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Researcher · University of Turku · Finland

Ralf Kauranen

Ralf Kauranen publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Visual Arts and Performing Arts and Education, on topics such as Comics and Graphic Narratives, Digital Games and Media and Research in Social Sciences.

ORCID 0000-0003-0748-766X OpenAlex
World rank
#4,323,350
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#25,302
of 37,370
Works
38
Citations
78
Citations per work
2.1
h-index
5
i10-index 2Top 53% in Sociology and Political Science
Ralf Kauranen

What does Ralf Kauranen research?

Ralf Kauranen's work is mostly in Social Sciences (48%), Arts and Humanities (25%).

Social Sciences: 28 works · 72.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 18 works · 48.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 12 works · 30.9% of their workEducation: 4 works · 9.9% of their workDemography: 1 works · 3.7% of their workGender Studies: 1 works · 3.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 24.7% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 7 works · 17.3% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 works · 7.4% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 27.1% of their workTHEIR WORKRalf Kauranen38works
Social Sciences73%

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 Sciences1848.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities924.7%
  2. Everything else1027.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science31% of their works
  2. 2Visual Arts and Performing Arts17% of their works
  3. 3Education10% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory7% of their works
  5. 5Demography4% of their works
  6. 6Gender Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ralf Kauranen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Education, Literature, Cultural Studies, Narrative, Comics, Graphic Novels, Social Interaction and Online Gaming.

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. Education203 topics
  2. Literature193 topics
  3. Cultural Studies162 topics
  4. Narrative162 topics
  5. Comics141 topic
  6. Graphic Novels141 topic
  7. Social Interaction132 topics
  8. Online Gaming111 topic
  9. Video Games111 topic
  10. Qualitative Research41 topic
  11. Social Sciences41 topic
  12. Fairy Tales31 topic
  13. Folklore31 topic
  14. Imagology31 topic
  15. National Stereotypes31 topic
  16. Computer-Mediated Communication21 topic
  17. Digital Storytelling21 topic
  18. Emoticons21 topic
  19. Exploration21 topic
  20. Health Promotion21 topic
  21. Travel Writing21 topic

Where does Ralf Kauranen work?

Ralf Kauranen's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Turku, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Ralf Kauranen have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 78 citations for Ralf Kauranen, an h-index of 5, ranking #4,323,350 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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