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Researcher · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom

Derek Brewer

Derek Brewer publishes mostly in Classics, Literature and Literary Theory and History, on topics such as Medieval Literature and History, Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies and Historical Studies of British Isles.

OpenAlex
World rank
#454,804
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#39,869
of 367,258
Works
135
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
10.3
h-index
20
i10-index 29Top 1.6% in Classics
Derek Brewer

What does Derek Brewer research?

Derek Brewer's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (80%), Social Sciences (3%).

Social Sciences: 112 works · 82.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 108 works · 80.0% of their workClassics: 48 works · 35.7% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 27 works · 20.0% of their workHistory: 18 works · 13.6% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 10 works · 7.7% of their workPhilosophy: 4 works · 3.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 2.6% of their workAnthropology: 4 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 17.4% of their workTHEIR WORKDerek Brewer135works
Social Sciences83%

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. Arts and Humanities10880.0%
    2. Social Sciences42.6%
  2. Everything else2317.4%
  1. 1Classics36% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory20% of their works
  3. 3History14% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics8% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy3% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Derek Brewer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Literature, Religion, Manuscripts, Medieval, Children's Literature, Social History, Cultural Identity and Cultural 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. 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. Literature762 topics
  2. Religion762 topics
  3. Manuscripts721 topic
  4. Medieval721 topic
  5. Children's Literature252 topics
  6. Social History182 topics
  7. Cultural Identity162 topics
  8. Cultural History152 topics
  9. Fairy Tales151 topic
  10. Folklore151 topic
  11. Wales131 topic
  12. Welsh literature131 topic
  13. Fantasy101 topic
  14. Young Adult101 topic
  15. Indo-European81 topic
  16. Linguistics81 topic
  17. Medieval Literature71 topic
  18. Religious Practices71 topic
  19. Art41 topic
  20. Renaissance41 topic
  21. Calvinism31 topic
  22. Reformation31 topic

Where does Derek Brewer work?

Derek Brewer's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Derek Brewer have?

OpenAlex counts 135 works and 1,390 citations for Derek Brewer, an h-index of 20, ranking #454,804 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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