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Researcher · Trent University · Canada

Paul Shaffer

Paul Shaffer publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Safety Research, on topics such as Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare and Agricultural risk and resilience.

World rank
#942,578
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#27,502
of 38,960
Works
20
Citations
52
Citations per work
2.6

What does Paul Shaffer research?

Sociology and Political Science: 30.0%Political Science and International Relations: 16.7%Safety Research: 10.0%Philosophy: 6.7%other fields: 36.6%30%top field
Sociology and Political Science30.0%Political Science and International Relations16.7%Safety Research10.0%Philosophy6.7%other fields36.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science30% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations17% of their works
  3. 3Safety Research10% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy7% of their works
  5. 5Statistics and Probability3% of their works
  6. 6Finance3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul Shaffer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender Inequality, Income Inequality, Poverty Measurement, Conditional Cash Transfers, School Subsidies, Belief, Causal Inference and Concept Mapping.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender Inequality92 topics
  2. Income Inequality61 topic
  3. Poverty Measurement61 topic
  4. Conditional Cash Transfers31 topic
  5. School Subsidies31 topic
  6. Belief11 topic
  7. Causal Inference11 topic
  8. Concept Mapping11 topic
  9. Ecosystem Services11 topic
  10. Knowledge11 topic
  11. Land Use Change11 topic
  12. Philosophy11 topic
  13. Propensity Score11 topic
  14. Risk Management11 topic
  15. Theory-Based Evaluation11 topic
  16. Vulnerability11 topic
  17. Wittgenstein11 topic

Where does Paul Shaffer work?

Paul Shaffer's main affiliation in the publication record is Trent University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Paul Shaffer have?

Science Explorer counts 20 works and 52 citations for Paul Shaffer, ranking #942,578 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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