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Researcher · Johns Hopkins University · United States

Ruth Leys

Ruth Leys publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Clinical Psychology, on topics such as Emotions and Moral Behavior, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications and History of Science and Medicine.

ORCID 0000-0002-1629-2832 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,232,911
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#394,370
of 1,627,098
Works
62
Citations
3.4k
Citations per work
54.4
h-index
17
i10-index 27Top 23% in Social Psychology
Ruth Leys

What does Ruth Leys research?

Ruth Leys's work is mostly in Psychology (26%), Social Sciences (18%), Neuroscience (8%).

Social Sciences: 32 works · 51.7% of their workPsychology: 16 works · 26.3% of their workSocial Psychology: 10 works · 16.1% of their workClinical Psychology: 6 works · 10.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 17.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 11.9% of their workCultural Studies: 4 works · 5.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 7.6% of their workPhilosophy: 5 works · 7.6% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 40.7% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 7.6% of their workNeuroscience: 5 works · 7.6% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 works · 7.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRuth Leys62works
Life Sciences8%Social Sciences52%

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. Psychology1626.3%
    2. Social Sciences1117.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities57.6%
  2. Everything else2540.7%
    1. Neuroscience57.6%
  1. 1Social Psychology16% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Clinical Psychology10% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience8% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy8% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ruth Leys's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: History, Guilt, Shame, Science, Medicine, Society, Ethics and Psychology.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. History133 topics
  2. Guilt111 topic
  3. Shame111 topic
  4. Science102 topics
  5. Medicine92 topics
  6. Society92 topics
  7. Ethics82 topics
  8. Psychology82 topics
  9. Psychotherapy Outcome81 topic
  10. Therapeutic Alliance81 topic
  11. Feminism72 topics
  12. Innovation61 topic
  13. Technology61 topic
  14. Disgust41 topic
  15. Epistemology41 topic
  16. Moral Judgment41 topic
  17. Social Sciences41 topic
  18. Cultural31 topic
  19. Emotions31 topic
  20. Face Perception31 topic
  21. Neural Mechanisms31 topic
  22. Performativity31 topic
  23. Posthumanism31 topic

Where does Ruth Leys work?

Ruth Leys's main affiliation in the publication record is Johns Hopkins University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ruth Leys have?

OpenAlex counts 62 works and 3,375 citations for Ruth Leys, an h-index of 17, ranking #1,232,911 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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