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Researcher · George Mason University · United States

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, History and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Historical Economic and Social Studies, European Political History Analysis and History of Emotions Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-7596-2878 OpenAlex
World rank
#32,731
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,439
of 1,627,098
Works
787
Citations
15k
Citations per work
19.3
h-index
53
i10-index 146Top 0.3% in Sociology and Political Science
Peter N. Stearns

What does Peter N. Stearns research?

Peter N. Stearns's work is mostly in Social Sciences (43%), Arts and Humanities (14%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%).

Social Sciences: 512 works · 65.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 339 works · 43.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 187 works · 23.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 85 works · 10.8% of their workAnthropology: 35 works · 4.5% of their workEducation: 31 works · 4.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 113 works · 14.4% of their workHistory: 113 works · 14.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 60 works · 7.6% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 60 works · 7.6% of their workEverything else: 275 works · 34.9% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter N. Stearns787works
Social Sciences65%

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 Sciences33943.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities11314.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance607.6%
  2. Everything else27534.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science24% of their works
  2. 2History14% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations11% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology4% of their works
  6. 6Education4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter N. Stearns's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Inequality, Trade, Gender, History, Economic Growth, Height and French Revolution.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization1533 topics
  2. Inequality982 topics
  3. Trade982 topics
  4. Gender692 topics
  5. History692 topics
  6. Economic Growth661 topic
  7. Height661 topic
  8. French Revolution551 topic
  9. Napoleonic Wars551 topic
  10. Emotions401 topic
  11. Society401 topic
  12. Australian history361 topic
  13. British imperialism361 topic
  14. Scientific History361 topic
  15. Technological Development361 topic
  16. Citizenship Education351 topic
  17. Historical Thinking351 topic
  18. Economic Development321 topic
  19. World-Systems Analysis321 topic
  20. France291 topic
  21. Sociopolitical291 topic

Where does Peter N. Stearns work?

Peter N. Stearns's main affiliation in the publication record is George Mason University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter N. Stearns have?

OpenAlex counts 787 works and 15,186 citations for Peter N. Stearns, an h-index of 53, ranking #32,731 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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