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Kingsley Davis

Kingsley Davis publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and Demography, on topics such as Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences, Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management and Global Maternal and Child Health.

World rank
#9,557
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,607
of 358,040
Works
67
Citations
509
Citations per work
7.6

What does Kingsley Davis research?

Sociology and Political Science: 28.4%Gender Studies: 10.4%Demography: 9.0%Political Science and International Relations: 7.5%other fields: 44.7%28%top field
Sociology and Political Science28.4%Gender Studies10.4%Demography9.0%Political Science and International Relations7.5%other fields44.7%

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 Science28% of their works
  2. 2Gender Studies10% of their works
  3. 3Demography9% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  6. 6General Economics, Econometrics and Finance4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kingsley Davis's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender Bias, Sex Ratios, Son Preference, Community Empowerment, Mortality Forecasting, Population Ageing, Child Mortality and Decentralization.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender Bias82 topics
  2. Sex Ratios61 topic
  3. Son Preference61 topic
  4. Community Empowerment32 topics
  5. Mortality Forecasting31 topic
  6. Population Ageing31 topic
  7. Child Mortality21 topic
  8. Decentralization21 topic
  9. Immigration21 topic
  10. Kerala21 topic
  11. Maternal Mortality21 topic
  12. Remittances21 topic
  13. Shrinking Cities21 topic
  14. Social Exclusion21 topic
  15. Urban Decline21 topic
  16. Youth Transitions21 topic
  17. Agricultural Change11 topic
  18. Rural Development11 topic

Where does Kingsley Davis work?

Kingsley Davis's main affiliation in the publication record is Princeton University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kingsley Davis have?

Science Explorer counts 67 works and 509 citations for Kingsley Davis, ranking #9,557 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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