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Researcher · Swarthmore College · United States

Kenneth J. Gergen

Kenneth J. Gergen publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology, on topics such as Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology, Social Representations and Identity and Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-2388-879X OpenAlex
World rank
#26,672
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,995
of 1,627,098
Works
609
Citations
39k
Citations per work
63.5
h-index
82
i10-index 252Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Kenneth J. Gergen

What does Kenneth J. Gergen research?

Kenneth J. Gergen's work is mostly in Psychology (34%), Social Sciences (21%), Arts and Humanities (4%).

Social Sciences: 362 works · 59.4% of their workPsychology: 207 works · 34.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 90 works · 14.8% of their workClinical Psychology: 76 works · 12.4% of their workGeneral Psychology: 41 works · 6.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 128 works · 21.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 99 works · 16.2% of their workEducation: 29 works · 4.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 27 works · 4.4% of their workPhilosophy: 27 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 247 works · 40.6% of their workTHEIR WORKKenneth J. Gergen609works
Social Sciences59%

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. Psychology20734.0%
    2. Social Sciences12821.0%
    3. Arts and Humanities274.4%
  2. Everything else24740.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology15% of their works
  3. 3Clinical Psychology12% of their works
  4. 4General Psychology7% of their works
  5. 5Education5% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kenneth J. Gergen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Narrative Analysis, Cultural Psychology, Globalization, History, Psychology, Dialogical Self, Social Representations Theory and Open Dialogue Approach.

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. Narrative Analysis1482 topics
  2. Cultural Psychology1262 topics
  3. Globalization1262 topics
  4. History871 topic
  5. Psychology871 topic
  6. Dialogical Self851 topic
  7. Social Representations Theory851 topic
  8. Open Dialogue Approach631 topic
  9. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy631 topic
  10. Psychotherapy Outcome421 topic
  11. Therapeutic Alliance421 topic
  12. Individualism-Collectivism411 topic
  13. Values411 topic
  14. Collaborative Partnerships271 topic
  15. Community Empowerment271 topic
  16. Critical Realism251 topic
  17. Social Structure251 topic
  18. Institutional Theory191 topic
  19. Organizational Change191 topic

Where does Kenneth J. Gergen work?

Kenneth J. Gergen's main affiliation in the publication record is Swarthmore College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kenneth J. Gergen have?

OpenAlex counts 609 works and 38,687 citations for Kenneth J. Gergen, an h-index of 82, ranking #26,672 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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