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Researcher · Wellesley College · United States

Allan W. Eister

Allan W. Eister publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy, on topics such as Religion and Society Interactions, Religion, Society, and Development and Mormonism, Religion, and History.

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World rank
#291,921
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#106,179
of 1,627,098
Works
41
Citations
636
Citations per work
15.5
h-index
13
i10-index 14Top 15% in Sociology and Political Science
Allan W. Eister

What does Allan W. Eister research?

Allan W. Eister's work is mostly in Social Sciences (61%), Arts and Humanities (19%).

Social Sciences: 33 works · 80.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 25 works · 61.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 19 works · 46.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 6.7% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 works · 4.4% of their workEducation: 1 works · 3.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 8 works · 18.9% of their workHistory: 4 works · 10.0% of their workPhilosophy: 4 works · 8.9% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 20.0% of their workTHEIR WORKAllan W. Eister41works
Social Sciences80%

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 Sciences2561.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities818.9%
  2. Everything else820.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science47% of their works
  2. 2History10% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy9% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  5. 5Geography, Planning and Development4% of their works
  6. 6Education3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Allan W. Eister's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Religion, Nationalism, Secularism, Globalization, Public Sphere, Faith-Based Organizations, Social Services and Religious 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. Religion424 topics
  2. Nationalism262 topics
  3. Secularism252 topics
  4. Globalization231 topic
  5. Public Sphere231 topic
  6. Faith-Based Organizations101 topic
  7. Social Services101 topic
  8. Religious Identity92 topics
  9. Comparative Method71 topic
  10. Mormonism71 topic
  11. Philosophy71 topic
  12. Polygamy71 topic
  13. American founding31 topic
  14. Constitutional government31 topic
  15. Global Christianity21 topic
  16. Health21 topic
  17. Pilgrimage21 topic
  18. Religious Tourism21 topic
  19. Short-Term Missions21 topic
  20. Spirituality21 topic

Where does Allan W. Eister work?

Allan W. Eister's main affiliation in the publication record is Wellesley College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Allan W. Eister have?

OpenAlex counts 41 works and 636 citations for Allan W. Eister, an h-index of 13, ranking #291,921 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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