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James A. Beckford

James A. Beckford publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and History, on topics such as Religion and Society Interactions, Religion, Society, and Development and Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender.

World rank
#60,336
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#5,691
of 90,785
Works
61
Citations
108
Citations per work
1.8

What does James A. Beckford research?

Sociology and Political Science: 47.8%Political Science and International Relations: 15.2%History: 8.7%Philosophy: 6.5%other fields: 21.8%48%top field
Sociology and Political Science47.8%Political Science and International Relations15.2%History8.7%Philosophy6.5%other fields21.8%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science48% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations15% of their works
  3. 3History9% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy6% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology4% of their works
  6. 6General Social Sciences2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James A. Beckford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Religion, Democracy, Secularism, Globalization, Public Sphere, Faith-Based Organizations, Social Services and Family Law.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Religion194 topics
  2. Democracy122 topics
  3. Secularism102 topics
  4. Globalization81 topic
  5. Public Sphere81 topic
  6. Faith-Based Organizations61 topic
  7. Social Services61 topic
  8. Family Law41 topic
  9. Reform41 topic
  10. Calvinism21 topic
  11. Criminal Justice21 topic
  12. Islamic reform21 topic
  13. Mass Incarceration21 topic
  14. Middle East21 topic
  15. Occultism21 topic
  16. Reformation21 topic
  17. Spiritualism21 topic
  18. Literature11 topic
  19. Medieval11 topic

Where does James A. Beckford work?

James A. Beckford's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does James A. Beckford have?

Science Explorer counts 61 works and 108 citations for James A. Beckford, ranking #60,336 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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