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Researcher · Citadel · United States

David L. Preston

David L. Preston publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as American History and Culture, Military History and Strategy and Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,942,557
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#847,458
of 1,627,098
Works
52
Citations
131
Citations per work
2.5
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 47% in Anthropology
David L. Preston

What does David L. Preston research?

David L. Preston's work is mostly in Social Sciences (36%), Arts and Humanities (14%), Business, Management and Accounting (8%).

Social Sciences: 30 works · 58.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 19 works · 36.5% of their workAnthropology: 7 works · 13.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 works · 11.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 11.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 13.6% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 works · 7.3% of their workPhilosophy: 3 works · 6.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 works · 8.3% of their workMarketing: 4 works · 8.3% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 41.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid L. Preston52works
Social Sciences58%

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 Sciences1936.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities713.6%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting48.3%
  2. Everything else2241.6%
  1. 1Anthropology14% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  4. 4Marketing8% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science7% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David L. Preston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Branding, Marketing, British Army, Counterinsurgency, Occultism, Spiritualism and Atlantic History.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization122 topics
  2. Branding81 topic
  3. Marketing81 topic
  4. British Army61 topic
  5. Counterinsurgency61 topic
  6. Occultism51 topic
  7. Spiritualism51 topic
  8. Atlantic History41 topic
  9. Conservation41 topic
  10. Environmental Movement41 topic
  11. Religion41 topic
  12. Secularism41 topic
  13. Traditional Irrigation41 topic
  14. Transatlantic Slave Trade41 topic
  15. Water Sustainability41 topic
  16. Scientific History31 topic
  17. Technological Development31 topic

Where does David L. Preston work?

David L. Preston's main affiliation in the publication record is Citadel, United States.

How many publications and citations does David L. Preston have?

OpenAlex counts 52 works and 131 citations for David L. Preston, an h-index of 6, ranking #2,942,557 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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