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Researcher · University of Oxford · United Kingdom

Stefan Dercon

Stefan Dercon publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research and Soil Science, on topics such as Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Agricultural risk and resilience and Microfinance and Financial Inclusion.

OpenAlex
World rank
#19,997
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,410
of 367,258
Works
379
Citations
19k
Citations per work
49.1
h-index
64
i10-index 177Top 0.4% in Economics and Econometrics
Stefan Dercon

What does Stefan Dercon research?

Stefan Dercon's work is mostly in Social Sciences (34%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (18%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%).

Social Sciences: 195 works · 51.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 127 works · 33.6% of their workSafety Research: 63 works · 16.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 54 works · 14.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 works · 2.7% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 67 works · 17.8% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 67 works · 17.8% of their workEverything else: 116 works · 30.7% of their workLife Sciences: 58 works · 15.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 58 works · 15.2% of their workSoil Science: 58 works · 15.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 2.7% of their workHealth Professions: 10 works · 2.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 10 works · 2.7% of their workTHEIR WORKStefan Dercon379works
Life Sciences15%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences51%

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 Sciences12733.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance6717.8%
  2. Everything else11630.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5815.2%
    1. Health Professions102.7%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics18% of their works
  2. 2Safety Research17% of their works
  3. 3Soil Science15% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations3% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stefan Dercon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender Inequality, Poverty Reduction, Conditional Cash Transfers, School Subsidies, Risk Management, Vulnerability, Economic Development and Economic Growth.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender Inequality2474 topics
  2. Poverty Reduction2112 topics
  3. Conditional Cash Transfers1491 topic
  4. School Subsidies1491 topic
  5. Risk Management1171 topic
  6. Vulnerability1171 topic
  7. Economic Development812 topics
  8. Economic Growth802 topics
  9. Empowerment621 topic
  10. Microfinance621 topic
  11. Income Inequality571 topic
  12. Poverty Measurement571 topic
  13. Income Tax422 topics
  14. Infrastructure231 topic
  15. Taxation231 topic
  16. Land Tenure221 topic
  17. Property Rights221 topic
  18. Child Development191 topic
  19. Labor Force Participation191 topic
  20. Maternal and Child Undernutrition191 topic
  21. Welfare Reform191 topic

Where does Stefan Dercon work?

Stefan Dercon's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Stefan Dercon have?

OpenAlex counts 379 works and 18,601 citations for Stefan Dercon, an h-index of 64, ranking #19,997 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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