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Researcher · University of Leeds · United Kingdom

David Higgins

David Higgins publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and History, on topics such as Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature, Travel Writing and Literature and Geographies of human-animal interactions.

ORCID 0000-0001-8136-6466 OpenAlex
World rank
#979,982
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#68,056
of 90,785
Works
33
Citations
16
Citations per work
0.5

What does David Higgins research?

Literature and Literary Theory: 17.1%Sociology and Political Science: 14.6%History: 12.2%Nature and Landscape Conservation: 9.8%other fields: 46.3%17%top field
Literature and Literary Theory17.1%Sociology and Political Science14.6%History12.2%Nature and Landscape Conservation9.8%other fields46.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory17% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  3. 3History12% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation10% of their works
  5. 5Geography, Planning and Development7% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Higgins's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Literature, Anthropocene, Postcolonialism, Climate Change, Ecocriticism, History, National Identity and Emotion.

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.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Literature103 topics
  2. Anthropocene82 topics
  3. Postcolonialism82 topics
  4. Climate Change51 topic
  5. Ecocriticism51 topic
  6. History52 topics
  7. National Identity52 topics
  8. Emotion42 topics
  9. Ethics42 topics
  10. Affect31 topic
  11. Australian history31 topic
  12. British imperialism31 topic
  13. Exploration31 topic
  14. Geography31 topic
  15. Travel Writing31 topic
  16. Conservation21 topic
  17. Rewilding21 topic
  18. Scotland21 topic
  19. Union of 170721 topic
  20. DNA Barcoding11 topic
  21. Disgust11 topic
  22. Food Authentication11 topic
  23. Moral Judgment11 topic

Where does David Higgins work?

David Higgins's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does David Higgins have?

Science Explorer counts 33 works and 16 citations for David Higgins, ranking #979,982 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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