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Researcher · Spital STS · Switzerland

Niklaus Schefer

Niklaus Schefer publishes mostly in Philosophy, Literature and Literary Theory and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as German Literature and Culture Studies, Libraries and Information Services and Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,926,555
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#64,752
of 80,918
Works
19
Citations
6
Citations per work
0.3
h-index
2
i10-index 0Top 86% in Philosophy
Niklaus Schefer

What does Niklaus Schefer research?

Niklaus Schefer's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (50%), Social Sciences (21%).

Social Sciences: 14 works · 71.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 50.0% of their workPhilosophy: 5 works · 28.6% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 works · 14.3% of their workMuseology: 1 works · 7.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 21.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 9.5% of their workCultural Studies: 1 works · 7.1% of their workLaw: 1 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 28.6% of their workTHEIR WORKNiklaus Schefer19works
Social Sciences71%

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. Arts and Humanities950.0%
    2. Social Sciences421.4%
  2. Everything else528.6%
  1. 1Philosophy29% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory14% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  4. 4Museology7% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies7% of their works
  6. 6Law5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Niklaus Schefer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: History, Ethics, Philosophy, Literature, Bildung, Identity, Sociology and Psychoanalysis.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. History124 topics
  2. Ethics93 topics
  3. Philosophy93 topics
  4. Literature83 topics
  5. Bildung72 topics
  6. Identity62 topics
  7. Sociology62 topics
  8. Psychoanalysis52 topics
  9. Autorschaft41 topic
  10. Literaturkritik41 topic
  11. Culture31 topic
  12. Education31 topic
  13. Exhibition31 topic
  14. Metaphysics31 topic
  15. Museum31 topic
  16. Nietzsche31 topic
  17. Religion31 topic
  18. Social Theory31 topic
  19. Collective Memory21 topic
  20. Discourse Analysis21 topic
  21. Language Variation21 topic
  22. Personas21 topic
  23. Social Memory21 topic
  24. User-Centered Design21 topic

Where does Niklaus Schefer work?

Niklaus Schefer's main affiliation in the publication record is Spital STS, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Niklaus Schefer have?

OpenAlex counts 19 works and 6 citations for Niklaus Schefer, an h-index of 2, ranking #4,926,555 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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