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Researcher · University of Michigan · United States

Arland Thornton

Arland Thornton publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Gender Studies, on topics such as Family Dynamics and Relationships, Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,834
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,009
of 1,627,098
Works
188
Citations
14k
Citations per work
73.9
h-index
59
i10-index 107Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Arland Thornton

What does Arland Thornton research?

Arland Thornton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (84%).

Social Sciences: 157 works · 83.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 157 works · 83.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 62 works · 32.8% of their workDemography: 35 works · 18.8% of their workGender Studies: 34 works · 18.1% of their workEducation: 12 works · 6.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 8 works · 4.5% of their workSafety Research: 6 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 16.3% of their workTHEIR WORKArland Thornton188works
Social Sciences84%

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 Sciences15783.7%
  2. Everything else3116.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science33% of their works
  2. 2Demography19% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies18% of their works
  4. 4Education6% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  6. 6Safety Research3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Arland Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Divorce, Fertility, Gender Inequality, Family Support, Intergenerational Relations, Labor Force Participation, Welfare Reform and Sex Ratios.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Divorce761 topic
  2. Fertility761 topic
  3. Gender Inequality532 topics
  4. Family Support481 topic
  5. Intergenerational Relations481 topic
  6. Labor Force Participation391 topic
  7. Welfare Reform391 topic
  8. Sex Ratios361 topic
  9. Son Preference361 topic
  10. Globalization222 topics
  11. Conditional Cash Transfers141 topic
  12. School Subsidies141 topic
  13. Immigration121 topic
  14. Remittances121 topic
  15. Religion101 topic
  16. Secularism101 topic
  17. School Engagement91 topic
  18. Student-Teacher Relationships91 topic

Where does Arland Thornton work?

Arland Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Michigan, United States.

How many publications and citations does Arland Thornton have?

OpenAlex counts 188 works and 13,902 citations for Arland Thornton, an h-index of 59, ranking #5,834 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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