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Researcher · Yale University · United States

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Classical Antiquity Studies, Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies and Archaeology and Historical Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#180,458
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#67,383
of 1,627,098
Works
195
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
9.4
h-index
25
i10-index 33Top 3.6% in Anthropology
Donald Kagan

What does Donald Kagan research?

Donald Kagan's work is mostly in Social Sciences (50%), Arts and Humanities (30%).

Social Sciences: 156 works · 79.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 98 works · 50.2% of their workAnthropology: 58 works · 29.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 21 works · 10.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 19 works · 9.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 58 works · 29.7% of their workArcheology: 35 works · 17.7% of their workHistory: 14 works · 7.4% of their workPhilosophy: 9 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 39 works · 20.1% of their workTHEIR WORKDonald Kagan195works
Social Sciences80%

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 Sciences9850.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities5829.7%
  2. Everything else3920.1%
  1. 1Anthropology30% of their works
  2. 2Archeology18% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations11% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  5. 5History7% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald Kagan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ancient Rome, Greek Literature, Ancient Magic, Gnosticism, Arabia, Archaeology, Byzantine and Mediterranean.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Ancient Rome741 topic
  2. Greek Literature741 topic
  3. Ancient Magic111 topic
  4. Gnosticism111 topic
  5. Arabia101 topic
  6. Archaeology101 topic
  7. Byzantine101 topic
  8. Mediterranean101 topic
  9. Aristotle71 topic
  10. Cyclization Reactions71 topic
  11. Enol Ethers71 topic
  12. Human Rights71 topic
  13. Humanitarianism71 topic
  14. Plato71 topic
  15. Babylonian61 topic
  16. Mesopotamia61 topic

Where does Donald Kagan work?

Donald Kagan's main affiliation in the publication record is Yale University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Donald Kagan have?

OpenAlex counts 195 works and 1,824 citations for Donald Kagan, an h-index of 25, ranking #180,458 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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