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Researcher · Göteborgs Stads · Sweden

Edgar Platen

Edgar Platen publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, History and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Literature and Cultural Memory, German Literature and Culture Studies and German History and Society.

ORCID 0009-0004-2283-576X OpenAlex
World rank
#5,364,742
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sweden
#60,301
of 71,437
Works
29
Citations
18
Citations per work
0.6
h-index
2
i10-index 0Top 78% in Literature and Literary Theory
Edgar Platen

What does Edgar Platen research?

Edgar Platen's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (78%), Social Sciences (9%).

Social Sciences: 25 works · 87.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 23 works · 78.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 15 works · 50.8% of their workHistory: 4 works · 13.8% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 works · 10.8% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 works · 3.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 9.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 works · 4.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 1 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 12.3% of their workTHEIR WORKEdgar Platen29works
Social Sciences88%

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 Humanities2378.5%
    2. Social Sciences39.2%
  2. Everything else412.3%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory51% of their works
  2. 2History14% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics11% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  6. 6Visual Arts and Performing Arts3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edgar Platen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Identity, Gender, Literature, Photography, History, W.G. Sebald, Autorschaft and Bildung.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Identity456 topics
  2. Gender192 topics
  3. Literature152 topics
  4. Photography152 topics
  5. History131 topic
  6. W.G. Sebald131 topic
  7. Autorschaft121 topic
  8. Bildung121 topic
  9. East German Memory91 topic
  10. Migration92 topics
  11. Ostalgie91 topic
  12. Colonialism71 topic
  13. German Literature71 topic
  14. German as a Foreign Language41 topic
  15. Language Learning41 topic
  16. Discourse Analysis31 topic
  17. Language Variation31 topic
  18. Collective Memory21 topic
  19. Psychoanalysis21 topic
  20. Society21 topic
  21. Visual Culture21 topic

Where does Edgar Platen work?

Edgar Platen's main affiliation in the publication record is Göteborgs Stads, Sweden.

How many publications and citations does Edgar Platen have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 18 citations for Edgar Platen, an h-index of 2, ranking #5,364,742 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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