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Researcher · Queen's University · Canada

Colin Leys

Colin Leys publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology, on topics such as International Development and Aid, African history and culture studies and Political and Economic history of UK and US.

ORCID 0009-0005-7018-3417 OpenAlex
World rank
#111,564
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#3,576
of 183,316
Works
194
Citations
5.6k
Citations per work
28.7
h-index
35
i10-index 67Top 1.4% in Sociology and Political Science
Colin Leys

What does Colin Leys research?

Colin Leys's work is mostly in Social Sciences (62%), Health Professions (6%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%).

Social Sciences: 127 works · 65.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 120 works · 61.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 43 works · 22.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 42 works · 21.9% of their workAnthropology: 18 works · 9.3% of their workDevelopment: 16 works · 8.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 works · 4.0% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 56 works · 28.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 11 works · 5.6% of their workHealth Professions: 11 works · 5.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 11 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKColin Leys194works
Health Sciences6%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 Sciences12061.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance84.0%
  2. Everything else5628.7%
    1. Health Professions115.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations22% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology9% of their works
  4. 4Development8% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions6% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Colin Leys's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Imperialism, Colonialism, Neoliberalism, Development Policies, Foreign Aid, African History, British Politics and Depoliticisation.

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. Imperialism492 topics
  2. Colonialism342 topics
  3. Neoliberalism292 topics
  4. Development Policies271 topic
  5. Foreign Aid271 topic
  6. African History261 topic
  7. British Politics261 topic
  8. Depoliticisation261 topic
  9. Post-Colonial Africa261 topic
  10. Capitalism231 topic
  11. Marxism231 topic
  12. African Philosophy81 topic
  13. Decolonization81 topic
  14. Healthcare81 topic
  15. NHS81 topic
  16. Eritrea71 topic
  17. Ethiopia71 topic
  18. Financialization61 topic
  19. Shareholder Value61 topic

Where does Colin Leys work?

Colin Leys's main affiliation in the publication record is Queen's University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Colin Leys have?

OpenAlex counts 194 works and 5,564 citations for Colin Leys, an h-index of 35, ranking #111,564 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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