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Researcher · University of Oregon · United States

Aletta Biersack

Aletta Biersack publishes mostly in Anthropology, Geography, Planning and Development and Demography, on topics such as Island Studies and Pacific Affairs, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies and Anthropological Studies and Insights.

OpenAlex
World rank
#377,422
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#134,494
of 1,627,098
Works
70
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
22.2
h-index
19
i10-index 29Top 7.3% in Anthropology
Aletta Biersack

What does Aletta Biersack research?

Aletta Biersack's work is mostly in Social Sciences (78%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Social Sciences: 54 works · 77.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 54 works · 77.6% of their workAnthropology: 15 works · 21.1% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 13 works · 18.4% of their workDemography: 12 works · 17.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 16.3% of their workCultural Studies: 3 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 19.0% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 3.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 3.4% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKAletta Biersack70works
Life Sciences3%Social Sciences78%

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 Sciences5477.6%
  2. Everything else1319.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences23.4%
  1. 1Anthropology21% of their works
  2. 2Geography, Planning and Development18% of their works
  3. 3Demography17% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies5% of their works
  6. 6General Agricultural and Biological Sciences3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Aletta Biersack's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Vulnerability, Islands, Small States, Pacific Islands, settlement, Governmentality and Neoliberalism.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization453 topics
  2. Vulnerability272 topics
  3. Islands231 topic
  4. Small States231 topic
  5. Pacific Islands221 topic
  6. settlement221 topic
  7. Governmentality181 topic
  8. Neoliberalism181 topic
  9. Affect51 topic
  10. Geography51 topic
  11. Indian Ocean51 topic
  12. prehistoric movement51 topic
  13. Agroecology41 topic
  14. Climate Change41 topic
  15. Food Sovereignty41 topic
  16. Migration41 topic
  17. Atlantic History31 topic
  18. Transatlantic Slave Trade31 topic

Where does Aletta Biersack work?

Aletta Biersack's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oregon, United States.

How many publications and citations does Aletta Biersack have?

OpenAlex counts 70 works and 1,551 citations for Aletta Biersack, an h-index of 19, ranking #377,422 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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