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Researcher · Newberry Library · United States

James R. Akerman

James R. Akerman publishes mostly in Geography, Planning and Development, Anthropology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Historical Geography and Cartography, American Environmental and Regional History and American History and Culture.

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World rank
#2,569,379
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#754,837
of 1,627,098
Works
28
Citations
337
Citations per work
12.0
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 32% in Geography, Planning and Development
James R. Akerman

What does James R. Akerman research?

James R. Akerman's work is mostly in Social Sciences (41%), Arts and Humanities (16%), Environmental Science (10%).

Social Sciences: 18 works · 65.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 41.4% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 7 works · 25.9% of their workAnthropology: 4 works · 15.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 15.5% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 works · 8.6% of their workHistory: 2 works · 6.9% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 works · 8.6% of their workMarketing: 2 works · 8.6% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 24.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 10.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 10.3% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 works · 10.3% of their workTHEIR WORKJames R. Akerman28works
Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences66%

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 Sciences1241.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities415.5%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting28.6%
  2. Everything else724.2%
    1. Environmental Science310.3%
  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development26% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology16% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law10% of their works
  4. 4Marketing9% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science9% of their works
  6. 6History7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James R. Akerman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Geodesy, Map Projections, History, Conservation, Environmental Movement, Branding, Geospatial Crowdsourcing and Marketing.

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. Geodesy81 topic
  2. Map Projections81 topic
  3. History72 topics
  4. Conservation61 topic
  5. Environmental Movement61 topic
  6. Branding51 topic
  7. Geospatial Crowdsourcing51 topic
  8. Marketing51 topic
  9. Volunteered Geographic Information51 topic
  10. Scientific History31 topic
  11. Technological Development31 topic
  12. Traditional Irrigation31 topic
  13. Water Sustainability31 topic
  14. Exploration21 topic
  15. Indian Ocean21 topic
  16. Travel Writing21 topic
  17. prehistoric movement21 topic

Where does James R. Akerman work?

James R. Akerman's main affiliation in the publication record is Newberry Library, United States.

How many publications and citations does James R. Akerman have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 337 citations for James R. Akerman, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,569,379 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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