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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

Dacher J. Keltner

Dacher J. Keltner publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Emotions and Moral Behavior, Cultural Differences and Values and Social and Intergroup Psychology.

ORCID 0000-0001-9061-5292 OpenAlex
World rank
#174
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#91
of 1,627,098
Works
387
Citations
63k
Citations per work
163.6
h-index
116
i10-index 249Top 0.1% in Social Psychology
Dacher J. Keltner

What does Dacher J. Keltner research?

Dacher J. Keltner's work is mostly in Psychology (49%), Social Sciences (16%), Neuroscience (11%).

Social Sciences: 272 works · 70.4% of their workPsychology: 191 works · 49.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 126 works · 32.5% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 38 works · 9.8% of their workClinical Psychology: 27 works · 7.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 60 works · 15.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 60 works · 15.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 21 works · 5.4% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 21 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 74 works · 19.0% of their workLife Sciences: 41 works · 10.6% of their workNeuroscience: 41 works · 10.6% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 41 works · 10.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDacher J. Keltner387works
Life Sciences11%Social Sciences70%

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. Psychology19149.4%
    2. Social Sciences6015.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities215.4%
  2. Everything else7419.0%
    1. Neuroscience4110.6%
  1. 1Social Psychology32% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience11% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dacher J. Keltner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Emotion, Empathy, Emotion Regulation, Guilt, Shame, Cultural Psychology, Values and Social Cognition.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Emotion1473 topics
  2. Empathy1292 topics
  3. Emotion Regulation1142 topics
  4. Guilt841 topic
  5. Shame841 topic
  6. Cultural Psychology711 topic
  7. Values711 topic
  8. Social Cognition612 topics
  9. Intergroup Contact571 topic
  10. Social Identity571 topic
  11. Narrative Persuasion451 topic
  12. Transportation451 topic
  13. Evolutionary Psychology341 topic
  14. Human Behavior341 topic
  15. Disgust311 topic
  16. Moral Judgment311 topic
  17. Attachment301 topic
  18. Relationships301 topic
  19. Face Perception271 topic
  20. Neural Mechanisms271 topic

Where does Dacher J. Keltner work?

Dacher J. Keltner's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does Dacher J. Keltner have?

OpenAlex counts 387 works and 63,311 citations for Dacher J. Keltner, an h-index of 116, ranking #174 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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