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James Q. Wilson

James Q. Wilson publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and History, on topics such as Policing Practices and Perceptions, Crime Patterns and Interventions and Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies.

World rank
#9,051
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,363
of 358,040
Works
54
Citations
602
Citations per work
11.1

What does James Q. Wilson research?

Political Science and International Relations: 29.8%Sociology and Political Science: 25.5%History: 10.6%Law: 8.5%other fields: 25.6%30%top field
Political Science and International Relations29.8%Sociology and Political Science25.5%History10.6%Law8.5%other fields25.6%

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

  1. 1Political Science and International Relations30% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science26% of their works
  3. 3History11% of their works
  4. 4Law8% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems4% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James Q. Wilson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Law Enforcement, Neighborhood Effects, Drug Trafficking, Globalization, Police Legitimacy, Procedural Justice, Public Opinion and Crime.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Law Enforcement83 topics
  2. Neighborhood Effects52 topics
  3. Drug Trafficking42 topics
  4. Globalization42 topics
  5. Police Legitimacy41 topic
  6. Procedural Justice41 topic
  7. Public Opinion42 topics
  8. Crime31 topic
  9. Social Structure31 topic
  10. American founding21 topic
  11. Constitutional government21 topic
  12. Criminal Networks21 topic
  13. Cybercrime21 topic
  14. Dark Web21 topic
  15. Empirical Analysis21 topic
  16. French Revolution21 topic
  17. Napoleonic Wars21 topic
  18. Organized Crime21 topic
  19. Political Science21 topic
  20. Residential Segregation21 topic
  21. Social Mobility21 topic

Where does James Q. Wilson work?

James Q. Wilson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Los Angeles, United States.

How many publications and citations does James Q. Wilson have?

Science Explorer counts 54 works and 602 citations for James Q. Wilson, ranking #9,051 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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