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Researcher · University of Exeter · United Kingdom

Alex Mesoudi

Alex Mesoudi publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Social Psychology, on topics such as Language and cultural evolution, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation and Cultural Differences and Values.

ORCID 0000-0002-7740-1625 OpenAlex
World rank
#13,018
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#875
of 367,258
Works
224
Citations
11k
Citations per work
47.2
h-index
50
i10-index 87Top 0.4% in Sociology and Political Science
Alex Mesoudi

What does Alex Mesoudi research?

Alex Mesoudi's work is mostly in Social Sciences (51%), Psychology (18%), Physics and Astronomy (4%).

Social Sciences: 155 works · 69.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 115 works · 51.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 55 works · 24.4% of their workCultural Studies: 51 works · 22.6% of their workDemography: 10 works · 4.4% of their workPsychology: 40 works · 17.9% of their workSocial Psychology: 28 works · 12.6% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 12 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 61 works · 27.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 3.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 works · 3.6% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 8 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlex Mesoudi224works
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences69%

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 Sciences11551.4%
    2. Psychology4017.9%
  2. Everything else6127.1%
    1. Physics and Astronomy83.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science24% of their works
  2. 2Cultural Studies23% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology13% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  5. 5Demography4% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alex Mesoudi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cultural Evolution, Language, Social Learning, Altruism, Cooperation, Cultural Psychology, Values and Adaptation.

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. Cultural Evolution2432 topics
  2. Language1241 topic
  3. Social Learning1241 topic
  4. Altruism1191 topic
  5. Cooperation1191 topic
  6. Cultural Psychology411 topic
  7. Values411 topic
  8. Adaptation372 topics
  9. Evolutionary Psychology261 topic
  10. Human Behavior261 topic
  11. Culture211 topic
  12. Institutions211 topic
  13. Opinion Dynamics171 topic
  14. Social Influence171 topic
  15. Hominin Genetics131 topic
  16. Paleolithic Archaeology131 topic
  17. Evolution111 topic
  18. Mutation111 topic

Where does Alex Mesoudi work?

Alex Mesoudi's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Exeter, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alex Mesoudi have?

OpenAlex counts 224 works and 10,573 citations for Alex Mesoudi, an h-index of 50, ranking #13,018 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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