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Researcher · Australian National University · Australia

Peter McDonald

Peter McDonald publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Irish and British Studies, Migration and Labor Dynamics and Family Dynamics and Relationships.

ORCID 0000-0001-5579-0335 OpenAlex
World rank
#122,410
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#4,102
of 140,210
Works
566
Citations
9.7k
Citations per work
17.1
h-index
44
i10-index 126Top 0.7% in Sociology and Political Science
Peter McDonald

What does Peter McDonald research?

Peter McDonald's work is mostly in Social Sciences (40%), Arts and Humanities (14%), Health Professions (5%).

Social Sciences: 301 works · 53.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 225 works · 39.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 121 works · 21.4% of their workDemography: 69 works · 12.2% of their workGender Studies: 35 works · 6.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 76 works · 13.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 54 works · 9.5% of their workHistory: 23 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 234 works · 41.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 31 works · 5.4% of their workHealth Professions: 31 works · 5.4% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 31 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter McDonald566works
Health Sciences5%Social Sciences53%

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 Sciences22539.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities7613.5%
  2. Everything else23441.4%
    1. Health Professions315.4%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  2. 2Demography12% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory10% of their works
  4. 4Gender Studies6% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions5% of their works
  6. 6History4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter McDonald's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conflict, Northern Ireland, Immigration, Remittances, Divorce, Fertility, Sex Ratios and Son Preference.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Conflict621 topic
  2. Northern Ireland621 topic
  3. Immigration531 topic
  4. Remittances531 topic
  5. Divorce501 topic
  6. Fertility501 topic
  7. Sex Ratios411 topic
  8. Son Preference411 topic
  9. Mortality Forecasting391 topic
  10. Population Ageing391 topic
  11. Family Support351 topic
  12. Intergenerational Relations351 topic
  13. Lifestyle Migration351 topic
  14. Retirement Migration351 topic
  15. Small Area Estimation351 topic
  16. Spatial Microsimulation351 topic

Where does Peter McDonald work?

Peter McDonald's main affiliation in the publication record is Australian National University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Peter McDonald have?

OpenAlex counts 566 works and 9,700 citations for Peter McDonald, an h-index of 44, ranking #122,410 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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