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Researcher · Trinity University · United States

Robert C. Shirley

Robert C. Shirley publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Management Science and Operations Research and Strategy and Management, on topics such as Higher Education Governance and Development, Organizational Strategy and Culture and Complex Systems and Decision Making.

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World rank
#1,750,955
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#539,743
of 1,627,098
Works
23
Citations
317
Citations per work
13.8
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 18% in Political Science and International Relations
Robert C. Shirley

What does Robert C. Shirley research?

Robert C. Shirley's work is mostly in Social Sciences (34%), Business, Management and Accounting (17%), Decision Sciences (12%).

Social Sciences: 15 works · 63.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 34.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 works · 17.1% of their workEducation: 2 works · 9.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 7.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 works · 17.1% of their workStrategy and Management: 2 works · 9.8% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 works · 7.3% of their workDecision Sciences: 3 works · 12.2% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 works · 12.2% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 36.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert C. Shirley23works
Social Sciences64%

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 Sciences834.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting417.1%
    3. Decision Sciences312.2%
  2. Everything else836.5%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations17% of their works
  2. 2Management Science and Operations Research12% of their works
  3. 3Strategy and Management10% of their works
  4. 4Education10% of their works
  5. 5Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management7% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert C. Shirley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Higher Education, Globalization, Internationalization, Mission Statements, Organizational Performance, Soft Systems Methodology, System Dynamics and Collaborative Governance.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Higher Education82 topics
  2. Globalization51 topic
  3. Internationalization51 topic
  4. Mission Statements31 topic
  5. Organizational Performance31 topic
  6. Soft Systems Methodology31 topic
  7. System Dynamics31 topic
  8. Collaborative Governance21 topic
  9. Concept Mapping21 topic
  10. Health Care Spending21 topic
  11. Insurance Markets21 topic
  12. Public Management Reform21 topic
  13. Theory-Based Evaluation21 topic
  14. Evolutionary Synthesis11 topic
  15. Health Policy11 topic
  16. Mechanistic Explanation11 topic
  17. Nursing Advocacy11 topic

Where does Robert C. Shirley work?

Robert C. Shirley's main affiliation in the publication record is Trinity University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert C. Shirley have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 317 citations for Robert C. Shirley, an h-index of 10, ranking #1,750,955 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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