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Researcher · Queen's University · Canada

David A. McDonald

David A. McDonald publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Law, on topics such as Water Governance and Infrastructure, Legal Issues in South Africa and South African History and Culture.

ORCID 0000-0003-1971-0427 OpenAlex
World rank
#76,302
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#2,297
of 183,316
Works
131
Citations
3.4k
Citations per work
26.3
h-index
29
i10-index 58Top 2.5% in Sociology and Political Science
David A. McDonald

What does David A. McDonald research?

David A. McDonald's work is mostly in Social Sciences (52%), Business, Management and Accounting (5%), Engineering (5%).

Social Sciences: 75 works · 57.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 68 works · 52.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 32 works · 24.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 18 works · 13.6% of their workLaw: 10 works · 8.0% of their workUrban Studies: 8 works · 5.9% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 works · 5.2% of their workStrategy and Management: 7 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 50 works · 37.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 4.9% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 4.9% of their workOcean Engineering: 6 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid A. McDonald131works
Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences57%

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 Sciences6852.0%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting75.2%
  2. Everything else5037.9%
    1. Engineering64.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science24% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations14% of their works
  3. 3Law8% of their works
  4. 4Urban Studies6% of their works
  5. 5Strategy and Management5% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David A. McDonald's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Environmental Governance, Human Rights, Hydrosocial Cycle, Water Privatization, Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government, Urbanization and protests.

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. Environmental Governance432 topics
  2. Human Rights272 topics
  3. Hydrosocial Cycle241 topic
  4. Water Privatization241 topic
  5. Constitutionalism191 topic
  6. Developmental Local Government191 topic
  7. Urbanization192 topics
  8. South Africa141 topic
  9. protests141 topic
  10. Public-Private Partnerships121 topic
  11. Reservoir Operation121 topic
  12. Risk Allocation121 topic
  13. Water Resources121 topic
  14. Israel81 topic
  15. Palestine81 topic
  16. Graffiti71 topic
  17. Slum Upgrading71 topic
  18. Street Art71 topic
  19. Urban Poverty71 topic

Where does David A. McDonald work?

David A. McDonald's main affiliation in the publication record is Queen's University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does David A. McDonald have?

OpenAlex counts 131 works and 3,449 citations for David A. McDonald, an h-index of 29, ranking #76,302 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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