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Researcher · Cave Research Foundation · United States

Curwen Best

Curwen Best publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Caribbean history, culture, and politics, Digital Games and Media and Music History and Culture.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,869,693
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,062,377
of 1,627,098
Works
38
Citations
118
Citations per work
3.1
h-index
4
i10-index 4Top 62% in Sociology and Political Science
Curwen Best

What does Curwen Best research?

Curwen Best's work is mostly in Social Sciences (67%), Arts and Humanities (5%).

Social Sciences: 28 works · 72.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 26 works · 67.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 10 works · 27.6% of their workCultural Studies: 10 works · 25.9% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 5.2% of their workGender Studies: 2 works · 5.2% of their workTransportation: 1 works · 3.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 5.2% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 27.5% of their workTHEIR WORKCurwen Best38works
Social Sciences72%

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 Sciences2667.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities25.2%
  2. Everything else1027.5%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science28% of their works
  2. 2Cultural Studies26% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory5% of their works
  4. 4Gender Studies5% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology5% of their works
  6. 6Transportation3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Curwen Best's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Culture, Identity, Caribbean, Politics, Stereotypes, Online Gaming and Sustainability.

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. Globalization193 topics
  2. Culture172 topics
  3. Identity172 topics
  4. Caribbean151 topic
  5. Politics151 topic
  6. Stereotypes62 topics
  7. Online Gaming41 topic
  8. Sustainability42 topics
  9. Video Games41 topic
  10. Advertising21 topic
  11. Cruise Tourism21 topic
  12. Environmental Impact21 topic
  13. Gender Roles21 topic
  14. Islands21 topic
  15. Music21 topic
  16. Small States21 topic
  17. Youth21 topic
  18. Academic Libraries11 topic
  19. Corpora11 topic
  20. Spoken Language11 topic
  21. Web 2.011 topic

Where does Curwen Best work?

Curwen Best's main affiliation in the publication record is Cave Research Foundation, United States.

How many publications and citations does Curwen Best have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 118 citations for Curwen Best, an h-index of 4, ranking #3,869,693 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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