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Researcher · Berea College · United States

bell hooks

bell hooks publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and Education, on topics such as Race, History, and American Society, Gender, Feminism, and Media and Critical Race Theory in Education.

OpenAlex
World rank
#97,276
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#37,289
of 1,627,098
Works
298
Citations
29k
Citations per work
97.6
h-index
58
i10-index 113Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
bell hooks

What does bell hooks research?

bell hooks's work is mostly in Social Sciences (51%), Arts and Humanities (10%).

Social Sciences: 184 works · 61.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 153 works · 51.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 83 works · 27.9% of their workGender Studies: 33 works · 11.0% of their workEducation: 25 works · 8.4% of their workCultural Studies: 12 works · 4.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 31 works · 10.3% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 18 works · 6.1% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 13 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 114 works · 38.3% of their workTHEIR WORKbell hooks298works
Social Sciences62%

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 Sciences15351.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities3110.3%
  2. Everything else11438.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science28% of their works
  2. 2Gender Studies11% of their works
  3. 3Education8% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  5. 5Visual Arts and Performing Arts4% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe bell hooks's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Feminism, Black Studies, Civil Rights Movement, Intersectionality, Gender, Culture, Globalization and Critical Race Theory.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Feminism763 topics
  2. Black Studies501 topic
  3. Civil Rights Movement501 topic
  4. Intersectionality272 topics
  5. Gender242 topics
  6. Culture202 topics
  7. Globalization202 topics
  8. Critical Race Theory151 topic
  9. Education151 topic
  10. Neoliberalism151 topic
  11. Postfeminism151 topic
  12. Box Office131 topic
  13. Film Industry131 topic
  14. Policy Makers121 topic
  15. Women121 topic
  16. Emotions111 topic
  17. Nationalism111 topic
  18. Aesthetics91 topic
  19. Chicano91 topic
  20. Contemporary Art91 topic
  21. Latino91 topic

Where does bell hooks work?

bell hooks's main affiliation in the publication record is Berea College, United States.

How many publications and citations does bell hooks have?

OpenAlex counts 298 works and 29,074 citations for bell hooks, an h-index of 58, ranking #97,276 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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