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Researcher · Deakin University · Australia

Chad Whelan

Chad Whelan publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Crime Patterns and Interventions, Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance and Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-2910-0983 OpenAlex
World rank
#50,834
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#1,568
of 140,210
Works
92
Citations
918
Citations per work
10.0
h-index
19
i10-index 32Top 7.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Chad Whelan

What does Chad Whelan research?

Chad Whelan's work is mostly in Social Sciences (63%), Computer Science (18%), Physics and Astronomy (5%).

Social Sciences: 60 works · 65.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 58 works · 63.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 39 works · 42.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 works · 16.2% of their workPublic Administration: 4 works · 4.4% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 works · 2.2% of their workStrategy and Management: 2 works · 2.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 21 works · 23.1% of their workComputer Science: 16 works · 17.9% of their workInformation Systems: 16 works · 17.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 works · 5.2% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 11.3% of their workTHEIR WORKChad Whelan92works
Physical Sciences23%Social Sciences66%

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 Sciences5863.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting22.2%
    1. Computer Science1617.9%
    2. Physics and Astronomy55.2%
  3. Everything else1011.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science43% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems18% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations16% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5% of their works
  5. 5Public Administration4% of their works
  6. 6Strategy and Management2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Chad Whelan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Law Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, Crime, Criminal Networks, Organized Crime, Social Structure, Cybercrime and Dark Web.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Law Enforcement863 topics
  2. Drug Trafficking642 topics
  3. Crime331 topic
  4. Criminal Networks331 topic
  5. Organized Crime331 topic
  6. Social Structure331 topic
  7. Cybercrime311 topic
  8. Dark Web311 topic
  9. Police Legitimacy221 topic
  10. Procedural Justice221 topic
  11. Risk Management142 topics
  12. Collaborative Governance91 topic
  13. Public Management Reform91 topic
  14. Global Health71 topic
  15. Information Security71 topic
  16. Policy Compliance71 topic
  17. Securitization71 topic
  18. Community Structure61 topic
  19. Network Dynamics61 topic

Where does Chad Whelan work?

Chad Whelan's main affiliation in the publication record is Deakin University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Chad Whelan have?

OpenAlex counts 92 works and 918 citations for Chad Whelan, an h-index of 19, ranking #50,834 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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