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Researcher · LVR-Klinik Köln · Germany

Alexander Thomas

Alexander Thomas publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as International Student and Expatriate Challenges, Linguistic Education and Pedagogy and Sociology and Education Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-5788-7883 OpenAlex
World rank
#415,379
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#20,447
of 364,343
Works
119
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
14.0
h-index
17
i10-index 27Top 9.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Alexander Thomas

What does Alexander Thomas research?

Alexander Thomas's work is mostly in Social Sciences (41%), Arts and Humanities (21%), Psychology (6%).

Social Sciences: 81 works · 68.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 49 works · 40.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 18 works · 15.4% of their workCommunication: 17 works · 14.6% of their workEducation: 13 works · 10.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 25 works · 21.1% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 16 works · 13.8% of their workReligious studies: 9 works · 7.3% of their workPsychology: 7 works · 6.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 7 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 38 works · 31.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAlexander Thomas119works
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 Sciences4940.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities2521.1%
    3. Psychology76.1%
  2. Everything else3831.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  2. 2Communication15% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics14% of their works
  4. 4Education11% of their works
  5. 5Religious studies7% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alexander Thomas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Intercultural Competence, Cultural Intelligence, International Students, Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, German as a Foreign Language, Language Learning, Bildungsungleichheit and Governance.

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. Intercultural Competence622 topics
  2. Cultural Intelligence361 topic
  3. International Students361 topic
  4. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse302 topics
  5. German as a Foreign Language261 topic
  6. Language Learning261 topic
  7. Bildungsungleichheit221 topic
  8. Governance221 topic
  9. Interreligious Relations181 topic
  10. Religious Education181 topic
  11. School Engagement91 topic
  12. Student-Teacher Relationships91 topic
  13. Competence81 topic
  14. Education81 topic
  15. Cultural Psychology71 topic
  16. Discourse Analysis71 topic
  17. Language Variation71 topic
  18. Values71 topic

Where does Alexander Thomas work?

Alexander Thomas's main affiliation in the publication record is LVR-Klinik Köln, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Alexander Thomas have?

OpenAlex counts 119 works and 1,661 citations for Alexander Thomas, an h-index of 17, ranking #415,379 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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