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Peter Hedström

Peter Hedström publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice, Social and Cultural Dynamics and Critical Realism in Sociology.

World rank
#93,334
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#8,790
of 90,785
Works
26
Citations
315
Citations per work
12.1

What does Peter Hedström research?

Sociology and Political Science: 50.0%Economics and Econometrics: 14.3%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 7.1%Accounting: 7.1%other fields: 21.5%50%top field
Sociology and Political Science50.0%Economics and Econometrics14.3%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7.1%Accounting7.1%other fields21.5%

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 Science50% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics14% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Accounting7% of their works
  5. 5Strategy and Management4% of their works
  6. 6Demography4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Hedström's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Power, Cultural Capital, Public Sociology, Social Class, Social Theory, Critical Realism, Identity Theory and Network Dynamics.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Power42 topics
  2. Cultural Capital31 topic
  3. Public Sociology31 topic
  4. Social Class31 topic
  5. Social Theory31 topic
  6. Critical Realism21 topic
  7. Identity Theory21 topic
  8. Network Dynamics22 topics
  9. Social Capital21 topic
  10. Social Exchange21 topic
  11. Social Influence22 topics
  12. Social Structure21 topic
  13. Trust21 topic
  14. Bounded Confidence11 topic
  15. Community Structure11 topic
  16. Evolutionary Synthesis11 topic
  17. Mechanistic Explanation11 topic
  18. Opinion Dynamics11 topic
  19. Scale-Free Networks11 topic

Where does Peter Hedström work?

Peter Hedström's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Peter Hedström have?

Science Explorer counts 26 works and 315 citations for Peter Hedström, ranking #93,334 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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