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Researcher · SUNY Cortland · United States

Donald R. Wright

Donald R. Wright publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Colonialism, slavery, and trade and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories.

OpenAlex
World rank
#679,430
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#230,354
of 1,627,098
Works
97
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
14.0
h-index
17
i10-index 27Top 9.5% in Anthropology
Donald R. Wright

What does Donald R. Wright research?

Donald R. Wright's work is mostly in Social Sciences (57%), Arts and Humanities (7%), Physics and Astronomy (4%).

Social Sciences: 62 works · 63.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 55 works · 56.8% of their workAnthropology: 33 works · 34.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 12 works · 12.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 works · 10.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 7.0% of their workReligious studies: 4 works · 3.8% of their workArcheology: 3 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 31.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 4.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 4.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKDonald R. Wright97works
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences64%

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 Sciences5556.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities77.0%
  2. Everything else3131.9%
    1. Physics and Astronomy44.3%
  1. 1Anthropology34% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations10% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  5. 5Religious studies4% of their works
  6. 6Archeology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald R. Wright's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Nationalism, African History, Atlantic History, Post-Colonial Africa, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Indian Ocean and prehistoric movement.

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. Colonialism272 topics
  2. Nationalism272 topics
  3. African History211 topic
  4. Atlantic History211 topic
  5. Post-Colonial Africa211 topic
  6. Transatlantic Slave Trade211 topic
  7. Indian Ocean191 topic
  8. prehistoric movement191 topic
  9. Social Movements122 topics
  10. Black Studies81 topic
  11. Civil Rights Movement81 topic
  12. American founding61 topic
  13. Caribbean61 topic
  14. Constitutional government61 topic
  15. Haiti61 topic
  16. Africa41 topic
  17. Eritrea41 topic
  18. Ethiopia41 topic
  19. Governance41 topic

Where does Donald R. Wright work?

Donald R. Wright's main affiliation in the publication record is SUNY Cortland, United States.

How many publications and citations does Donald R. Wright have?

OpenAlex counts 97 works and 1,356 citations for Donald R. Wright, an h-index of 17, ranking #679,430 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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