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Researcher · Hanover College · United States

Karen A. Porter

Karen A. Porter publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Anthropology, on topics such as Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Sex work and related issues and African history and culture studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,374,236
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#950,102
of 1,627,098
Works
28
Citations
146
Citations per work
5.2
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 45% in Sociology and Political Science
Karen A. Porter

What does Karen A. Porter research?

Karen A. Porter's work is mostly in Social Sciences (56%), Medicine (4%).

Social Sciences: 16 works · 55.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 16 works · 55.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 19.2% of their workSafety Research: 4 works · 13.5% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 11.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 works · 7.7% of their workPublic Administration: 1 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 40.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 3.8% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 3.8% of their workReproductive Medicine: 1 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKKaren A. Porter28works
Health Sciences4%Social Sciences56%

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 Sciences1655.7%
  2. Everything else1140.5%
    1. Medicine13.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  2. 2Safety Research14% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology12% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  5. 5Public Administration4% of their works
  6. 6Reproductive Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Karen A. Porter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conditional Cash Transfers, School Subsidies, Globalization, Colonialism, Sex Work, Trafficking, African History 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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Conditional Cash Transfers71 topic
  2. School Subsidies71 topic
  3. Globalization63 topics
  4. Colonialism52 topics
  5. Sex Work41 topic
  6. Trafficking41 topic
  7. African History31 topic
  8. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  9. Eritrea21 topic
  10. Ethiopia21 topic
  11. Governmentality21 topic
  12. Immigration21 topic
  13. Infertility21 topic
  14. Labor Movement21 topic
  15. Neoliberalism21 topic
  16. Remittances21 topic
  17. Reproductive Technologies21 topic
  18. Union Revitalization21 topic

Where does Karen A. Porter work?

Karen A. Porter's main affiliation in the publication record is Hanover College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Karen A. Porter have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 146 citations for Karen A. Porter, an h-index of 6, ranking #3,374,236 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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