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Karen Fog Olwig

Karen Fog Olwig publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Education and Anthropology, on topics such as Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Caribbean history, culture, and politics and Diaspora, migration, transnational identity.

World rank
#95,191
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Denmark
#703
of 10,734
Works
48
Citations
94
Citations per work
2.0

What does Karen Fog Olwig research?

Sociology and Political Science: 24.5%Education: 17.0%Anthropology: 11.3%Social Psychology: 9.4%other fields: 37.8%24%top field
Sociology and Political Science24.5%Education17.0%Anthropology11.3%Social Psychology9.4%other fields37.8%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science24% of their works
  2. 2Education17% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology11% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology9% of their works
  5. 5Demography8% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Karen Fog Olwig's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Identity, Qualitative Research, Social Sciences, Social Networks, Ethnic Minority Business, Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Caribbean.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization103 topics
  2. Identity82 topics
  3. Qualitative Research82 topics
  4. Social Sciences82 topics
  5. Social Networks62 topics
  6. Ethnic Minority Business51 topic
  7. Immigrant Entrepreneurship51 topic
  8. Caribbean41 topic
  9. Communication41 topic
  10. Culture41 topic
  11. Diaspora41 topic
  12. Learning41 topic
  13. Methodology41 topic
  14. Phenomenology41 topic
  15. Transnationalism41 topic
  16. Interactional Expertise31 topic
  17. Tacit Knowledge31 topic
  18. Atlantic History21 topic
  19. Immigration21 topic
  20. Remittances21 topic
  21. Transatlantic Slave Trade21 topic

Where does Karen Fog Olwig work?

Karen Fog Olwig's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

How many publications and citations does Karen Fog Olwig have?

Science Explorer counts 48 works and 94 citations for Karen Fog Olwig, ranking #95,191 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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