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Researcher · University of South Carolina · United States

Ralph Whitney Mathisen

Ralph Whitney Mathisen publishes mostly in History, Classics and Anthropology, on topics such as Classical Antiquity Studies, Historical and Religious Studies of Rome and Medieval Literature and History.

OpenAlex
World rank
#236,657
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#87,260
of 1,627,098
Works
184
Citations
2.4k
Citations per work
13.1
h-index
24
i10-index 37Top 0.9% in History
Ralph Whitney Mathisen

What does Ralph Whitney Mathisen research?

Ralph Whitney Mathisen's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (61%), Social Sciences (22%).

Social Sciences: 153 works · 83.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 112 works · 61.0% of their workHistory: 45 works · 24.4% of their workClassics: 33 works · 17.8% of their workArcheology: 28 works · 15.4% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 6 works · 3.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 40 works · 22.0% of their workAnthropology: 30 works · 16.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 10 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 17.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRalph WhitneyMathisen184works
Social Sciences83%

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. Arts and Humanities11261.0%
    2. Social Sciences4022.0%
  2. Everything else3117.0%
  1. 1History24% of their works
  2. 2Classics18% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology16% of their works
  4. 4Archeology15% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Language and Linguistics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ralph Whitney Mathisen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Late Antiquity, Cultural Exchange, Urban Development, Ancient Rome, Greek Literature, Medieval, Religion and Ceremonial.

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. Late Antiquity1383 topics
  2. Cultural Exchange633 topics
  3. Urban Development622 topics
  4. Ancient Rome591 topic
  5. Greek Literature591 topic
  6. Medieval502 topics
  7. Religion502 topics
  8. Ceremonial481 topic
  9. Rome481 topic
  10. Literature371 topic
  11. Society371 topic
  12. Archaeology332 topics
  13. Monarchy311 topic
  14. Visigothic311 topic
  15. Byzantium301 topic
  16. Eastern Mediterranean301 topic
  17. Mediterranean201 topic
  18. Pottery Production201 topic
  19. Arabia141 topic
  20. Byzantine141 topic
  21. Scandinavia131 topic
  22. Viking Age131 topic

Where does Ralph Whitney Mathisen work?

Ralph Whitney Mathisen's main affiliation in the publication record is University of South Carolina, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ralph Whitney Mathisen have?

OpenAlex counts 184 works and 2,403 citations for Ralph Whitney Mathisen, an h-index of 24, ranking #236,657 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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