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Gastón Figueira

Gastón Figueira publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Cultural Studies, on topics such as Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism, Spanish Literature and Culture Studies and Latin American Literature Studies.

World rank
#326,507
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Uruguay
#26
of 428
Works
119
Citations
16
Citations per work
0.1

What does Gastón Figueira research?

Literature and Literary Theory: 29.5%Sociology and Political Science: 9.1%Cultural Studies: 6.8%Philosophy: 6.8%other fields: 47.8%30%top field
Literature and Literary Theory29.5%Sociology and Political Science9.1%Cultural Studies6.8%Philosophy6.8%other fields47.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory30% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies7% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy7% of their works
  5. 5General Social Sciences6% of their works
  6. 6Education4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gastón Figueira's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Identity, Literature, Gender, Colonialism, Poetry, Cultural Identity, History and Autobiography.

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 26 words, with their numbers
  1. Identity153 topics
  2. Literature153 topics
  3. Gender132 topics
  4. Colonialism113 topics
  5. Poetry102 topics
  6. Cultural Identity83 topics
  7. History82 topics
  8. Autobiography71 topic
  9. Narrative71 topic
  10. Latin American Literature62 topics
  11. Literary Criticism62 topics
  12. Nationalism61 topic
  13. Spain61 topic
  14. Social Movements52 topics
  15. Cultural Representation41 topic
  16. Drug Trafficking41 topic
  17. Hispanic World31 topic
  18. Independence31 topic
  19. Interculturalism31 topic
  20. Latin America31 topic
  21. Autofiction21 topic
  22. Culture21 topic
  23. Hispanic Linguistics21 topic
  24. Language Variation21 topic
  25. Lusophone21 topic
  26. fantastic genre21 topic

Where does Gastón Figueira work?

Gastón Figueira's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay.

How many publications and citations does Gastón Figueira have?

Science Explorer counts 119 works and 16 citations for Gastón Figueira, ranking #326,507 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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