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Researcher · Williams College · United States

Michael S. McPherson

Michael S. McPherson publishes mostly in Education, Political Science and International Relations and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Higher Education Research Studies, Higher Education Governance and Development and Economic Theory and Institutions.

OpenAlex
World rank
#147,090
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#55,552
of 1,627,098
Works
236
Citations
4.4k
Citations per work
18.8
h-index
31
i10-index 65Top 1.2% in Education
Michael S. McPherson

What does Michael S. McPherson research?

Michael S. McPherson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (53%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (12%), Physics and Astronomy (4%).

Social Sciences: 154 works · 65.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 125 works · 53.0% of their workEducation: 66 works · 27.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 39 works · 16.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 14 works · 5.9% of their workDemography: 6 works · 2.6% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 29 works · 12.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 29 works · 12.2% of their workEverything else: 74 works · 31.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 3.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 works · 3.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 8 works · 3.5% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael S.McPherson236works
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences65%

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 Sciences12553.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2912.2%
  2. Everything else7431.3%
    1. Physics and Astronomy83.5%
  1. 1Education28% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations17% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics12% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Demography3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael S. McPherson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Educational Inequality, Neoliberalism, Academic Performance, Student Engagement, Higher Education, Globalization, Internationalization and Economic Institutions.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Educational Inequality662 topics
  2. Neoliberalism582 topics
  3. Academic Performance551 topic
  4. Student Engagement551 topic
  5. Higher Education422 topics
  6. Globalization351 topic
  7. Internationalization351 topic
  8. Economic Institutions231 topic
  9. Institutional Economics231 topic
  10. Global Justice121 topic
  11. Human Rights121 topic
  12. Infrastructure111 topic
  13. Socioeconomic Status111 topic
  14. Student Achievement111 topic
  15. Taxation111 topic
  16. Academic Freedom71 topic
  17. Political Bias71 topic
  18. Training Pathways61 topic
  19. Vocational Education61 topic

Where does Michael S. McPherson work?

Michael S. McPherson's main affiliation in the publication record is Williams College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael S. McPherson have?

OpenAlex counts 236 works and 4,433 citations for Michael S. McPherson, an h-index of 31, ranking #147,090 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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