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Researcher · Joseph Rowntree Foundation · United Kingdom

Richard A. Best

Richard A. Best publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Finance, on topics such as Intelligence, Security, War Strategy, Military and Defense Studies and Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,196,585
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#340,936
of 367,258
Works
175
Citations
423
Citations per work
2.4
h-index
14
i10-index 16Top 9.8% in Political Science and International Relations
Richard A. Best

What does Richard A. Best research?

Richard A. Best's work is mostly in Social Sciences (68%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%), Physics and Astronomy (2%).

Social Sciences: 133 works · 76.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 118 works · 67.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 105 works · 60.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 13 works · 7.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 works · 6.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 works · 3.2% of their workFinance: 6 works · 3.2% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 works · 2.1% of their workStrategy and Management: 4 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 38 works · 21.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 2.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 2.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 4 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard A. Best175works
Physical Sciences2%Social Sciences76%

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 Sciences11867.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance116.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting42.1%
  2. Everything else3821.8%
    1. Physics and Astronomy42.1%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations60% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  3. 3Finance3% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics3% of their works
  5. 5Strategy and Management2% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard A. Best's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Analysis, Intelligence, International Law, Global Governance, Private Security Companies, Privatized Military Industry, Security Council and Cyber Security.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Analysis911 topic
  2. Intelligence911 topic
  3. International Law573 topics
  4. Global Governance372 topics
  5. Private Security Companies311 topic
  6. Privatized Military Industry311 topic
  7. Security Council172 topics
  8. Cyber Security151 topic
  9. Internet Governance151 topic
  10. Humanitarian Intervention111 topic
  11. Responsibility to Protect111 topic
  12. Financialization91 topic
  13. Shareholder Value91 topic
  14. Human Rights61 topic
  15. International Criminal Law61 topic
  16. Space Policy61 topic
  17. Space Tourism61 topic
  18. Competitive Intelligence51 topic
  19. Information Management51 topic

Where does Richard A. Best work?

Richard A. Best's main affiliation in the publication record is Joseph Rowntree Foundation, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Richard A. Best have?

OpenAlex counts 175 works and 423 citations for Richard A. Best, an h-index of 14, ranking #6,196,585 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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