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Researcher · Northwestern University · United States

Melville J. Herskovits

Melville J. Herskovits publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Race, History, and American Society and Indigenous Studies and Ecology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#23,214
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,936
of 358,040
Works
73
Citations
202
Citations per work
2.8

What does Melville J. Herskovits research?

Anthropology: 20.7%Sociology and Political Science: 17.2%Political Science and International Relations: 10.3%Social Psychology: 6.9%other fields: 44.9%21%top field
Anthropology20.7%Sociology and Political Science17.2%Political Science and International Relations10.3%Social Psychology6.9%other fields44.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Anthropology21% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations10% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology7% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies7% of their works
  6. 6Geography, Planning and Development5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Melville J. Herskovits's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Globalization, Black Studies, Civil Rights Movement, Colonialism, Post-Colonial Africa, Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Caribbean.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism72 topics
  2. Globalization52 topics
  3. Black Studies41 topic
  4. Civil Rights Movement41 topic
  5. Colonialism41 topic
  6. Post-Colonial Africa41 topic
  7. Arctic Indigenous Peoples31 topic
  8. Caribbean31 topic
  9. Climate Change31 topic
  10. Culture31 topic
  11. Indian Ocean31 topic
  12. prehistoric movement31 topic
  13. Affect21 topic
  14. Dialogical Self21 topic
  15. Geography21 topic
  16. Laos21 topic
  17. Social Representations Theory21 topic
  18. Thailand21 topic

Where does Melville J. Herskovits work?

Melville J. Herskovits's main affiliation in the publication record is Northwestern University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Melville J. Herskovits have?

Science Explorer counts 73 works and 202 citations for Melville J. Herskovits, ranking #23,214 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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