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Researcher · Johns Hopkins University · United States

Philip D. Curtin

Philip D. Curtin publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Colonialism, slavery, and trade, African history and culture studies and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories.

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World rank
#37,468
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,331
of 1,627,098
Works
305
Citations
8.9k
Citations per work
29.3
h-index
44
i10-index 83Top 0.5% in Anthropology
Philip D. Curtin

What does Philip D. Curtin research?

Philip D. Curtin's work is mostly in Social Sciences (71%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%), Arts and Humanities (4%).

Social Sciences: 244 works · 80.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 217 works · 71.1% of their workAnthropology: 132 works · 43.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 46 works · 15.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 25 works · 8.3% of their workCultural Studies: 13 works · 4.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 15 works · 4.8% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 15 works · 4.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 13 works · 4.1% of their workHistory: 13 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 61 works · 20.0% of their workTHEIR WORKPhilip D. Curtin305works
Social Sciences80%

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 Sciences21771.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance154.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities134.1%
  2. Everything else6120.0%
  1. 1Anthropology43% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies4% of their works
  6. 6History4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Philip D. Curtin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Colonialism, Atlantic History, Transatlantic Slave Trade, African History, Post-Colonial Africa, Indian Ocean and prehistoric movement.

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. Nationalism922 topics
  2. Colonialism882 topics
  3. Atlantic History831 topic
  4. Transatlantic Slave Trade831 topic
  5. African History741 topic
  6. Post-Colonial Africa741 topic
  7. Indian Ocean681 topic
  8. prehistoric movement681 topic
  9. Globalization322 topics
  10. Culture312 topics
  11. Politics312 topics
  12. Caribbean181 topic
  13. Identity181 topic
  14. Australian history141 topic
  15. Black Studies141 topic
  16. British imperialism141 topic
  17. Civil Rights Movement141 topic
  18. Economic Growth141 topic
  19. Height141 topic
  20. Eritrea131 topic
  21. Ethiopia131 topic

Where does Philip D. Curtin work?

Philip D. Curtin's main affiliation in the publication record is Johns Hopkins University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Philip D. Curtin have?

OpenAlex counts 305 works and 8,926 citations for Philip D. Curtin, an h-index of 44, ranking #37,468 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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