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Researcher · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · United States

Ronald R. Rindfuss

Ronald R. Rindfuss publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Gender Studies, on topics such as Family Dynamics and Relationships, Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#28,553
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,744
of 1,627,098
Works
240
Citations
15k
Citations per work
60.9
h-index
57
i10-index 129Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Ronald R. Rindfuss

What does Ronald R. Rindfuss research?

Ronald R. Rindfuss's work is mostly in Social Sciences (55%), Environmental Science (6%), Medicine (4%).

Social Sciences: 133 works · 55.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 133 works · 55.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 47 works · 19.5% of their workDemography: 45 works · 18.9% of their workGender Studies: 41 works · 16.9% of their workEverything else: 73 works · 30.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 19 works · 7.8% of their workMedicine: 11 works · 4.4% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 11 works · 4.4% of their workHealth Professions: 8 works · 3.4% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 8 works · 3.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 15 works · 6.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 15 works · 6.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 15 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKRonald R.Rindfuss240works
Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences55%

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 Sciences13355.3%
  2. Everything else7330.6%
    1. Medicine114.4%
    2. Health Professions83.4%
    1. Environmental Science156.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science20% of their works
  2. 2Demography19% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies17% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health4% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ronald R. Rindfuss's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender Roles, Divorce, Fertility, Gender Inequality, Sex Ratios, Son Preference, Labor Force Participation and Welfare Reform.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender Roles1022 topics
  2. Divorce831 topic
  3. Fertility831 topic
  4. Gender Inequality662 topics
  5. Sex Ratios501 topic
  6. Son Preference501 topic
  7. Labor Force Participation471 topic
  8. Welfare Reform471 topic
  9. Family Support411 topic
  10. Intergenerational Relations411 topic
  11. Mortality Forecasting191 topic
  12. Population Ageing191 topic
  13. Telecommuting191 topic
  14. Work-Family Conflict191 topic
  15. Ecosystem Services181 topic
  16. Land Use Change181 topic
  17. Immigration161 topic
  18. Remittances161 topic

Where does Ronald R. Rindfuss work?

Ronald R. Rindfuss's main affiliation in the publication record is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ronald R. Rindfuss have?

OpenAlex counts 240 works and 14,611 citations for Ronald R. Rindfuss, an h-index of 57, ranking #28,553 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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