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Researcher · Monash University · Australia

Alistair Thomson

Alistair Thomson publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, History and Education, on topics such as Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis, Australian History and Society and Data Analysis and Archiving.

ORCID 0000-0003-4391-6839 OpenAlex
World rank
#372,242
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#13,115
of 140,210
Works
117
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
14.6
h-index
19
i10-index 27Top 7.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Alistair Thomson

What does Alistair Thomson research?

Alistair Thomson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (46%), Arts and Humanities (24%), Health Professions (5%).

Social Sciences: 88 works · 74.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 54 works · 46.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 41 works · 34.8% of their workEducation: 7 works · 6.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 works · 5.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 28 works · 24.2% of their workHistory: 28 works · 24.2% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 4.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 5 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 20.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 4.8% of their workHealth Professions: 6 works · 4.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 6 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKAlistair Thomson117works
Health Sciences5%Social Sciences75%

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 Sciences5446.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities2824.2%
    3. Psychology54.4%
  2. Everything else2420.3%
    1. Health Professions64.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science35% of their works
  2. 2History24% of their works
  3. 3Education6% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions5% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alistair Thomson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender, Narratives, Oral History, Colonialism, Australian history, British imperialism, History and Identity.

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. Gender492 topics
  2. Narratives411 topic
  3. Oral History411 topic
  4. Colonialism363 topics
  5. Australian history201 topic
  6. British imperialism201 topic
  7. History162 topics
  8. Identity162 topics
  9. Qualitative Data111 topic
  10. Secondary Analysis111 topic
  11. Collective Memory101 topic
  12. Trauma101 topic
  13. Canada81 topic
  14. International Relations81 topic
  15. Social Policy81 topic
  16. Society81 topic
  17. Vietnam81 topic
  18. World War81 topic
  19. Training Pathways61 topic
  20. Vocational Education61 topic

Where does Alistair Thomson work?

Alistair Thomson's main affiliation in the publication record is Monash University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Alistair Thomson have?

OpenAlex counts 117 works and 1,707 citations for Alistair Thomson, an h-index of 19, ranking #372,242 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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