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Researcher · St. Mary's University, Texas · United States

David W. Sommer

David W. Sommer publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Accounting and Finance, on topics such as Insurance and Financial Risk Management, Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency.

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World rank
#424,835
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#149,948
of 1,627,098
Works
37
Citations
2k
Citations per work
55.3
h-index
21
i10-index 24Top 10% in Economics and Econometrics
David W. Sommer

What does David W. Sommer research?

David W. Sommer's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (60%), Business, Management and Accounting (19%), Social Sciences (11%).

Social Sciences: 33 works · 90.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 22 works · 60.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 17 works · 47.2% of their workFinance: 5 works · 13.2% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 works · 18.8% of their workAccounting: 6 works · 16.0% of their workStrategy and Management: 1 works · 2.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 11.3% of their workDemography: 4 works · 11.3% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 6.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 2.8% of their workHealth Professions: 1 works · 2.8% of their workPharmacy: 1 works · 2.8% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid W. Sommer37works
Health Sciences3%Social Sciences90%

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. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2260.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting718.8%
    3. Social Sciences411.3%
  2. Everything else26.7%
    1. Health Professions12.8%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics47% of their works
  2. 2Accounting16% of their works
  3. 3Finance13% of their works
  4. 4Demography11% of their works
  5. 5Strategy and Management3% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacy3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David W. Sommer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Regulation, Economic Growth, Insurance, Corporate Governance, Contracts, Enforcement, Banking and Finance.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Regulation563 topics
  2. Economic Growth321 topic
  3. Insurance321 topic
  4. Corporate Governance153 topics
  5. Contracts131 topic
  6. Enforcement131 topic
  7. Banking111 topic
  8. Finance111 topic
  9. Mortality Forecasting111 topic
  10. Population Ageing111 topic
  11. Investor Protection71 topic
  12. Ownership Structure71 topic
  13. Derivatives51 topic
  14. Hedging51 topic
  15. Defensive Medicine31 topic
  16. Earnings Management31 topic
  17. Financial Reporting31 topic
  18. Malpractice Risk31 topic

Where does David W. Sommer work?

David W. Sommer's main affiliation in the publication record is St. Mary's University, Texas, United States.

How many publications and citations does David W. Sommer have?

OpenAlex counts 37 works and 2,046 citations for David W. Sommer, an h-index of 21, ranking #424,835 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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