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Researcher · Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · United States

Thomas Carothers

Thomas Carothers publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Development, on topics such as International Development and Aid, Political Conflict and Governance and Global Peace and Security Dynamics.

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World rank
#25,132
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,386
of 1,627,098
Works
115
Citations
8.8k
Citations per work
76.3
h-index
36
i10-index 55Top 0.7% in Political Science and International Relations
Thomas Carothers

What does Thomas Carothers research?

Thomas Carothers's work is mostly in Social Sciences (74%), Arts and Humanities (3%), Business, Management and Accounting (3%).

Social Sciences: 93 works · 80.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 85 works · 74.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 37 works · 31.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 33 works · 29.0% of their workDevelopment: 11 works · 9.8% of their workLaw: 4 works · 3.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 3.3% of their workHistory: 4 works · 3.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 works · 2.9% of their workStrategy and Management: 3 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 19.5% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas Carothers115works
Social Sciences80%

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 Sciences8574.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities43.3%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting32.9%
  2. Everything else2219.5%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations32% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science29% of their works
  3. 3Development10% of their works
  4. 4Law4% of their works
  5. 5History3% of their works
  6. 6Strategy and Management3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Carothers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: NGOs, Democracy, Development Policies, Foreign Aid, Human Rights, Civil War, Ethnic Conflict and Public Opinion.

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. NGOs312 topics
  2. Democracy283 topics
  3. Development Policies241 topic
  4. Foreign Aid241 topic
  5. Human Rights242 topics
  6. Civil War171 topic
  7. Ethnic Conflict171 topic
  8. Public Opinion173 topics
  9. Colonialism132 topics
  10. Political Philosophy122 topics
  11. Humanitarian Intervention81 topic
  12. Responsibility to Protect81 topic
  13. Humanitarianism71 topic
  14. International Aid71 topic
  15. Alexis de Tocqueville61 topic
  16. American founding61 topic
  17. Constitutional government61 topic
  18. John Stuart Mill61 topic
  19. Judicial Politics61 topic
  20. Legal Consciousness61 topic
  21. Empirical Analysis51 topic
  22. Political Science51 topic

Where does Thomas Carothers work?

Thomas Carothers's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Carothers have?

OpenAlex counts 115 works and 8,771 citations for Thomas Carothers, an h-index of 36, ranking #25,132 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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