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Practical Action

Practical Action publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and General Social Sciences, on topics such as French Urban and Social Studies, Energy and Environment Impacts and Multidisciplinary Research Papers Compilation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,602,643
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#236,102
of 367,258
Works
114
Citations
103
Citations per work
0.9
h-index
5
i10-index 5Top 47% in Political Science and International Relations
Practical Action

What does Practical Action research?

Practical Action's work is mostly in Social Sciences (49%), Energy (6%), Environmental Science (4%).

Social Sciences: 55 works · 48.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 55 works · 48.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 24 works · 20.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 19 works · 16.4% of their workGeneral Social Sciences: 8 works · 6.8% of their workEducation: 5 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 47 works · 41.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 12 works · 10.1% of their workEnergy: 6 works · 5.6% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 6 works · 5.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 4.5% of their workPollution: 5 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKPractical Action114works
Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences49%

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 Sciences5548.6%
  2. Everything else4741.3%
    1. Energy65.6%
    2. Environmental Science54.5%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations21% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3General Social Sciences7% of their works
  4. 4Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment6% of their works
  5. 5Education4% of their works
  6. 6Pollution4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Practical Action's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Human Rights, International Law, Climate Change, Environmental Participation, Fossil Fuels and Territorial Governance.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Renewable Energy142 topics
  2. Sustainability142 topics
  3. Human Rights132 topics
  4. International Law132 topics
  5. Climate Change112 topics
  6. Environmental Participation111 topic
  7. Fossil Fuels112 topics
  8. Territorial Governance111 topic
  9. Big Data81 topic
  10. Global Financial Crisis81 topic
  11. Healthcare81 topic
  12. Household Fuel Use81 topic
  13. Indoor Air Pollution81 topic
  14. Regulatory Policymaking81 topic
  15. EROI61 topic
  16. Peak Oil61 topic
  17. Defamation51 topic
  18. Ecocriticism51 topic
  19. Internet Regulation51 topic
  20. Literature51 topic
  21. Professional Practices51 topic
  22. Public Action51 topic

Where does Practical Action work?

Practical Action's main affiliation in the publication record is Practical Action, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Practical Action have?

OpenAlex counts 114 works and 103 citations for Practical Action, an h-index of 5, ranking #3,602,643 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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