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Researcher · University of Antwerp · Belgium

Peter Van Aelst

Peter Van Aelst publishes mostly in Communication, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication and Electoral Systems and Political Participation.

ORCID 0000-0002-2548-0309 OpenAlex
World rank
#49,042
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#219
of 67,186
Works
239
Citations
9.1k
Citations per work
38.2
h-index
45
i10-index 88Top 0.5% in Communication
Peter Van Aelst

What does Peter Van Aelst research?

Peter Van Aelst's work is mostly in Social Sciences (78%), Business, Management and Accounting (3%), Computer Science (2%).

Social Sciences: 195 works · 81.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 188 works · 78.5% of their workCommunication: 80 works · 33.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 49 works · 20.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 42 works · 17.7% of their workEducation: 17 works · 7.1% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 works · 3.2% of their workStrategy and Management: 8 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 38 works · 16.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 2.3% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 2.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 5 works · 2.3% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter Van Aelst239works
Physical Sciences2%Social Sciences82%

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 Sciences18878.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting83.2%
  2. Everything else3816.0%
    1. Computer Science52.3%
  1. 1Communication33% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations20% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  4. 4Education7% of their works
  5. 5Strategy and Management3% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Van Aelst's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Digital Divide, Political Participation, News Media, Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Empirical Analysis and Political Science.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media1673 topics
  2. Digital Divide1101 topic
  3. Political Participation1101 topic
  4. News Media1042 topics
  5. Agenda Setting671 topic
  6. Media Framing671 topic
  7. Empirical Analysis531 topic
  8. Political Science531 topic
  9. Media Bias371 topic
  10. Political Economy371 topic
  11. Research Methods271 topic
  12. Social Work271 topic
  13. Fake News201 topic
  14. Misinformation201 topic
  15. Corporate Lobbying181 topic
  16. Political Connections181 topic
  17. Intergovernmental Relations131 topic
  18. Multinational Federations131 topic

Where does Peter Van Aelst work?

Peter Van Aelst's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Antwerp, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Peter Van Aelst have?

OpenAlex counts 239 works and 9,141 citations for Peter Van Aelst, an h-index of 45, ranking #49,042 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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