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Researcher · Bocconi University · Italy

Guido Alfani

Guido Alfani publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Historical Economic and Social Studies, Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research and Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0001-5534-8694 OpenAlex
World rank
#143,795
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#3,066
of 242,206
Works
248
Citations
3.1k
Citations per work
12.4
h-index
25
i10-index 51Top 7% in Economics and Econometrics
Guido Alfani

What does Guido Alfani research?

Guido Alfani's work is mostly in Social Sciences (30%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (22%), Arts and Humanities (12%).

Social Sciences: 159 works · 64.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 75 works · 30.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 31 works · 12.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 31 works · 12.5% of their workDemography: 13 works · 5.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 54 works · 21.9% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 54 works · 21.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 29 works · 11.7% of their workHistory: 29 works · 11.7% of their workEverything else: 77 works · 31.1% of their workLife Sciences: 12 works · 4.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 works · 4.9% of their workGenetics: 12 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKGuido Alfani248works
Life Sciences5%Social Sciences64%

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 Sciences7530.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5421.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities2911.7%
  2. Everything else7731.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology124.9%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics22% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  4. 4History12% of their works
  5. 5Demography5% of their works
  6. 6Genetics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Guido Alfani's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Economic Growth, Height, Legal History, plague, Yersinia pestis, Scientific History and Technological Development.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization1052 topics
  2. Economic Growth901 topic
  3. Height901 topic
  4. Legal History302 topics
  5. Yersinia pestis221 topic
  6. plague221 topic
  7. Scientific History201 topic
  8. Technological Development201 topic
  9. Culture191 topic
  10. Institutions191 topic
  11. Judicial Systems161 topic
  12. Social Control161 topic
  13. French Revolution151 topic
  14. Napoleonic Wars151 topic
  15. Calvinism141 topic
  16. Economic Ethics141 topic
  17. Reformation141 topic
  18. Scholastic Thought141 topic

Where does Guido Alfani work?

Guido Alfani's main affiliation in the publication record is Bocconi University, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Guido Alfani have?

OpenAlex counts 248 works and 3,071 citations for Guido Alfani, an h-index of 25, ranking #143,795 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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