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Researcher · Durham University · United Kingdom

Richard Smith

Richard Smith publishes mostly in Philosophy, Education and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Education and Critical Thinking Development, Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education and Religious Education and Schools.

ORCID 0000-0001-8346-8677 OpenAlex
World rank
#544,772
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#47,098
of 367,258
Works
176
Citations
1k
Citations per work
5.8
h-index
20
i10-index 26Top 4.7% in Philosophy
Richard Smith

What does Richard Smith research?

Richard Smith's work is mostly in Social Sciences (32%), Arts and Humanities (17%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%).

Social Sciences: 93 works · 53.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 57 works · 32.4% of their workEducation: 28 works · 15.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 9.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 13 works · 7.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 30 works · 16.9% of their workPhilosophy: 30 works · 16.9% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 works · 3.7% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 77 works · 44.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 3.0% of their workHealth Professions: 5 works · 3.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 5 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard Smith176works
Health Sciences3%Social Sciences53%

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 Sciences5732.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities3016.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance73.7%
  2. Everything else7744.0%
    1. Health Professions53.0%
  1. 1Philosophy17% of their works
  2. 2Education16% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Education, Philosophy, Ethics, Religion, Critical Thinking Skills, Instructional Interventions, Dewey and Pragmatism.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Education373 topics
  2. Philosophy313 topics
  3. Ethics233 topics
  4. Religion182 topics
  5. Critical Thinking Skills151 topic
  6. Instructional Interventions151 topic
  7. Dewey131 topic
  8. Pragmatism131 topic
  9. Diversity101 topic
  10. Religious Education101 topic
  11. Derrida91 topic
  12. Language-Games91 topic
  13. Levinas91 topic
  14. Wittgenstein91 topic
  15. Citizenship Education51 topic
  16. Economic Growth51 topic
  17. Height51 topic
  18. Historical Thinking51 topic
  19. Moral Realism51 topic
  20. Virtue Ethics51 topic

Where does Richard Smith work?

Richard Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Durham University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Richard Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 176 works and 1,017 citations for Richard Smith, an h-index of 20, ranking #544,772 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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