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Researcher · University of Passau · Germany

Thorsten Benkel

Thorsten Benkel publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and Visual Arts and Performing Arts, on topics such as German Literature and Culture Studies, Art, Aesthetics, and Perception and German Social Sciences and History.

World rank
#425,837
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#25,403
of 86,443
Works
31
Citations
2
Citations per work
0.1

What does Thorsten Benkel research?

Sociology and Political Science: 37.5%Literature and Literary Theory: 15.6%Visual Arts and Performing Arts: 9.4%Law: 9.4%other fields: 28.1%38%top field
Sociology and Political Science37.5%Literature and Literary Theory15.6%Visual Arts and Performing Arts9.4%Law9.4%other fields28.1%

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 Science38% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory16% of their works
  3. 3Visual Arts and Performing Arts9% of their works
  4. 4Law9% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thorsten Benkel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Identity, Cultural Sociology, Autorschaft, Bildung, Epistemic Practices, Society, Sociological History and Visual Culture.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Identity104 topics
  2. Cultural Sociology52 topics
  3. Autorschaft41 topic
  4. Bildung41 topic
  5. Epistemic Practices31 topic
  6. Society31 topic
  7. Sociological History31 topic
  8. Visual Culture31 topic
  9. Bildungsungleichheit21 topic
  10. Collective Memory21 topic
  11. Legal Methodology21 topic
  12. Party Competition21 topic
  13. Psychoanalysis21 topic
  14. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse21 topic
  15. East German Memory11 topic
  16. End-of-Life11 topic
  17. Ostalgie11 topic
  18. Palliative Care11 topic

Where does Thorsten Benkel work?

Thorsten Benkel's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Passau, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Thorsten Benkel have?

Science Explorer counts 31 works and 2 citations for Thorsten Benkel, ranking #425,837 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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