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Melvin R. Laird

Melvin R. Laird publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Military and Defense Studies, Defense, Military, and Policy Studies and Military History and Strategy.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,062,952
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#876,543
of 1,627,098
Works
27
Citations
82
Citations per work
3.0
h-index
4
i10-index 3Top 58% in Political Science and International Relations
Melvin R. Laird

What does Melvin R. Laird research?

Melvin R. Laird's work is mostly in Social Sciences (48%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (15%), Health Professions (7%).

Social Sciences: 17 works · 62.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 47.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 works · 35.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 6.8% of their workTransportation: 1 works · 5.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 works · 15.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 works · 15.3% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 25.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 6.8% of their workHealth Professions: 2 works · 6.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 2 works · 6.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 5.1% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 5.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 5.1% of their workTHEIR WORKMelvin R. Laird27works
Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences63%

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 Sciences1347.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance415.3%
  2. Everything else725.3%
    1. Health Professions26.8%
    1. Engineering15.1%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations36% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics15% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions7% of their works
  5. 5Transportation5% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Melvin R. Laird's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Private Security Companies, Privatized Military Industry, British Army, Counterinsurgency, Economic Growth, Military Expenditure, Air Force and American founding.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Private Security Companies81 topic
  2. Privatized Military Industry81 topic
  3. British Army41 topic
  4. Counterinsurgency41 topic
  5. Economic Growth41 topic
  6. Military Expenditure41 topic
  7. Air Force31 topic
  8. American founding31 topic
  9. Constitutional government31 topic
  10. Culture31 topic
  11. Islam31 topic
  12. Legal Regulation31 topic
  13. Modernization31 topic
  14. Transport Policy31 topic
  15. Career Choice21 topic
  16. Motivation21 topic

Where does Melvin R. Laird work?

Melvin R. Laird's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Congress, United States.

How many publications and citations does Melvin R. Laird have?

OpenAlex counts 27 works and 82 citations for Melvin R. Laird, an h-index of 4, ranking #3,062,952 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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