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Researcher · Linfield College · United States

David Thomas Sumner

David Thomas Sumner publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology, on topics such as Rhetoric and Communication Studies, Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration and Geographies of human-animal interactions.

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World rank
#4,613,855
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,220,566
of 1,627,098
Works
19
Citations
57
Citations per work
3.0
h-index
3
i10-index 2Top 58% in Literature and Literary Theory
David Thomas Sumner

What does David Thomas Sumner research?

David Thomas Sumner's work is mostly in Social Sciences (31%), Arts and Humanities (25%), Psychology (12%).

Social Sciences: 13 works · 68.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 31.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 15.6% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 works · 9.4% of their workEducation: 1 works · 6.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 25.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 works · 15.6% of their workPhilosophy: 2 works · 9.4% of their workPsychology: 2 works · 12.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 2 works · 12.5% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 31.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid ThomasSumner19works
Social Sciences69%

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 Sciences631.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities525.0%
    3. Psychology212.5%
  2. Everything else631.2%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory16% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology12% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy9% of their works
  5. 5Geography, Planning and Development9% of their works
  6. 6Education6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Thomas Sumner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Affect, Collective Memory, Conservation, Democracy, Geography and Rhetoric.

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. Ethics52 topics
  2. Environmental Ethics43 topics
  3. Affect31 topic
  4. Collective Memory31 topic
  5. Conservation32 topics
  6. Democracy31 topic
  7. Geography31 topic
  8. Rhetoric31 topic
  9. Trauma31 topic
  10. Environment21 topic
  11. Religion21 topic
  12. Biocultural Conservation11 topic
  13. Data Science11 topic
  14. Earth Stewardship11 topic
  15. Ecological Citizenship11 topic
  16. Illegal Wildlife Trade11 topic
  17. Parrot Poaching11 topic
  18. Rewilding11 topic
  19. Statistics Anxiety11 topic

Where does David Thomas Sumner work?

David Thomas Sumner's main affiliation in the publication record is Linfield College, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Thomas Sumner have?

OpenAlex counts 19 works and 57 citations for David Thomas Sumner, an h-index of 3, ranking #4,613,855 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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