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Researcher · Millersville University · United States

John Kelly Thornton

John Kelly Thornton publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Colonialism, slavery, and trade, Global Maritime and Colonial Histories and African history and culture studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-8760-2634 OpenAlex
World rank
#150,370
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#56,687
of 1,627,098
Works
236
Citations
5.3k
Citations per work
22.5
h-index
34
i10-index 56Top 1.4% in Anthropology
John Kelly Thornton

What does John Kelly Thornton research?

John Kelly Thornton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (75%), Arts and Humanities (9%).

Social Sciences: 199 works · 84.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 177 works · 75.0% of their workAnthropology: 147 works · 62.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 18 works · 7.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 12 works · 5.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 22 works · 9.2% of their workHistory: 8 works · 3.3% of their workArcheology: 7 works · 3.1% of their workReligious studies: 7 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 15.8% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn KellyThornton236works
Social Sciences84%

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 Sciences17775.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities229.2%
  2. Everything else3715.8%
  1. 1Anthropology62% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  4. 4History3% of their works
  5. 5Archeology3% of their works
  6. 6Religious studies3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Kelly Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: African Diaspora, Racial Identity, Atlantic History, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Indian Ocean, prehistoric movement, Colonialism and Post-Colonial Africa.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. African Diaspora1452 topics
  2. Racial Identity1452 topics
  3. Atlantic History1311 topic
  4. Transatlantic Slave Trade1311 topic
  5. Indian Ocean791 topic
  6. prehistoric movement791 topic
  7. Colonialism741 topic
  8. Post-Colonial Africa741 topic
  9. Brazilian slavery141 topic
  10. colonial Brazil141 topic
  11. Culture132 topics
  12. Politics132 topics
  13. Economic Growth91 topic
  14. Height91 topic
  15. Ancient Rome71 topic
  16. Eritrea71 topic
  17. Ethiopia71 topic
  18. Greek Literature71 topic
  19. Cuba61 topic
  20. Race61 topic

Where does John Kelly Thornton work?

John Kelly Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is Millersville University, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Kelly Thornton have?

OpenAlex counts 236 works and 5,310 citations for John Kelly Thornton, an h-index of 34, ranking #150,370 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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