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Researcher · Hollins University · United States

Lawrence C. Becker

Lawrence C. Becker publishes mostly in Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations and General Health Professions, on topics such as Political Philosophy and Ethics, Ethics in medical practice and Philosophical Ethics and Theory.

OpenAlex
World rank
#876,464
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#289,850
of 1,627,098
Works
121
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
15.2
h-index
20
i10-index 28Top 4.7% in Philosophy
Lawrence C. Becker

What does Lawrence C. Becker research?

Lawrence C. Becker's work is mostly in Social Sciences (38%), Arts and Humanities (22%), Health Professions (10%).

Social Sciences: 73 works · 60.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 46 works · 38.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 24 works · 19.8% of their workLaw: 12 works · 10.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 10 works · 8.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 27 works · 22.3% of their workPhilosophy: 27 works · 22.3% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 26.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 17 works · 13.7% of their workHealth Professions: 13 works · 10.5% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 13 works · 10.5% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 3.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKLawrence C.Becker121works
Health Sciences14%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 Sciences4638.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities2722.3%
  2. Everything else3126.0%
    1. Health Professions1310.5%
    2. Medicine43.2%
  1. 1Philosophy22% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations20% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions10% of their works
  4. 4Law10% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lawrence C. Becker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Global Justice, Human Rights, Ethics, Ethical Climate, Moral Distress, Moral Realism, Virtue Ethics and Responsibility.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Global Justice291 topic
  2. Human Rights291 topic
  3. Ethics252 topics
  4. Ethical Climate191 topic
  5. Moral Distress191 topic
  6. Moral Realism171 topic
  7. Virtue Ethics171 topic
  8. Responsibility132 topics
  9. Aristotle121 topic
  10. Plato121 topic
  11. Just War Theory81 topic
  12. Legal Education81 topic
  13. Self-Defense81 topic
  14. Welfare Rights Advice81 topic
  15. American founding71 topic
  16. Constitutional government71 topic
  17. Sense of Agency51 topic
  18. Voluntary Action51 topic

Where does Lawrence C. Becker work?

Lawrence C. Becker's main affiliation in the publication record is Hollins University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Lawrence C. Becker have?

OpenAlex counts 121 works and 1,845 citations for Lawrence C. Becker, an h-index of 20, ranking #876,464 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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