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Researcher · North Dakota State University · United States

David Westerman

David Westerman publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Communication, on topics such as Media Influence and Health, Public Relations and Crisis Communication and Communication in Education and Healthcare.

ORCID 0000-0001-9550-0304 OpenAlex
World rank
#123,623
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#47,042
of 1,627,098
Works
75
Citations
4.3k
Citations per work
56.8
h-index
27
i10-index 43Top 3% in Sociology and Political Science
David Westerman

What does David Westerman research?

David Westerman's work is mostly in Social Sciences (37%), Psychology (23%), Arts and Humanities (10%).

Social Sciences: 53 works · 70.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 28 works · 36.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 15 works · 19.7% of their workCommunication: 10 works · 13.1% of their workGender Studies: 3 works · 4.0% of their workPsychology: 17 works · 23.2% of their workSocial Psychology: 14 works · 19.2% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 works · 4.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 8 works · 10.1% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 8 works · 10.1% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 29.9% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Westerman75works
Social Sciences70%

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 Sciences2836.8%
    2. Psychology1723.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities810.1%
  2. Everything else2229.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science20% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology19% of their works
  3. 3Communication13% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory10% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Gender Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Westerman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Human-Robot Interaction, Narrative Persuasion, Transportation, Crisis Communication, Public Relations, Addiction and Anthropomorphism.

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. Social Media303 topics
  2. Human-Robot Interaction172 topics
  3. Narrative Persuasion151 topic
  4. Transportation151 topic
  5. Crisis Communication141 topic
  6. Public Relations141 topic
  7. Addiction91 topic
  8. Anthropomorphism91 topic
  9. Socially Assistive Robotics91 topic
  10. Student Participation91 topic
  11. Teacher Immediacy91 topic
  12. Well-being91 topic
  13. Artificial Intelligence81 topic
  14. Service Robots81 topic
  15. Fake News71 topic
  16. Misinformation71 topic
  17. Evolutionary Psychology61 topic
  18. Human Behavior61 topic

Where does David Westerman work?

David Westerman's main affiliation in the publication record is North Dakota State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Westerman have?

OpenAlex counts 75 works and 4,258 citations for David Westerman, an h-index of 27, ranking #123,623 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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