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Researcher · Science Oxford · United Kingdom

Tom Forrest

Tom Forrest publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Information Systems, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Economic Growth and Development and Perovskite Materials and Applications.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,391,501
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#108,021
of 367,258
Works
58
Citations
556
Citations per work
9.6
h-index
11
i10-index 13Top 20% in Sociology and Political Science
Tom Forrest

What does Tom Forrest research?

Tom Forrest's work is mostly in Social Sciences (33%), Computer Science (7%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%).

Everything else: 29 works · 50.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 38.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 19 works · 32.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 9 works · 15.7% of their workAnthropology: 6 works · 10.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 works · 6.7% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 5.6% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 5.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 11.2% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 6.7% of their workInformation Systems: 4 works · 6.7% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 4.5% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 3 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKTom Forrest58works
Physical Sciences11%Social Sciences38%

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. Everything else2950.7%
    1. Social Sciences1932.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance35.6%
    1. Computer Science46.7%
    2. Materials Science34.5%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology10% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems7% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  6. 6Polymers and Plastics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tom Forrest's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Governance, African History, Post-Colonial Africa, Democracy, Human Rights, NGOs and Political Economy.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Colonialism102 topics
  2. Governance82 topics
  3. African History71 topic
  4. Post-Colonial Africa71 topic
  5. Democracy62 topics
  6. Human Rights62 topics
  7. NGOs62 topics
  8. Political Economy62 topics
  9. ICT51 topic
  10. financial access51 topic
  11. Civil War31 topic
  12. Development Policies31 topic
  13. Economic Reforms31 topic
  14. Ethnic Conflict31 topic
  15. Foreign Aid31 topic
  16. Humanitarianism31 topic
  17. India31 topic
  18. International Aid31 topic
  19. Organometal Halide Perovskites31 topic
  20. Perovskite Solar Cells31 topic
  21. Social Policy31 topic
  22. Welfare State31 topic

Where does Tom Forrest work?

Tom Forrest's main affiliation in the publication record is Science Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Tom Forrest have?

OpenAlex counts 58 works and 556 citations for Tom Forrest, an h-index of 11, ranking #1,391,501 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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