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Researcher · Nobel Foundation · Sweden

Élie Wiesel

Élie Wiesel publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and History, on topics such as Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies, Biblical Studies and Interpretation and German History and Society.

OpenAlex
World rank
#834,022
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sweden
#10,567
of 71,437
Works
232
Citations
973
Citations per work
4.2
h-index
17
i10-index 25Top 9.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Élie Wiesel

What does Élie Wiesel research?

Élie Wiesel's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (31%), Social Sciences (28%).

Social Sciences: 138 works · 59.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 72 works · 31.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 24 works · 10.4% of their workHistory: 20 works · 8.6% of their workPhilosophy: 14 works · 6.1% of their workReligious studies: 14 works · 5.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 66 works · 28.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 48 works · 20.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 18 works · 7.9% of their workEverything else: 94 works · 40.6% of their workTHEIR WORKÉlie Wiesel232works
Social Sciences59%

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 Humanities7231.0%
    2. Social Sciences6628.4%
  2. Everything else9440.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science20% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory10% of their works
  3. 3History9% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy6% of their works
  6. 6Religious studies6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Élie Wiesel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Israel, Ethnic Identity, Palestine, Identity, Biblical Monotheism, Jewish Society, East German Memory and Ostalgie.

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. Israel362 topics
  2. Ethnic Identity271 topic
  3. Palestine271 topic
  4. Identity262 topics
  5. Biblical Monotheism211 topic
  6. Jewish Society211 topic
  7. East German Memory181 topic
  8. Ostalgie181 topic
  9. Environmental Participation121 topic
  10. Territorial Governance121 topic
  11. Cultural Studies101 topic
  12. Ethnography101 topic
  13. American Jews91 topic
  14. Jewish identity91 topic
  15. Literature81 topic
  16. W.G. Sebald81 topic
  17. Artistic Expression71 topic
  18. Literary History71 topic

Where does Élie Wiesel work?

Élie Wiesel's main affiliation in the publication record is Nobel Foundation, Sweden.

How many publications and citations does Élie Wiesel have?

OpenAlex counts 232 works and 973 citations for Élie Wiesel, an h-index of 17, ranking #834,022 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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