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Richard A. Preston

Richard A. Preston publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and History, on topics such as Canadian Identity and History, American Constitutional Law and Politics and Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics.

World rank
#87,010
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#2,821
of 38,960
Works
97
Citations
100
Citations per work
1.0

What does Richard A. Preston research?

Sociology and Political Science: 22.4%Political Science and International Relations: 19.7%History: 10.5%History and Philosophy of Science: 5.3%other fields: 42.1%22%top field
Sociology and Political Science22.4%Political Science and International Relations19.7%History10.5%History and Philosophy of Science5.3%other fields42.1%

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 Science22% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations20% of their works
  3. 3History10% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions5% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard A. Preston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Canada, History, Colonialism, American founding, Constitutional government, Humanitarianism and Australian history.

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. Nationalism182 topics
  2. Canada121 topic
  3. History121 topic
  4. Colonialism83 topics
  5. American founding61 topic
  6. Constitutional government61 topic
  7. Humanitarianism52 topics
  8. Australian history31 topic
  9. British imperialism31 topic
  10. Human Rights31 topic
  11. International Aid31 topic
  12. Scientific History31 topic
  13. Technological Development31 topic
  14. Aldosterone21 topic
  15. International Relations21 topic
  16. Primary Aldosteronism21 topic
  17. Private Security Companies21 topic
  18. Privatized Military Industry21 topic
  19. World War21 topic

Where does Richard A. Preston work?

Richard A. Preston's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Military College of Canada, Canada.

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

Science Explorer counts 97 works and 100 citations for Richard A. Preston, ranking #87,010 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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