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Researcher · Ford Foundation · United States

Shepard L. Forman

Shepard L. Forman publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, Rural Development and Agriculture and Global Peace and Security Dynamics.

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World rank
#875,393
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#289,535
of 1,627,098
Works
55
Citations
593
Citations per work
10.8
h-index
12
i10-index 13Top 17% in Sociology and Political Science
Shepard L. Forman

What does Shepard L. Forman research?

Shepard L. Forman's work is mostly in Social Sciences (38%), Environmental Science (11%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%).

Social Sciences: 24 works · 44.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 38.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 9 works · 16.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 8 works · 15.4% of their workDevelopment: 4 works · 6.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 3 works · 5.5% of their workHistory: 3 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 19 works · 35.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 11.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 11.0% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 works · 11.0% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 9.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 9.9% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 9.9% of their workTHEIR WORKShepard L. Forman55works
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences11%Social Sciences44%

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 Sciences2138.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities35.5%
  2. Everything else1935.1%
    1. Environmental Science611.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences59.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations15% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law11% of their works
  4. 4General Agricultural and Biological Sciences10% of their works
  5. 5Development7% of their works
  6. 6History6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shepard L. Forman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agroecology, Smallholder Farmers, Sustainability, Food Sovereignty, Land Grabbing, Agriculture, Family Farming and Humanitarian Intervention.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Agroecology193 topics
  2. Smallholder Farmers112 topics
  3. Sustainability102 topics
  4. Food Sovereignty91 topic
  5. Land Grabbing91 topic
  6. Agriculture81 topic
  7. Family Farming81 topic
  8. Humanitarian Intervention71 topic
  9. Responsibility to Protect71 topic
  10. Development Policies61 topic
  11. Foreign Aid61 topic
  12. Adaptation21 topic
  13. Amazonia21 topic
  14. Anthropology21 topic
  15. Colonial Spanish America21 topic
  16. Historical Ecology21 topic
  17. Livestock Farming21 topic
  18. Military21 topic
  19. Visual Culture21 topic

Where does Shepard L. Forman work?

Shepard L. Forman's main affiliation in the publication record is Ford Foundation, United States.

How many publications and citations does Shepard L. Forman have?

OpenAlex counts 55 works and 593 citations for Shepard L. Forman, an h-index of 12, ranking #875,393 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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