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Researcher · Edinburgh College · United Kingdom

Stephen Cairns

Stephen Cairns publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies and Building and Construction, on topics such as Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Architecture and Cultural Influences and Geographic Information Systems Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,216,289
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#160,090
of 367,258
Works
84
Citations
525
Citations per work
6.3
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 17% in Sociology and Political Science
Stephen Cairns

What does Stephen Cairns research?

Stephen Cairns's work is mostly in Social Sciences (31%), Engineering (10%), Arts and Humanities (4%).

Everything else: 45 works · 54.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 30 works · 35.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 26 works · 31.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 12.9% of their workUrban Studies: 11 works · 12.9% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 5 works · 5.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 4.3% of their workConservation: 4 works · 4.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 10.4% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 10.4% of their workBuilding and Construction: 5 works · 6.1% of their workArchitecture: 4 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKStephen Cairns84works
Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences36%

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. Everything else4554.0%
    1. Social Sciences2631.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities44.3%
    1. Engineering910.4%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  2. 2Urban Studies13% of their works
  3. 3Building and Construction6% of their works
  4. 4Geography, Planning and Development6% of their works
  5. 5Conservation4% of their works
  6. 6Architecture4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen Cairns's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Sustainability, Urbanism, Slum Upgrading, Urban Poverty, Cultural Heritage, Democratization and Geospatial Crowdsourcing.

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. Globalization112 topics
  2. Sustainability102 topics
  3. Urbanism92 topics
  4. Slum Upgrading71 topic
  5. Urban Poverty71 topic
  6. Cultural Heritage61 topic
  7. Democratization61 topic
  8. Geospatial Crowdsourcing61 topic
  9. Indonesia61 topic
  10. Islamic Architecture61 topic
  11. Multiculturalism61 topic
  12. Singapore61 topic
  13. Volunteered Geographic Information61 topic
  14. Gentrification51 topic
  15. Neoliberalism51 topic
  16. Architecture41 topic
  17. BIM-GIS Integration41 topic
  18. CityGML41 topic
  19. Modernism41 topic

Where does Stephen Cairns work?

Stephen Cairns's main affiliation in the publication record is Edinburgh College, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Stephen Cairns have?

OpenAlex counts 84 works and 525 citations for Stephen Cairns, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,216,289 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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