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Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner publishes mostly in Philosophy, History and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought, Reformation and Early Modern Christianity and Political Philosophy and Ethics.

World rank
#3,351
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#279
of 90,785
Works
88
Citations
498
Citations per work
5.7

What does Quentin Skinner research?

Philosophy: 26.1%History: 18.5%Political Science and International Relations: 17.4%Sociology and Political Science: 15.2%other fields: 22.8%26%top field
Philosophy26.1%History18.5%Political Science and International Relations17.4%Sociology and Political Science15.2%other fields22.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Philosophy26% of their works
  2. 2History18% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations17% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory5% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Quentin Skinner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: International Law, Theology, Sovereignty, Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, Human Rights, Globalization and Calvinism.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. International Law172 topics
  2. Theology172 topics
  3. Sovereignty162 topics
  4. Hugo Grotius121 topic
  5. Thomas Hobbes121 topic
  6. Human Rights92 topics
  7. Globalization72 topics
  8. Calvinism51 topic
  9. Cosmopolitanism51 topic
  10. Global Justice51 topic
  11. Reformation51 topic
  12. American founding41 topic
  13. Biopolitics41 topic
  14. Constitutional government41 topic
  15. Italian Renaissance41 topic
  16. Renaissance Florence41 topic
  17. State of Exception41 topic
  18. French Revolution31 topic
  19. Historiography31 topic
  20. Napoleonic Wars31 topic
  21. Reenactment31 topic

Where does Quentin Skinner work?

Quentin Skinner's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Quentin Skinner have?

Science Explorer counts 88 works and 498 citations for Quentin Skinner, ranking #3,351 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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