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Researcher · University of Alabama at Birmingham · United States

Kent R. Kerley

Kent R. Kerley publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Health and Epidemiology, on topics such as Crime Patterns and Interventions, Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology.

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World rank
#169,259
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#63,370
of 1,627,098
Works
56
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
25.9
h-index
22
i10-index 28Top 5.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Kent R. Kerley

What does Kent R. Kerley research?

Kent R. Kerley's work is mostly in Social Sciences (68%), Medicine (7%), Health Professions (6%).

Social Sciences: 41 works · 72.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 38 works · 68.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 27 works · 47.7% of their workHealth: 8 works · 14.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 6.0% of their workPsychology: 3 works · 4.6% of their workClinical Psychology: 3 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 14.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 12.6% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 6.6% of their workEpidemiology: 4 works · 6.6% of their workHealth Professions: 3 works · 6.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 3 works · 6.0% of their workTHEIR WORKKent R. Kerley56works
Health Sciences13%Social Sciences73%

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 Sciences3868.3%
    2. Psychology34.6%
  2. Everything else814.5%
    1. Medicine46.6%
    2. Health Professions36.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science48% of their works
  2. 2Health15% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology7% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions6% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kent R. Kerley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Religion, Globalization, Health, Social Support, Crime, Social Structure, Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Religion303 topics
  2. Globalization192 topics
  3. Health192 topics
  4. Social Support192 topics
  5. Crime151 topic
  6. Social Structure151 topic
  7. Criminal Justice141 topic
  8. Mass Incarceration141 topic
  9. Coping131 topic
  10. Spirituality131 topic
  11. Criminal Networks121 topic
  12. Organized Crime121 topic
  13. Faith-Based Organizations101 topic
  14. Social Services101 topic
  15. Alcohol Dependence71 topic
  16. Public Sphere71 topic
  17. Secularism71 topic
  18. Substance Use Disorders71 topic
  19. Homelessness61 topic
  20. Mental Illness61 topic

Where does Kent R. Kerley work?

Kent R. Kerley's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kent R. Kerley have?

OpenAlex counts 56 works and 1,448 citations for Kent R. Kerley, an h-index of 22, ranking #169,259 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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