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James Elkins

James Elkins publishes mostly in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Art, Politics, and Modernism, Visual Culture and Art Theory and Photography and Visual Culture.

World rank
#145,442
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#61,234
of 358,040
Works
56
Citations
71
Citations per work
1.3

What does James Elkins research?

Visual Arts and Performing Arts: 27.1%Sociology and Political Science: 15.3%Literature and Literary Theory: 13.6%History: 6.8%other fields: 37.2%27%top field
Visual Arts and Performing Arts27.1%Sociology and Political Science15.3%Literature and Literary Theory13.6%History6.8%other fields37.2%

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

  1. 1Visual Arts and Performing Arts27% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory14% of their works
  4. 4History7% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Museology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James Elkins's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Photography, Postmodernism, Visual Culture, Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Ekphrasis, Intermediality and Contemporary Fiction.

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. Photography92 topics
  2. Postmodernism92 topics
  3. Visual Culture92 topics
  4. Aesthetics61 topic
  5. Contemporary Art61 topic
  6. Ekphrasis61 topic
  7. Intermediality61 topic
  8. Contemporary Fiction31 topic
  9. Cultural History31 topic
  10. Digital Images31 topic
  11. Thomas Pynchon31 topic
  12. Art Market21 topic
  13. Artistic Exchange21 topic
  14. Climate Change21 topic
  15. Cultural Transfer21 topic
  16. Investment21 topic
  17. Literature21 topic
  18. Psychotherapy Outcome21 topic
  19. Therapeutic Alliance21 topic

Where does James Elkins work?

James Elkins's main affiliation in the publication record is Art Institute of Chicago, United States.

How many publications and citations does James Elkins have?

Science Explorer counts 56 works and 71 citations for James Elkins, ranking #145,442 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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