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Researcher · Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center · United States

Rob Light

Rob Light publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, History and Gender Studies, on topics such as Sports, Gender, and Society, Sport and Mega-Event Impacts and Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-9082-4593 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,036,691
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#870,142
of 1,627,098
Works
18
Citations
47
Citations per work
2.6
h-index
4
i10-index 1Top 62% in Sociology and Political Science
Rob Light

What does Rob Light research?

Rob Light's work is mostly in Social Sciences (48%), Arts and Humanities (17%), Computer Science (15%).

Social Sciences: 13 works · 73.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 47.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 32.6% of their workGender Studies: 3 works · 15.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 3 works · 17.4% of their workHistory: 3 works · 17.4% of their workDecision Sciences: 2 works · 8.7% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 2 works · 8.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 15.2% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 15.2% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 works · 10.9% of their workInformation Systems: 1 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 10.9% of their workTHEIR WORKRob Light18works
Physical Sciences15%Social Sciences74%

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 Sciences947.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities317.4%
    3. Decision Sciences28.7%
    1. Computer Science315.2%
  3. Everything else210.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science33% of their works
  2. 2History17% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies15% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications11% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems and Management9% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rob Light's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender, Identity, Fan Culture, Mega Events, Sport, Sport Tourism, Workflow Management and 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender122 topics
  2. Identity102 topics
  3. Fan Culture71 topic
  4. Mega Events71 topic
  5. Sport71 topic
  6. Sport Tourism71 topic
  7. Workflow Management72 topics
  8. History62 topics
  9. Narratives51 topic
  10. Oral History51 topic
  11. Reproducibility41 topic
  12. Scientific Workflows41 topic
  13. American Culture31 topic
  14. Baseball31 topic
  15. Canada31 topic
  16. Distributed Systems31 topic
  17. Grid Computing31 topic
  18. Qualitative Data31 topic
  19. Secondary Analysis31 topic
  20. Social Policy31 topic

Where does Rob Light work?

Rob Light's main affiliation in the publication record is Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rob Light have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 47 citations for Rob Light, an h-index of 4, ranking #3,036,691 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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