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Researcher · Center for Global Development · United States

Nancy Birdsall

Nancy Birdsall publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, on topics such as Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Economic Theory and Policy and International Development and Aid.

ORCID 0000-0002-9010-7455 OpenAlex
World rank
#67,138
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#25,898
of 1,627,098
Works
280
Citations
9.3k
Citations per work
33.3
h-index
50
i10-index 138Top 1% in Economics and Econometrics
Nancy Birdsall

What does Nancy Birdsall research?

Nancy Birdsall's work is mostly in Social Sciences (39%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (34%).

Social Sciences: 204 works · 72.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 108 works · 38.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 54 works · 19.3% of their workDevelopment: 23 works · 8.3% of their workSafety Research: 18 works · 6.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 13 works · 4.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 95 works · 34.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 55 works · 19.5% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 41 works · 14.6% of their workEverything else: 76 works · 27.3% of their workTHEIR WORKNancy Birdsall280works
Social Sciences73%

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 Sciences10838.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance9534.1%
  2. Everything else7627.3%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics20% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  3. 3General Economics, Econometrics and Finance15% of their works
  4. 4Development8% of their works
  5. 5Safety Research6% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nancy Birdsall's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Economic Growth, Gender Inequality, Poverty Reduction, Income Inequality, Poverty Measurement, Financial Crisis, Income Distribution and Income Tax.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Economic Growth2394 topics
  2. Gender Inequality1373 topics
  3. Poverty Reduction932 topics
  4. Income Inequality781 topic
  5. Poverty Measurement781 topic
  6. Financial Crisis661 topic
  7. Income Distribution661 topic
  8. Income Tax612 topics
  9. Development Policies531 topic
  10. Foreign Aid531 topic
  11. Economic Development422 topics
  12. Infrastructure421 topic
  13. Taxation421 topic
  14. Conditional Cash Transfers401 topic
  15. School Subsidies401 topic
  16. Institutions231 topic
  17. Technology Diffusion231 topic
  18. Labor Force Participation191 topic
  19. Welfare Reform191 topic
  20. Capital Flows181 topic
  21. Financial Integration181 topic

Where does Nancy Birdsall work?

Nancy Birdsall's main affiliation in the publication record is Center for Global Development, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nancy Birdsall have?

OpenAlex counts 280 works and 9,335 citations for Nancy Birdsall, an h-index of 50, ranking #67,138 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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