication record is Federation University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Alan Lawton have?

OpenAlex counts 65 works and 1,986 citations for Alan Lawton, an h-index of 24, ranking #209,022 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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