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Researcher · Bielefeld University · Germany

Thomas Faist

Thomas Faist publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Demography, on topics such as Migration and Labor Dynamics, Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy and Diaspora, migration, transnational identity.

World rank
#104,401
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#6,664
of 86,443
Works
114
Citations
266
Citations per work
2.3

What does Thomas Faist research?

Sociology and Political Science: 49.1%Political Science and International Relations: 20.5%Demography: 8.0%Public Administration: 5.4%other fields: 17.0%49%top field
Sociology and Political Science49.1%Political Science and International Relations20.5%Demography8.0%Public Administration5.4%other fields17.0%

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 Science49% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations20% of their works
  3. 3Demography8% of their works
  4. 4Public Administration5% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions3% of their works
  6. 6Law3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Faist's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Immigration, Social Networks, Citizenship, Ethnicity, Labor Market, Remittances and Ethnic Minority Business.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization354 topics
  2. Immigration242 topics
  3. Social Networks242 topics
  4. Citizenship162 topics
  5. Ethnicity162 topics
  6. Labor Market161 topic
  7. Remittances161 topic
  8. Ethnic Minority Business141 topic
  9. Immigrant Entrepreneurship141 topic
  10. Governance92 topics
  11. Diaspora81 topic
  12. Politics81 topic
  13. Social Boundaries81 topic
  14. Transnationalism81 topic
  15. Political Economy61 topic
  16. Welfare State61 topic
  17. Bildungsungleichheit51 topic
  18. Labor Movement51 topic
  19. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse51 topic
  20. Union Revitalization51 topic
  21. European Integration41 topic
  22. European Union41 topic

Where does Thomas Faist work?

Thomas Faist's main affiliation in the publication record is Bielefeld University, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Faist have?

Science Explorer counts 114 works and 266 citations for Thomas Faist, ranking #104,401 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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