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Randall Collins

Randall Collins publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Education, on topics such as Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence and Complex Systems and Decision Making.

World rank
#2,636
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,206
of 358,040
Works
106
Citations
844
Citations per work
8.0

What does Randall Collins research?

Sociology and Political Science: 43.3%Political Science and International Relations: 12.5%Education: 4.8%Economics and Econometrics: 3.8%other fields: 35.6%43%top field
Sociology and Political Science43.3%Political Science and International Relations12.5%Education4.8%Economics and Econometrics3.8%other fields35.6%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science43% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  3. 3Education5% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy3% of their works
  6. 6History3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Randall Collins's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Public Sociology, Social Theory, Education, Radicalization, Terrorism, Soft Systems Methodology and System Dynamics.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization122 topics
  2. Public Sociology81 topic
  3. Social Theory81 topic
  4. Education42 topics
  5. Radicalization41 topic
  6. Terrorism41 topic
  7. Soft Systems Methodology31 topic
  8. System Dynamics31 topic
  9. Evolutionary Synthesis21 topic
  10. Historiography21 topic
  11. Institutional Theory21 topic
  12. Interdisciplinary Research21 topic
  13. Mechanistic Explanation21 topic
  14. Organizational Change21 topic
  15. Philosophy21 topic
  16. Pragmatism21 topic
  17. Reenactment21 topic
  18. Team Science21 topic

Where does Randall Collins work?

Randall Collins's main affiliation in the publication record is California University of Pennsylvania, United States.

How many publications and citations does Randall Collins have?

Science Explorer counts 106 works and 844 citations for Randall Collins, ranking #2,636 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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