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Researcher · Long Island University · United States

Robert Donald Spector

Robert Donald Spector publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and History, on topics such as Poetry Analysis and Criticism, Narrative Theory and Analysis and Contemporary Literature and Criticism.

OpenAlex
World rank
#120,114
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#45,755
of 1,627,098
Works
194
Citations
3.8k
Citations per work
19.5
h-index
34
i10-index 53Top 0.2% in Literature and Literary Theory
Robert Donald Spector

What does Robert Donald Spector research?

Robert Donald Spector's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (57%), Social Sciences (13%).

Social Sciences: 135 works · 69.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 110 works · 56.8% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 84 works · 43.3% of their workHistory: 14 works · 7.3% of their workPhilosophy: 9 works · 4.4% of their workClassics: 3 works · 1.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 25 works · 13.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 8.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 9 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 59 works · 30.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert DonaldSpector194works
Social Sciences70%

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 Humanities11056.8%
    2. Social Sciences2513.0%
  2. Everything else5930.2%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory43% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  3. 3History7% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy4% of their works
  6. 6Classics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Donald Spector's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Literature, Postmodernism, Literary Criticism, Narrative, Modernism, Narrative Theory, Gender and Culture.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Literature555 topics
  2. Postmodernism443 topics
  3. Literary Criticism312 topics
  4. Narrative312 topics
  5. Modernism293 topics
  6. Narrative Theory292 topics
  7. Gender273 topics
  8. Culture202 topics
  9. Modernist Poetry191 topic
  10. Sylvia Plath191 topic
  11. Fictionality171 topic
  12. Unreliable Narration171 topic
  13. Contemporary Fiction141 topic
  14. Thomas Pynchon141 topic
  15. Children's Literature121 topic
  16. Young Adult121 topic
  17. Art111 topic
  18. Philosophy111 topic
  19. Samuel Beckett111 topic
  20. Society111 topic
  21. Adaptation91 topic
  22. Film91 topic
  23. Hemingway71 topic
  24. Masculinity71 topic

Where does Robert Donald Spector work?

Robert Donald Spector's main affiliation in the publication record is Long Island University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert Donald Spector have?

OpenAlex counts 194 works and 3,777 citations for Robert Donald Spector, an h-index of 34, ranking #120,114 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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