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Researcher · Bishop's University · Canada

David Webster

David Webster publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Demography, on topics such as Asian Studies and History, Peacebuilding and International Security and Canadian Identity and History.

ORCID 0000-0001-9291-8537 OpenAlex
World rank
#651,448
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#22,553
of 183,316
Works
130
Citations
874
Citations per work
6.7
h-index
15
i10-index 22Top 12% in Sociology and Political Science
David Webster

What does David Webster research?

David Webster's work is mostly in Social Sciences (50%), Arts and Humanities (9%).

Social Sciences: 78 works · 59.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 66 works · 50.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 35 works · 27.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 19 works · 14.3% of their workDemography: 8 works · 5.8% of their workLaw: 4 works · 3.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 12 works · 9.4% of their workHistory: 6 works · 4.9% of their workPhilosophy: 6 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 40.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Webster130works
Social Sciences60%

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 Sciences6650.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities129.4%
  2. Everything else5240.2%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science27% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations14% of their works
  3. 3Demography6% of their works
  4. 4History5% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy4% of their works
  6. 6Law3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Webster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Economic Development, Globalization, History, Decolonization, Governance, Democratization, Indonesia and Local Turn.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Economic Development252 topics
  2. Globalization202 topics
  3. History182 topics
  4. Decolonization172 topics
  5. Governance162 topics
  6. Democratization151 topic
  7. Indonesia151 topic
  8. Local Turn131 topic
  9. NGOs132 topics
  10. Resilience Governance131 topic
  11. Canada111 topic
  12. Identity111 topic
  13. Border Security101 topic
  14. Islands101 topic
  15. North American Trade101 topic
  16. Small States101 topic
  17. Buddhism71 topic
  18. Human Rights71 topic
  19. Humanitarianism71 topic
  20. South Asia71 topic
  21. Development Policies61 topic
  22. Foreign Aid61 topic

Where does David Webster work?

David Webster's main affiliation in the publication record is Bishop's University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does David Webster have?

OpenAlex counts 130 works and 874 citations for David Webster, an h-index of 15, ranking #651,448 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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