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Researcher · Swarthmore College · United States

M. H. Abrams

M. H. Abrams publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy and History, on topics such as Themes in Literature Analysis, Literature: history, themes, analysis and Poetry Analysis and Criticism.

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World rank
#208,673
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#77,389
of 1,627,098
Works
62
Citations
4.4k
Citations per work
70.7
h-index
21
i10-index 27Top 1.3% in Literature and Literary Theory
M. H. Abrams

What does M. H. Abrams research?

M. H. Abrams's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (69%), Social Sciences (7%).

Social Sciences: 47 works · 75.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 43 works · 69.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 27 works · 43.7% of their workPhilosophy: 5 works · 8.4% of their workHistory: 5 works · 7.6% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 4 works · 5.9% of their workClassics: 2 works · 3.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 6.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 6.7% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 24.3% of their workTHEIR WORKM. H. Abrams62works
Social Sciences76%

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 Humanities4369.0%
    2. Social Sciences46.7%
  2. Everything else1524.3%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory44% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy8% of their works
  3. 3History8% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics6% of their works
  6. 6Classics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe M. H. Abrams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Literary Criticism, History, Literature, Children's Literature, Young Adult, Identity, Postcolonialism and Feminism.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Literary Criticism192 topics
  2. History163 topics
  3. Literature143 topics
  4. Children's Literature131 topic
  5. Young Adult131 topic
  6. Identity112 topics
  7. Postcolonialism112 topics
  8. Feminism92 topics
  9. Postmodernism92 topics
  10. Gender81 topic
  11. Race81 topic
  12. Cultural Hermeneutics61 topic
  13. Literary Theory61 topic
  14. Modernist Poetry61 topic
  15. Sylvia Plath61 topic
  16. Dictionaries51 topic
  17. Lexicography51 topic
  18. Contemporary Fiction31 topic
  19. Cosmopolitanism31 topic
  20. Globalization31 topic
  21. Medieval31 topic
  22. Religion31 topic
  23. Thomas Pynchon31 topic

Where does M. H. Abrams work?

M. H. Abrams's main affiliation in the publication record is Swarthmore College, United States.

How many publications and citations does M. H. Abrams have?

OpenAlex counts 62 works and 4,381 citations for M. H. Abrams, an h-index of 21, ranking #208,673 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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