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Researcher · University of Oregon · United States

Ryan Light

Ryan Light publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, General Social Sciences and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, on topics such as Computational and Text Analysis Methods, scientometrics and bibliometrics research and Social and Cultural Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-1508-154X OpenAlex
World rank
#205,836
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#76,384
of 1,627,098
Works
48
Citations
994
Citations per work
20.7
h-index
16
i10-index 19Top 10% in Sociology and Political Science
Ryan Light

What does Ryan Light research?

Ryan Light's work is mostly in Social Sciences (52%), Decision Sciences (14%).

Social Sciences: 32 works · 65.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 25 works · 51.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 32.4% of their workGeneral Social Sciences: 4 works · 9.3% of their workGender Studies: 3 works · 6.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 works · 3.7% of their workDecision Sciences: 7 works · 13.9% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 4 works · 9.3% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 2 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 34.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRyan Light48works
Social Sciences66%

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 Sciences2551.9%
    2. Decision Sciences713.9%
  2. Everything else1634.2%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science32% of their works
  2. 2General Social Sciences9% of their works
  3. 3Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty9% of their works
  4. 4Gender Studies6% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems and Management5% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ryan Light's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Interdisciplinary Research, Computational Text Analysis, Topic Modeling, Bibliometric Analysis, Cultural Capital, Research Evaluation, Social Class and Climate Change.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Interdisciplinary Research122 topics
  2. Computational Text Analysis101 topic
  3. Topic Modeling101 topic
  4. Bibliometric Analysis81 topic
  5. Cultural Capital81 topic
  6. Research Evaluation81 topic
  7. Social Class81 topic
  8. Climate Change41 topic
  9. Gender Diversity41 topic
  10. Leadership41 topic
  11. Public Perception41 topic
  12. Team Science41 topic
  13. Transdisciplinarity41 topic
  14. Community Structure31 topic
  15. Network Dynamics31 topic
  16. Public Sociology31 topic
  17. Social Theory31 topic

Where does Ryan Light work?

Ryan Light's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oregon, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ryan Light have?

OpenAlex counts 48 works and 994 citations for Ryan Light, an h-index of 16, ranking #205,836 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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