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Researcher · Washington and Lee University · United States

James G. Leyburn

James G. Leyburn publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Religious studies and Anthropology, on topics such as Caribbean and African Literature and Culture, Irish and British Studies and Caribbean history, culture, and politics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#728,222
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#245,323
of 1,627,098
Works
71
Citations
770
Citations per work
10.8
h-index
14
i10-index 14Top 13% in Sociology and Political Science
James G. Leyburn

What does James G. Leyburn research?

James G. Leyburn's work is mostly in Social Sciences (54%), Arts and Humanities (19%).

Social Sciences: 52 works · 72.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 38 works · 53.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 26 works · 36.8% of their workAnthropology: 6 works · 8.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 works · 7.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 14 works · 19.3% of their workReligious studies: 6 works · 8.8% of their workHistory: 4 works · 6.1% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 19 works · 27.2% of their workTHEIR WORKJames G. Leyburn71works
Social Sciences73%

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 Sciences3853.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities1419.3%
  2. Everything else1927.2%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science37% of their works
  2. 2Religious studies9% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology9% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  5. 5History6% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James G. Leyburn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Identity, Colonialism, Nationalism, Caribbean, Race, Culture, Gender and Diaspora.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Identity244 topics
  2. Colonialism194 topics
  3. Nationalism174 topics
  4. Caribbean132 topics
  5. Race132 topics
  6. Culture102 topics
  7. Gender102 topics
  8. Diaspora81 topic
  9. Haiti81 topic
  10. Conflict61 topic
  11. Northern Ireland61 topic
  12. Dancehall51 topic
  13. Globalization51 topic
  14. Society51 topic
  15. Vietnam51 topic
  16. African History31 topic
  17. American founding31 topic
  18. Australian history31 topic
  19. Black Studies31 topic
  20. British imperialism31 topic
  21. Civil Rights Movement31 topic
  22. Constitutional government31 topic
  23. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic

Where does James G. Leyburn work?

James G. Leyburn's main affiliation in the publication record is Washington and Lee University, United States.

How many publications and citations does James G. Leyburn have?

OpenAlex counts 71 works and 770 citations for James G. Leyburn, an h-index of 14, ranking #728,222 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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