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Researcher · Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · United States

James M. Acton

James M. Acton publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Nuclear Issues and Defense, European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies and International Relations and Foreign Policy.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,158,952
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#372,969
of 1,627,098
Works
63
Citations
671
Citations per work
10.7
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 13% in Political Science and International Relations
James M. Acton

What does James M. Acton research?

James M. Acton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (60%), Engineering (11%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%).

Social Sciences: 40 works · 63.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 37 works · 59.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 35 works · 55.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 4.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 works · 3.6% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 23.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 7 works · 10.8% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 10.8% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 5.4% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 3 works · 5.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 2.7% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 2.7% of their workReproductive Medicine: 2 works · 2.7% of their workTHEIR WORKJames M. Acton63works
Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences63%

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 Sciences3759.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance23.6%
  2. Everything else1523.4%
    1. Engineering710.8%
    1. Medicine22.7%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations55% of their works
  2. 2Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality5% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering5% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  6. 6Reproductive Medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James M. Acton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Public Health, Climate Consequences, Nuclear War, International Law, Global Governance, Hybrid Warfare, International Relations and International Institutions.

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. Public Health372 topics
  2. Climate Consequences341 topic
  3. Nuclear War341 topic
  4. International Law133 topics
  5. Global Governance92 topics
  6. Hybrid Warfare71 topic
  7. International Relations71 topic
  8. International Institutions61 topic
  9. Power61 topic
  10. Nuclear Fuel51 topic
  11. Radiation Protection51 topic
  12. Humanitarian Intervention41 topic
  13. Responsibility to Protect41 topic
  14. Biomedical Science31 topic
  15. Health Research31 topic
  16. Private Security Companies31 topic
  17. Privatized Military Industry31 topic
  18. Molten Salt21 topic
  19. Nuclear Reactor21 topic

Where does James M. Acton work?

James M. Acton's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, United States.

How many publications and citations does James M. Acton have?

OpenAlex counts 63 works and 671 citations for James M. Acton, an h-index of 12, ranking #1,158,952 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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