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Researcher · University of Oslo · Norway

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Thomas Hylland Eriksen publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Social Psychology, on topics such as Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research, Economic Zones and Regional Development and Anthropological Studies and Insights.

ORCID 0000-0002-5662-757X OpenAlex
World rank
#3,638
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#10
of 6,482
Works
98
Citations
488
Citations per work
5.0

What does Thomas Hylland Eriksen research?

Sociology and Political Science: 16.9%Political Science and International Relations: 11.7%Social Psychology: 9.1%Anthropology: 6.5%other fields: 55.8%17%top field
Sociology and Political Science16.9%Political Science and International Relations11.7%Social Psychology9.1%Anthropology6.5%other fields55.8%

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 Science17% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology9% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology6% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies6% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Hylland Eriksen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Interactional Expertise, Tacit Knowledge, Globalization, Identity, Race, Caribbean, Culture 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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Interactional Expertise51 topic
  2. Tacit Knowledge51 topic
  3. Globalization42 topics
  4. Identity32 topics
  5. Race32 topics
  6. Caribbean21 topic
  7. Culture21 topic
  8. Ethnic Minority Business21 topic
  9. Export Processing Zones21 topic
  10. Governmentality21 topic
  11. Immigrant Entrepreneurship21 topic
  12. Lifestyle Migration21 topic
  13. Neoliberalism21 topic
  14. Retirement Migration21 topic
  15. Special Economic Zones21 topic
  16. Biomedical Research11 topic
  17. Food Tourism11 topic
  18. Gastronomy11 topic
  19. Genetics11 topic

Where does Thomas Hylland Eriksen work?

Thomas Hylland Eriksen's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oslo, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Hylland Eriksen have?

Science Explorer counts 98 works and 488 citations for Thomas Hylland Eriksen, ranking #3,638 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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