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Michael Scheffel

Michael Scheffel publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Classics and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as German Literature and Culture Studies, Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies and German Colonialism and Identity Studies.

World rank
#167,883
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#10,346
of 86,443
Works
44
Citations
20
Citations per work
0.5

What does Michael Scheffel research?

Literature and Literary Theory: 45.3%Classics: 18.9%Language and Linguistics: 11.3%Philosophy: 7.5%other fields: 17.0%45%top field
Literature and Literary Theory45.3%Classics18.9%Language and Linguistics11.3%Philosophy7.5%other fields17.0%

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

  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory45% of their works
  2. 2Classics19% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics11% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy8% of their works
  5. 5Museology4% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Scheffel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Identity, Gender, Autorschaft, Bildung, Cultural History, Literature, Medieval Literature and Migration.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Identity244 topics
  2. Gender162 topics
  3. Autorschaft111 topic
  4. Bildung111 topic
  5. Cultural History101 topic
  6. Literature103 topics
  7. Medieval Literature101 topic
  8. Migration82 topics
  9. Narrative72 topics
  10. Colonialism51 topic
  11. German Literature51 topic
  12. History51 topic
  13. W.G. Sebald51 topic
  14. Discourse Analysis41 topic
  15. Language Variation41 topic
  16. Collective Memory31 topic
  17. Psychoanalysis31 topic
  18. Fictionality21 topic
  19. German as a Foreign Language21 topic
  20. Language Learning21 topic
  21. Unreliable Narration21 topic

Where does Michael Scheffel work?

Michael Scheffel's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Wuppertal, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Michael Scheffel have?

Science Explorer counts 44 works and 20 citations for Michael Scheffel, ranking #167,883 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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