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Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Education, on topics such as Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice, Critical Realism in Sociology and Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory.

World rank
#911
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#385
of 358,040
Works
90
Citations
4.6k
Citations per work
51.2

What does Talcott Parsons research?

Sociology and Political Science: 46.1%Political Science and International Relations: 12.7%Education: 6.9%Economics and Econometrics: 4.9%other fields: 29.4%46%top field
Sociology and Political Science46.1%Political Science and International Relations12.7%Education6.9%Economics and Econometrics4.9%other fields29.4%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science46% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations13% of their works
  3. 3Education7% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy3% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Talcott Parsons's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Public Sociology, Social Theory, Critical Realism, Religion, Social Structure, Neoliberalism and Max Weber.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization192 topics
  2. Public Sociology161 topic
  3. Social Theory161 topic
  4. Critical Realism71 topic
  5. Religion72 topics
  6. Social Structure71 topic
  7. Neoliberalism52 topics
  8. Max Weber41 topic
  9. Sociology41 topic
  10. Economic Institutions31 topic
  11. Institutional Economics31 topic
  12. Public Sphere31 topic
  13. Secularism31 topic
  14. Complexity Theory21 topic
  15. Embodied Cognition21 topic
  16. Emergence21 topic
  17. History21 topic
  18. Predictive Brain Theory21 topic
  19. Psychology21 topic

Where does Talcott Parsons work?

Talcott Parsons's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University Press, United States.

How many publications and citations does Talcott Parsons have?

Science Explorer counts 90 works and 4,609 citations for Talcott Parsons, ranking #911 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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