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Researcher · World Bank Group · United States

Stephen Knack

Stephen Knack publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Development, on topics such as International Development and Aid, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth and Economic Growth and Development.

ORCID 0000-0003-1650-4580 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,622
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,301
of 1,627,098
Works
177
Citations
22k
Citations per work
122.7
h-index
53
i10-index 96Top 0.3% in Sociology and Political Science
Stephen Knack

What does Stephen Knack research?

Stephen Knack's work is mostly in Social Sciences (57%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (19%), Computer Science (8%).

Social Sciences: 134 works · 75.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 101 works · 56.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 40 works · 22.5% of their workDevelopment: 25 works · 14.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 24 works · 13.3% of their workSafety Research: 12 works · 6.9% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 34 works · 19.0% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 34 works · 19.0% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 15.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 15 works · 8.3% of their workComputer Science: 15 works · 8.3% of their workInformation Systems: 15 works · 8.3% of their workTHEIR WORKStephen Knack177works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences76%

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 Sciences10156.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3419.0%
  2. Everything else2815.8%
    1. Computer Science158.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics19% of their works
  3. 3Development14% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations13% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems8% of their works
  6. 6Safety Research7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen Knack's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Economic Growth, Governance, Poverty Reduction, Development Policies, Foreign Aid, Inequality, Political Economy and Democracy.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Economic Growth1694 topics
  2. Governance1634 topics
  3. Poverty Reduction922 topics
  4. Development Policies681 topic
  5. Foreign Aid681 topic
  6. Inequality592 topics
  7. Political Economy552 topics
  8. Democracy522 topics
  9. Infrastructure461 topic
  10. Taxation461 topic
  11. ICT401 topic
  12. financial access401 topic
  13. Corruption281 topic
  14. Institutions281 topic
  15. Fiscal Decentralization271 topic
  16. Local Public Goods271 topic
  17. Conditional Cash Transfers241 topic
  18. Empirical Analysis241 topic
  19. Political Science241 topic
  20. School Subsidies241 topic
  21. Social Capital191 topic
  22. Trust191 topic

Where does Stephen Knack work?

Stephen Knack's main affiliation in the publication record is World Bank Group, United States.

How many publications and citations does Stephen Knack have?

OpenAlex counts 177 works and 21,725 citations for Stephen Knack, an h-index of 53, ranking #9,622 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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