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Researcher · London School of Economics and Political Science · United Kingdom

Chris Alden

Chris Alden publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Development and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as International Development and Aid, Global Peace and Security Dynamics and China's Global Influence and Migration.

ORCID 0000-0002-0041-9608 OpenAlex
World rank
#87,202
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#7,511
of 367,258
Works
212
Citations
3.6k
Citations per work
17.2
h-index
32
i10-index 57Top 1.1% in Political Science and International Relations
Chris Alden

What does Chris Alden research?

Chris Alden's work is mostly in Social Sciences (83%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Social Sciences: 176 works · 83.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 176 works · 83.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 67 works · 31.5% of their workDevelopment: 50 works · 23.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 30 works · 14.3% of their workAnthropology: 23 works · 10.7% of their workLaw: 6 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 14.4% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 2.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 2.5% of their workSoil Science: 5 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKChris Alden212works
Life Sciences3%Social Sciences83%

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 Sciences17683.1%
  2. Everything else3114.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences52.5%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations32% of their works
  2. 2Development24% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology11% of their works
  5. 5Law3% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Chris Alden's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: China-Africa Relations, Development Policies, Foreign Aid, International Law, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect, Globalization and Colonialism.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. China-Africa Relations1312 topics
  2. Development Policies1061 topic
  3. Foreign Aid1061 topic
  4. International Law852 topics
  5. Humanitarian Intervention661 topic
  6. Responsibility to Protect661 topic
  7. Globalization442 topics
  8. Colonialism292 topics
  9. Nationalism292 topics
  10. African Diaspora251 topic
  11. transnational trade251 topic
  12. International Institutions191 topic
  13. Power191 topic
  14. Global Relations181 topic
  15. Italian Foreign Policy181 topic
  16. African History151 topic
  17. Post-Colonial Africa151 topic
  18. History141 topic
  19. Zimbabwe141 topic
  20. Constitutionalism131 topic
  21. Developmental Local Government131 topic

Where does Chris Alden work?

Chris Alden's main affiliation in the publication record is London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Chris Alden have?

OpenAlex counts 212 works and 3,643 citations for Chris Alden, an h-index of 32, ranking #87,202 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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