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Nancy K. Baym

Nancy K. Baym publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Music, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Digital Games and Media and Music History and Culture.

ORCID 0000-0002-0248-709X OpenAlex
World rank
#48,919
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#18,883
of 1,627,098
Works
109
Citations
7k
Citations per work
64.3
h-index
35
i10-index 49Top 1.4% in Sociology and Political Science
Nancy K. Baym

What does Nancy K. Baym research?

Nancy K. Baym's work is mostly in Social Sciences (46%), Arts and Humanities (8%), Psychology (5%).

Social Sciences: 65 works · 59.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 50 works · 45.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 25 works · 22.9% of their workCommunication: 20 works · 18.2% of their workUrban Studies: 5 works · 4.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 8.2% of their workMusic: 9 works · 8.2% of their workPsychology: 6 works · 5.2% of their workSocial Psychology: 6 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 40 works · 36.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 4.3% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 4.3% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 5 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKNancy K. Baym109works
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences59%

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 Sciences5045.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities98.2%
    3. Psychology65.2%
  2. Everything else4036.4%
    1. Computer Science54.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science23% of their works
  2. 2Communication18% of their works
  3. 3Music8% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology5% of their works
  5. 5Urban Studies5% of their works
  6. 6Human-Computer Interaction4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nancy K. Baym's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Online Communication, Social Media, Social Interaction, Digital Divide, Political Participation, Online Gaming, Video Games and Culture.

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. Online Communication413 topics
  2. Social Media403 topics
  3. Social Interaction232 topics
  4. Digital Divide221 topic
  5. Political Participation221 topic
  6. Online Gaming161 topic
  7. Video Games161 topic
  8. Culture151 topic
  9. Music151 topic
  10. Agenda Setting131 topic
  11. Media Framing131 topic
  12. Addiction121 topic
  13. Well-being121 topic
  14. Creative Economy101 topic
  15. Urban Development101 topic
  16. Computer-Mediated Communication71 topic
  17. Emoticons71 topic
  18. Feminism61 topic
  19. Neoliberalism61 topic

Where does Nancy K. Baym work?

Nancy K. Baym's main affiliation in the publication record is Microsoft (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Nancy K. Baym have?

OpenAlex counts 109 works and 7,014 citations for Nancy K. Baym, an h-index of 35, ranking #48,919 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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