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Researcher · Williams College · United States

Shirley A. Star

Shirley A. Star publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Education and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice, Education and Military Integration and Military History and Strategy.

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World rank
#820,405
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#273,161
of 1,627,098
Works
32
Citations
2.7k
Citations per work
84.5
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 17% in Sociology and Political Science
Shirley A. Star

What does Shirley A. Star research?

Shirley A. Star's work is mostly in Social Sciences (62%), Arts and Humanities (6%), Psychology (4%).

Social Sciences: 23 works · 71.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 20 works · 62.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 34.0% of their workEducation: 5 works · 15.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 9.4% of their workAnthropology: 1 works · 3.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 5.7% of their workHistory: 2 works · 5.7% of their workPsychology: 1 works · 3.8% of their workSocial Psychology: 1 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 28.2% of their workTHEIR WORKShirley A. Star32works
Social Sciences72%

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 Sciences2062.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities25.7%
    3. Psychology13.8%
  2. Everything else928.2%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science34% of their works
  2. 2Education15% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  4. 4History6% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology4% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shirley A. Star's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: History, Identity, Public Sociology, Social Theory, British Army, Canada, Counterinsurgency and Social Policy.

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. History52 topics
  2. Identity52 topics
  3. Public Sociology41 topic
  4. Social Theory41 topic
  5. British Army31 topic
  6. Canada31 topic
  7. Counterinsurgency31 topic
  8. Social Policy31 topic
  9. Student Motivation32 topics
  10. Student Veterans31 topic
  11. Transition31 topic
  12. Gender21 topic
  13. Student Participation21 topic
  14. Teacher Immediacy21 topic
  15. Vietnam21 topic
  16. Agricultural Education11 topic
  17. School Gardens11 topic
  18. neurological history11 topic
  19. neuroscience pioneers11 topic

Where does Shirley A. Star work?

Shirley A. Star's main affiliation in the publication record is Williams College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Shirley A. Star have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 2,703 citations for Shirley A. Star, an h-index of 12, ranking #820,405 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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