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Researcher · Cato Institute · United States

Alex Nowrasteh

Alex Nowrasteh publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Demography, on topics such as Migration and Labor Dynamics, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies and Migration, Refugees, and Integration.

ORCID 0000-0002-0255-6649 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,189,014
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#381,696
of 1,627,098
Works
58
Citations
736
Citations per work
12.7
h-index
12
i10-index 16Top 17% in Sociology and Political Science
Alex Nowrasteh

What does Alex Nowrasteh research?

Alex Nowrasteh's work is mostly in Social Sciences (55%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (17%), Health Professions (5%).

Social Sciences: 44 works · 76.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 32 works · 54.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 25 works · 43.2% of their workDemography: 7 works · 11.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 works · 17.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 works · 12.9% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 works · 4.3% of their workPsychology: 2 works · 4.3% of their workClinical Psychology: 2 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 18.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 5.0% of their workHealth Professions: 3 works · 5.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 3 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKAlex Nowrasteh58works
Health Sciences5%Social Sciences76%

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 Sciences3254.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1017.2%
    3. Psychology24.3%
  2. Everything else1118.8%
    1. Health Professions35.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science43% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics13% of their works
  3. 3Demography12% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions5% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6General Economics, Econometrics and Finance4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alex Nowrasteh's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Human Capital, Labor Market, Immigration, Network Effects, Remittances, Social Capital, Culture and Institutions.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Human Capital402 topics
  2. Labor Market353 topics
  3. Immigration332 topics
  4. Network Effects261 topic
  5. Remittances261 topic
  6. Social Capital202 topics
  7. Culture141 topic
  8. Institutions141 topic
  9. Mental Health102 topics
  10. Fiscal Policy82 topics
  11. Politics71 topic
  12. Social Boundaries71 topic
  13. Ethnic Minority Business61 topic
  14. Immigrant Entrepreneurship61 topic
  15. Immigrant51 topic
  16. Precarious Employment51 topic
  17. Refugee51 topic
  18. Unemployment51 topic
  19. Informal Economy41 topic
  20. Infrastructure41 topic
  21. Tax Evasion41 topic
  22. Taxation41 topic

Where does Alex Nowrasteh work?

Alex Nowrasteh's main affiliation in the publication record is Cato Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alex Nowrasteh have?

OpenAlex counts 58 works and 736 citations for Alex Nowrasteh, an h-index of 12, ranking #1,189,014 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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