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Richard A. Leo

Richard A. Leo publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Law, on topics such as Deception detection and forensic psychology, Torture, Ethics, and Law and Criminal Law and Evidence.

World rank
#76,752
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#34,305
of 358,040
Works
49
Citations
178
Citations per work
3.6

What does Richard A. Leo research?

Social Psychology: 28.9%Sociology and Political Science: 22.2%Law: 15.6%Philosophy: 6.7%other fields: 26.6%29%top field
Social Psychology28.9%Sociology and Political Science22.2%Law15.6%Philosophy6.7%other fields26.6%

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

  1. 1Social Psychology29% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  3. 3Law16% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy7% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard A. Leo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Interrogation, Neural Correlates, Deception, Detection, Ethics, Criminal Trials, Guantanamo and Torture.

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. Interrogation172 topics
  2. Neural Correlates143 topics
  3. Deception121 topic
  4. Detection121 topic
  5. Ethics72 topics
  6. Criminal Trials62 topics
  7. Guantanamo51 topic
  8. Torture51 topic
  9. Exclusionary Rule41 topic
  10. Human Rights Act41 topic
  11. Criminal Behavior31 topic
  12. Psychopathy31 topic
  13. Responsibility32 topics
  14. Decision Making21 topic
  15. Jury21 topic
  16. Just War Theory21 topic
  17. Self-Defense21 topic
  18. Episodic Memory11 topic
  19. Memory Retrieval11 topic
  20. Sense of Agency11 topic
  21. Voluntary Action11 topic

Where does Richard A. Leo work?

Richard A. Leo's main affiliation in the publication record is University of San Francisco, United States.

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

Science Explorer counts 49 works and 178 citations for Richard A. Leo, ranking #76,752 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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