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Researcher · Northeastern University · United States

Nicole Rafter

Nicole Rafter publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and History, on topics such as Law in Society and Culture, Historical and Scientific Studies and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis.

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World rank
#182,132
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#67,963
of 1,627,098
Works
206
Citations
3.6k
Citations per work
17.6
h-index
35
i10-index 52Top 1.4% in Sociology and Political Science
Nicole Rafter

What does Nicole Rafter research?

Nicole Rafter's work is mostly in Social Sciences (41%), Arts and Humanities (8%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%).

Social Sciences: 122 works · 59.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 85 works · 41.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 52 works · 25.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 18 works · 8.7% of their workLaw: 15 works · 7.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 16 works · 7.7% of their workHistory: 16 works · 7.7% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 works · 5.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 11 works · 5.3% of their workPsychology: 10 works · 5.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 10 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 84 works · 40.9% of their workTHEIR WORKNicole Rafter206works
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 Sciences8541.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities167.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance115.3%
    4. Psychology105.0%
  2. Everything else8440.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science25% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  3. 3History8% of their works
  4. 4Law7% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicole Rafter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Legal Semiotics, Visual Jurisprudence, Crime, Criminal Justice, Forensic Toxicology, Mass Incarceration, Medical Chemistry and Social Structure.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Legal Semiotics241 topic
  2. Visual Jurisprudence241 topic
  3. Crime171 topic
  4. Criminal Justice171 topic
  5. Forensic Toxicology171 topic
  6. Mass Incarceration171 topic
  7. Medical Chemistry171 topic
  8. Social Structure171 topic
  9. Box Office141 topic
  10. Film Industry141 topic
  11. Criminal Networks131 topic
  12. Organized Crime131 topic
  13. Black Studies121 topic
  14. Civil Rights Movement121 topic
  15. Gender121 topic
  16. Reproduction121 topic

Where does Nicole Rafter work?

Nicole Rafter's main affiliation in the publication record is Northeastern University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nicole Rafter have?

OpenAlex counts 206 works and 3,634 citations for Nicole Rafter, an h-index of 35, ranking #182,132 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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