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Researcher · Peace Research Institute Oslo · Norway

Johan Galtung

Johan Galtung publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Philosophy, on topics such as Global Peace and Security Dynamics, Peace and Human Rights Education and Indian History and Philosophy.

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World rank
#54,108
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#235
of 33,005
Works
551
Citations
25k
Citations per work
45.7
h-index
50
i10-index 111Top 0.4% in Sociology and Political Science
Johan Galtung

What does Johan Galtung research?

Johan Galtung's work is mostly in Social Sciences (60%), Arts and Humanities (8%), Engineering (2%).

Social Sciences: 377 works · 68.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 333 works · 60.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 192 works · 34.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 115 works · 20.8% of their workEducation: 15 works · 2.7% of their workTransportation: 12 works · 2.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 44 works · 8.0% of their workPhilosophy: 44 works · 8.0% of their workEverything else: 162 works · 29.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 12 works · 2.1% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 2.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 12 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKJohan Galtung551works
Physical Sciences2%Social Sciences68%

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 Sciences33360.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities448.0%
  2. Everything else16229.4%
    1. Engineering122.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science35% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations21% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy8% of their works
  4. 4Education3% of their works
  5. 5Transportation2% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Johan Galtung's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Humanitarian Intervention, Social Justice, Ethnic Conflict, Human Rights, Philosophy, International Law, Responsibility to Protect and Human Rights Education.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Humanitarian Intervention912 topics
  2. Social Justice902 topics
  3. Ethnic Conflict762 topics
  4. Human Rights622 topics
  5. Philosophy612 topics
  6. International Law561 topic
  7. Responsibility to Protect561 topic
  8. Human Rights Education521 topic
  9. Peace Education521 topic
  10. Gandhi381 topic
  11. Nonviolence381 topic
  12. Ethics351 topic
  13. Just War Theory351 topic
  14. Civil War241 topic
  15. Democracy241 topic
  16. Air Force231 topic
  17. Culture231 topic
  18. Islam231 topic
  19. Legal Regulation231 topic
  20. Modernization231 topic
  21. Transport Policy231 topic

Where does Johan Galtung work?

Johan Galtung's main affiliation in the publication record is Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Johan Galtung have?

OpenAlex counts 551 works and 25,185 citations for Johan Galtung, an h-index of 50, ranking #54,108 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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