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Researcher · Mitchell Institute · United States

David Bruce McWhirter

David Bruce McWhirter publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Contemporary Literature and Criticism, Literature: history, themes, analysis and American and British Literature Analysis.

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World rank
#1,689,722
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#522,808
of 1,627,098
Works
41
Citations
209
Citations per work
5.1
h-index
8
i10-index 6Top 14% in Literature and Literary Theory
David Bruce McWhirter

What does David Bruce McWhirter research?

David Bruce McWhirter's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (52%), Social Sciences (25%).

Social Sciences: 32 works · 77.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 21 works · 52.1% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 20 works · 47.8% of their workPhilosophy: 2 works · 4.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 24.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 9.8% of their workCultural Studies: 2 works · 5.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 works · 5.4% of their workLinguistics and Language: 2 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 23.0% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid BruceMcWhirter41works
Social Sciences77%

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. Arts and Humanities2152.1%
    2. Social Sciences1024.9%
  2. Everything else923.0%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory48% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  4. 4Cultural Studies5% of their works
  5. 5Linguistics and Language4% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Bruce McWhirter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender, Literature, Postmodernism, Race, History, Society, Contemporary Fiction and Thomas Pynchon.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender133 topics
  2. Literature133 topics
  3. Postmodernism112 topics
  4. Race102 topics
  5. History92 topics
  6. Society92 topics
  7. Contemporary Fiction81 topic
  8. Thomas Pynchon81 topic
  9. Modernism72 topics
  10. Postcolonialism61 topic
  11. Power61 topic
  12. Black Studies41 topic
  13. Civil Rights Movement41 topic
  14. Hemingway41 topic
  15. Masculinity41 topic
  16. Art31 topic
  17. Culture31 topic
  18. Detective Stories31 topic
  19. Literary Criticism31 topic
  20. Modernist Poetry31 topic
  21. Multilingualism31 topic
  22. Sherlock Holmes31 topic
  23. Translanguaging31 topic

Where does David Bruce McWhirter work?

David Bruce McWhirter's main affiliation in the publication record is Mitchell Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Bruce McWhirter have?

OpenAlex counts 41 works and 209 citations for David Bruce McWhirter, an h-index of 8, ranking #1,689,722 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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