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Researcher · Williams College · United States

Owen Thompson

Owen Thompson publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and General Health Professions, on topics such as Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies, Employment and Welfare Studies and Labor market dynamics and wage inequality.

ORCID 0000-0003-3879-2245 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,077,363
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#349,307
of 1,627,098
Works
52
Citations
372
Citations per work
7.2
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 27% in Sociology and Political Science
Owen Thompson

What does Owen Thompson research?

Owen Thompson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (41%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (15%), Health Professions (10%).

Social Sciences: 29 works · 56.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 41.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 14 works · 26.4% of their workEducation: 5 works · 9.1% of their workHealth: 3 works · 5.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 works · 14.9% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 works · 14.9% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 28.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 14.9% of their workHealth Professions: 5 works · 9.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 5 works · 9.9% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 5.0% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKOwen Thompson52works
Health Sciences15%Social Sciences56%

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 Sciences2141.3%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance814.9%
  2. Everything else1528.9%
    1. Health Professions59.9%
    2. Medicine35.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science26% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics15% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions10% of their works
  4. 4Education9% of their works
  5. 5Health6% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Owen Thompson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Education, Intergenerational Mobility, Social Stratification, Labor Market, Unemployment, Mental Health, Precarious Employment and Social Relationships.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Education232 topics
  2. Intergenerational Mobility161 topic
  3. Social Stratification161 topic
  4. Labor Market142 topics
  5. Unemployment142 topics
  6. Mental Health71 topic
  7. Precarious Employment71 topic
  8. Social Relationships71 topic
  9. Socioeconomic Inequalities71 topic
  10. Technological Change71 topic
  11. Wage Inequality71 topic
  12. Health Care Spending61 topic
  13. Insurance Markets61 topic
  14. Socioeconomic Status61 topic
  15. Student Achievement61 topic
  16. Early-Life Conditions51 topic
  17. Fetal Programming51 topic
  18. Aging Workforce41 topic
  19. Retirement41 topic

Where does Owen Thompson work?

Owen Thompson's main affiliation in the publication record is Williams College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Owen Thompson have?

OpenAlex counts 52 works and 372 citations for Owen Thompson, an h-index of 9, ranking #1,077,363 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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