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Researcher · The University of Texas at Austin · United States

Maxwell McCombs

Maxwell McCombs publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Media Studies and Communication, Social Media and Politics and Media Influence and Politics.

ORCID 0000-0001-5292-0958 OpenAlex
World rank
#22,858
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#8,426
of 1,627,098
Works
182
Citations
21k
Citations per work
118.1
h-index
53
i10-index 99Top 0.2% in Communication
Maxwell McCombs

What does Maxwell McCombs research?

Maxwell McCombs's work is mostly in Social Sciences (70%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Social Sciences: 141 works · 77.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 128 works · 70.2% of their workCommunication: 89 works · 49.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 25 works · 13.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 13 works · 7.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 works · 3.9% of their workStrategy and Management: 7 works · 3.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 6 works · 3.1% of their workPhilosophy: 6 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 38 works · 20.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 2.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 2.1% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 4 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKMaxwell McCombs182works
Physical Sciences2%Social Sciences77%

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 Sciences12870.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting73.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities63.1%
  2. Everything else3820.7%
    1. Physics and Astronomy42.1%
  1. 1Communication49% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  4. 4Strategy and Management4% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy3% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Maxwell McCombs's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, News Media, Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Digital Divide, Political Participation, Media Bias and Political Economy.

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. Social Media1113 topics
  2. News Media1062 topics
  3. Agenda Setting891 topic
  4. Media Framing891 topic
  5. Digital Divide801 topic
  6. Political Participation801 topic
  7. Media Bias171 topic
  8. Political Economy171 topic
  9. Corporate Lobbying141 topic
  10. Crisis Communication141 topic
  11. Political Connections141 topic
  12. Public Relations141 topic
  13. Climate Change121 topic
  14. Public Perception121 topic
  15. Globalization91 topic
  16. Policy Transfer91 topic
  17. Opinion Dynamics61 topic
  18. Social Influence61 topic

Where does Maxwell McCombs work?

Maxwell McCombs's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Texas at Austin, United States.

How many publications and citations does Maxwell McCombs have?

OpenAlex counts 182 works and 21,487 citations for Maxwell McCombs, an h-index of 53, ranking #22,858 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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