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Researcher · Murdoch University · Australia

Kirsty Best

Kirsty Best publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, on topics such as Digital Games and Media, Social Media and Politics and Information Systems Theories and Implementation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#988,668
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#32,257
of 140,210
Works
31
Citations
316
Citations per work
10.2
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 23% in Sociology and Political Science
Kirsty Best

What does Kirsty Best research?

Kirsty Best's work is mostly in Social Sciences (54%), Computer Science (8%), Arts and Humanities (4%).

Social Sciences: 19 works · 60.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 53.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 35.9% of their workCommunication: 4 works · 14.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 works · 3.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 1 works · 3.8% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 works · 3.8% of their workDecision Sciences: 1 works · 2.6% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 1 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 32.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 7.7% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 7.7% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKKirsty Best31works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences60%

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 Sciences1753.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities13.8%
    3. Decision Sciences12.6%
  2. Everything else1032.1%
    1. Computer Science27.7%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science36% of their works
  2. 2Communication14% of their works
  3. 3Human-Computer Interaction8% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kirsty Best's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Online Gaming, Video Games, Digital Divide, Political Participation, Design Science, Sociomateriality and Design Research.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media122 topics
  2. Online Gaming111 topic
  3. Video Games111 topic
  4. Digital Divide101 topic
  5. Political Participation101 topic
  6. Design Science41 topic
  7. Sociomateriality41 topic
  8. Design Research31 topic
  9. Digital Labor Platforms31 topic
  10. Gig Economy31 topic
  11. User Experience31 topic
  12. Digital Education21 topic
  13. Hypersexual Disorder21 topic
  14. Opinion Dynamics21 topic
  15. Pornography Consumption21 topic
  16. Social Influence21 topic
  17. Technological Literacy21 topic

Where does Kirsty Best work?

Kirsty Best's main affiliation in the publication record is Murdoch University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Kirsty Best have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 316 citations for Kirsty Best, an h-index of 10, ranking #988,668 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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