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Researcher · Cornell University · United States

Nicolas van de Walle

Nicolas van de Walle publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Development and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as International Development and Aid, Political Conflict and Governance and African history and culture studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-4004-860X OpenAlex
World rank
#32,541
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,357
of 1,627,098
Works
228
Citations
12k
Citations per work
54.0
h-index
53
i10-index 101Top 0.2% in Political Science and International Relations
Nicolas van de Walle

What does Nicolas van de Walle research?

Nicolas van de Walle's work is mostly in Social Sciences (68%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Social Sciences: 172 works · 75.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 154 works · 67.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 50 works · 21.8% of their workDevelopment: 41 works · 18.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 39 works · 17.3% of their workAnthropology: 24 works · 10.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 works · 5.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 12 works · 5.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 2.9% of their workHistory: 7 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 56 works · 24.5% of their workTHEIR WORKNicolas van deWalle228works
Social Sciences76%

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 Sciences15467.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance125.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities72.9%
  2. Everything else5624.5%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations22% of their works
  2. 2Development18% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology10% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  6. 6History3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicolas van de Walle's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Governance, NGOs, Development Policies, Foreign Aid, Democracy, Human Rights, Colonialism and Civil War.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Governance912 topics
  2. NGOs902 topics
  3. Development Policies801 topic
  4. Foreign Aid801 topic
  5. Democracy402 topics
  6. Human Rights392 topics
  7. Colonialism362 topics
  8. Civil War291 topic
  9. Ethnic Conflict291 topic
  10. African History261 topic
  11. Post-Colonial Africa261 topic
  12. Humanitarian Intervention241 topic
  13. Responsibility to Protect241 topic
  14. Public Opinion232 topics
  15. Political Economy121 topic
  16. Welfare State121 topic
  17. Empirical Analysis111 topic
  18. ICT111 topic
  19. Political Science111 topic
  20. financial access111 topic
  21. Humanitarianism101 topic
  22. International Aid101 topic

Where does Nicolas van de Walle work?

Nicolas van de Walle's main affiliation in the publication record is Cornell University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nicolas van de Walle have?

OpenAlex counts 228 works and 12,304 citations for Nicolas van de Walle, an h-index of 53, ranking #32,541 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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