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Researcher · Harvard University Press · United States

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Economic Theory and Institutions and Political Philosophy and Ethics.

ORCID 0000-0002-6203-4674 OpenAlex
World rank
#28
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#16
of 358,040
Works
190
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
25.5

What does Amartya Sen research?

Sociology and Political Science: 20.3%Economics and Econometrics: 16.6%Political Science and International Relations: 12.3%General Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.3%other fields: 45.5%20%top field
Sociology and Political Science20.3%Economics and Econometrics16.6%Political Science and International Relations12.3%General Economics, Econometrics and Finance5.3%other fields45.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science20% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics17% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  4. 4General Economics, Econometrics and Finance5% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Amartya Sen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Economic Growth, Income Inequality, Poverty Measurement, Economic Institutions, Equality, Human Rights and Institutional Economics.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization324 topics
  2. Economic Growth303 topics
  3. Income Inequality161 topic
  4. Poverty Measurement161 topic
  5. Economic Institutions151 topic
  6. Equality152 topics
  7. Human Rights152 topics
  8. Institutional Economics151 topic
  9. Inequality142 topics
  10. Cosmopolitanism101 topic
  11. Global Justice101 topic
  12. Welfare State102 topics
  13. Financial Crisis81 topic
  14. Income Distribution81 topic
  15. Asset Pricing61 topic
  16. Development61 topic
  17. Justice61 topic
  18. Monetary Equilibrium61 topic
  19. European Union51 topic
  20. Labor Market51 topic
  21. Social Policy51 topic
  22. Social Rights51 topic

Where does Amartya Sen work?

Amartya Sen's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University Press, United States.

How many publications and citations does Amartya Sen have?

Science Explorer counts 190 works and 4,854 citations for Amartya Sen, ranking #28 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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