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Researcher · University of Amsterdam · Netherlands

Joep Leerssen

Joep Leerssen publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and History, on topics such as Irish and British Studies, Historical Studies of British Isles and Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-0456-0078 OpenAlex
World rank
#56,019
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#1,196
of 23,481
Works
112
Citations
88
Citations per work
0.8

What does Joep Leerssen research?

Literature and Literary Theory: 19.7%Sociology and Political Science: 18.4%History: 17.1%Political Science and International Relations: 13.2%other fields: 31.6%20%top field
Literature and Literary Theory19.7%Sociology and Political Science18.4%History17.1%Political Science and International Relations13.2%other fields31.6%

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

  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory20% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  3. 3History17% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations13% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics7% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joep Leerssen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Identity, Conflict, Northern Ireland, Wales, Welsh literature, Fairy Tales and Folklore.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism142 topics
  2. Identity122 topics
  3. Conflict81 topic
  4. Northern Ireland81 topic
  5. Wales61 topic
  6. Welsh literature61 topic
  7. Fairy Tales51 topic
  8. Folklore51 topic
  9. Autorschaft41 topic
  10. Bildung41 topic
  11. Radio Astronomy41 topic
  12. Transits of Venus41 topic
  13. History31 topic
  14. Scotland31 topic
  15. French Revolution21 topic
  16. Indo-European21 topic
  17. Linguistics21 topic
  18. Napoleonic Wars21 topic

Where does Joep Leerssen work?

Joep Leerssen's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Joep Leerssen have?

Science Explorer counts 112 works and 88 citations for Joep Leerssen, ranking #56,019 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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