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Les Back

Les Back publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Finance, on topics such as Political and Economic history of UK and US, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism and Labor Movements and Unions.

World rank
#168,000
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#15,677
of 90,785
Works
52
Citations
89
Citations per work
1.7

What does Les Back research?

Sociology and Political Science: 27.5%Political Science and International Relations: 17.6%Finance: 5.9%Public Administration: 5.9%other fields: 43.1%28%top field
Sociology and Political Science27.5%Political Science and International Relations17.6%Finance5.9%Public Administration5.9%other fields43.1%

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. 2Political Science and International Relations18% of their works
  3. 3Finance6% of their works
  4. 4Public Administration6% of their works
  5. 5Music6% of their works
  6. 6Reproductive Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Les Back's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: British Politics, Corporate Governance, Depoliticisation, Globalization, Human Rights, International Law, Social Justice and Financialization.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. British Politics51 topic
  2. Corporate Governance52 topics
  3. Depoliticisation51 topic
  4. Globalization52 topics
  5. Human Rights42 topics
  6. International Law42 topics
  7. Social Justice42 topics
  8. Financialization31 topic
  9. Labor Movement31 topic
  10. Shareholder Value31 topic
  11. Union Revitalization31 topic
  12. Black Studies21 topic
  13. Civil Rights Movement21 topic
  14. Defamation21 topic
  15. Ecomusicology21 topic
  16. Ethnomusicology21 topic
  17. Global Financial Crisis21 topic
  18. Internet Regulation21 topic
  19. Public Sociology21 topic
  20. Regulatory Policymaking21 topic
  21. Social Theory21 topic

Where does Les Back work?

Les Back's main affiliation in the publication record is Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Les Back have?

Science Explorer counts 52 works and 89 citations for Les Back, ranking #168,000 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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