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Researcher · Drexel University · United States

Douglas V. Porpora

Douglas V. Porpora publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Critical Realism in Sociology, Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice and Social and Cultural Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-9449-910X OpenAlex
World rank
#63,708
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#24,518
of 1,627,098
Works
161
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
12.9
h-index
21
i10-index 40Top 5.7% in Sociology and Political Science
Douglas V. Porpora

What does Douglas V. Porpora research?

Douglas V. Porpora's work is mostly in Social Sciences (56%), Arts and Humanities (13%), Psychology (3%).

Social Sciences: 115 works · 71.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 90 works · 55.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 73 works · 45.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 12 works · 7.4% of their workCommunication: 5 works · 2.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 20 works · 12.7% of their workPhilosophy: 15 works · 9.5% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 5 works · 3.2% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 3.4% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 28.3% of their workTHEIR WORKDouglas V.Porpora161works
Social Sciences72%

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 Sciences9055.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities2012.7%
    3. Psychology53.4%
  2. Everything else4628.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science45% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy10% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology3% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science3% of their works
  6. 6Communication3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Douglas V. Porpora's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Critical Realism, Social Structure, Public Sociology, Social Theory, Cultural Capital, Social Class and Religion.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization584 topics
  2. Critical Realism401 topic
  3. Social Structure401 topic
  4. Public Sociology291 topic
  5. Social Theory291 topic
  6. Cultural Capital181 topic
  7. Social Class181 topic
  8. Religion131 topic
  9. Secularism131 topic
  10. Evolutionary Synthesis101 topic
  11. Mechanistic Explanation101 topic
  12. Capitalism81 topic
  13. Consciousness81 topic
  14. Marxism81 topic
  15. Phenomenal Experience81 topic
  16. Radicalization81 topic
  17. Terrorism81 topic

Where does Douglas V. Porpora work?

Douglas V. Porpora's main affiliation in the publication record is Drexel University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Douglas V. Porpora have?

OpenAlex counts 161 works and 2,071 citations for Douglas V. Porpora, an h-index of 21, ranking #63,708 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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