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Researcher · Centre for the Study of Developing Societies · India

Sudhir Kakar

Sudhir Kakar publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Philosophy, on topics such as Indian History and Philosophy, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology.

ORCID 0000-0001-7932-1947 OpenAlex
World rank
#578,646
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in India
#7,100
of 280,097
Works
130
Citations
2.7k
Citations per work
21.0
h-index
24
i10-index 34Top 4.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Sudhir Kakar

What does Sudhir Kakar research?

Sudhir Kakar's work is mostly in Psychology (22%), Social Sciences (18%), Arts and Humanities (16%).

Social Sciences: 73 works · 56.4% of their workPsychology: 28 works · 21.8% of their workSocial Psychology: 17 works · 12.9% of their workClinical Psychology: 12 works · 8.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 18.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 18 works · 14.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 works · 4.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 21 works · 16.5% of their workPhilosophy: 16 works · 12.1% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 57 works · 43.6% of their workTHEIR WORKSudhir Kakar130works
Social Sciences56%

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. Psychology2821.8%
    2. Social Sciences2418.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities2116.5%
  2. Everything else5743.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy12% of their works
  4. 4Clinical Psychology9% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sudhir Kakar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy, Psychology, Gandhi, Nonviolence, Religion, Spirituality, Globalization and Psychotherapy Outcome.

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. Philosophy212 topics
  2. Psychology203 topics
  3. Gandhi161 topic
  4. Nonviolence161 topic
  5. Religion152 topics
  6. Spirituality152 topics
  7. Globalization132 topics
  8. Psychotherapy Outcome131 topic
  9. Therapeutic Alliance131 topic
  10. Coping101 topic
  11. Health101 topic
  12. History101 topic
  13. Science101 topic
  14. Cultural Psychology81 topic
  15. Values81 topic
  16. Bollywood51 topic
  17. Indian cinema51 topic
  18. Mimetic Theory51 topic
  19. Near-Death Experiences51 topic
  20. Paranormal Beliefs51 topic
  21. Violence51 topic

Where does Sudhir Kakar work?

Sudhir Kakar's main affiliation in the publication record is Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India.

How many publications and citations does Sudhir Kakar have?

OpenAlex counts 130 works and 2,728 citations for Sudhir Kakar, an h-index of 24, ranking #578,646 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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