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Researcher · Williams College · United States

James MacGregor Burns

James MacGregor Burns publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and History, on topics such as American Constitutional Law and Politics, Political and Economic history of UK and US and American Political and Social Dynamics.

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World rank
#1,014,677
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#330,805
of 1,627,098
Works
113
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
12.0
h-index
15
i10-index 19Top 8.5% in Political Science and International Relations
James MacGregor Burns

What does James MacGregor Burns research?

James MacGregor Burns's work is mostly in Social Sciences (65%), Arts and Humanities (9%), Medicine (3%).

Social Sciences: 84 works · 74.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 74 works · 65.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 47 works · 42.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 20 works · 17.5% of their workLaw: 3 works · 2.8% of their workPublic Administration: 3 works · 2.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 10 works · 9.0% of their workHistory: 10 works · 9.0% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 23.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 2.8% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 2.8% of their workReproductive Medicine: 3 works · 2.8% of their workTHEIR WORKJames MacGregorBurns113works
Health Sciences3%Social Sciences74%

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 Sciences7465.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities109.0%
  2. Everything else2623.1%
    1. Medicine32.8%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations42% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  3. 3History9% of their works
  4. 4Public Administration3% of their works
  5. 5Law3% of their works
  6. 6Reproductive Medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James MacGregor Burns's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Political Philosophy, American founding, Constitutional government, British Politics, Depoliticisation, Black Studies, Civil Rights Movement and Seventies.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Political Philosophy392 topics
  2. American founding351 topic
  3. Constitutional government351 topic
  4. British Politics111 topic
  5. Depoliticisation111 topic
  6. Black Studies101 topic
  7. Civil Rights Movement101 topic
  8. Seventies101 topic
  9. Sixties101 topic
  10. Academic Freedom81 topic
  11. Political Bias81 topic
  12. Health Claims61 topic
  13. scientific opinion61 topic
  14. Alexis de Tocqueville41 topic
  15. John Stuart Mill41 topic
  16. Leadership41 topic
  17. Management41 topic

Where does James MacGregor Burns work?

James MacGregor Burns's main affiliation in the publication record is Williams College, United States.

How many publications and citations does James MacGregor Burns have?

OpenAlex counts 113 works and 1,361 citations for James MacGregor Burns, an h-index of 15, ranking #1,014,677 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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