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Researcher · Peace Research Institute Oslo · Norway

Gudrun Østby

Gudrun Østby publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and General Health Professions, on topics such as Political Conflict and Governance, Agricultural risk and resilience and Gender, Security, and Conflict.

ORCID 0000-0002-5521-5610 OpenAlex
World rank
#107,968
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#550
of 33,005
Works
79
Citations
3.3k
Citations per work
41.3
h-index
25
i10-index 36Top 3.7% in Sociology and Political Science
Gudrun Østby

What does Gudrun Østby research?

Gudrun Østby's work is mostly in Social Sciences (52%), Health Professions (9%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%).

Social Sciences: 41 works · 51.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 41 works · 51.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 24 works · 29.9% of their workGender Studies: 8 works · 10.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 works · 6.5% of their workSafety Research: 4 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 32.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 8.5% of their workHealth Professions: 7 works · 8.5% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 7 works · 8.5% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 7.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 works · 7.0% of their workSoil Science: 6 works · 7.0% of their workTHEIR WORKGudrun Østby79works
Life Sciences7%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences52%

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 Sciences4151.9%
  2. Everything else2632.6%
    1. Health Professions78.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences67.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science30% of their works
  2. 2Gender Studies10% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions8% of their works
  4. 4Soil Science7% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Safety Research6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gudrun Østby's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender Inequality, Peacebuilding, Civil War, Democracy, Poverty Reduction, Risk Management, Vulnerability and Conditional Cash Transfers.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender Inequality222 topics
  2. Peacebuilding212 topics
  3. Civil War201 topic
  4. Democracy201 topic
  5. Poverty Reduction192 topics
  6. Risk Management141 topic
  7. Vulnerability141 topic
  8. Conditional Cash Transfers111 topic
  9. Military Masculinity111 topic
  10. School Subsidies111 topic
  11. Sexual Violence111 topic
  12. Child Mortality101 topic
  13. Conflict101 topic
  14. Immigrant101 topic
  15. Maternal Mortality101 topic
  16. Mortality101 topic
  17. Refugee101 topic
  18. Development Policies81 topic
  19. Foreign Aid81 topic

Where does Gudrun Østby work?

Gudrun Østby's main affiliation in the publication record is Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Gudrun Østby have?

OpenAlex counts 79 works and 3,263 citations for Gudrun Østby, an h-index of 25, ranking #107,968 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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