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Researcher · HM Prison Service · United Kingdom

David Thornton

David Thornton publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Gender Studies, on topics such as Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis and Crime Patterns and Interventions.

ORCID 0000-0003-0127-1104 OpenAlex
World rank
#64,531
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#5,472
of 367,258
Works
126
Citations
7.7k
Citations per work
61.0
h-index
43
i10-index 80Top 0.7% in Sociology and Political Science
David Thornton

What does David Thornton research?

David Thornton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (40%), Psychology (36%), Computer Science (4%).

Social Sciences: 95 works · 75.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 50 works · 39.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 44 works · 35.1% of their workGender Studies: 6 works · 4.6% of their workPsychology: 45 works · 35.7% of their workClinical Psychology: 42 works · 33.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 3 works · 2.2% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 20.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 4.0% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 4.0% of their workInformation Systems: 3 works · 2.2% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 works · 1.8% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Thornton126works
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences75%

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 Sciences5039.7%
    2. Psychology4535.7%
  2. Everything else2620.6%
    1. Computer Science54.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science35% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology34% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies5% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology2% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems2% of their works
  6. 6Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Criminal Behavior, Psychopathy, Risk Assessment, Criminal Justice, Mass Incarceration, Crime, Social Structure and Psychological Impact.

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. Criminal Behavior1202 topics
  2. Psychopathy801 topic
  3. Risk Assessment801 topic
  4. Criminal Justice641 topic
  5. Mass Incarceration641 topic
  6. Crime401 topic
  7. Social Structure401 topic
  8. Psychological Impact243 topics
  9. Bystander Education151 topic
  10. Sexual Violence Prevention151 topic
  11. Adverse Experiences101 topic
  12. Childhood Trauma101 topic
  13. Gender Differences92 topics
  14. Borderline Personality Disorder71 topic
  15. Psychopathology71 topic
  16. Hypersexual Disorder51 topic
  17. Pornography Consumption51 topic
  18. Cyberstalking41 topic
  19. Stalking41 topic

Where does David Thornton work?

David Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is HM Prison Service, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does David Thornton have?

OpenAlex counts 126 works and 7,689 citations for David Thornton, an h-index of 43, ranking #64,531 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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