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Researcher · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · Brazil

Carlos Fausto

Carlos Fausto publishes mostly in Anthropology, History and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Anthropological Studies and Insights, Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory and Indigenous Health and Education.

ORCID 0000-0002-0617-6643 OpenAlex
World rank
#108,551
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#329
of 253,246
Works
100
Citations
3.3k
Citations per work
33.2
h-index
24
i10-index 36Top 4% in Anthropology
Carlos Fausto

What does Carlos Fausto research?

Carlos Fausto's work is mostly in Social Sciences (36%), Arts and Humanities (16%), Health Professions (7%).

Social Sciences: 52 works · 51.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 36 works · 35.9% of their workAnthropology: 18 works · 18.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 10 works · 10.3% of their workCultural Studies: 7 works · 7.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 16 works · 15.7% of their workHistory: 12 works · 12.0% of their workPhilosophy: 4 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 41.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 6.6% of their workHealth Professions: 7 works · 6.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 7 works · 6.6% of their workTHEIR WORKCarlos Fausto100works
Health Sciences7%Social Sciences52%

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 Sciences3635.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities1615.7%
  2. Everything else4241.8%
    1. Health Professions76.6%
  1. 1Anthropology18% of their works
  2. 2History12% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  4. 4Cultural Studies7% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions7% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Carlos Fausto's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Colonialism, Amazonia, Ethnography, Governmentality, Neoliberalism, Historical Ecology and pre-Columbian.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization463 topics
  2. Colonialism443 topics
  3. Amazonia402 topics
  4. Ethnography382 topics
  5. Governmentality311 topic
  6. Neoliberalism311 topic
  7. Historical Ecology251 topic
  8. pre-Columbian251 topic
  9. Cultural Identity152 topics
  10. Health151 topic
  11. Indigenous Populations151 topic
  12. Cultural Studies132 topics
  13. Africa101 topic
  14. Governance101 topic
  15. Social Dynamics91 topic
  16. Urban Ethnography91 topic
  17. Environmental Services71 topic
  18. Landscape Change71 topic
  19. Rituals71 topic
  20. Tropical Deforestation71 topic
  21. Multiculturalism61 topic
  22. Post-Modernity61 topic

Where does Carlos Fausto work?

Carlos Fausto's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Carlos Fausto have?

OpenAlex counts 100 works and 3,321 citations for Carlos Fausto, an h-index of 24, ranking #108,551 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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