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Researcher · Goethe University Frankfurt · Germany

Thomas Scheffer

Thomas Scheffer publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Law and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Law in Society and Culture, Sociology and Education Studies and Public Administration and Political Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-3353-5082 OpenAlex
World rank
#114,956
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#6,049
of 364,343
Works
133
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
12.1
h-index
21
i10-index 38Top 5.7% in Sociology and Political Science
Thomas Scheffer

What does Thomas Scheffer research?

Thomas Scheffer's work is mostly in Social Sciences (71%), Arts and Humanities (9%).

Social Sciences: 106 works · 80.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 94 works · 70.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 40 works · 30.1% of their workLaw: 36 works · 27.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 16 works · 11.9% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 1.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 12 works · 9.1% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 7 works · 5.0% of their workPhilosophy: 5 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 20.0% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas Scheffer133works
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 Sciences9470.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities129.1%
  2. Everything else2720.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science30% of their works
  2. 2Law27% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics5% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy4% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Scheffer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Governance, Legal Semiotics, Visual Jurisprudence, Bildungsungleichheit, Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Human Rights, Legal Methodology and Legal Education.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Governance422 topics
  2. Legal Semiotics331 topic
  3. Visual Jurisprudence331 topic
  4. Bildungsungleichheit271 topic
  5. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse271 topic
  6. Human Rights212 topics
  7. Legal Methodology212 topics
  8. Legal Education202 topics
  9. Leadership151 topic
  10. Participation151 topic
  11. Epistemic Practices121 topic
  12. Judicial Politics121 topic
  13. Legal Consciousness121 topic
  14. Sociological History121 topic
  15. Party Competition111 topic
  16. Privacy111 topic
  17. Comparative Law101 topic
  18. Globalization101 topic
  19. Health Impacts101 topic
  20. Welfare Rights Advice101 topic

Where does Thomas Scheffer work?

Thomas Scheffer's main affiliation in the publication record is Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Scheffer have?

OpenAlex counts 133 works and 1,614 citations for Thomas Scheffer, an h-index of 21, ranking #114,956 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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