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Researcher · University College London · United Kingdom

David William Foster

David William Foster publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Cultural Studies and Visual Arts and Performing Arts, on topics such as Latin American Literature Studies, Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America and Cinema History and Criticism.

ORCID 0000-0003-0686-518X OpenAlex
World rank
#1,486
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#112
of 90,785
Works
132
Citations
474
Citations per work
3.6

What does David William Foster research?

Literature and Literary Theory: 21.5%Cultural Studies: 13.1%Visual Arts and Performing Arts: 10.3%Sociology and Political Science: 8.4%other fields: 46.7%22%top field
Literature and Literary Theory21.5%Cultural Studies13.1%Visual Arts and Performing Arts10.3%Sociology and Political Science8.4%other fields46.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory22% of their works
  2. 2Cultural Studies13% of their works
  3. 3Visual Arts and Performing Arts10% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  5. 5History6% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David William Foster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Identity, Culture, Literature, Cultural Representation, Drug Trafficking, Globalization and History.

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.

All 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Colonialism174 topics
  2. Identity144 topics
  3. Culture133 topics
  4. Literature113 topics
  5. Cultural Representation101 topic
  6. Drug Trafficking101 topic
  7. Globalization102 topics
  8. History92 topics
  9. Media82 topics
  10. Community72 topics
  11. Interculturalism61 topic
  12. Latin America61 topic
  13. Cinema51 topic
  14. Education51 topic
  15. Aesthetics41 topic
  16. Chicano41 topic
  17. Contemporary Art41 topic
  18. Latino41 topic
  19. Lusophone41 topic
  20. Postcolonial41 topic
  21. Borges31 topic
  22. Discourse Analysis31 topic
  23. Jewish31 topic
  24. Social Change31 topic

Where does David William Foster work?

David William Foster's main affiliation in the publication record is University College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does David William Foster have?

Science Explorer counts 132 works and 474 citations for David William Foster, ranking #1,486 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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