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Researcher · Cornell University · United States

Benedict Anderson

Benedict Anderson publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Asian Studies and History, Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies and Philippine History and Culture.

OpenAlex
World rank
#224,495
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#82,964
of 1,627,098
Works
268
Citations
21k
Citations per work
77.5
h-index
29
i10-index 51Top 2.5% in Sociology and Political Science
Benedict Anderson

What does Benedict Anderson research?

Benedict Anderson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (54%), Arts and Humanities (9%).

Social Sciences: 169 works · 63.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 144 works · 53.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 78 works · 29.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 42 works · 15.5% of their workAnthropology: 15 works · 5.5% of their workCultural Studies: 10 works · 3.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 25 works · 9.3% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 15 works · 5.5% of their workHistory: 10 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 99 works · 36.9% of their workTHEIR WORKBenedict Anderson268works
Social Sciences63%

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 Sciences14453.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities259.3%
  2. Everything else9936.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science29% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations16% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology6% of their works
  5. 5History4% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Benedict Anderson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Economic Development, Democratization, Indonesia, Democracy, Ethnicity, Laos, Thailand and Culture.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Economic Development872 topics
  2. Democratization661 topic
  3. Indonesia661 topic
  4. Democracy342 topics
  5. Ethnicity293 topics
  6. Laos211 topic
  7. Thailand211 topic
  8. Culture192 topics
  9. History192 topics
  10. Nationalism131 topic
  11. Philippines131 topic
  12. Conflict101 topic
  13. Myanmar101 topic
  14. Australia81 topic
  15. Collective Memory81 topic
  16. European Union81 topic
  17. Trauma81 topic
  18. Air Force61 topic
  19. Islam61 topic
  20. Modernization61 topic
  21. Social Influence61 topic

Where does Benedict Anderson work?

Benedict Anderson's main affiliation in the publication record is Cornell University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Benedict Anderson have?

OpenAlex counts 268 works and 20,773 citations for Benedict Anderson, an h-index of 29, ranking #224,495 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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