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Researcher · Western Illinois University · United States

Kwang Chung Kim

Kwang Chung Kim publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Cultural Studies, on topics such as Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Migration and Labor Dynamics and Diaspora, migration, transnational identity.

OpenAlex
World rank
#117,856
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#44,913
of 1,627,098
Works
49
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
38.8
h-index
23
i10-index 24Top 4.6% in Sociology and Political Science
Kwang Chung Kim

What does Kwang Chung Kim research?

Kwang Chung Kim's work is mostly in Social Sciences (79%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%), Health Professions (3%).

Social Sciences: 41 works · 83.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 39 works · 78.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 32 works · 66.0% of their workCultural Studies: 3 works · 6.4% of their workDemography: 3 works · 6.4% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 works · 4.3% of their workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 11.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 3.2% of their workHealth Professions: 2 works · 3.2% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 2 works · 3.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 2.1% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 2.1% of their workInformation Systems: 1 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKKwang Chung Kim49works
Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences83%

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 Sciences3978.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting24.3%
  2. Everything else611.6%
    1. Health Professions23.2%
    1. Computer Science12.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science66% of their works
  2. 2Demography6% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies6% of their works
  4. 4Management of Technology and Innovation4% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions3% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kwang Chung Kim's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Capital, Ethnic Minority Business, Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Globalization, Social Networks, Immigration, Remittances and Migration.

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. Social Capital312 topics
  2. Ethnic Minority Business271 topic
  3. Immigrant Entrepreneurship271 topic
  4. Globalization263 topics
  5. Social Networks212 topics
  6. Immigration151 topic
  7. Remittances151 topic
  8. Migration92 topics
  9. Diaspora61 topic
  10. Transnationalism61 topic
  11. Hallyu51 topic
  12. Korean Wave51 topic
  13. Entrepreneurial Orientation41 topic
  14. Opportunity Recognition41 topic
  15. Health Inequities31 topic
  16. Neighborhood Effects31 topic
  17. North Korea31 topic
  18. Racial Discrimination31 topic
  19. Refugees31 topic
  20. Residential Segregation31 topic

Where does Kwang Chung Kim work?

Kwang Chung Kim's main affiliation in the publication record is Western Illinois University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kwang Chung Kim have?

OpenAlex counts 49 works and 1,903 citations for Kwang Chung Kim, an h-index of 23, ranking #117,856 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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