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Researcher · Queen's University · Canada

David Eltis

David Eltis publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Colonialism, slavery, and trade, Global Maritime and Colonial Histories and Historical Economic and Social Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-5500-0388 OpenAlex
World rank
#20,594
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#449
of 183,316
Works
268
Citations
6.6k
Citations per work
24.6
h-index
45
i10-index 92Top 0.5% in Anthropology
David Eltis

What does David Eltis research?

David Eltis's work is mostly in Social Sciences (71%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (9%), Arts and Humanities (5%).

Social Sciences: 227 works · 84.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 189 works · 70.6% of their workAnthropology: 131 works · 48.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 28 works · 10.3% of their workCultural Studies: 20 works · 7.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 works · 4.2% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 25 works · 9.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 25 works · 9.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 13 works · 5.0% of their workHistory: 13 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 41 works · 15.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Eltis268works
Social Sciences85%

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 Sciences18970.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance259.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities135.0%
  2. Everything else4115.2%
  1. 1Anthropology49% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics9% of their works
  4. 4Cultural Studies7% of their works
  5. 5History5% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Eltis's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: African Diaspora, Atlantic History, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Globalization, Indian Ocean, prehistoric movement, Culture and Race.

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. African Diaspora1762 topics
  2. Atlantic History1661 topic
  3. Transatlantic Slave Trade1661 topic
  4. Globalization732 topics
  5. Indian Ocean541 topic
  6. prehistoric movement541 topic
  7. Culture482 topics
  8. Race482 topics
  9. Nationalism452 topics
  10. Economic Growth421 topic
  11. Height421 topic
  12. Caribbean311 topic
  13. Dancehall311 topic
  14. Cuba171 topic
  15. Healthcare171 topic
  16. Colonialism141 topic
  17. Post-Colonial Africa141 topic
  18. Archaeology of Resistance101 topic
  19. Black Feminist Theory101 topic
  20. Scientific History91 topic
  21. Technological Development91 topic

Where does David Eltis work?

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

How many publications and citations does David Eltis have?

OpenAlex counts 268 works and 6,582 citations for David Eltis, an h-index of 45, ranking #20,594 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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