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Researcher · Smith College · United States

Bill E. Peterson

Bill E. Peterson publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Social Psychology, on topics such as Identity, Memory, and Therapy, Social and Intergroup Psychology and Cultural Differences and Values.

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World rank
#267,043
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#97,707
of 1,627,098
Works
68
Citations
2.7k
Citations per work
40.0
h-index
24
i10-index 33Top 4.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Bill E. Peterson

What does Bill E. Peterson research?

Bill E. Peterson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (32%), Psychology (29%).

Social Sciences: 42 works · 61.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 32.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 19 works · 27.5% of their workGender Studies: 3 works · 4.9% of their workPsychology: 20 works · 29.5% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 9 works · 13.4% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 works · 6.3% of their workSocial Psychology: 4 works · 6.3% of their workClinical Psychology: 2 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 38.1% of their workTHEIR WORKBill E. Peterson68works
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 Sciences2232.4%
    2. Psychology2029.5%
  2. Everything else2638.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science28% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology6% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Gender Studies5% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bill E. Peterson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cultural Psychology, Autobiographical Memory, Narrative Identity, Intergroup Contact, Social Identity, Emotion, Children and Individualism-Collectivism.

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. Cultural Psychology252 topics
  2. Autobiographical Memory191 topic
  3. Narrative Identity191 topic
  4. Intergroup Contact111 topic
  5. Social Identity111 topic
  6. Emotion102 topics
  7. Children61 topic
  8. Individualism-Collectivism61 topic
  9. Parental Illness61 topic
  10. Social Exclusion61 topic
  11. Values61 topic
  12. Youth Transitions61 topic
  13. Aging41 topic
  14. Successful Aging41 topic
  15. COVID-1931 topic
  16. Creativity31 topic
  17. Innovation31 topic
  18. Preprints31 topic

Where does Bill E. Peterson work?

Bill E. Peterson's main affiliation in the publication record is Smith College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Bill E. Peterson have?

OpenAlex counts 68 works and 2,723 citations for Bill E. Peterson, an h-index of 24, ranking #267,043 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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