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Researcher · Cal Poly Humboldt · United States

Klaus R. Scherpe

Klaus R. Scherpe publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as German Literature and Culture Studies, Literature and Cultural Memory and Philosophy and Historical Thought.

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World rank
#809,625
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#269,869
of 1,627,098
Works
118
Citations
530
Citations per work
4.5
h-index
11
i10-index 13Top 7.2% in Literature and Literary Theory
Klaus R. Scherpe

What does Klaus R. Scherpe research?

Klaus R. Scherpe's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (64%), Social Sciences (14%).

Social Sciences: 93 works · 79.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 76 works · 64.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 46 works · 38.8% of their workPhilosophy: 17 works · 14.1% of their workClassics: 7 works · 6.2% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 6 works · 5.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 14.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 9 works · 8.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 8 works · 6.5% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 21.0% of their workTHEIR WORKKlaus R. Scherpe118works
Social Sciences79%

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. Arts and Humanities7664.5%
    2. Social Sciences1714.5%
  2. Everything else2521.0%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory39% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy14% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  5. 5Classics6% of their works
  6. 6Language and Linguistics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Klaus R. Scherpe's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Identity, Gender, Bildung, Autorschaft, Literaturkritik, History, Cultural Formation and Literature.

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. Identity1124 topics
  2. Gender913 topics
  3. Bildung892 topics
  4. Autorschaft701 topic
  5. Literaturkritik701 topic
  6. History382 topics
  7. Cultural Formation191 topic
  8. Literature191 topic
  9. Philosophy191 topic
  10. W.G. Sebald191 topic
  11. Cultural History171 topic
  12. Medieval Literature171 topic
  13. Colonialism121 topic
  14. German Literature121 topic
  15. East German Memory111 topic
  16. Ostalgie111 topic
  17. Discourse Analysis101 topic
  18. Language Variation101 topic
  19. Nazi Propaganda91 topic
  20. Sexuality91 topic

Where does Klaus R. Scherpe work?

Klaus R. Scherpe's main affiliation in the publication record is Cal Poly Humboldt, United States.

How many publications and citations does Klaus R. Scherpe have?

OpenAlex counts 118 works and 530 citations for Klaus R. Scherpe, an h-index of 11, ranking #809,625 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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