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Researcher · University of Bergen · Norway

Bruce Kapferer

Bruce Kapferer publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Anthropological Studies and Insights, Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography and Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices.

ORCID 0000-0003-4696-0413 OpenAlex
World rank
#37,311
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#141
of 33,005
Works
168
Citations
4.1k
Citations per work
24.1
h-index
30
i10-index 59Top 2.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Bruce Kapferer

What does Bruce Kapferer research?

Bruce Kapferer's work is mostly in Social Sciences (62%), Arts and Humanities (9%).

Social Sciences: 120 works · 71.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 104 works · 62.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 40 works · 24.1% of their workAnthropology: 32 works · 19.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 23 works · 13.5% of their workCultural Studies: 9 works · 5.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 16 works · 9.4% of their workPhilosophy: 9 works · 5.3% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 7 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 28.6% of their workTHEIR WORKBruce Kapferer168works
Social Sciences71%

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 Sciences10462.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities169.4%
  2. Everything else4828.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science24% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology19% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations14% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy5% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies5% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bruce Kapferer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Neoliberalism, Ethnography, Governmentality, Conflict, Myanmar, Occultism and Spiritualism.

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. Globalization392 topics
  2. Neoliberalism392 topics
  3. Ethnography331 topic
  4. Governmentality331 topic
  5. Conflict111 topic
  6. Myanmar111 topic
  7. Occultism91 topic
  8. Spiritualism91 topic
  9. Anthropology81 topic
  10. Laos81 topic
  11. Military81 topic
  12. Thailand81 topic
  13. Capitalism61 topic
  14. Gender61 topic
  15. Marxism61 topic
  16. Performativity61 topic
  17. Posthumanism61 topic
  18. Vietnam61 topic

Where does Bruce Kapferer work?

Bruce Kapferer's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Bergen, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Bruce Kapferer have?

OpenAlex counts 168 works and 4,056 citations for Bruce Kapferer, an h-index of 30, ranking #37,311 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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