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Researcher · University of Ljubljana · Slovenia

Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Philosophy, on topics such as Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics, Political Economy and Marxism and Critical Theory and Philosophy.

ORCID 0000-0003-4672-6942 OpenAlex
World rank
#140,619
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Slovenia
#33
of 9,404
Works
736
Citations
21k
Citations per work
29.2
h-index
62
i10-index 165Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Slavoj Žižek

What does Slavoj Žižek research?

Slavoj Žižek's work is mostly in Social Sciences (39%), Arts and Humanities (16%), Psychology (13%).

Social Sciences: 501 works · 68.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 285 works · 38.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 200 works · 27.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 54 works · 7.4% of their workCultural Studies: 30 works · 4.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 121 works · 16.5% of their workPhilosophy: 83 works · 11.3% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 38 works · 5.2% of their workPsychology: 95 works · 12.9% of their workClinical Psychology: 95 works · 12.9% of their workEverything else: 235 works · 31.9% of their workTHEIR WORKSlavoj Žižek736works
Social Sciences68%

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 Sciences28538.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities12116.5%
    3. Psychology9512.9%
  2. Everything else23531.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science27% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy11% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory5% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Slavoj Žižek's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Ethics, Psychoanalysis, Lacanian Discourse Analysis, Politics, Imperialism and Marxism.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Capitalism2373 topics
  2. Neoliberalism1832 topics
  3. Ethics1512 topics
  4. Psychoanalysis1512 topics
  5. Lacanian Discourse Analysis1271 topic
  6. Politics1271 topic
  7. Imperialism561 topic
  8. Marxism561 topic
  9. Habermas541 topic
  10. Social Pathologies541 topic
  11. Developmental Trauma321 topic
  12. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy321 topic
  13. Post-Communist261 topic
  14. Transition261 topic
  15. Religion241 topic
  16. Social Theory241 topic
  17. Environmental Participation231 topic
  18. Territorial Governance231 topic
  19. Social Work221 topic
  20. Welfare State221 topic

Where does Slavoj Žižek work?

Slavoj Žižek's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

How many publications and citations does Slavoj Žižek have?

OpenAlex counts 736 works and 21,459 citations for Slavoj Žižek, an h-index of 62, ranking #140,619 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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