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Researcher · Davidson College · United States

Shelley Rigger

Shelley Rigger publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Cultural Studies, on topics such as Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics, China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance and Chinese history and philosophy.

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World rank
#188,867
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#70,295
of 1,627,098
Works
73
Citations
455
Citations per work
6.2
h-index
12
i10-index 15Top 17% in Sociology and Political Science
Shelley Rigger

What does Shelley Rigger research?

Shelley Rigger's work is mostly in Social Sciences (88%), Arts and Humanities (2%).

Social Sciences: 66 works · 90.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 65 works · 88.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 36 works · 48.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 22 works · 29.5% of their workCultural Studies: 5 works · 6.2% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 2.3% of their workEducation: 1 works · 1.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 1 works · 1.6% of their workHistory: 1 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 10.0% of their workTHEIR WORKShelley Rigger73works
Social Sciences90%

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 Sciences6588.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities11.6%
  2. Everything else710.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science49% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations30% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies6% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology2% of their works
  5. 5History2% of their works
  6. 6Education2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shelley Rigger's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Democratization, Hong Kong Identity, History, China, Economic Development, Colonialism and Culture.

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 26 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism503 topics
  2. Democratization381 topic
  3. Hong Kong Identity381 topic
  4. History224 topics
  5. China202 topics
  6. Economic Development152 topics
  7. Colonialism133 topics
  8. Culture133 topics
  9. Religion122 topics
  10. Governance111 topic
  11. Political Economy111 topic
  12. Democracy103 topics
  13. Gender102 topics
  14. Society102 topics
  15. Confucianism91 topic
  16. Regulation91 topic
  17. Japan71 topic
  18. Modernization71 topic
  19. Laos41 topic
  20. Thailand41 topic
  21. Economy31 topic
  22. Empirical Analysis31 topic
  23. Philippines31 topic
  24. Political Dynasties31 topic
  25. Political Science31 topic
  26. Vietnam31 topic

Where does Shelley Rigger work?

Shelley Rigger's main affiliation in the publication record is Davidson College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Shelley Rigger have?

OpenAlex counts 73 works and 455 citations for Shelley Rigger, an h-index of 12, ranking #188,867 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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