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Researcher · University of the West Indies · Barbados

Alvin O. Thompson

Alvin O. Thompson publishes mostly in Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Colonialism, slavery, and trade, Caribbean history, culture, and politics and Cuban History and Society.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,289,826
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Barbados
#61
of 190
Works
21
Citations
396
Citations per work
18.9
h-index
8
i10-index 6Top 34% in Anthropology
Alvin O. Thompson

What does Alvin O. Thompson research?

Alvin O. Thompson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (88%), Engineering (2%), Environmental Science (2%).

Social Sciences: 19 works · 88.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 19 works · 88.1% of their workAnthropology: 9 works · 40.5% of their workCultural Studies: 6 works · 26.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 19.0% of their workTransportation: 1 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 7.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 4.8% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 2.4% of their workOcean Engineering: 1 works · 2.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 2.4% of their workEcology: 1 works · 2.4% of their workTHEIR WORKAlvin O. Thompson21works
Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences88%

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 Sciences1988.1%
  2. Everything else17.1%
    1. Engineering12.4%
    2. Environmental Science12.4%
  1. 1Anthropology40% of their works
  2. 2Cultural Studies26% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  4. 4Transportation2% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Ecology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alvin O. Thompson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Culture, Race, Nationalism, Atlantic History, Caribbean, Globalization, Transatlantic Slave Trade and Cuba.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Culture152 topics
  2. Race152 topics
  3. Nationalism142 topics
  4. Atlantic History111 topic
  5. Caribbean111 topic
  6. Globalization111 topic
  7. Transatlantic Slave Trade111 topic
  8. Cuba41 topic
  9. Healthcare41 topic
  10. Colonialism31 topic
  11. Ethnic Minority Business31 topic
  12. Immigrant Entrepreneurship31 topic
  13. Indian Ocean31 topic
  14. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  15. prehistoric movement31 topic
  16. Climate Change11 topic
  17. Coral Reefs11 topic
  18. Offshore Decommissioning11 topic
  19. Ship Recycling11 topic

Where does Alvin O. Thompson work?

Alvin O. Thompson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the West Indies, Barbados.

How many publications and citations does Alvin O. Thompson have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 396 citations for Alvin O. Thompson, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,289,826 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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