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Researcher · Indiana University · United States

Stith Thompson

Stith Thompson publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Archeology and History, on topics such as Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies, Maritime and Coastal Archaeology and Ancient Egypt and Archaeology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#114,508
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#49,446
of 358,040
Works
30
Citations
65
Citations per work
2.2

What does Stith Thompson research?

Literature and Literary Theory: 30.4%Archeology: 17.4%History: 13.0%Anthropology: 8.7%other fields: 30.5%30%top field
Literature and Literary Theory30.4%Archeology17.4%History13.0%Anthropology8.7%other fields30.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory30% of their works
  2. 2Archeology17% of their works
  3. 3History13% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology9% of their works
  5. 5Classics4% of their works
  6. 6Language and Linguistics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stith Thompson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cultural Transmission, Fairy Tales, Folklore, Religion, Archaeology, Medieval, Rituals and Ancient Egypt.

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.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Cultural Transmission82 topics
  2. Fairy Tales71 topic
  3. Folklore71 topic
  4. Religion33 topics
  5. Archaeology22 topics
  6. Medieval22 topics
  7. Rituals22 topics
  8. Ancient Egypt11 topic
  9. Ancient Magic11 topic
  10. Babylonian11 topic
  11. Gnosticism11 topic
  12. Linguistics11 topic
  13. Literature11 topic
  14. Maritime Archaeology11 topic
  15. Mediterranean11 topic
  16. Mesopotamia11 topic
  17. Mormonism11 topic
  18. Polygamy11 topic
  19. Scandinavia11 topic
  20. Society11 topic
  21. Viking Age11 topic

Where does Stith Thompson work?

Stith Thompson's main affiliation in the publication record is Indiana University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Stith Thompson have?

Science Explorer counts 30 works and 65 citations for Stith Thompson, ranking #114,508 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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