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Researcher · University of Pennsylvania · United States

Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Sociology and Education Studies and Linguistic research and analysis.

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World rank
#7,619
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,604
of 1,627,098
Works
192
Citations
133k
Citations per work
694.8
h-index
73
i10-index 104Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Erving Goffman

What does Erving Goffman research?

Erving Goffman's work is mostly in Social Sciences (22%), Arts and Humanities (17%), Psychology (15%).

Social Sciences: 104 works · 54.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 42 works · 21.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 42 works · 21.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 33 works · 17.4% of their workPhilosophy: 17 works · 8.8% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 17 works · 8.6% of their workPsychology: 29 works · 15.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 10 works · 5.0% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10 works · 5.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 10 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 88 works · 45.9% of their workTHEIR WORKErving Goffman192works
Social Sciences54%

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 Sciences4221.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities3317.4%
    3. Psychology2915.0%
  2. Everything else8845.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy9% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics9% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Erving Goffman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Phenomenology, Bildungsungleichheit and Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse.

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. Pragmatics282 topics
  2. Conversation Analysis201 topic
  3. Interactional Linguistics201 topic
  4. Discourse Analysis162 topics
  5. Sociolinguistics162 topics
  6. Phenomenology132 topics
  7. Bildungsungleichheit111 topic
  8. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse111 topic
  9. Argumentation81 topic
  10. Language Variation81 topic
  11. Rhetoric81 topic
  12. Text Linguistics81 topic
  13. Crisis Resolution71 topic
  14. Home Treatment71 topic
  15. Husserl71 topic
  16. Psychology71 topic
  17. Public Sociology71 topic
  18. Social Theory71 topic
  19. DSM61 topic
  20. Psychiatric Disorders61 topic

Where does Erving Goffman work?

Erving Goffman's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pennsylvania, United States.

How many publications and citations does Erving Goffman have?

OpenAlex counts 192 works and 133,410 citations for Erving Goffman, an h-index of 73, ranking #7,619 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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