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Researcher · Davidson College · United States

Ken Menkhaus

Ken Menkhaus publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology, on topics such as Political Conflict and Governance, African history and culture analysis and Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East.

OpenAlex
World rank
#67,928
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#26,220
of 1,627,098
Works
82
Citations
2.7k
Citations per work
32.4
h-index
21
i10-index 34Top 5.7% in Sociology and Political Science
Ken Menkhaus

What does Ken Menkhaus research?

Ken Menkhaus's work is mostly in Social Sciences (85%), Arts and Humanities (3%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (2%).

Social Sciences: 74 works · 89.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 70 works · 84.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 30 works · 36.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 29 works · 35.7% of their workAnthropology: 6 works · 7.6% of their workDevelopment: 4 works · 5.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 3 works · 3.2% of their workHistory: 3 works · 3.2% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 works · 1.6% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 10.3% of their workTHEIR WORKKen Menkhaus82works
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 Sciences7084.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities33.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.6%
  2. Everything else810.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science36% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations36% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology8% of their works
  4. 4Development5% of their works
  5. 5History3% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ken Menkhaus's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conflict, Human Rights, Civil War, Democracy, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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. Conflict432 topics
  2. Human Rights372 topics
  3. Civil War311 topic
  4. Democracy311 topic
  5. Eritrea251 topic
  6. Ethiopia251 topic
  7. Afghanistan181 topic
  8. Pakistan181 topic
  9. Humanitarian Intervention171 topic
  10. Responsibility to Protect171 topic
  11. NGOs162 topics
  12. Colonialism122 topics
  13. Development Policies101 topic
  14. Foreign Aid101 topic
  15. Local Turn71 topic
  16. Resilience Governance71 topic
  17. African History61 topic
  18. Humanitarianism61 topic
  19. International Aid61 topic
  20. Post-Colonial Africa61 topic

Where does Ken Menkhaus work?

Ken Menkhaus's main affiliation in the publication record is Davidson College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ken Menkhaus have?

OpenAlex counts 82 works and 2,658 citations for Ken Menkhaus, an h-index of 21, ranking #67,928 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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