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David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Contemporary Literature and Criticism, Themes in Literature Analysis and Modernist Literature and Criticism.

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World rank
#2,166,169
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#651,353
of 1,627,098
Works
57
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
24.9
h-index
14
i10-index 16Top 4% in Literature and Literary Theory
David Foster Wallace

What does David Foster Wallace research?

David Foster Wallace's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (50%), Social Sciences (10%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%).

Social Sciences: 37 works · 65.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 29 works · 50.1% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 21 works · 36.6% of their workHistory: 3 works · 4.5% of their workPhilosophy: 3 works · 4.5% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 3 works · 4.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 9.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 9.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 5.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 34.7% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid FosterWallace57works
Social Sciences65%

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 Humanities2950.1%
    2. Social Sciences69.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance35.4%
  2. Everything else2034.7%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory37% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy4% of their works
  5. 5Visual Arts and Performing Arts4% of their works
  6. 6History4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Foster Wallace's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Narrative, Contemporary Fiction, Postmodernism, Gender, Literature, Culture, Narrative Theory and Art.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Narrative203 topics
  2. Contemporary Fiction161 topic
  3. Postmodernism161 topic
  4. Gender104 topics
  5. Literature104 topics
  6. Culture62 topics
  7. Narrative Theory62 topics
  8. Art41 topic
  9. Box Office41 topic
  10. Children's Literature41 topic
  11. Film Industry41 topic
  12. Memory42 topics
  13. Modernism41 topic
  14. Young Adult41 topic
  15. Adaptation21 topic
  16. Autobiography21 topic
  17. Fictionality21 topic
  18. Film21 topic
  19. Identity21 topic
  20. Narratives21 topic
  21. Oral History21 topic
  22. Unreliable Narration21 topic

Where does David Foster Wallace work?

David Foster Wallace's main affiliation in the publication record is New York Times, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Foster Wallace have?

OpenAlex counts 57 works and 1,417 citations for David Foster Wallace, an h-index of 14, ranking #2,166,169 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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