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Researcher · Cornell University · United States

Dominick LaCapra

Dominick LaCapra publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, History and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Philosophy, History, and Historiography, Italian Fascism and Post-war Society and Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism.

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World rank
#79,042
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#30,475
of 1,627,098
Works
205
Citations
15k
Citations per work
74.4
h-index
34
i10-index 60Top 1.5% in Sociology and Political Science
Dominick LaCapra

What does Dominick LaCapra research?

Dominick LaCapra's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (44%), Social Sciences (28%), Psychology (3%).

Social Sciences: 156 works · 76.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 91 works · 44.4% of their workHistory: 39 works · 19.1% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 32 works · 15.6% of their workPhilosophy: 20 works · 9.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 58 works · 28.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 45 works · 21.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 14 works · 6.7% of their workPsychology: 7 works · 3.2% of their workSocial Psychology: 7 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 49 works · 23.9% of their workTHEIR WORKDominick LaCapra205works
Social Sciences76%

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 Humanities9144.4%
    2. Social Sciences5828.5%
    3. Psychology73.2%
  2. Everything else4923.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2History19% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory16% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy10% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dominick LaCapra's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Historiography, Reenactment, Religion, Philosophy, Identity, Holocaust, Fascism and Totalitarianism.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Historiography281 topic
  2. Reenactment281 topic
  3. Religion262 topics
  4. Philosophy222 topics
  5. Identity212 topics
  6. Holocaust192 topics
  7. Fascism141 topic
  8. Totalitarianism141 topic
  9. Collective Memory121 topic
  10. Derrida121 topic
  11. Levinas121 topic
  12. Trauma121 topic
  13. Citizenship Education111 topic
  14. Historical Thinking111 topic
  15. Cultural Studies101 topic
  16. French Literature101 topic
  17. Democracy91 topic
  18. Rhetoric91 topic
  19. East German Memory71 topic
  20. Ostalgie71 topic

Where does Dominick LaCapra work?

Dominick LaCapra's main affiliation in the publication record is Cornell University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Dominick LaCapra have?

OpenAlex counts 205 works and 15,257 citations for Dominick LaCapra, an h-index of 34, ranking #79,042 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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