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Researcher · University of California, Davis · United States

Fred Block

Fred Block publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Political Economy and Marxism, Economic Growth and Productivity and Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism.

ORCID 0000-0003-3170-074X OpenAlex
World rank
#32,556
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#15,179
of 358,040
Works
58
Citations
249
Citations per work
4.3

What does Fred Block research?

Sociology and Political Science: 32.7%Political Science and International Relations: 16.4%Economics and Econometrics: 10.9%Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3.6%other fields: 36.4%33%top field
Sociology and Political Science32.7%Political Science and International Relations16.4%Economics and Econometrics10.9%Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment3.6%other fields36.4%

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 Science33% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations16% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics11% of their works
  4. 4Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment4% of their works
  5. 5Development4% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fred Block's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Capitalism, Marxism, Economic Development, Global Capitalism, Institutions, Technology Diffusion and Transnational Capitalist Class.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization154 topics
  2. Capitalism81 topic
  3. Marxism81 topic
  4. Economic Development73 topics
  5. Global Capitalism31 topic
  6. Institutions31 topic
  7. Technology Diffusion31 topic
  8. Transnational Capitalist Class31 topic
  9. British Politics21 topic
  10. Dependency21 topic
  11. Depoliticisation21 topic
  12. Development Policies21 topic
  13. Foreign Aid21 topic
  14. Innovation Management21 topic
  15. Political Economy21 topic
  16. Science Policy21 topic
  17. Welfare State21 topic
  18. World-Systems Analysis21 topic

Where does Fred Block work?

Fred Block's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Davis, United States.

How many publications and citations does Fred Block have?

Science Explorer counts 58 works and 249 citations for Fred Block, ranking #32,556 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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