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Researcher · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · United States

Richard W. Pfaff

Richard W. Pfaff publishes mostly in History, Classics and Archeology, on topics such as Medieval Literature and History, Historical and Religious Studies of Rome and Reformation and Early Modern Christianity.

OpenAlex
World rank
#511,274
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#177,902
of 1,627,098
Works
232
Citations
2.5k
Citations per work
10.6
h-index
25
i10-index 32Top 0.8% in History
Richard W. Pfaff

What does Richard W. Pfaff research?

Richard W. Pfaff's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (78%), Social Sciences (7%).

Social Sciences: 197 works · 84.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 181 works · 78.2% of their workHistory: 91 works · 39.3% of their workClassics: 68 works · 29.4% of their workArcheology: 15 works · 6.3% of their workReligious studies: 7 works · 3.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 6.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 8 works · 3.6% of their workAnthropology: 7 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 35 works · 15.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard W. Pfaff232works
Social Sciences85%

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. Arts and Humanities18178.2%
    2. Social Sciences156.6%
  2. Everything else3515.2%
  1. 1History39% of their works
  2. 2Classics29% of their works
  3. 3Archeology6% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  5. 5Religious studies3% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard W. Pfaff's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Medieval, Religion, History, Literature, Church History, Manuscripts, Society and Middle Ages.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Medieval1352 topics
  2. Religion1352 topics
  3. History1262 topics
  4. Literature1262 topics
  5. Church History1142 topics
  6. Manuscripts1141 topic
  7. Society1141 topic
  8. Middle Ages742 topics
  9. Cultural Identity712 topics
  10. Ceremonial581 topic
  11. Rome581 topic
  12. Calvinism561 topic
  13. Reformation561 topic
  14. Scandinavia211 topic
  15. Viking Age211 topic
  16. Cultural History161 topic
  17. Medieval Literature161 topic
  18. Wales151 topic
  19. Welsh literature151 topic
  20. Archaeoastronomy141 topic
  21. Cultural Landscapes141 topic
  22. National Identity121 topic
  23. Scotland121 topic

Where does Richard W. Pfaff work?

Richard W. Pfaff's main affiliation in the publication record is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard W. Pfaff have?

OpenAlex counts 232 works and 2,464 citations for Richard W. Pfaff, an h-index of 25, ranking #511,274 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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