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Researcher · Cal Poly Humboldt · United States

Friedrich Kittler

Friedrich Kittler publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy, on topics such as German Literature and Culture Studies, Literature and Cultural Memory and Libraries and Information Services.

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World rank
#45,646
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,569
of 1,627,098
Works
313
Citations
4.1k
Citations per work
13.2
h-index
28
i10-index 56Top 0.5% in Literature and Literary Theory
Friedrich Kittler

What does Friedrich Kittler research?

Friedrich Kittler's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (37%), Social Sciences (14%).

Social Sciences: 160 works · 51.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 117 works · 37.3% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 58 works · 18.5% of their workPhilosophy: 24 works · 7.8% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 22 works · 7.0% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 13 works · 4.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 43 works · 13.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 25 works · 8.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 18 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 153 works · 49.0% of their workTHEIR WORKFriedrich Kittler313works
Social Sciences51%

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 Humanities11737.3%
    2. Social Sciences4313.7%
  2. Everything else15349.0%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory18% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy8% of their works
  4. 4Visual Arts and Performing Arts7% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Friedrich Kittler's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Identity, Autorschaft, Bildung, History, Literature, Narrative, Photography and Art.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Identity1023 topics
  2. Autorschaft631 topic
  3. Bildung631 topic
  4. History593 topics
  5. Literature593 topics
  6. Narrative412 topics
  7. Photography392 topics
  8. Art382 topics
  9. Aesthetics362 topics
  10. Philosophy362 topics
  11. Memory211 topic
  12. W.G. Sebald211 topic
  13. Exhibition201 topic
  14. Museum201 topic
  15. Cultural Techniques191 topic
  16. Media Theory191 topic
  17. Culture181 topic
  18. Nietzsche181 topic
  19. Society181 topic
  20. Visual Culture181 topic
  21. Cultural History171 topic
  22. Medieval Literature171 topic
  23. Discourse Analysis151 topic
  24. Language Variation151 topic

Where does Friedrich Kittler work?

Friedrich Kittler's main affiliation in the publication record is Cal Poly Humboldt, United States.

How many publications and citations does Friedrich Kittler have?

OpenAlex counts 313 works and 4,118 citations for Friedrich Kittler, an h-index of 28, ranking #45,646 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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