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Researcher · Ford Foundation · United States

David R. Smock

David R. Smock publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Global Peace and Security Dynamics and African history and culture analysis.

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World rank
#887,438
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#293,223
of 1,627,098
Works
35
Citations
427
Citations per work
12.2
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 18% in Political Science and International Relations
David R. Smock

What does David R. Smock research?

David R. Smock's work is mostly in Social Sciences (76%), Engineering (4%), Arts and Humanities (2%).

Social Sciences: 27 works · 78.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 76.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 works · 32.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 9 works · 26.0% of their workAnthropology: 6 works · 18.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 1 works · 2.0% of their workHistory: 1 works · 2.0% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 18.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 4.0% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 4.0% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 works · 2.0% of their workMechanical Engineering: 1 works · 2.0% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid R. Smock35works
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences78%

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 Sciences2776.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities12.0%
  2. Everything else618.0%
    1. Engineering14.0%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations32% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science26% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology18% of their works
  4. 4History2% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Control and Systems Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David R. Smock's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Colonialism, Post-Colonial Africa, Religion, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect, Eritrea and Ethiopia.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism102 topics
  2. Colonialism81 topic
  3. Post-Colonial Africa81 topic
  4. Religion82 topics
  5. Humanitarian Intervention61 topic
  6. Responsibility to Protect61 topic
  7. Eritrea51 topic
  8. Ethiopia51 topic
  9. Faith-Based Organizations31 topic
  10. Social Services31 topic
  11. American founding21 topic
  12. Constitutional government21 topic
  13. Optimization22 topics
  14. Belt Conveyors11 topic
  15. Energy Efficiency11 topic
  16. Livestock Farming11 topic
  17. Open Pit Mining11 topic
  18. Production Scheduling11 topic
  19. Sustainability11 topic

Where does David R. Smock work?

David R. Smock's main affiliation in the publication record is Ford Foundation, United States.

How many publications and citations does David R. Smock have?

OpenAlex counts 35 works and 427 citations for David R. Smock, an h-index of 10, ranking #887,438 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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