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Researcher · Universidad Mayor de San Andrés · Bolivia

Alison Spedding

Alison Spedding publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Clinical Psychology, on topics such as Psychedelics and Drug Studies, Sex work and related issues and Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance.

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World rank
#2,262,157
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Bolivia
#75
of 791
Works
17
Citations
93
Citations per work
5.5
h-index
5
i10-index 3Top 53% in Sociology and Political Science
Alison Spedding

What does Alison Spedding research?

Alison Spedding's work is mostly in Social Sciences (64%), Psychology (9%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%).

Social Sciences: 12 works · 72.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 63.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 42.4% of their workCultural Studies: 2 works · 9.1% of their workGender Studies: 1 works · 6.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 works · 6.1% of their workPsychology: 2 works · 9.1% of their workClinical Psychology: 2 works · 9.1% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 21.1% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 6.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 6.1% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKAlison Spedding17works
Life Sciences6%Social Sciences73%

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 Sciences1163.7%
    2. Psychology29.1%
  2. Everything else421.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences16.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science42% of their works
  2. 2Cultural Studies9% of their works
  3. 3Clinical Psychology9% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  5. 5Gender Studies6% of their works
  6. 6General Agricultural and Biological Sciences6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alison Spedding's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Violence, Globalization, Criminal Networks, Organized Crime, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Sex Work and Trafficking.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Violence62 topics
  2. Globalization42 topics
  3. Criminal Networks31 topic
  4. Organized Crime31 topic
  5. Psilocybin31 topic
  6. Psychedelics31 topic
  7. Sex Work31 topic
  8. Trafficking31 topic
  9. Food Security22 topics
  10. Gender21 topic
  11. Intersectionality21 topic
  12. Rural Communities22 topics
  13. Agriculture11 topic
  14. Agroecology11 topic
  15. Cannabinoid Receptors11 topic
  16. Drug Analysis11 topic
  17. Endocannabinoid System11 topic
  18. Forensic Toxicology11 topic
  19. Sustainability11 topic
  20. Sustainable Agriculture11 topic

Where does Alison Spedding work?

Alison Spedding's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia.

How many publications and citations does Alison Spedding have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 93 citations for Alison Spedding, an h-index of 5, ranking #2,262,157 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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