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Researcher · University of Massachusetts Amherst · United States

Nancy Folbre

Nancy Folbre publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and General Health Professions, on topics such as Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Employment and Welfare Studies and Work-Family Balance Challenges.

ORCID 0000-0001-6868-9834 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,481
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,140
of 358,040
Works
66
Citations
701
Citations per work
10.6

What does Nancy Folbre research?

Sociology and Political Science: 23.7%Gender Studies: 20.3%General Health Professions: 10.2%Economics and Econometrics: 10.2%other fields: 35.6%24%top field
Sociology and Political Science23.7%Gender Studies20.3%General Health Professions10.2%Economics and Econometrics10.2%other fields35.6%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science24% of their works
  2. 2Gender Studies20% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions10% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics10% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  6. 6Demography5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nancy Folbre's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender Inequality, Labor Force Participation, Welfare Reform, Labor Market, Unemployment, Gender Roles, Mental Health and Precarious Employment.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender Inequality142 topics
  2. Labor Force Participation101 topic
  3. Welfare Reform101 topic
  4. Labor Market82 topics
  5. Unemployment82 topics
  6. Gender Roles62 topics
  7. Mental Health61 topic
  8. Precarious Employment61 topic
  9. Telecommuting41 topic
  10. Work-Family Conflict41 topic
  11. Financialization31 topic
  12. Shareholder Value31 topic
  13. Divorce21 topic
  14. Economic Growth21 topic
  15. Fertility21 topic
  16. Height21 topic
  17. Policy Makers21 topic
  18. Technological Change21 topic
  19. Wage Inequality21 topic
  20. Women21 topic

Where does Nancy Folbre work?

Nancy Folbre's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nancy Folbre have?

Science Explorer counts 66 works and 701 citations for Nancy Folbre, ranking #6,481 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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