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Researcher · McGill University · Canada

Gavin Walker

Gavin Walker publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Cultural Studies, on topics such as Political Economy and Marxism, Marxism and Critical Theory and Japanese History and Culture.

OpenAlex
World rank
#636,689
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#22,044
of 183,316
Works
46
Citations
313
Citations per work
6.8
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 27% in Sociology and Political Science
Gavin Walker

What does Gavin Walker research?

Gavin Walker's work is mostly in Social Sciences (55%), Arts and Humanities (19%), Psychology (6%).

Social Sciences: 37 works · 80.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 25 works · 55.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 18 works · 39.0% of their workCultural Studies: 5 works · 10.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 6.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 19.0% of their workPhilosophy: 6 works · 14.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 works · 5.0% of their workPsychology: 3 works · 6.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 3 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 20.0% of their workTHEIR WORKGavin Walker46works
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 Sciences2555.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities919.0%
    3. Psychology36.0%
  2. Everything else920.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science39% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy14% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies10% of their works
  4. 4Clinical Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gavin Walker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Neoliberalism, Capitalism, Marxism, Social Reproduction, Imperialism, Uneven and Combined Development and Politics.

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. Globalization303 topics
  2. Neoliberalism294 topics
  3. Capitalism273 topics
  4. Marxism272 topics
  5. Social Reproduction272 topics
  6. Imperialism171 topic
  7. Uneven and Combined Development171 topic
  8. Politics142 topics
  9. Althusser101 topic
  10. Ideology101 topic
  11. Ethics92 topics
  12. Subjectivity92 topics
  13. Culture81 topic
  14. Japan81 topic
  15. Lacanian Discourse Analysis61 topic
  16. Psychoanalysis61 topic
  17. Habermas41 topic
  18. Social Pathologies41 topic
  19. Corpus Linguistics31 topic
  20. Foucault31 topic
  21. Governmentality31 topic
  22. Gramsci31 topic
  23. Hegemony31 topic
  24. Translation31 topic

Where does Gavin Walker work?

Gavin Walker's main affiliation in the publication record is McGill University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Gavin Walker have?

OpenAlex counts 46 works and 313 citations for Gavin Walker, an h-index of 9, ranking #636,689 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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