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Researcher · Newberry Library · United States

Robert W. Karrow

Robert W. Karrow publishes mostly in Geography, Planning and Development, History and Philosophy of Science and History, on topics such as Historical Geography and Cartography, History of Science and Medicine and Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies.

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World rank
#3,382,988
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#952,281
of 1,627,098
Works
32
Citations
302
Citations per work
9.4
h-index
7
i10-index 5Top 39% in Geography, Planning and Development
Robert W. Karrow

What does Robert W. Karrow research?

Robert W. Karrow's work is mostly in Social Sciences (51%), Arts and Humanities (27%).

Social Sciences: 25 works · 78.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 16 works · 50.9% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 12 works · 37.3% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 5.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 works · 5.1% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 works · 3.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 27.2% of their workHistory: 4 works · 13.6% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 works · 13.6% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 21.9% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert W. Karrow32works
Social Sciences78%

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 Sciences1650.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities927.2%
  2. Everything else721.9%
  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development37% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science14% of their works
  3. 3History14% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology5% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  6. 6Library and Information Sciences3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert W. Karrow's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Geodesy, Map Projections, History, Medicine, Science, Colonialism, Innovation and Technology.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Geodesy181 topic
  2. Map Projections181 topic
  3. History93 topics
  4. Medicine72 topics
  5. Science72 topics
  6. Colonialism52 topics
  7. Innovation41 topic
  8. Technology41 topic
  9. Environmental History31 topic
  10. Geospatial Crowdsourcing31 topic
  11. Knowledge Production31 topic
  12. Volunteered Geographic Information31 topic
  13. Branding21 topic
  14. Financial Crisis21 topic
  15. Global World21 topic
  16. Marketing21 topic
  17. Scandinavia21 topic
  18. Viking Age21 topic
  19. Wales21 topic
  20. Welsh literature21 topic

Where does Robert W. Karrow work?

Robert W. Karrow's main affiliation in the publication record is Newberry Library, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert W. Karrow have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 302 citations for Robert W. Karrow, an h-index of 7, ranking #3,382,988 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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