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Researcher · Phillips Exeter Academy · United States

G. Wilson Knight

G. Wilson Knight publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy, on topics such as Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism, Literature: history, themes, analysis and Samuel Beckett and Modernism.

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World rank
#1,722,174
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#531,817
of 1,627,098
Works
87
Citations
576
Citations per work
6.6
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 5.9% in Literature and Literary Theory
G. Wilson Knight

What does G. Wilson Knight research?

G. Wilson Knight's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (53%), Social Sciences (14%).

Social Sciences: 58 works · 67.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 46 works · 53.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 29 works · 33.0% of their workPhilosophy: 7 works · 8.0% of their workHistory: 5 works · 6.3% of their workClassics: 5 works · 5.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 14.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 8 works · 9.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 29 works · 32.8% of their workTHEIR WORKG. Wilson Knight87works
Social Sciences67%

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 Humanities4653.0%
    2. Social Sciences1214.2%
  2. Everything else2932.8%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory33% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy8% of their works
  4. 4History6% of their works
  5. 5Classics6% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe G. Wilson Knight's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Literature, Gender, Cinema, Culture, Adaptation, Film, History and Society.

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 26 words, with their numbers
  1. Literature455 topics
  2. Gender343 topics
  3. Cinema232 topics
  4. Culture232 topics
  5. Adaptation191 topic
  6. Film191 topic
  7. History152 topics
  8. Society152 topics
  9. Postmodernism122 topics
  10. Aesthetics112 topics
  11. Modernism112 topics
  12. Postcolonialism111 topic
  13. Race111 topic
  14. Art82 topics
  15. Language71 topic
  16. Samuel Beckett71 topic
  17. Byzantium61 topic
  18. Eastern Mediterranean61 topic
  19. Ancient Rome51 topic
  20. Greek Literature51 topic
  21. Literary Criticism51 topic
  22. Modernist Poetry51 topic
  23. Ethics41 topic
  24. Moral Imagination41 topic
  25. Psychoanalysis41 topic
  26. Religion41 topic

Where does G. Wilson Knight work?

G. Wilson Knight's main affiliation in the publication record is Phillips Exeter Academy, United States.

How many publications and citations does G. Wilson Knight have?

OpenAlex counts 87 works and 576 citations for G. Wilson Knight, an h-index of 12, ranking #1,722,174 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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