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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Alvin J. Silk

Alvin J. Silk publishes mostly in Marketing, Economics and Econometrics and Strategy and Management, on topics such as Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, Merger and Competition Analysis and Firm Innovation and Growth.

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World rank
#453,823
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#159,333
of 1,627,098
Works
112
Citations
2.7k
Citations per work
24.5
h-index
25
i10-index 43Top 7.6% in Marketing
Alvin J. Silk

What does Alvin J. Silk research?

Alvin J. Silk's work is mostly in Business, Management and Accounting (40%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (18%), Decision Sciences (6%).

Social Sciences: 78 works · 69.4% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 44 works · 39.5% of their workMarketing: 28 works · 25.0% of their workStrategy and Management: 12 works · 10.4% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 5 works · 4.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 20 works · 18.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 20 works · 18.3% of their workDecision Sciences: 7 works · 6.0% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 7 works · 6.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 5.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 34 works · 30.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlvin J. Silk112works
Social Sciences69%

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. Business, Management and Accounting4439.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2018.3%
    3. Decision Sciences76.0%
    4. Social Sciences65.6%
  2. Everything else3430.6%
  1. 1Marketing25% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics18% of their works
  3. 3Strategy and Management10% of their works
  4. 4Management Science and Operations Research6% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alvin J. Silk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Consumer Behavior, Marketing Strategies, Retail Economics, R&D, Price Discrimination, Collusion, Competition and Firm Survival.

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.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Consumer Behavior552 topics
  2. Marketing Strategies411 topic
  3. Retail Economics411 topic
  4. R&D392 topics
  5. Price Discrimination382 topics
  6. Collusion241 topic
  7. Competition241 topic
  8. Firm Survival151 topic
  9. Innovation151 topic
  10. Brand Equity141 topic
  11. Brand Trust141 topic
  12. Platform Competition141 topic
  13. Two-Sided Markets141 topic
  14. Agent-Based Modeling71 topic
  15. Customer Satisfaction71 topic
  16. Electronic Word-of-Mouth71 topic
  17. Innovation Diffusion71 topic
  18. Service Quality71 topic
  19. Social Media71 topic

Where does Alvin J. Silk work?

Alvin J. Silk's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alvin J. Silk have?

OpenAlex counts 112 works and 2,743 citations for Alvin J. Silk, an h-index of 25, ranking #453,823 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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