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Gerd Althoff

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

World rank
#96,847
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#6,217
of 86,443
Works
31
Citations
74
Citations per work
2.4

What does Gerd Althoff research?

Classics: 30.6%Political Science and International Relations: 13.9%History: 13.9%Philosophy: 8.3%other fields: 33.3%31%top field
Classics30.6%Political Science and International Relations13.9%History13.9%Philosophy8.3%other fields33.3%

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

  1. 1Classics31% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations14% of their works
  3. 3History14% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy8% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory6% 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, Literature, Church History, Diplomacy, Calvinism and Cross-Confessional.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Middle Ages92 topics
  2. Cultural History81 topic
  3. Medieval Literature81 topic
  4. Literature52 topics
  5. Church History42 topics
  6. Diplomacy42 topics
  7. Calvinism31 topic
  8. Cross-Confessional31 topic
  9. Early Modern31 topic
  10. Medieval31 topic
  11. Reformation31 topic
  12. Religion31 topic
  13. Collective Memory21 topic
  14. Psychoanalysis21 topic
  15. Castle Construction11 topic
  16. Ceremonial11 topic
  17. Cross-Cultural Encounters11 topic
  18. Medieval Architecture11 topic
  19. Mediterranean11 topic
  20. Rome11 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?

Science Explorer counts 31 works and 74 citations for Gerd Althoff, ranking #96,847 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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