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Researcher · University of British Columbia · Canada

Ara Norenzayan

Ara Norenzayan publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Health, on topics such as Cultural Differences and Values, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology.

ORCID 0009-0004-3238-1167 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,598
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#113
of 183,316
Works
201
Citations
39k
Citations per work
196.3
h-index
62
i10-index 115Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Ara Norenzayan

What does Ara Norenzayan research?

Ara Norenzayan's work is mostly in Social Sciences (39%), Psychology (28%), Neuroscience (8%).

Social Sciences: 143 works · 71.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 78 works · 38.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 58 works · 29.0% of their workHealth: 20 works · 9.8% of their workPsychology: 57 works · 28.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 44 works · 22.1% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 13 works · 6.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 8 works · 3.9% of their workPhilosophy: 8 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 21.0% of their workLife Sciences: 16 works · 7.9% of their workNeuroscience: 16 works · 7.9% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 16 works · 7.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAra Norenzayan201works
Life Sciences8%Social Sciences71%

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 Sciences7838.8%
    2. Psychology5728.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities83.9%
  2. Everything else4221.0%
    1. Neuroscience167.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science29% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology22% of their works
  3. 3Health10% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience8% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ara Norenzayan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Emotion, Globalization, Religion, Cultural Psychology, Values, Altruism, Cooperation and Health.

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. Emotion1062 topics
  2. Globalization1052 topics
  3. Religion802 topics
  4. Cultural Psychology701 topic
  5. Values701 topic
  6. Altruism591 topic
  7. Cooperation591 topic
  8. Health451 topic
  9. Spirituality451 topic
  10. Disgust361 topic
  11. Moral Judgment361 topic
  12. Public Sphere351 topic
  13. Secularism351 topic
  14. Intergroup Contact221 topic
  15. Social Identity221 topic
  16. Evolutionary Psychology161 topic
  17. Human Behavior161 topic
  18. Ostracism121 topic
  19. Social Exclusion121 topic

Where does Ara Norenzayan work?

Ara Norenzayan's main affiliation in the publication record is University of British Columbia, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Ara Norenzayan have?

OpenAlex counts 201 works and 39,450 citations for Ara Norenzayan, an h-index of 62, ranking #6,598 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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