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Researcher · University of British Columbia · Canada

Derek Gregory

Derek Gregory publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Historical Geography and Geographical Thought, Geographies of human-animal interactions and Rural development and sustainability.

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World rank
#28,536
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#699
of 183,316
Works
145
Citations
14k
Citations per work
95.2
h-index
45
i10-index 82Top 0.6% in Sociology and Political Science
Derek Gregory

What does Derek Gregory research?

Derek Gregory's work is mostly in Social Sciences (57%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%).

Social Sciences: 91 works · 62.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 83 works · 57.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 30 works · 20.5% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 28 works · 19.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 works · 7.5% of their workUrban Studies: 9 works · 6.1% of their workAnthropology: 6 works · 4.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 works · 5.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 54 works · 37.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDerek Gregory145works
Social Sciences63%

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 Sciences8357.3%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance85.5%
  2. Everything else5437.2%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science20% of their works
  2. 2Geography, Planning and Development19% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  4. 4Urban Studies6% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Derek Gregory's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Geography, Globalization, Academic Discourse, Public Policy, Biopolitics, Affect, Multispecies Ethnography and Agricultural Change.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Geography422 topics
  2. Globalization362 topics
  3. Academic Discourse301 topic
  4. Public Policy301 topic
  5. Biopolitics202 topics
  6. Affect121 topic
  7. Multispecies Ethnography121 topic
  8. Agricultural Change81 topic
  9. Global Health81 topic
  10. Rural Development81 topic
  11. Securitization81 topic
  12. British Army61 topic
  13. Counterinsurgency61 topic
  14. Economic Growth61 topic
  15. Geography Education61 topic
  16. Height61 topic
  17. Spatial Thinking61 topic
  18. Economic Development51 topic
  19. Financial Markets51 topic

Where does Derek Gregory work?

Derek Gregory's main affiliation in the publication record is University of British Columbia, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Derek Gregory have?

OpenAlex counts 145 works and 13,800 citations for Derek Gregory, an h-index of 45, ranking #28,536 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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