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Researcher · Bielefeld University · Germany

Niklas Luhmann

Niklas Luhmann publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Law, on topics such as Sociology and Education Studies, Public Administration and Political Analysis and German Social Sciences and History.

ORCID 0000-0003-1108-058X OpenAlex
World rank
#4,437
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#168
of 364,343
Works
1,203
Citations
61k
Citations per work
50.7
h-index
111
i10-index 478Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Niklas Luhmann

What does Niklas Luhmann research?

Niklas Luhmann's work is mostly in Social Sciences (51%), Business, Management and Accounting (5%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Social Sciences: 711 works · 59.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 609 works · 50.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 402 works · 33.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 142 works · 11.8% of their workLaw: 65 works · 5.4% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 61 works · 5.1% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 61 works · 5.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 41 works · 3.4% of their workPhilosophy: 41 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 463 works · 38.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 29 works · 2.4% of their workMedicine: 29 works · 2.4% of their workEpidemiology: 29 works · 2.4% of their workTHEIR WORKNiklas Luhmann1,203works
Health Sciences2%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 Sciences60950.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting615.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities413.4%
  2. Everything else46338.5%
    1. Medicine292.4%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science33% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  3. 3Law5% of their works
  4. 4Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management5% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy3% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Niklas Luhmann's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Governance, Leadership, Bildungsungleichheit, Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Social Innovation, Participation, Policy Change and Epistemic Practices.

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. Governance3822 topics
  2. Leadership2332 topics
  3. Bildungsungleichheit2111 topic
  4. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse2111 topic
  5. Social Innovation1762 topics
  6. Participation1711 topic
  7. Policy Change1711 topic
  8. Epistemic Practices1241 topic
  9. Sociological History1241 topic
  10. Global Capitalism1001 topic
  11. Imperialism1001 topic
  12. Sustainable Development1002 topics
  13. Legal Methodology891 topic
  14. Party Competition891 topic
  15. Digital Transformation621 topic
  16. Organizational Change621 topic
  17. Innovation Policy521 topic
  18. Interdisciplinary Research521 topic
  19. Human Microbiome481 topic
  20. Microbial Metabolites481 topic

Where does Niklas Luhmann work?

Niklas Luhmann's main affiliation in the publication record is Bielefeld University, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Niklas Luhmann have?

OpenAlex counts 1,203 works and 60,981 citations for Niklas Luhmann, an h-index of 111, ranking #4,437 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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