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Researcher · Washington Center · United States

Richard M. Leighton

Richard M. Leighton publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and History, on topics such as Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics, Military and Defense Studies and Italian Fascism and Post-war Society.

OpenAlex
World rank
#918,023
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#302,272
of 1,627,098
Works
38
Citations
214
Citations per work
5.6
h-index
7
i10-index 5Top 31% in Political Science and International Relations
Richard M. Leighton

What does Richard M. Leighton research?

Richard M. Leighton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (64%), Arts and Humanities (14%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (3%).

Social Sciences: 31 works · 81.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 63.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 14 works · 37.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 8 works · 21.7% of their workEducation: 2 works · 4.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 14.4% of their workHistory: 4 works · 10.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 works · 4.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 works · 2.9% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 19.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard M.Leighton38works
Social Sciences81%

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 Sciences2463.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities514.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.9%
  2. Everything else719.0%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations38% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  3. 3History10% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works
  5. 5Education4% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard M. Leighton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender, Colonialism, Religion, Australia, European Union, Private Security Companies, Privatized Military Industry and Fascism.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender113 topics
  2. Colonialism82 topics
  3. Religion82 topics
  4. Australia71 topic
  5. European Union71 topic
  6. Private Security Companies61 topic
  7. Privatized Military Industry61 topic
  8. Fascism51 topic
  9. Totalitarianism51 topic
  10. French Revolution41 topic
  11. Napoleonic Wars41 topic
  12. British Army31 topic
  13. Counterinsurgency31 topic
  14. Nazi Propaganda31 topic
  15. Scientific History31 topic
  16. Sexuality31 topic
  17. Society31 topic
  18. Technological Development31 topic
  19. Vietnam31 topic

Where does Richard M. Leighton work?

Richard M. Leighton's main affiliation in the publication record is Washington Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard M. Leighton have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 214 citations for Richard M. Leighton, an h-index of 7, ranking #918,023 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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