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Researcher · Kenyon College · United States

Kelly Besecke

Kelly Besecke publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Health, on topics such as Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices and Religion and Society Interactions.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,181,483
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#904,855
of 1,627,098
Works
17
Citations
204
Citations per work
12.0
h-index
4
i10-index 4Top 62% in Sociology and Political Science
Kelly Besecke

What does Kelly Besecke research?

Kelly Besecke's work is mostly in Social Sciences (62%), Arts and Humanities (28%).

Social Sciences: 15 works · 89.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 61.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 28.2% of their workHealth: 3 works · 20.5% of their workDemography: 1 works · 7.7% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 works · 5.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 28.2% of their workPhilosophy: 3 works · 20.5% of their workReligious studies: 1 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 10.3% of their workTHEIR WORKKelly Besecke17works
Social Sciences90%

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 Sciences1061.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities528.2%
  2. Everything else210.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science28% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy20% of their works
  3. 3Health20% of their works
  4. 4Demography8% of their works
  5. 5Religious studies8% of their works
  6. 6Geography, Planning and Development5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kelly Besecke's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Religion, Spirituality, Coping, Health, Globalization, Occultism, Spiritualism and Public Sphere.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Religion132 topics
  2. Spirituality92 topics
  3. Coping81 topic
  4. Health81 topic
  5. Globalization62 topics
  6. Occultism61 topic
  7. Spiritualism61 topic
  8. Public Sphere51 topic
  9. Secularism51 topic
  10. Spiritual Leadership31 topic
  11. Workplace Spirituality31 topic
  12. Biblical Monotheism21 topic
  13. Digital Religion21 topic
  14. Internet21 topic
  15. Jewish Society21 topic
  16. Biblical Interpretation11 topic
  17. Food Tourism11 topic
  18. Gastronomy11 topic
  19. Pentecostalism11 topic

Where does Kelly Besecke work?

Kelly Besecke's main affiliation in the publication record is Kenyon College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kelly Besecke have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 204 citations for Kelly Besecke, an h-index of 4, ranking #3,181,483 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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