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Researcher · Northeastern University · United States

Ben Smith

Ben Smith publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts, Global Peace and Security Dynamics and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence.

ORCID 0000-0002-5682-4872 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,119,841
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,319,917
of 1,627,098
Works
25
Citations
124
Citations per work
5.0
h-index
6
i10-index 4Top 45% in Sociology and Political Science
Ben Smith

What does Ben Smith research?

Ben Smith's work is mostly in Social Sciences (44%), Environmental Science (21%), Decision Sciences (2%).

Social Sciences: 12 works · 46.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 44.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 28.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 works · 15.9% of their workDecision Sciences: 0 works · 1.6% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 33.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 20.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 20.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 works · 14.3% of their workEcology: 1 works · 3.2% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKBen Smith25works
Physical Sciences21%Social Sciences46%

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 Sciences1144.5%
    2. Decision Sciences01.6%
  2. Everything else833.2%
    1. Environmental Science520.7%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science29% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations16% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change14% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law3% of their works
  5. 5Ecology3% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genocide, Media, Politics, Conflict, Humanitarian Intervention, Radicalization, Responsibility to Protect and Terrorism.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Genocide82 topics
  2. Media51 topic
  3. Politics51 topic
  4. Conflict42 topics
  5. Humanitarian Intervention31 topic
  6. Radicalization31 topic
  7. Responsibility to Protect31 topic
  8. Terrorism31 topic
  9. Afghanistan21 topic
  10. Aquaculture21 topic
  11. Climate Change21 topic
  12. Forest Fires21 topic
  13. Myanmar21 topic
  14. Oyster Reefs21 topic
  15. Pakistan21 topic
  16. Resilience21 topic
  17. Sustainability Transitions21 topic
  18. state building21 topic

Where does Ben Smith work?

Ben Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Northeastern University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ben Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 124 citations for Ben Smith, an h-index of 6, ranking #5,119,841 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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