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Researcher · Carnegie Mellon University · United States

Robert E. Kraut

Robert E. Kraut publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology, on topics such as Knowledge Management and Sharing, Social Media and Politics and Wikis in Education and Collaboration.

ORCID 0000-0002-8554-2137 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,046
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#441
of 1,627,098
Works
370
Citations
40k
Citations per work
107.8
h-index
94
i10-index 250Top 0.1% in Communication
Robert E. Kraut

What does Robert E. Kraut research?

Robert E. Kraut's work is mostly in Social Sciences (32%), Computer Science (17%), Psychology (11%).

Social Sciences: 158 works · 42.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 118 works · 32.0% of their workCommunication: 68 works · 18.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 51 works · 13.7% of their workPsychology: 40 works · 10.7% of their workSocial Psychology: 40 works · 10.7% of their workEverything else: 150 works · 40.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 62 works · 16.8% of their workComputer Science: 62 works · 16.8% of their workComputer Science Applications: 27 works · 7.4% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 18 works · 4.9% of their workInformation Systems: 17 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert E. Kraut370works
Physical Sciences17%Social Sciences43%

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 Sciences11832.0%
    2. Psychology4010.7%
  2. Everything else15040.5%
    1. Computer Science6216.8%
  1. 1Communication18% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology11% of their works
  4. 4Computer Science Applications7% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert E. Kraut's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Knowledge Sharing, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Online Communication, User-Generated Content, Social Capital and Virtual Communities.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media1804 topics
  2. Knowledge Sharing1092 topics
  3. Collaboration942 topics
  4. Crowdsourcing942 topics
  5. Online Communication862 topics
  6. User-Generated Content712 topics
  7. Social Capital661 topic
  8. Virtual Communities661 topic
  9. Digital Divide561 topic
  10. Political Participation561 topic
  11. Knowledge Management511 topic
  12. Wikipedia511 topic
  13. Innovation431 topic
  14. Open Source Software431 topic
  15. Shared Mental Models431 topic
  16. Team Processes431 topic
  17. Addiction301 topic
  18. Well-being301 topic
  19. Consumer Engagement281 topic
  20. Electronic Word-of-Mouth281 topic
  21. Human-Computer Interaction241 topic
  22. Usability241 topic

Where does Robert E. Kraut work?

Robert E. Kraut's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Mellon University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert E. Kraut have?

OpenAlex counts 370 works and 39,870 citations for Robert E. Kraut, an h-index of 94, ranking #1,046 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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