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Robert J. Thornton

Robert J. Thornton publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Gender Studies, on topics such as Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Social Policy and Reform Studies and Sex work and related issues.

World rank
#136,975
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#58,081
of 358,040
Works
42
Citations
111
Citations per work
2.6

What does Robert J. Thornton research?

Sociology and Political Science: 21.4%Political Science and International Relations: 11.9%Gender Studies: 9.5%Education: 7.1%other fields: 50.1%21%top field
Sociology and Political Science21.4%Political Science and International Relations11.9%Gender Studies9.5%Education7.1%other fields50.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies10% of their works
  4. 4Education7% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics5% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert J. Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Policy, Gender Inequality, Globalization, Labor Force Participation, Political Economy, protests, Public Health and Sex Work.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Policy52 topics
  2. Gender Inequality31 topic
  3. Globalization32 topics
  4. Labor Force Participation31 topic
  5. Political Economy21 topic
  6. Public Health22 topics
  7. Sex Work21 topic
  8. South Africa21 topic
  9. Trafficking21 topic
  10. Welfare State21 topic
  11. protests21 topic
  12. Ageing Population11 topic
  13. Community Health11 topic
  14. Health Care Expenditure11 topic
  15. Medical Admissions11 topic
  16. Neural Machine Translation11 topic
  17. Non-Communicable Diseases11 topic
  18. Pediatrics11 topic
  19. Statistical Machine Translation11 topic

Where does Robert J. Thornton work?

Robert J. Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is Lehigh University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert J. Thornton have?

Science Explorer counts 42 works and 111 citations for Robert J. Thornton, ranking #136,975 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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