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Researcher · Indiana University · United States

Gail M. Gerhart

Gail M. Gerhart publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Global Peace and Security Dynamics and South African History and Culture.

OpenAlex
World rank
#135
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#68
of 1,627,098
Works
358
Citations
34k
Citations per work
96.2
h-index
85
i10-index 240Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Gail M. Gerhart

What does Gail M. Gerhart research?

Gail M. Gerhart's work is mostly in Social Sciences (75%), Arts and Humanities (6%).

Social Sciences: 288 works · 80.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 267 works · 74.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 87 works · 24.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 85 works · 23.7% of their workAnthropology: 61 works · 17.1% of their workDevelopment: 20 works · 5.6% of their workLaw: 14 works · 3.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 21 works · 5.8% of their workHistory: 21 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 70 works · 19.6% of their workTHEIR WORKGail M. Gerhart358works
Social Sciences80%

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 Sciences26774.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities215.8%
  2. Everything else7019.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science24% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations24% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology17% of their works
  4. 4History6% of their works
  5. 5Development6% of their works
  6. 6Law4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gail M. Gerhart's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, African History, Post-Colonial Africa, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect, NGOs, Human Rights and protests.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Colonialism1162 topics
  2. African History851 topic
  3. Post-Colonial Africa851 topic
  4. Humanitarian Intervention761 topic
  5. Responsibility to Protect761 topic
  6. NGOs662 topics
  7. Human Rights532 topics
  8. South Africa531 topic
  9. protests531 topic
  10. Development Policies351 topic
  11. Foreign Aid351 topic
  12. Humanitarianism311 topic
  13. International Aid311 topic
  14. Eritrea231 topic
  15. Ethiopia231 topic
  16. Constitutionalism221 topic
  17. Developmental Local Government221 topic
  18. Global Relations211 topic
  19. Italian Foreign Policy211 topic

Where does Gail M. Gerhart work?

Gail M. Gerhart's main affiliation in the publication record is Indiana University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gail M. Gerhart have?

OpenAlex counts 358 works and 34,448 citations for Gail M. Gerhart, an h-index of 85, ranking #135 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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