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Edward Shils

Edward Shils publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Philosophy, on topics such as Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education, Higher Education Governance and Development and Academic Freedom and Politics.

World rank
#7,467
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,607
of 358,040
Works
56
Citations
710
Citations per work
12.7

What does Edward Shils research?

Sociology and Political Science: 32.1%Political Science and International Relations: 24.5%Philosophy: 9.4%Education: 7.5%other fields: 26.5%32%top field
Sociology and Political Science32.1%Political Science and International Relations24.5%Philosophy9.4%Education7.5%other fields26.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science32% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations24% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy9% of their works
  4. 4Education8% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems and Management4% of their works
  6. 6Law4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edward Shils's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Higher Education, Education, Philosophy, Academic Freedom, Academic Identity, Critical Realism and Dewey.

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. Globalization62 topics
  2. Higher Education62 topics
  3. Education52 topics
  4. Philosophy52 topics
  5. Academic Freedom31 topic
  6. Academic Identity31 topic
  7. Critical Realism31 topic
  8. Dewey31 topic
  9. Habermas31 topic
  10. Internationalization31 topic
  11. Political Bias31 topic
  12. Pragmatism31 topic
  13. Public Sociology31 topic
  14. Social Pathologies31 topic
  15. Social Structure31 topic
  16. Social Theory31 topic
  17. Ethical Climate21 topic
  18. Language-Games21 topic
  19. Moral Distress21 topic
  20. Wittgenstein21 topic

Where does Edward Shils work?

Edward Shils's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Chicago, United States.

How many publications and citations does Edward Shils have?

Science Explorer counts 56 works and 710 citations for Edward Shils, ranking #7,467 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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