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Researcher · John Brown University · United States

Rick Ostrander

Rick Ostrander publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and History, on topics such as American Constitutional Law and Politics, Religion and Society Interactions and Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices.

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World rank
#4,376,217
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,171,587
of 1,627,098
Works
31
Citations
101
Citations per work
3.3
h-index
5
i10-index 4Top 47% in Political Science and International Relations
Rick Ostrander

What does Rick Ostrander research?

Rick Ostrander's work is mostly in Social Sciences (46%), Arts and Humanities (31%).

Social Sciences: 24 works · 76.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 14 works · 45.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 9 works · 27.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 18.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 30.6% of their workHistory: 3 works · 11.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 works · 8.3% of their workPhilosophy: 2 works · 5.6% of their workReligious studies: 2 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 23.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRick Ostrander31works
Social Sciences76%

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 Sciences1445.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities930.6%
  2. Everything else723.5%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations28% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  3. 3History11% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science8% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy6% of their works
  6. 6Religious studies6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rick Ostrander's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, American founding, Constitutional government, Religion, Public Sphere, Secularism, History and Occultism.

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. Nationalism232 topics
  2. American founding171 topic
  3. Constitutional government171 topic
  4. Religion92 topics
  5. Public Sphere61 topic
  6. Secularism61 topic
  7. History52 topics
  8. Occultism41 topic
  9. Spiritualism41 topic
  10. American31 topic
  11. Catholicism31 topic
  12. Faith-Based Organizations31 topic
  13. Social Services31 topic
  14. Calvinism21 topic
  15. Medicine21 topic
  16. Mormonism21 topic
  17. Polygamy21 topic
  18. Reformation21 topic
  19. Science21 topic

Where does Rick Ostrander work?

Rick Ostrander's main affiliation in the publication record is John Brown University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rick Ostrander have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 101 citations for Rick Ostrander, an h-index of 5, ranking #4,376,217 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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