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Researcher · University of Salzburg · Austria

Edgar Forster

Edgar Forster publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Education, on topics such as Sociology and Education Studies, German legal, social, and political studies and European history and politics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,360,945
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Austria
#26,624
of 43,330
Works
103
Citations
212
Citations per work
2.1
h-index
7
i10-index 4Top 38% in Sociology and Political Science
Edgar Forster

What does Edgar Forster research?

Edgar Forster's work is mostly in Social Sciences (61%), Arts and Humanities (11%).

Social Sciences: 75 works · 72.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 63 works · 61.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 46 works · 44.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 works · 9.4% of their workEducation: 8 works · 7.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 12 works · 11.2% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 4 works · 4.0% of their workHistory: 4 works · 3.6% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 4 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 27.4% of their workTHEIR WORKEdgar Forster103works
Social Sciences73%

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 Sciences6361.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities1211.2%
  2. Everything else2827.4%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science44% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  3. 3Education8% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works
  5. 5Visual Arts and Performing Arts4% of their works
  6. 6History4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edgar Forster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Bildungsungleichheit, Governance, Gender, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Antisemitism and Right-Wing Extremism.

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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse652 topics
  2. Bildungsungleichheit591 topic
  3. Governance591 topic
  4. Gender202 topics
  5. Gender Studies182 topics
  6. Philosophy132 topics
  7. Antisemitism121 topic
  8. Right-Wing Extremism121 topic
  9. Nazi Propaganda111 topic
  10. Sexuality111 topic
  11. Cold War91 topic
  12. Feminism91 topic
  13. Global Capitalism81 topic
  14. Imperialism81 topic
  15. Society71 topic
  16. Visual Culture71 topic
  17. Competence61 topic
  18. Education61 topic
  19. Psychoanalysis61 topic
  20. Social Theory61 topic

Where does Edgar Forster work?

Edgar Forster's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Salzburg, Austria.

How many publications and citations does Edgar Forster have?

OpenAlex counts 103 works and 212 citations for Edgar Forster, an h-index of 7, ranking #4,360,945 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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