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Researcher · University of Münster · Germany

Gerd Althoff

Gerd Althoff publishes mostly in Classics, History and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies, Reformation and Early Modern Christianity and Medieval Literature and History.

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World rank
#235,283
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#11,918
of 364,343
Works
157
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
7.5
h-index
17
i10-index 26Top 2.9% in Classics
Gerd Althoff

What does Gerd Althoff research?

Gerd Althoff's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (65%), Social Sciences (16%).

Social Sciences: 126 works · 80.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 102 works · 64.8% of their workClassics: 49 works · 31.3% of their workHistory: 38 works · 23.9% of their workArcheology: 9 works · 5.6% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 works · 4.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 15.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 18 works · 11.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 19.6% of their workTHEIR WORKGerd Althoff157works
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. Arts and Humanities10264.8%
    2. Social Sciences2415.6%
  2. Everything else3119.6%
  1. 1Classics31% of their works
  2. 2History24% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations11% of their works
  4. 4Archeology6% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerd Althoff's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Middle Ages, Cultural History, Medieval Literature, Church History, Medieval, Religion, Cultural Exchange and Calvinism.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Middle Ages942 topics
  2. Cultural History731 topic
  3. Medieval Literature731 topic
  4. Church History542 topics
  5. Medieval542 topics
  6. Religion542 topics
  7. Cultural Exchange392 topics
  8. Calvinism331 topic
  9. Reformation331 topic
  10. Literature301 topic
  11. Society301 topic
  12. Scandinavia241 topic
  13. Viking Age241 topic
  14. Ceremonial211 topic
  15. Rome211 topic
  16. Castle Construction181 topic
  17. Diplomacy181 topic
  18. Early Modern181 topic
  19. Medieval Architecture181 topic
  20. Byzantium151 topic
  21. Eastern Mediterranean151 topic

Where does Gerd Althoff work?

Gerd Althoff's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Münster, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Gerd Althoff have?

OpenAlex counts 157 works and 1,183 citations for Gerd Althoff, an h-index of 17, ranking #235,283 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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