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Researcher · Georgetown University · United States

John Pfordresher

John Pfordresher publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices, Contemporary Literature and Criticism and History of Science and Natural History.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,359,292
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,508,371
of 1,627,098
Works
38
Citations
31
Citations per work
0.8
h-index
2
i10-index 1Top 78% in Literature and Literary Theory
John Pfordresher

What does John Pfordresher research?

John Pfordresher's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (51%), Social Sciences (21%).

Social Sciences: 27 works · 72.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 19 works · 50.7% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 10 works · 26.7% of their workPhilosophy: 6 works · 14.7% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 works · 5.3% of their workHistory: 2 works · 4.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 21.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 12.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 works · 9.3% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 28.0% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Pfordresher38works
Social Sciences72%

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. Arts and Humanities1950.7%
    2. Social Sciences821.3%
  2. Everything else1128.0%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory27% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy15% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  6. 6History4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Pfordresher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Postmodernism, Literary Criticism, Occultism, Spiritualism, Contemporary Fiction, Thomas Pynchon, American founding and Children's Literature.

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. Postmodernism72 topics
  2. Literary Criticism62 topics
  3. Occultism51 topic
  4. Spiritualism51 topic
  5. Contemporary Fiction41 topic
  6. Thomas Pynchon41 topic
  7. American founding31 topic
  8. Children's Literature31 topic
  9. Constitutional government31 topic
  10. Global History31 topic
  11. Modernist Poetry31 topic
  12. Science Circulation31 topic
  13. Sylvia Plath31 topic
  14. Young Adult31 topic
  15. Autorschaft21 topic
  16. Bildung21 topic
  17. Forensic Toxicology21 topic
  18. Medical Chemistry21 topic

Where does John Pfordresher work?

John Pfordresher's main affiliation in the publication record is Georgetown University, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Pfordresher have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 31 citations for John Pfordresher, an h-index of 2, ranking #6,359,292 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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