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Researcher · Davidson College · United States

Alexander J. McKelway

Alexander J. McKelway publishes mostly in Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy, on topics such as Christian Theology and Mission, Theology and Philosophy of Evil and Reformation and Early Modern Christianity.

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World rank
#3,976,439
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,086,075
of 1,627,098
Works
24
Citations
39
Citations per work
1.6
h-index
3
i10-index 2Top 66% in Religious studies
Alexander J. McKelway

What does Alexander J. McKelway research?

Alexander J. McKelway's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (57%), Social Sciences (33%).

Social Sciences: 22 works · 90.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 14 works · 57.1% of their workReligious studies: 8 works · 33.3% of their workPhilosophy: 4 works · 16.7% of their workHistory: 2 works · 7.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 33.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 21.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 works · 7.1% of their workEducation: 1 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 9.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlexander J.McKelway24works
Social Sciences90%

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 Humanities1457.1%
    2. Social Sciences833.3%
  2. Everything else29.6%
  1. 1Religious studies33% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy17% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  5. 5History7% of their works
  6. 6Education5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alexander J. McKelway's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: African Christianity, Global Christianity, Short-Term Missions, Church History, Globalization, Nationalism, Theology and Religion.

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. African Christianity112 topics
  2. Global Christianity81 topic
  3. Short-Term Missions81 topic
  4. Church History62 topics
  5. Globalization62 topics
  6. Nationalism62 topics
  7. Theology62 topics
  8. Religion52 topics
  9. Problem of Evil41 topic
  10. Theodicy41 topic
  11. American founding31 topic
  12. Biblical Interpretation31 topic
  13. Biblical Monotheism31 topic
  14. Calvinism31 topic
  15. Constitutional government31 topic
  16. Jewish Society31 topic
  17. Pentecostalism31 topic
  18. Public Sphere31 topic
  19. Reformation31 topic
  20. Secularism31 topic
  21. Climate Change21 topic
  22. Environment21 topic

Where does Alexander J. McKelway work?

Alexander J. McKelway's main affiliation in the publication record is Davidson College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alexander J. McKelway have?

OpenAlex counts 24 works and 39 citations for Alexander J. McKelway, an h-index of 3, ranking #3,976,439 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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