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Researcher · Council on Foreign Relations · United States

Edward Alden

Edward Alden publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Information Systems, on topics such as COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing, Global trade and economics and Migration and Labor Dynamics.

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World rank
#2,204,326
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#661,198
of 1,627,098
Works
41
Citations
127
Citations per work
3.1
h-index
5
i10-index 3Top 53% in Sociology and Political Science
Edward Alden

What does Edward Alden research?

Edward Alden's work is mostly in Social Sciences (59%), Computer Science (9%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (9%).

Social Sciences: 28 works · 68.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 59.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 12 works · 30.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 works · 26.3% of their workDemography: 1 works · 2.6% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 works · 9.2% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 works · 9.2% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 19.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 11.8% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 9.2% of their workInformation Systems: 4 works · 9.2% of their workMathematics: 1 works · 2.6% of their workModeling and Simulation: 1 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKEdward Alden41works
Physical Sciences12%Social Sciences68%

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 Sciences2459.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance49.2%
  2. Everything else819.8%
    1. Computer Science49.2%
    2. Mathematics12.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science30% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations26% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems9% of their works
  4. 4General Economics, Econometrics and Finance9% of their works
  5. 5Modeling and Simulation3% of their works
  6. 6Demography3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edward Alden's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Immigration, Contact Tracing Apps, Digital Technologies, International Trade, Labor Market, Productivity and Remittances.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization133 topics
  2. Immigration92 topics
  3. Contact Tracing Apps61 topic
  4. Digital Technologies61 topic
  5. International Trade51 topic
  6. Labor Market51 topic
  7. Productivity51 topic
  8. Remittances51 topic
  9. Global Health41 topic
  10. Politics41 topic
  11. Securitization41 topic
  12. Social Boundaries41 topic
  13. Border Security31 topic
  14. Criminal Law31 topic
  15. Cross-Border Regions31 topic
  16. European Union31 topic
  17. North American Trade31 topic
  18. Territorial Governance31 topic

Where does Edward Alden work?

Edward Alden's main affiliation in the publication record is Council on Foreign Relations, United States.

How many publications and citations does Edward Alden have?

OpenAlex counts 41 works and 127 citations for Edward Alden, an h-index of 5, ranking #2,204,326 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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