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Rodney Needham

Rodney Needham publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Asian Studies and History, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence and Classical Philosophy and Thought.

World rank
#8,802
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#772
of 90,785
Works
61
Citations
400
Citations per work
6.6

What does Rodney Needham research?

Sociology and Political Science: 22.2%Political Science and International Relations: 9.3%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 7.4%Anthropology: 7.4%other fields: 53.7%22%top field
Sociology and Political Science22.2%Political Science and International Relations9.3%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7.4%Anthropology7.4%other fields53.7%

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 Science22% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology7% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  6. 6Archeology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rodney Needham's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Democratization, Indonesia, Aristotle, Durkheim, Opinion Dynamics, Pacific Islands, Plato and settlement.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Democratization41 topic
  2. Indonesia41 topic
  3. Aristotle21 topic
  4. Durkheim21 topic
  5. Opinion Dynamics21 topic
  6. Pacific Islands21 topic
  7. Plato21 topic
  8. Social Influence21 topic
  9. Tarde21 topic
  10. settlement21 topic
  11. Agricultural Change11 topic
  12. Clustering11 topic
  13. Digital Communication11 topic
  14. Information Studies11 topic
  15. Mixture Models11 topic
  16. Rural Development11 topic

Where does Rodney Needham work?

Rodney Needham's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Rodney Needham have?

Science Explorer counts 61 works and 400 citations for Rodney Needham, ranking #8,802 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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