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Researcher · Western Carolina University · United States

Thomas E. Ford

Thomas E. Ford publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Gender Studies, on topics such as Humor Studies and Applications, Social and Intergroup Psychology and Communication in Education and Healthcare.

ORCID 0000-0002-2160-8248 OpenAlex
World rank
#152,180
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#57,331
of 1,627,098
Works
108
Citations
4.4k
Citations per work
40.5
h-index
33
i10-index 52Top 6.2% in Social Psychology
Thomas E. Ford

What does Thomas E. Ford research?

Thomas E. Ford's work is mostly in Psychology (39%), Social Sciences (20%), Arts and Humanities (4%).

Social Sciences: 69 works · 64.0% of their workPsychology: 43 works · 39.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 39 works · 35.7% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 works · 3.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 20.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 15 works · 13.5% of their workGender Studies: 7 works · 6.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 4.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 5 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 36 works · 33.5% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 2.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 works · 2.5% of their workFood Science: 3 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas E. Ford108works
Life Sciences2%Social Sciences64%

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. Psychology4339.4%
    2. Social Sciences2220.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities54.5%
  2. Everything else3633.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences32.5%
  1. 1Social Psychology36% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies7% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Food Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas E. Ford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Humor Styles Questionnaire, Psychological Well-being, Social Identity, Implicit Bias, Intergroup Contact, Student Participation, Teacher Immediacy and Emotion.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Humor Styles Questionnaire481 topic
  2. Psychological Well-being481 topic
  3. Social Identity332 topics
  4. Implicit Bias261 topic
  5. Intergroup Contact261 topic
  6. Student Participation201 topic
  7. Teacher Immediacy201 topic
  8. Emotion182 topics
  9. Cultural Psychology101 topic
  10. Values101 topic
  11. Narrative Persuasion81 topic
  12. Transportation81 topic
  13. Advertising71 topic
  14. Gender Roles71 topic
  15. Detection51 topic
  16. Hate Speech51 topic
  17. Metaphor51 topic
  18. Time51 topic

Where does Thomas E. Ford work?

Thomas E. Ford's main affiliation in the publication record is Western Carolina University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas E. Ford have?

OpenAlex counts 108 works and 4,379 citations for Thomas E. Ford, an h-index of 33, ranking #152,180 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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