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Researcher · Amt für Archäologie · Switzerland

Rainer Hering

Rainer Hering publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, History and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as European history and politics, German History and Society and Libraries and Information Services.

ORCID 0009-0008-5401-8392 OpenAlex
World rank
#563,165
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#10,252
of 80,918
Works
177
Citations
441
Citations per work
2.5
h-index
11
i10-index 13Top 16% in Political Science and International Relations
Rainer Hering

What does Rainer Hering research?

Rainer Hering's work is mostly in Social Sciences (45%), Arts and Humanities (35%).

Social Sciences: 142 works · 80.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 79 works · 44.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 54 works · 30.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 25 works · 14.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 63 works · 35.4% of their workHistory: 30 works · 16.9% of their workMuseology: 12 works · 6.7% of their workPhilosophy: 11 works · 6.0% of their workConservation: 10 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 35 works · 19.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRainer Hering177works
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 Sciences7944.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities6335.4%
  2. Everything else3519.8%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations31% of their works
  2. 2History17% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  4. 4Museology7% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy6% of their works
  6. 6Conservation6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rainer Hering's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nazi Propaganda, Sexuality, Identity, Literature, East German Memory, Ostalgie, Cultural Sociology and Christian-Jewish Relations.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Nazi Propaganda731 topic
  2. Sexuality731 topic
  3. Identity642 topics
  4. Literature502 topics
  5. East German Memory431 topic
  6. Ostalgie431 topic
  7. Cultural Sociology422 topics
  8. Christian-Jewish Relations291 topic
  9. Exhibition291 topic
  10. Museum291 topic
  11. Religious Politics291 topic
  12. Archives241 topic
  13. Digital Preservation241 topic
  14. Collective Memory211 topic
  15. Epistemic Practices211 topic
  16. Psychoanalysis211 topic
  17. Sociological History211 topic
  18. Castle Construction201 topic
  19. Medieval Architecture201 topic

Where does Rainer Hering work?

Rainer Hering's main affiliation in the publication record is Amt für Archäologie, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Rainer Hering have?

OpenAlex counts 177 works and 441 citations for Rainer Hering, an h-index of 11, ranking #563,165 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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