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Researcher · Kiel Institute for the World Economy · Germany

Rainer Thiele

Rainer Thiele publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Development and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as International Development and Aid, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare and Religion, Society, and Development.

ORCID 0000-0002-8904-6851 OpenAlex
World rank
#169,309
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#8,658
of 364,343
Works
196
Citations
3.6k
Citations per work
18.1
h-index
27
i10-index 71Top 3% in Sociology and Political Science
Rainer Thiele

What does Rainer Thiele research?

Rainer Thiele's work is mostly in Social Sciences (44%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (18%), Computer Science (5%).

Social Sciences: 122 works · 62.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 86 works · 43.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 34 works · 17.3% of their workDevelopment: 30 works · 15.4% of their workSafety Research: 22 works · 11.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 36 works · 18.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 25 works · 13.0% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 64 works · 32.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 11 works · 5.4% of their workComputer Science: 11 works · 5.4% of their workInformation Systems: 11 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRainer Thiele196works
Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences62%

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 Sciences8643.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3618.3%
  2. Everything else6432.5%
    1. Computer Science115.4%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  2. 2Development15% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics13% of their works
  4. 4Safety Research11% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems5% of their works
  6. 6General Economics, Econometrics and Finance5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rainer Thiele's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction, NGOs, Governance, Development Policies, Foreign Aid, Gender Inequality and Conditional Cash Transfers.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Economic Growth1354 topics
  2. Poverty Reduction1332 topics
  3. NGOs1082 topics
  4. Governance1052 topics
  5. Development Policies771 topic
  6. Foreign Aid771 topic
  7. Gender Inequality772 topics
  8. Conditional Cash Transfers561 topic
  9. School Subsidies561 topic
  10. Inequality402 topics
  11. Globalization342 topics
  12. Faith-Based Organizations311 topic
  13. Social Services311 topic
  14. ICT281 topic
  15. financial access281 topic
  16. Infrastructure251 topic
  17. Taxation251 topic
  18. Income Inequality211 topic
  19. Poverty Measurement211 topic
  20. Immigration131 topic
  21. Remittances131 topic
  22. Financial Crisis121 topic
  23. Income Distribution121 topic

Where does Rainer Thiele work?

Rainer Thiele's main affiliation in the publication record is Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Rainer Thiele have?

OpenAlex counts 196 works and 3,556 citations for Rainer Thiele, an h-index of 27, ranking #169,309 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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