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Researcher · NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre · United Kingdom

Christopher Thornhill

Christopher Thornhill publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Law and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Legal Issues in South Africa, Political Theology and Sovereignty and Judicial and Constitutional Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#691,294
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#58,329
of 367,258
Works
123
Citations
766
Citations per work
6.2
h-index
10
i10-index 12Top 23% in Sociology and Political Science
Christopher Thornhill

What does Christopher Thornhill research?

Christopher Thornhill's work is mostly in Social Sciences (67%), Arts and Humanities (12%).

Social Sciences: 97 works · 79.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 82 works · 66.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 29 works · 23.2% of their workLaw: 25 works · 20.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 25 works · 20.4% of their workEducation: 3 works · 2.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 15 works · 12.3% of their workPhilosophy: 10 works · 8.1% of their workHistory: 5 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 20.9% of their workTHEIR WORKChristopherThornhill123works
Social Sciences79%

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 Sciences8266.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities1512.3%
  2. Everything else2620.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science23% of their works
  2. 2Law21% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations20% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy8% of their works
  5. 5History4% of their works
  6. 6Education2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christopher Thornhill's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Human Rights, Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government, Public Opinion, Biopolitics, State of Exception and Judicial Politics.

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. Human Rights503 topics
  2. Sovereignty333 topics
  3. Constitutionalism231 topic
  4. Developmental Local Government231 topic
  5. Public Opinion202 topics
  6. Biopolitics181 topic
  7. State of Exception181 topic
  8. Judicial Politics111 topic
  9. Legal Consciousness111 topic
  10. Habermas101 topic
  11. Social Pathologies101 topic
  12. American founding91 topic
  13. Constitutional government91 topic
  14. Global Governance91 topic
  15. International Criminal Law91 topic
  16. Legal Semiotics91 topic
  17. Visual Jurisprudence91 topic
  18. Hugo Grotius61 topic
  19. Thomas Hobbes61 topic

Where does Christopher Thornhill work?

Christopher Thornhill's main affiliation in the publication record is NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Christopher Thornhill have?

OpenAlex counts 123 works and 766 citations for Christopher Thornhill, an h-index of 10, ranking #691,294 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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