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Researcher · University of York · United Kingdom

Derek A. Pearsall

Derek A. Pearsall publishes mostly in Classics, History and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Medieval Literature and History, Linguistics and language evolution and Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#221,392
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#20,044
of 367,258
Works
255
Citations
3.2k
Citations per work
12.7
h-index
30
i10-index 55Top 0.4% in Classics
Derek A. Pearsall

What does Derek A. Pearsall research?

Derek A. Pearsall's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (78%), Social Sciences (3%).

Social Sciences: 209 works · 81.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 200 works · 78.5% of their workClassics: 96 works · 37.8% of their workHistory: 35 works · 13.6% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 33 works · 13.1% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 27 works · 10.7% of their workPhilosophy: 8 works · 3.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 3.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 8 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 18.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDerek A. Pearsall255works
Social Sciences82%

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 Humanities20078.5%
    2. Social Sciences83.3%
  2. Everything else4618.2%
  1. 1Classics38% of their works
  2. 2History14% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory13% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics11% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science3% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Derek A. Pearsall's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Literature, Medieval, Cultural History, Children's Literature, Linguistics, Social History, Cultural Identity and Etymology.

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. Literature1411 topic
  2. Medieval1411 topic
  3. Cultural History513 topics
  4. Children's Literature372 topics
  5. Linguistics372 topics
  6. Social History332 topics
  7. Cultural Identity312 topics
  8. Etymology271 topic
  9. Indo-European271 topic
  10. Medieval Literature242 topics
  11. Fairy Tales221 topic
  12. Folklore221 topic
  13. Wales201 topic
  14. Welsh literature201 topic
  15. Fantasy151 topic
  16. Young Adult151 topic
  17. Narrative Fiction141 topic
  18. Religious Practices141 topic
  19. Calvinism111 topic
  20. Reformation111 topic
  21. Language Studies101 topic
  22. Occitan101 topic

Where does Derek A. Pearsall work?

Derek A. Pearsall's main affiliation in the publication record is University of York, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Derek A. Pearsall have?

OpenAlex counts 255 works and 3,250 citations for Derek A. Pearsall, an h-index of 30, ranking #221,392 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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