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Researcher · Triangle : Action, Discours, Pensée politique et économique · France

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Foucault, Power, and Ethics, Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research and Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-0993-5641 OpenAlex
World rank
#13,032
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#2,627
of 324,115
Works
987
Citations
208k
Citations per work
211.1
h-index
141
i10-index 382Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Michel Foucault

What does Michel Foucault research?

Michel Foucault's work is mostly in Social Sciences (30%), Arts and Humanities (21%), Psychology (6%).

Social Sciences: 560 works · 56.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 292 works · 29.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 223 works · 22.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 69 works · 7.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 209 works · 21.2% of their workPhilosophy: 112 works · 11.3% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 59 works · 6.0% of their workHistory: 38 works · 3.9% of their workPsychology: 58 works · 5.9% of their workClinical Psychology: 58 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 427 works · 43.3% of their workTHEIR WORKMichel Foucault987works
Social Sciences57%

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 Sciences29229.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities20921.2%
    3. Psychology585.9%
  2. Everything else42743.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science23% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy11% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6History4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michel Foucault's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Foucault, Governmentality, Mental Health, History, Developmental Trauma, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Culture and Islam.

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. Foucault851 topic
  2. Governmentality851 topic
  3. Mental Health752 topics
  4. History702 topics
  5. Developmental Trauma481 topic
  6. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy481 topic
  7. Culture431 topic
  8. Islam431 topic
  9. Air Force421 topic
  10. Legal Regulation421 topic
  11. Modernization421 topic
  12. Transport Policy421 topic
  13. Aristotle401 topic
  14. Plato401 topic
  15. Environmental Participation361 topic
  16. Territorial Governance361 topic
  17. Psychiatry271 topic
  18. Psychopharmacology271 topic

Where does Michel Foucault work?

Michel Foucault's main affiliation in the publication record is Triangle : Action, Discours, Pensée politique et économique, France.

How many publications and citations does Michel Foucault have?

OpenAlex counts 987 works and 208,360 citations for Michel Foucault, an h-index of 141, ranking #13,032 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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