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Neil J. Smelser

Neil J. Smelser publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Economic Theory and Institutions, Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice and Social Capital and Networks.

World rank
#1,536
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#677
of 358,040
Works
96
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
13.1

What does Neil J. Smelser research?

Sociology and Political Science: 27.3%Political Science and International Relations: 12.5%Economics and Econometrics: 10.2%Education: 5.7%other fields: 44.3%27%top field
Sociology and Political Science27.3%Political Science and International Relations12.5%Economics and Econometrics10.2%Education5.7%other fields44.3%

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 Science27% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics10% of their works
  4. 4Education6% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions4% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Neil J. Smelser's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Economic Development, Economic Institutions, Institutional Economics, Political Economy, Public Sociology, Social Theory and Social Capital.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization145 topics
  2. Economic Development83 topics
  3. Economic Institutions61 topic
  4. Institutional Economics61 topic
  5. Political Economy52 topics
  6. Public Sociology51 topic
  7. Social Theory51 topic
  8. Social Capital41 topic
  9. Trust41 topic
  10. Economy31 topic
  11. Russia31 topic
  12. Innovation Policy21 topic
  13. Opinion Dynamics21 topic
  14. Policy21 topic
  15. Social Impact21 topic
  16. Social Influence21 topic
  17. Social Policy21 topic
  18. Technological Revolutions21 topic
  19. Welfare State21 topic

Where does Neil J. Smelser work?

Neil J. Smelser's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does Neil J. Smelser have?

Science Explorer counts 96 works and 1,257 citations for Neil J. Smelser, ranking #1,536 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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